Post #3288720
2026-06-07 22:39 UTC
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@LevZadov@kolektiva.social 2026-06-08 19:24
@jmax@mastodon.social @yugthebug@mastodon.social @thirstybear@agilodon.social To paraphrase Dickens, then general usage is an ass. The general public believe a *lot* of things that aren’t true. Misidentification of key words binds us, as Brian Eno would put it, with chains of iron. Most of us, for example, believe we are “free”, and that our “liberty” is a “God” given “right.” And so forth. If we don’t know what the words mean, the concepts are beyond our understanding. Of course the map is not the territory, but without the map, we are lost. If there is anything in the world today that humanity needs to know what it is, it’s AI. Let’s inform them by employing the correct names for the things that enslave us, all of them, not just “AI” an “LLM”. They “freedom” will mean something real. As things stand today, to paraphrase Kris Kistofferson, “freedom’s just another word."