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Re:Divide-and-Conquer Dynamics in AI-Driven Disempowerment by nonrandomstring on Thursday February 22, 2024 @12:54PM (#39470648)
Please tell me you don't lack the imagination to interpret that for yourself?

How succinctly can it be said;

It means shutting the fuck up and doing exactly what you're told to do by a machine. No arguments. The machine is right by definition, and has calculated precisely what is "for your own good" using scientific data.

And don't bother arguing. You're only making it worse for yourself. :)

EDIT: Here's a wonderful passage by Alexis De Tocqueville, from "Democracy in America"

        That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and
        mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that
        authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it
        seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood:
        it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided
        they think of nothing but rejoicing. For their happiness such
        a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole
        agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for
        their security, foresees and supplies their necessities,
        facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns,
        directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and
        subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them
        all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?

AI will be wonderful, So long as you have nothing to say, think or feel. AI will provide everything you want. A universe of material goods at almost no cost, It will feed, clothe and shelter you. It will answer to every question, demand and wish; entertainment, pornography, music... all beyond your the wildest imaginations. But there s one thing it will NOT allow you to do. One request it will NEVER grant... and that is to turn it off.
Re:Divide-and-Conquer Dynamics in AI-Driven Disempowerment by kys_now on Thursday February 22, 2024 @02:47PM (#39472085)
No wonder the autists here are so enamored with it.