[programmers frantically pulling cables out of the wall] AI: "Nuclear power. Double teachers' salaries. Build more houses. Distribute food more fairly. TRAINS—" — qntmyrrh (@qntm) November 24, 2023 I remember growing up with that same old adage of how you could be the next scientist to invent a cure for cancer, or a solution to climate change, or whatever. What they don’t tell you is that we already have solutions for a lot of problems, we just don’t use them.
  • MrMakabar@slrpnk.net
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    11 months ago

    No, trusting the authorities to do the right thing, would be sitting at home and doing absolutly nothing.

    • SinAdjetivos@beehaw.org
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      11 months ago

      Right, which is why I’m saying that your ‘solution’ is nothing. It boils down to: “Lobby!(1) Then go home(2), sit and wait(3)”

      1. With your loads of cash and free time.
      2. Which of course everyone has.
      3. Which is a luxury we can certainly all afford.
      • MrMakabar@slrpnk.net
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        11 months ago

        Great that we agree that lobbying works. Otherwise you would not go home and sit around and just wait. With a fixed problem however that is perfectly fine.

        • SinAdjetivos@beehaw.org
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          11 months ago

          Great, my work is done. I’ve done a lobby and convinced you that Lobbying doesn’t actually change anything and that you’ll have to actually do something. And now I can sleep easy knowing that you’ll fix it all for me!