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  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    3 hours ago

    AI cannot possibly be useful

    It's useful to techbros playing Mirror Mirror On The Wall, coming up with bleakly uninspired "remakes" of their treats, and gooning.

    • anarcho_blinkenist [none/use name]
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      57 minutes ago

      machine learning also in practicality helped to solved protein folding sequences. every technology in history has good and terrible uses. It's like how movable print contributed to great things and also helped the Protocols of Zion and Der Sturmer come into existence. As always it is a question of ownership and socio-economic structural incentives

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        38 minutes ago

        Similarly, the cotton gin could have been strictly a societal improvement but the slavery industry made slavery worse by expanding with the cotton gin's use, and that persisted until slavery was (mostly) abolished.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        3 hours ago

        berdly-actually useful to validation-seeking computer touchers, boring treat hogs, and gooners. berdly-smug