Re:The Spoon Theory (2003)
by TeMPOraL on Friday January 15, 2021 @07:11AM
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Indeed it is. And if you look at it, most of the arguments against tech in general - including all the hand-wringing about AI, privacy and evil tech bros - they're all arguments against capitalism. But it would be boring to repeat the same thing that's been repeated for the past 100+ years, so people instead confuse symptoms with cause.
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Re:The Spoon Theory (2003)
by alisonkisk on Friday January 15, 2021 @09:38AM
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If capitalism is defined as "everything people do that has has negative externalities" that's tautological and useless.
It's not that. All these things have a common root cause in the form of businesses accumulating capital and making decisions to abuse people. The public discourse is distracted by focusing on minutia - AI does this, robots do that - instead of noticing the common thread: business people decide to use this technology to hurt people.