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Re:Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master – John Carmack by sriram_malhar on Sunday September 13, 2026 @08:08AM (#49683085)
You do realize that the same powers that have bred fascism and mandatory id requirement are hand in glove with the AI oligarchs, no? They gain with rampant use of AI disproportionately more than the peasant.

The peasantry stands no chance. Unless there is a French Revolution style uprising

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Re:Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master – John Carmack by Razengan on Sunday September 13, 2026 @08:14AM (#49683137)
> Unless there is a French Revolution style uprising

Yeah we're not going to win with weapons anymore. The imbalance there has been disproportionate for decades.

But the common civilian peon can use AI to look up laws and rights and other information and shit to see what we CAN still do.

USE it before they take that away too.

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Re:Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master – John Carmack by sriram_malhar on Sunday September 13, 2026 @11:08AM (#49684848)
You can look up laws all night long. Check out all the laws broken by Potus, ICE (just to name a few) on a daily basis.

The peasantry is not on the side that enforces the law. AI is. AI is a force multiplier. The more force you have, the more multiples of it you en up with. Flock uses AI to do surveillance at scale. Every cloud service has NSA backdoors.

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Re:Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master – John Carmack by Razengan on Sunday September 13, 2026 @11:54AM (#49685381)
So we stop AI, uninvent it,

what then?

We go back to how it was before AI

And everyone will have a better life?

Let's hear your plan

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Re:Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master – John Carmack by sriram_malhar on Sunday September 13, 2026 @12:15PM (#49685630)
It isn't just AI. I would like a world without the poison of social media, without guns & bombs, without dangerous chemicals. Yes, in many many ways we'd be better off. We are accelerating the destruction of our planet.

I don't have a better plan for humanity. I only have fear.

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Re:Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master – John Carmack by Razengan on Sunday September 13, 2026 @12:49PM (#49685951)
> a world without the poison of social media

No radio, no newspapers, no town criers, no gossip at the alewife's house?

> I don't have a better plan for humanity. I only have fear.

So your best move is to go around spreading that fear without offering ways to fix shit or inspiring anyone else to do so?

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Re:Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master – John Carmack by sriram_malhar on Sunday September 13, 2026 @01:20PM (#49686247)
C'mon, you know better than to invoke a slippery slope.

My best move is to influence the people I care about to reduce dependence on these things and seek happiness in non-tech things (where tech is defined as those controlled by corporations), from community, live life from first principles. You are forcing me to answer a strange binary ... propose a fix for the world at large, or let me continue with all this shit. The world isn't as black and white.

Anyway, I'm done with this thread.

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Re:Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master – John Carmack by lowbloodsugar on Sunday September 13, 2026 @02:19PM (#49686971)
I would like to recommend, to both of you, Sarah Wilson’s I Eat the Stars: How to Live Fully and Beautifully in a Collapsing World. I am heartened that both of you are still trying to find solutions. -https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/241715900
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