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Re:What enabled us to create AI is the thing it has the powe... by SketchySeaBeast on Thursday February 13, 2025 @08:56AM (#43035847)
I saying this as no fan of AI but, honestly, this again seems unrelated to AI. Building computers are not skills the average populace had, and I don't see any signs that the people who did make those decisions are outsourcing their choices to AI.

I don't know what you mean when you say "what happens to a society as it advances is collapsing". Civilizations both advanced and not have collapsed. All that being advanced did was make it more obvious when they do. This is blaming technology when time is the actual culprit.

It feels like we're blaming AI when it's really profit chasing that's killing us.

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Re:What enabled us to create AI is the thing it has the powe... by palata on Thursday February 13, 2025 @10:26AM (#43036796)
> Civilizations both advanced and not have collapsed.

Which one(s)?

> Building computers are not skills the average populace had

Which is not at all a reason for the average populace to give up on other skills, is it?

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Re:What enabled us to create AI is the thing it has the powe... by SketchySeaBeast on Thursday February 13, 2025 @11:03AM (#43037291)
Adanced? Rome. The easter island people were not specifically advanced, but they had a societal collapse from which they never recovered. Lots of civilizations have collapsed. Are we blaming the North America Indigenous populations or the Mayan civilization of collapsing because of their technology? It could be argued they collapsed because they weren't advanced enough.
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Re:What enabled us to create AI is the thing it has the powe... by palata on Thursday February 13, 2025 @11:59AM (#43038191)
Sorry, can you tell me again which one of those civilizations you mention hasn't collapsed yet?

I'm really confused. You say: "there are great civilizations who have not collapsed, let me give you examples!" and you proceed giving me examples of civilizations that... collapsed.

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