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sean
@deamplified.com

watching "AI" discourse stuck in a "it's useful" vs "it's harmful” loop, after a lifetime of witnessing the same in topics of alternative transportation advocacy/car dependency

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sean
@deamplified.com

cars are a classic example of the false dichotomy justification: if utility of the tech is deemed sufficiently high, people will treat dead kids as an acceptable inevitable trade-off, even though the contention is not over whether cars are useful. lowering speed limits becomes out of the question.

road.cc“Look, there’s speed bumps now. What more do you want?” Angry drivers target family of 11-year-old cyclist killed in hit-and-run with hate messages, forcing them to call off ghost bike plans; John Deg...
sean
@deamplified.com

the false dichotomy also paints inaccurate caricatures of each "side" as "drivers" vs "cyclists" as if many drivers don't also ride bikes, and vice versa. it's like a made-up framing that avoids confronting both utility and harm simultaneously, while useful-at-any-cost becomes the default position.