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Politics is the art of the possible, eh? It is annoying but we can be grateful that people are at least attempting to organise around principles, even if the pr
by roenxi 1y ago
Politics is the art of the possible, eh? It is annoying but we can be grateful that people are at least attempting to organise around principles, even if the principle is obviously not what motivates them. In this case the woman is obviously mostly writing this because she doesn't like OpenAI specifically, but she has an argument and it is a good one.
- x-complexity 1y ago> In this case the woman is obviously mostly writing this because she doesn't like OpenAI specifically, but she has an argument and it is a good one. Until the same measures are uniformly taken with the rest of the actors in the industry, this is nothing more than virtue signalling. Denouncing X should also mean denouncing actors close to X, for a given domain space F(actor).
- Propelloni 1y ago"Virtue signaling" is moving the Overton window. The far-right got very far with it, so do not dismiss it. Every journey starts with a first step.
- ben_w 1y ago> Denouncing X should also mean denouncing actors close to X, for a given domain space F(actor). Nobody has time for that. For example, one common target for activists is Nestlé. Most people barely have time to think about Nestlé at all, and of those who do, I think most are oblivious that e.g. Maggi is a brand that Nestlé owns. I could probably do this XKCD but about activists and company names instead of geochemists and olivine/feldspar/quartz: https://xkcd.com/2501/ https://xkcd.com/2501/