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"The ${technological development} Is Crushing ${thing that is unaffected by the technological development}" The AI revolution is not doing a damned thing to la
by 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.