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Post by noah_buddy » Wed, Feb 26, 2025, 6:57 PM UTC

HenryBemis wrote: post #59

imglorp wrote: post #31

We were told the machines would free us from repetitive or injurious work, letting us pursue more meaningful and prosperous lives. Or at least they would be our partners we could leverage. Instead, will they be the tools of our enslavement to The Man?

When was the last time in history that people didn't use the most advanced technology to subdue/imprison/etc. other people? I am not saying that good things didn't happen, but where there is money to be made, money WILL be made. And for some countries that don't enjoy regulations like GDPR (China, India, with growing economies 'solutions' like this will definitely come to play). Some people will replace a form of sla…

Post by BurdensomeCount » Wed, Feb 26, 2025, 7:07 PM UTC

sentrysapper wrote: post #162

I wonder if Kushal Mohta and Vivaan Baid have ever read the story of the Brazen Bull.

Post by darkwater » Thu, Feb 27, 2025, 10:15 AM UTC

johnnyanmac wrote: post #118

ryandrake wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But they at least went through a slightly-diverse undergrad university (Duke) and hopefully didn't spend it insulated from different kinds of people. Out of the thousands of students there, all of their friends happened to also be sweatshop heirs? I guess I just don't understand how someone, who's not royalty, can become a grown ass adult, never having had made friends with or developed at least some kind of empathy…

>and hopefully didn't spend it insulated from different kinds of people. Who knows? Maybe they could insulate themselves. Maybe they got a bunch of views but the ones that fit their current purview prevailed. >never having had made friends with or developed at least some kind of empathy towards people unlike themselves. people throw around the term too loosely nowadays, but psychopathy/sociopathy can be a legitmate e…

Post by guy4261 » Fri, Feb 28, 2025, 6:53 PM UTC

steve_adams_86 wrote: post #104

some_random wrote: post #38

I'm shocked that anyone here is confused as to why this is controversial, to use a popular twitter phrase they were completely "mask off" on what they intended their tech to be used for. The demo was for a garment manufacturing sweatshop in which they identified a slow employee, called him by a number, and humiliated him, stopping just short of recommending a "corrective action". This easily could have been spun in a…

One of the things you can infer from this is that these people don't think the workers need to be supported by management. This is one of the most common forms of inefficiency I find, though. Management resents workers so much that they don't enable them to do work properly, due to a bias which leads them to believe their workers should be able to do more with less. A failure to invest in a functional work environmen…