2 ms·

I genuinely don't understand this seeming inability to call for effective activism. We get people to stop using these tools because we convince them it's wrong

I genuinely don't understand this seeming inability to call for effective activism. We get people to stop using these tools because we convince them it's wrong to do so. Society becomes convinced of things all the time—norms change, what was once considered fine (let's dump all our toxic waste in the river next to our town! what could go wrong?) suddenly becomes verboten. I cannot for the life of me grasp nihilistic resignation in the face of Big Tech declaring war on human creativity and flourishing. People, you must fight with every fiber left in your being!

Ukv 2y ago
> I cannot for the life of me grasp nihilistic resignation [...] I agree that change is possible through a hard-fought battle, both legally and socially. On the other hand, "Everyone can just decide not to use these tools. Simple." sounded like a naive expectation to the extent that I'd expect to read it as a strawperson set up by someone making the opposing point that unanimous voluntary relinquishing of easily-available tools, against self-interest, is unrealistic. I'm also relatively optimistic about the future machine learning. If I thought the change you wanted was entirely impossible, it'd probably be "smug contentment" rather than "nihilistic resignation".