Post #3919401
2026-07-18 15:50 UTC
Replies (5)
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@fancysandwiches@neuromatch.social 2026-07-18 16:26
@Hex@kolektiva.social but even if you weren't forced to buy a car you are forced to deal with the negative externalities like air pollution, noise pollution, and pedestrian fatalities. Let's not forget that cars brought us the delightful innovation of leaded gasoline, which then literally coated the planet in lead. I do think LLMs are bringing us the next form of leaded gasoline, everything is getting worse, and all information is getting warped. Misinformation was already getting bad before LLMs but it's accelerated that problem by an order of magnitude. It seems to exacerbate mental health problems in many people. I could go on.
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@hackbyte@joinfriendica.de 2026-07-18 17:15
@Hex@kolektiva.social Still reading, totally with you... "but", don't forget that not the whole planet works like the US. While what you said is true _specifically_ for the US, for europe it is actually not. You argument is still valid. I for myself tried to compare it with staying in the bronze age while the rest of the world embraces and develops iron and steel .... Which at least fitted the aspect of the enourmous resource cost .. but lacked the part where cars actually killed of thousands of jobs within a generation and made millions jobless because nobody needed horse farmsand so on anymore. But all of that does'nt really fit the actual problems we have _today_. I didn't (directly) use AI yet and i don't plan to change that .. but OTOH i'm a techie and deeply fascinated by all of it. IMHO, what we need is to understand that it is not "just" the technology but - as you said - it getting massively enforced upon users by literally _everyone_ of the top 1%. Getting cars in to the hands of the everyday average ppl had at least some positive aspect in the moment. How bad it became in the long run wasn't as clear. But today, we actually know what the plan behind it is. Centralisation of information and computing.... Actually killing off "home computing" for the profit of GAFAM and their owners. That's a real threat towards our freedoms. And IMHO, we get actually used by them because we (all) start(ed) another holy war about if AI is useful or not ...... completely ignoring the actors behind, helping them by ripping eachother apart over what to do or not.. It's just sad. 🙁
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@Hex@kolektiva.social 2026-07-19 09:50
Sealioning cultists are swarming like muggen and earn the same treatment.
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@richpuchalsky@mastodon.social 2026-07-18 16:05
@Hex@kolektiva.social People really, really do not want to believe that the daily stuff in use is set by infrastructural decisions made over large scales by people with power. Sure, you as an individual can not buy a car, which will be a variably livable decision based on where you live, but a society where the infrastructure builders have decided on cars will have cars.
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@FeralRobots@mastodon.social 2026-07-18 16:14
@Hex@kolektiva.social Someone who says 'nobody forced you to buy a car' very likely believes they got where they are through inherent merit & hard work. With a little work you could probably get that old dude to refine his position to "Nobody can be forced to do anything but die."