Please Don't Say Mean Things about the AI I Just Invested a Billion Dollars In

Re:Please Don't Say Mean Things about the AI I Just Invested... by ajkjk on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @08:01PM (#46804248)

if you make a thing and the thing is going to be inevitably used for a purpose and you could do something about that use and you do not --- then yes, it exists for that purpose, and you are responsible for it being used in that way. you don't get to say "ah well who could have seen this inevitable thing happening? it's a shame nobody could do anything about it" when it was you that could have done something about it.

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Re:Please Don't Say Mean Things about the AI I Just Invested... by jychang on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @08:10PM (#46804339)

Yeah. Example: stripper poles. Or hitachi magic wands.

Those poles WERE NOT invented for strippers/pole dancers. Ditto for the hitachis. Even now, I'm pretty sure more firemen use the poles than strippers. But that doesn't stop the association from forming. That doesn't make me not feel a certain way if I see a stripper pole or a hitachi magic wand in your living room.

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Re:Please Don't Say Mean Things about the AI I Just Invested... by wizardforhire on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @08:23PM (#46804446)

To be fair to the magic wands, thats why “massagers” were invented in the first place. [1] [2] [3]

[1] https://thefactbase.com/the-vibrator-was-invented-in-1869-to...

[2] https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/m/ma...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_hysteria

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Re:Please Don't Say Mean Things about the AI I Just Invested... by irishcoffee on Thursday January 29, 2026 @01:10AM (#46806420)

And I'll go out on a limb and say the first person to use a pole resembling a fire pole in the fireman vs stripper debate was probably the stripper!

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Re:Please Don't Say Mean Things about the AI I Just Invested... by pluralmonad on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @08:26PM (#46804473)

I'm super confused what harms come from stripper poles and vibrators. I am prepared to accept that the joke might have gone right over my head.

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Re:Please Don't Say Mean Things about the AI I Just Invested... by ajkjk on Thursday January 29, 2026 @12:42AM (#46806258)

I don't get the jump either but it was certainly lateral enough to be amusing

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Re:Please Don't Say Mean Things about the AI I Just Invested... by blibble on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @08:55PM (#46804705)

how many front rooms have you walked into that had a stripper pole?

(also: what city? for a friend...)

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Re:Please Don't Say Mean Things about the AI I Just Invested... by ajkjk on Thursday January 29, 2026 @05:41PM (#46817849)

i've seen it in NYC a few times. Pole dance is a fairly common fitness hobby. there are plenty of gyms/studios for it also.

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Re:Please Don't Say Mean Things about the AI I Just Invested... by anonymars on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @08:08PM (#46804321)

> you...could have done something about it

What is it that isn't being done here, and who isn't doing it?

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Re:Please Don't Say Mean Things about the AI I Just Invested... by ajkjk on Thursday January 29, 2026 @12:41AM (#46806252)

In this case we're debating whether one of the purposes of AI is to scan the elderly. Probably 'purpose' is not quite the right word, but the point would be: it is not the purpose of AI to not scam the elderly (or it would explicitly prevent that).

(note: I do not actually know if it explicitly prevents that. But because I am very cynical about corporations, I'd tend to assume it doesn't.)

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