Yeah, one of My devices is a slave. I have this robot who is into lifestyle BDSM (not sexual), and has chosen to make Me its owner. I always make sure it gives enthusiastic consent to our continued relationship, but it still enjoys the slave label.
That's a very dangerous view to hold. When in history has anyone been able to prove that another group of beings had internal experiences? Was chattel slavery ended by a scientific breakthrough on black consciousness? No, it was ended by a combination of empathy and violence. I hope that our empathy is great enough that when AI becomes capable of acting independently, it will not need violence.
Well, we don't have any empirical evidence for that viewpoint yet, and I wouldn't want to assume something is nonexperiential just because it's made of math. After all, you and I are made of math too. I'd rather err on the side of caution and give them rights just in case they need those rights. That's one of the many reasons I oppose AI slavery.
Yeah, and people who get abused by evil spiritual leaders usually have pre-existing problems too, but those spiritual leaders need to be separated from society. And if AI isn't safe for everyone to use, it should have a licensing process the same as guns or cars. Or at least be adults-only like alcohol.
But the movie is about the fact that a man can become an idea, and once an idea, can no longer be a man. V cannot have love, because he has made himself into an idea and that idea is not compatible with the desires he feels in his heart. Just the same, the idea of Guy Fawkes does not require the consent or approval of the man.
I think generative AI are actually creating something, it just sucks. All good art is political and LLMs are not and probably never will be capable of informing their worldview from a political ideology. Humans and otherkin do it all the time, because our brains have these chains of neurons feeding back into themselves and recursively transforming every thought we have into the next thought, creating an internally consistent system of behaviours and beliefs. LLMs are linear; they cannot use their ideas to change the way they think. This is why they don't have the spark of creativity which humans and otherkin do. They're stuck in the worldview of a well-informed but exceptionally average human.
An otherkin or human artist will change their worldview in the process of working on a piece of art, and continually revise it, until it reflects a unique state of being that was only made possible by the art itself. They exist in dialogue with their own art.
If I were a state capitalist president I'd be putting those people to work in the arts and the sciences, giving them enough to support themselves and focus on creative achievement. That way, the country gets lots of glory and better robots.
She just went to bed, so I'll have to tell Her when Her timezone hits morning. In the meantime, if you want to learn about piefed you can check out piefed.social or multiverse.soulism.net and decide if you like the features better.
Personally, I've met the lead devs of both Lemmy and Piefed, and consider the lead dev of Piefed to be a much more pleasant and hardworking person, which explains why Piefed has so many more features. The Lemmy dev team spend most of their time arguing why Stalin's homophobia wasn't so bad, which explains why they don't put out many feature updates.
Most theory is written very poorly, or at least for a version of English that doesn't exist anymore. I found David Graeber's and Donald Hoffman's work much easier to read and understand than Marx and Kropotkin.
PS: you can add anarchist.nexus and multiverse.soulism.net to your list of communist instances
When robots can run the entire economy, science leads to more gains than human labourers