

That chip has a silhouette of a hung amogus in the center.
That chip has a silhouette of a hung amogus in the center.
I may not represent the majority opinion for these ideologies, because I don’t spend my free time in these communities, but I’ll try to sum up my thoughts on taking actions informed by this kind of thinking.
Good anti-natalists with any measure of forethought should very quickly come to the conclusion that small scale terrorism doesn’t do anything to solve the crisis of new life, or to reduce suffering- which is supposed to be the goal.
Good pro-mortalists, if given the opportunity to solve all suffering once and for all, should very quickly come to the conclusion that regardless of their thoughts on the bigger questions, it isn’t up to them or anyone else to press that button or turn that key.
Its delusional thinking to believe that just because you know everyone is probably better off dead, other people shouldn’t be allowed to go on suffering, or to bring about another generation of sufferers, if that’s what they choose to do.
If you are heavily pro-mortalist, and you think life would be better off dead; Congratulations, the laws of physics are on your side! Every source of heat and life that has ever existed will inevitably be snuffed out and the universe will just be a bunch of cold little rocks, which will continue to get further and further away from eachother until they’re eventually just little islands of nothing, in an ocean of nothing, screaming off into nothing.
You win in the end, no reason to rush things.
Anti-natalism isn’t the problem here, it’s lack of understanding. What does blowing up a fertility clinic really accomplish in the long run.
I say this as an anti-natalist with a pro-mortalist lean. All this person did was increase suffering in the world, for no reason.
Yeah I’d say it makes sense that people who are not narcissists would have less interest in creating genetic copies of themselves. I’d be willing to bet that if we had the option of cloning, it would be the more popular one.
Anybody see the “Homegrowns next” comment during this meeting? That’s us isn’t it? We’re the homegrowns I’m pretty sure.
Yeah the idea that disabled people need AI to make art, and trying to get AI out of art is ableist as a result is, in my opinion, astroturfed bullshit techbros use to justify straight up theft and a pure hatred of creativity.
What I’m referring to, and it’s a stretch because I’m trying to do hot takes, is literally just the text to speech stuff for people with vision impairment, it’s slightly easier to understand than Cortana or Siri and that’s where the benefits end. Maybe a program for generating a color palette or generating noise that gets blocked into abstract values and colors so you can make it into a painting, like playing random notes on a piano until you hear something you like. It would save 2 minutes for some people’s art process, and again, that’s where the benefits end.
Obviously you don’t need an AI for any of this, I don’t think you should use AI for any of this, all I’m suggesting is that if AI were being used these ways I wouldn’t be as bent out of shape about it. It would still be offloading empathy and creativity to a computer, which would still be a massive problem, but it wouldn’t make me nearly as violently angry.
Edit: I see now that my mistake in my first comment was using the word “valid” to describe AI use cases, that was just habitual turn of phrase, I don’t think it’s actually valid.
Two hot takes:
Firstly, generative AI has valid use cases for accessibility and quality of life features, unfortunately they’re completely overlooked in favor of the future hellscape dystopia we’ve been hurtling towards for a while now, where consumerism will be the only valid form of self expression, and your individuality will continue to be suppressed in favor of profits. (But somehow communism is the anti-individuality system?)
Second, it would be better for humanity if these things were sentient and hated organic life, than it is for these things to be completely unthinking, and their hatred for organic life is just a byproduct of the will of their creators, because then butlerian jihad would be the socially acceptable position. As it stands, these are a much more insidious, normalized threat that everyone will go along with until there’s no one left to remember that we ever had a reason not to do this.
Is the meme that this description couldn’t possibly be in reference to any animal that has ever existed?