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"If" -> this isn't realtime, I'm having to assume your reaction; this is just a conditional if/then/else.
"You seem to" -> I am not going to tell you what you're thinking, only how it came across to me, as information.
I am sorry that I came across as tone policing.
It was not intended. That does not change the first sentence. It does signal that it was not malicious.
I will own the effect, absolutely. I'm not going to say that it was intentional when it was not.
And thank you for the recommendation, by the way. I do appreciate the challenge to my beliefs, even if I don't always immediately agree. It's the only way I am aware of to remove my own upbringing in this patriarchal racist culture.
Tone: genuine; I'm reading now.
If you're hearing tone policing, that is unintended. I was answering what I perceived as someone asking for information honestly, and declared openly that was my sole intent.
Likewise, I'm not tone policing you, I'm saying that I am acknowledging and accepting that you see things differently than I do and that I am okay with that.
Nothing more or less. Please do not hear what I didn't say.
The analog here would be how frustrated you (and I!) get when people say socialism or communism or collective action is bad because of the USSR or China or Pol Pot.
Okay, that's your perspective. Cool. You seem to have a couple of fundamental assumptions I don't think I agree with in principle or in tone, and that's okay.
Like I told the other guy, I was offering why I didn't agree with the sentence as structured, since it seemed like he was surprised at that response. Not to argue or convince anyone else.
So it is *absolutely* possible to say "datacenters are bad" and "the investor class is stealing our resources for this pipe dream", or that genAI and the chatbots and their frontier models and using it for military applications, etc. are bad.
My point is that "AI" is a sloppy term that is like saying "TV is bad".
Some TV -- most, even -- is bad. Some of it is literally lifesaving.
The "AI" that helps with breast cancer (and other) diagnoses is *NOT* the same thing (or even the same *type* of thing) as a chatbot. Running a locally hosted background remover is not the same thing as a datacenter.
Techbros and marketing hype blur that distinction, to hide how they're being awful about how it's being USED.
No worries mate, meant what I said; it seemed like you were wondering, so offered a perspective in a friendly way. I suspect we do not actually disagree when you get to the practical layer of application and what to do, etc.
I'm sure other people have different opinions, but that's why there's a disconnect for me between the statement as originally presented. Not arguing; it seemed like you were uncertain why you weren't getting the response you expected, so offering information. Genuine offer of information, nothing more.
So like, will you get buy-in from me in the way it's being used by the investor class to exploit workers and enrich themselves? 100% from me.
As stated without qualifications? Afraid not.
One reason may be because "AI" is a poorly defined term (and intentionally so by the techbros). You (probably) mean a specific *type*, class of AI, or way that it's being used/exploited/leveraged by the fascists not the entire field.
Unless you *are* saying "throw out the breast cancer detecting stuff along with the generative bullshit", in which case... hope that helps explain one possible reason why you're getting push back.
Yes. This is the way; there's plenty of evidence and research that this kind of cooperative model works and can thrive even in a capitalist hellscape.
@StefanEJones Likewise, lol.
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