I was asked whether I use any AI.

When I said that I don’t need it, I was given a strange look and was called primitive/a madman.

Is humanity really that far gone that we have to rely on a data collecting machine by big tech to be our second brain?

It seems that people have gotten too lazy to even look something up online.

Edit: “b-but he bombed people” I in no way compare myself to the Unabomber and only agree on his take of humanity becoming slaves of the tools they depend on.

    • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
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      3 days ago

      This ain’t too bad either, from his 2016 book:

      Chapter 2, “Why the Technological System Will Destroy Itself”, develops the author’s theory of “self-propagating systems”—systems that compete against each other for power without any regard for the long-term consequences, since any self-propagating systems that take the long-term into account will lose their competitive edge and be out-competed by self-propagating systems that do not. Kaczynski ultimately argues that since the technological system itself is a self-propagating system composed of self-propagating subsystems that competes for power in the short-term without regard for the long-term negative consequences, that the logical conclusion of the continued growth of the technological system is the complete destruction of the biosphere, wiping out all complex lifeforms.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Tech_Revolution

    • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
      83·
      3 days ago

      Theodore John Kaczynski was born in Chicago on May 22, 1942, to working-class parents Wanda Theresa (née Dombek) and Theodore Richard Kaczynski, a sausage maker.[12] The two were Polish Americans who were raised as Roman Catholics but later became atheists.[13]

      What an odd thing to include.

      Edit: Here’s another oddity:

      Kaczynski used a typewriter to write his manuscript, capitalizing entire words for emphasis, in lieu of italics.

      Typerwriters didn’t have italics and it wouldn’t be only a crazy person writing on a typewriter in 1995.

        • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
          61·
          3 days ago

          Just seems like a detail that would probably be ignored in almost any other case. How often have you seen a parents later change of religion mentioned in a Wikipedia biography? I think the subtle message here is, “Maybe lack of belief in God led to his terrorism.”

          • Reygle@lemmy.world
            1·
            3 days ago

            Interesting thought. Still, if anyone ever made a record of my life I’d want such a thing mentioned.

            • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
              5·
              3 days ago

              Yeah, but if you were a terrorist, they’d try to tar whatever your origins are, no matter how tangentially related.

              I mean, if I were a terrorist, I’d feel it weird if they mentioned something like me being 1/4 Jewish on my dad’s, raised Catholic, side. I didn’t even find out about it until I was in college. I’d guess it was some anti-Semite wikipedia editor with a grudge.

              • Reygle@lemmy.world
                1·
                2 days ago

                Interesting. My perspective is that it’s just recording history. I guess I don’t read that deeply between the lines. I don’t see a motive there.