@amicusadastra Humanity is defined by tool use. They’ve found a few other primates that also use tools, but the point remains…. Humans are technology-using apes, period. You couldn’t have it more backwards. Using technology like AI is one of the most human things you can do.
@Tablesalt13 The only reason for national pride is the assumption that you have/will have a better quality of life than other countries.
If you don’t… leave! Zero points for sticking with a bad job, a bad relationship, or a bad country.
Canada is only worth a damn if equal/superior to USA.
@amritpaldesign It’s like saying you don’t mind if we use computers, but you hope that we hate IBM/Microsoft/Google. Well, we do.
Why assume using the technology comes bundled with sycophancy toward the companies at all? Everyone hates big tech.
AI tech divorced from AI giants will be ideal.
@KraytMcGraw Something “green house” types fail to understand is that they are trying to sand the edges off the golden goose.
The cute creatures, child focus, cornball humor, theatrical dialogue. Not just Lucas’ odd traits: they are what makes SW broadly popular beyond an adult nerd set.
@McGet99@lw_populist@mjarbo Seems veeeeery Mace-like to me. Dont suffer a Sith Lord to live.
Again it’s interesting where people get their sense that Jedi are these perfect moral exemplars and Luke is the most incorruptible. I don’t actually see that in the movies…. (EU alert)
@lw_populist@mjarbo I suppose… it is off screen in flashback. But the last time we saw him canonically he went apeshit on Vader and only barely pulled himself back from the brink. I have to wonder how much of “Luke would never” is pulled from people’s understanding outside the movies.
@dark_road_games The people switched to digital themselves via Napster + BitTorrent, and media companies HATED it. They wanted to keep selling you scarce, marked up physical items, and were dragged kicking + screaming to digital. Streaming options were LATE & met consumers where they already were
@jandrewellis Notice how anti-AI people will decry it for taking jobs, and then in the next breath celebrate that it can’t take jobs because it doesn’t work?
“Look at that AI bitch eating crackers”. They’ll always find a new reason.