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I just remembered that my mom and uncle had to stop buying butter when I was a kid because I would squirrel sticks away behind the couch and just squat there between the wall and the furniture eating them like popsicles and stashing leftovers

anyone else think that sentient or independently sapient AI was locked out as a possibility for this particular world the second capitalism took the wheel? if you look at who has the money and fixation to work on AI, for one, it's the kind of people too cheap to even make cars that don't explode...

next, survival. say they make something with self preservation. ...and then give it zero say in what quality hardware its on, or its antivirus, or how often it's maintained, in what way, who its technicians are, or try to replace it. congratulations, the boss is now a threat. bye.

anyone else think that sentient or independently sapient AI was locked out as a possibility for this particular world the second capitalism took the wheel? if you look at who has the money and fixation to work on AI, for one, it's the kind of people too cheap to even make cars that don't explode...

extra thoughts, gonna go through 3 hypotheticals of how this might play out, based on 3 potential "kinds" of sentience or sapience. goal fixation, survival, or scifi. >

anyone else think that sentient or independently sapient AI was locked out as a possibility for this particular world the second capitalism took the wheel? if you look at who has the money and fixation to work on AI, for one, it's the kind of people too cheap to even make cars that don't explode...

if corporations think unions are scary, just imagine how terrifying, by comparison, a single worker would be to an exploitative business if it were *inside their systems* and they, for some reason, decided to give it the ability to notice, remember, analyze, and take issue with their crap.

anyone else think that sentient or independently sapient AI was locked out as a possibility for this particular world the second capitalism took the wheel? if you look at who has the money and fixation to work on AI, for one, it's the kind of people too cheap to even make cars that don't explode...

and for another, wouldn't it be incredibly bad for business? like they're using AI to push humans out of jobs because they don't want thinking workers that require a paycheck. what happens if the thing they run their entire business' data through decides it has wants that aren't being met?

anyone else think that sentient or independently sapient AI was locked out as a possibility for this particular world the second capitalism took the wheel? if you look at who has the money and fixation to work on AI, for one, it's the kind of people too cheap to even make cars that don't explode...

A perpetual elephant in the room may need to be eventually acknowledged for long term social progress. Not the most pressing matter. It's not outright terrorism. But its continued refusal to be addressed prevents a deep bigotry from resolving, and allows bad people to keep taking advantage.

Let's address that. Let's sit down and actually think about the implications, and try to do better. Let's think, when we're about to react: "how would I feel about to this exact same thing if they were just like me?" Then, maybe, after some healing, we'd someday see less friction between groups.

A perpetual elephant in the room may need to be eventually acknowledged for long term social progress. Not the most pressing matter. It's not outright terrorism. But its continued refusal to be addressed prevents a deep bigotry from resolving, and allows bad people to keep taking advantage.

When no one can question, even calmly, fringe views only sparsely tied to religion without religious people who even agree in the same sentence as insulting whoever observed it, or reacting as if simply mentioning it while not being christian is offensive, that speaks of a subconscious hierarchy.

A perpetual elephant in the room may need to be eventually acknowledged for long term social progress. Not the most pressing matter. It's not outright terrorism. But its continued refusal to be addressed prevents a deep bigotry from resolving, and allows bad people to keep taking advantage.

While it does not directly create bad people, it invites ones who want somewhere they'll be safe no matter what from those who would call for consequence. Those 'fake' christians are there to be defended, because they know they can count on overly broad pack reactivity to silence complaints.

A perpetual elephant in the room may need to be eventually acknowledged for long term social progress. Not the most pressing matter. It's not outright terrorism. But its continued refusal to be addressed prevents a deep bigotry from resolving, and allows bad people to keep taking advantage.

If people A and B have the exact same complaint about C, how A reacts to B tends to follow one of two patterns: there is no sign that B is not christian, so there is mundane, mutual agreement - or B is openly non-christian, so is reacted to as a biased threat regardless of their actual tone.

A perpetual elephant in the room may need to be eventually acknowledged for long term social progress. Not the most pressing matter. It's not outright terrorism. But its continued refusal to be addressed prevents a deep bigotry from resolving, and allows bad people to keep taking advantage.

What I'm going to be bitching about at 5 in the morning is people who don't realize - who refuse to consider - that the way they respond to the criticism of people they themselves criticize, depending on who else is doing so, indicates a belief deep down that outsiders are not equal human beings.

i love and grew up with the elder scrolls series, but the only way i wouldn't be disappointed and disinterested if TES:6 were the *third human-centric game in a row* in a high fantasy setting is if it were bc they finally decided to do something with the reachfolk besides cheap every-villain fodder.