Post #1490097

2026-04-19 15:42 UTC

@ngaylinn But no other animal commits to such a narrow, impoverished interface. We have invented audio and video calls but use written language for our cultural laws and to communicate across continents and generations. This is not natural for primates. But it is very much a human thing. We are not playing the machine's game, we invented this game. And now we try to build a machine to play it, pretending that "cumulative culture" is just another of those number games better left to machines.

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@ngaylinn@tech.lgbt 2026-04-19 15:53

@maxy That's an excellent point! I think you are right, in that we have put ourselves into this box in the name of progress (and convenience, and accessibility, and...). It's not just screens, its society. Now, here we are trying to displace ourselves from the box! How ironic. Though, actually, it's more that we're trying to scare each other, by pretending that we could do this. Now there's the true irony! The threat is only scary because we forget that the box is not "us" or "the way things are," but an affectation and a constraint. Painful as it may be, we desperately need to escape the box, at least a little. I think the one bright side to this AI nonsense is it's helping people see that.

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