As someone who used to do shit like this all the time (perma-blocking people for perceived disrespect), it’s not a great way to live.
Yeah they made a shitty situation worse, but being a coward doesn’t make you a bad person. Besides, they’re almost certainly a kid.
Is it really a valid point if you have an anime PFP?
If getting what we want makes us happy
And what we want is to be sad
Then are we happy or sad?
The giant rabbit that stomps on worlds!
Bitch, it’s dry over here. Come to me! Why are you just standing there?
I think thats too pedantic of an interpretation (surprising, considering my name lol).
I don’t really agree that something we’d recognize as a moral system could form in a vacuum.
If someone’s morals diverge significantly from the culture they’re embedded in, I see three avenues for them:
Even in your extreme example, I think that only sociopaths could “go it alone”, and that the people who did disagree with their culture often did so knowing that they weren’t alone in that belief.
But really you’re putting way to much thought into a shitpost.
What do you think that morals are, if not societal expectations? Lots of cultures disagree about what is moral and what isn’t, and people from those cultures have adopted those morals by being raised in those cultures.
If people in those cultures stop caring if others within their own culture perceive their actions as moral, then society devolves into chaos. Maybe sociopathy would have been a better word than narcissism (although I am not a psychologist); a society of primarily sociopaths cannot survive.
Thats a real narcissistic take.
Society can’t function if people don’t check in to see if you’re following the expectations of society. You can bend or break some expectations, but if people don’t even check, then society collapses.
Hell yeah!
Poes law is hard at work here
I wonder where Schitts Creek would fall
This is just “death of the author”
Ultimate IMO, the audience is free to determine the meaning of something, but they’re not free to pronounce that the author intended such a meaning.
I once watched Singham, and when the credits rolled I thought
Oh that was short, I thought Indian movies were typically quite long!
It was the opening credits.
Yes, I was very high. My friends had to pause the movie because they were laughing so hard.
I commend your bravery and will mourn your loss
Drilling bottom?
Alright, where can I get some???
I don’t think the person who appeared after you on my feed got the message \
Sympathy upvote
I agree, although I think that phrasing it as “dislike” does a disservice to the legitimate grievances.
To give it a more nuanced spin, it’s not so much about disliking one because of the other, it’s about taking everything together. The power usage is just one more grievance, exacerbating opinions on AI.
I think the reason that power usage comes up a lot is because it’s easy to discuss, while talking about it through the lens of economics or communal good can easily get derailed.
You’re absolutely right that the environmental impact depends on the source of the energy, and less obviously, by the displaced demand that now has to seek energy from less clean sources. Ideally we should have lots of clean energy, but unfortunately we often don’t, and even when AI uses clean sources, they’re often just forcing preexisting load elsewhere. If we can start investing in power infrastructure projects at the national (or state/province level) then maybe it wouldn’t be so bad, but it never happens at a scale that we need.
I think the argument isn’t the environmental impact alone, it’s the judgement about the net benefit of both the environmental impact and the product produced. I think the statement is “we spent all this power, and for what? Some cats with tits and an absolutely destroyed labour market. Not worth the cost”
Especially because it’s a cost that the users of AI are forcing everyone to pay. Privatize profits, socialize losses, and all that.
Using honest to goodness em dashes instead of just a hyphen - pretty uncommon.
Even a hyphen would be pretty unusual in a real text message, because they’re more annoying to get than other common punctuation on the phone keyboard, and autocomplete won’t put them in.
In a chat app, a hyphen would probably be somewhat common since it’s right there on the keyboard, but a true em dash would be pretty unusual since most chat apps aren’t going to be doing autocorrect like a word processor would, and you’d have to use the magic key combination to insert it.
But we don’t have the original text so we can’t tell if the original author confused a hyphen with an em dash, though