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I wasn't expecting the next culture war to be about AI. In 20 years the thanksgiving dinner fights over AI equality are going to be wild. >I'm not a bigot I s

by noosphr 6mo ago

I wasn't expecting the next culture war to be about AI. In 20 years the thanksgiving dinner fights over AI equality are going to be wild. >I'm not a bigot I support trans rights. But clankers aren't welcome in our share house. >> OK Millennial. I'm a cyborg with 95% of my brain running in a private server.

furyofantares 6mo ago
The usual left/right haven't managed to pick a side and consume this. Maybe they still will. I don't know who would get which side though. A cynical part of me says it's something everybody can hate. I can see both sides taking that. I can't see either side embracing it as part of the left or right identity. Maybe more it's a conflict between those with power and those without. Like return to office, or open offices, or cubicles before that, and probably many other things back to the luddites and earlier.
- tw04 6mo ago
  The right is desperately trying to figure out how to get their commoners onboard but the only narrative they’ve got so far is: this will help us kill “terrorists. That story is ringing pretty hollow when the orange one campaigned on no new wars and they’re trying to blame AI for their decision to bomb an Iranian school.
- lamasery 6mo ago
  It's not just "AI", people hate big tech in general. The overwhelming reaction I saw to the news that an Amazon datacenter got droned was "why is Iran helping us, and do they need coordinates for some other ones?" and I'd say not more than half that sentiment was because of AI. Major tech companies are basically all widely hated, and not just in a "ha ha Microsoft, blue screens, LOL" way but in an "I wish they would suffer actual, lasting harm in the actual real world" way.
ang_cire 6mo ago
As a millennial, I will be the first to run my brain on my toilet homelab servers.
thefz 6mo ago
> I wasn't expecting the next culture war to be about AI. Why should there be another culture war? Isn't it enough that social media has tuned us against each other on ethnicity, age, political views and a thousand other differences? You want one more? You need another reason to hate your neighbor?
- cassianoleal 6mo ago
  I think you're confounding "not expecting X to be about Y" with "wanting X".
lamasery 6mo ago
It's not that kind of "AI" though. On a long line between SQL and Cylons, we're sitting way closer to the SQL end of that line. Like close enough that from across the room you can't tell the two dots of "SQL" and "2026 AI" aren't one dot.

by noosphr 6mo ago

furyofantares 6mo ago

The usual left/right haven't managed to pick a side and consume this. Maybe they still will. I don't know who would get which side though. A cynical part of me says it's something everybody can hate. I can see both sides taking that. I can't see either side embracing it as part of the left or right identity. Maybe more it's a conflict between those with power and those without. Like return to office, or open offices, or cubicles before that, and probably many other things back to the luddites and earlier.

tw04 6mo ago
The right is desperately trying to figure out how to get their commoners onboard but the only narrative they’ve got so far is: this will help us kill “terrorists. That story is ringing pretty hollow when the orange one campaigned on no new wars and they’re trying to blame AI for their decision to bomb an Iranian school.
lamasery 6mo ago
It's not just "AI", people hate big tech in general. The overwhelming reaction I saw to the news that an Amazon datacenter got droned was "why is Iran helping us, and do they need coordinates for some other ones?" and I'd say not more than half that sentiment was because of AI. Major tech companies are basically all widely hated, and not just in a "ha ha Microsoft, blue screens, LOL" way but in an "I wish they would suffer actual, lasting harm in the actual real world" way.

ang_cire 6mo ago

As a millennial, I will be the first to run my brain on my toilet homelab servers.

thefz 6mo ago

> I wasn't expecting the next culture war to be about AI. Why should there be another culture war? Isn't it enough that social media has tuned us against each other on ethnicity, age, political views and a thousand other differences? You want one more? You need another reason to hate your neighbor?

cassianoleal 6mo ago
I think you're confounding "not expecting X to be about Y" with "wanting X".

lamasery 6mo ago

It's not that kind of "AI" though. On a long line between SQL and Cylons, we're sitting way closer to the SQL end of that line. Like close enough that from across the room you can't tell the two dots of "SQL" and "2026 AI" aren't one dot.