I refuse to accept or even entertain inevitabilist arguments about treat printers because of the already present environmental devastation and the fever dreams of rich assholes that know they are making the problem worse and want even more environmental devastation anyway.
If that kind of thinking was in play in the late 80s and early 90s, more CFCs would be dumped into the air year after year and anyone unhappy about that would get condescended to about being “Luddites against hairspray technology and/or glam rock” or something.
EDIT: Oh yeah, and there’d be some “well did you consider… that CFCs are used in hair spray in China, too?” sophistry too.
I refuse to accept or even entertain inevitabilist arguments about treat printers because of the already present environmental devastation and the fever dreams of rich assholes that know they are making the problem worse and want even more environmental devastation anyway.
If that kind of thinking was in play in the late 80s and early 90s, more CFCs would be dumped into the air year after year and anyone unhappy about that would get condescended to about being “Luddites against hairspray technology and/or glam rock” or something.
EDIT: Oh yeah, and there’d be some “well did you consider… that CFCs are used in hair spray in China, too?” sophistry too.
Honestly if you’re over the age of like 30 I think you gotta realize the luddites were, like, entirely correct.
But they were so emotional and should have just cheered on the ruling class commanding the machines making life worse for people instead of better.
Ulysses…I just had a tech bro try to sell me on A.I.
“listen, I get your point that you prefer human genuinity…but have you considered that just maybe big corporations won’t use A.I?”
“toxic capitalism”
DING DING DING WE HAVE A WINNER!
Aa yes, pursue AI in order to…avoid scams. Get back to me on how well that works out for them.
“No more porn industry”. What do they think the very first thing people did with AI was??