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I can't help but suspect that what they want is an end to technological progress, or possibly even a return to a pre-technological/industrial civilization.
by flanked-evergl 3y ago
I can't help but suspect that what they want is an end to technological progress, or possibly even a return to a pre-technological/industrial civilization.
- dartos 3y agoWhat makes you think that?
- smitty1e 3y agoThe Environmentalist effort to demonize carbon (present in pretty much every molecule of ever cell of every body) as some kind of pollutant, and shut down coal plants at the same time AI is seemingly sucking all the 'trons does lend a certain dystopian vibe to the conversation. Wiser use of resources is a great conversation to have, but so is a balance of priorities and a less authoritarian approach to consensus-building.
- flanked-evergl 3y ago"The ${technological development} Is Crushing ${thing that is unaffected by the technological development}" The AI revolution is not doing a damned thing to languages. Resources are finite, technology makes them more abundant, the more resources we have, the easier it is to spend more resources on doing things like maintaining endangered languages. By any reasonable measure, people who care about maintaining endangered languages should be ecstatic about every development that makes resources more abundant, but they are never, which makes me doubt that they care about the endangered languages. It's really the same with nuclear energy. Nuclear energy provides a solution we can use today to solve our carbon emission problem, but nuclear energy allows technological development to continue apace, which is why groups like Extinction Rebellion would rather vandalize art and economic activity than advocate for nuclear energy.
- jazzyjackson 3y agojust cuz it's technology doesn't mean it's progress