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[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 49 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Pretty insulting comparison, tbh.

Pronouns: Expanding language to communicate the humanity of other people.

AI: Distilling language to package human communication as a sellable product.

[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 1 points 1 day ago

It is supposed to be insulting, to make you think about it.

Like it shows your definition of AI is lacking. Nothing about AI says it needs to be able to be sold. That is the Capitalist take on it. Because they want to sell everything.

AI (or LLM as you describe it) is nothing more than computer generated text. It says nothing about how it should be generated or what is should be used for.

In that context, if your mind immediately goes to slop when AI is mentioned, then you are no different than the ones who start fuming when pronouns are mentioned.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

One of the most insidious things that has happened over the past few decades is this overarching narrative that the left and right are equally evil and two sides of the same coin. That they are in any way comparable.

It has poisoned literally every aspect of life.

"The left went too far with 'woke', but that doesn't mean we need to go too far in the other direction!"

No. fuck that. Wanting basic human dignity for all people is not comparable to fascism. It's insane that this even needs to be said.

It's fucking baked into everything at this point. It is inescapable. I fucking hate it.

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If you want to take this one step further, it's the the inevitable result of identity politics in general.

Once you decide to generalize away per-issue stances just to paint them "left or right", "red or blue", "my team your team" then it becomes trivial to make an argument that both sides are the same, or conversely that both sides are polar opposites. Whatever suits you.

Republicans and Democrats both shovelled weapons to Israel. They are thus, as a whole, identical. Indistinguishable. Republicans are erasing reproductive Rights. Democrats are trying to guarantee them. They are thus, as a whole, complete polar opposites.

Generalizing from the specific is a convenient mechanism, but error prone, and it leads to absolute trash discourse... Which in turn leads to a failure of consensus for specific demands to make during a protest.

"No Kings" isn't realistically actionable.

[–] Auth@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Republicans and Democrats both shovelled weapons to Israel. They are thus, as a whole, identical. Indistinguishable.

This is disputable. They have had very different approaches. I'm convinced this talking point is conjured up by Russia to sow dissent.

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

... Did they both involve sending weapons to Israel?

This is exactly my point. You've made it better than I ever could have.

The minute you buy into identity politics, you'll reject what is front of your own eyes because you fail to seperate an issue from the whole. If "they" are wrong on the "issue", then you'll diminish the "issue" to protect the whole, thus protecting your identity.

Biden and the world and the current Democrats are absolutely fucked the dog on Israel. That doesn't mean the Democrat turd sandwich isn't still better than the giant douche, but there is no godly reason that one can't evaluate issues honestly.

[–] Auth@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

US foreign policy involves US companies sending weapons to Isreal and the US gov providing aid. Its been that way for over 50 years. Once the war broke out for the first 6 months there was no reason that should change, the democrat policy during this time was to use the aid as leverage to constain isreal and they did. The republican policy as been to use the US's position on the world stage to empower isreal. These are two completely different approaches.

The dems got multiple ceasefires and pushed for a reasonable end to the conflict while republicans broke ceasefires and changed the deal to be so one sided there is near 0 chance gaza accepts.