Nukes are actually dangerous. AI is mostly just wasteful, fraudulent, and stupid.

Yes, but also AI is different. In all the examples you gave, technology increases the efficiency of practical labor. AI is the first time we have attempted to take art away from the artist or wisdom away from the wise.

It’s a consolidation of power at a different scale of human experience. Compare control over book printing to control over the very act of writing. Control over scientific research vs. control over the very act of deliberation itself.

AI is an attempt to replace our intuitions and talents with an ersatz sludge of curated slop.

Slop bros.

Problems started before Covid with a steep and ongoing decline in reading.

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True, but we cultivated broccoli to be sweeter, so I wouldn’t be surprised if vegetables used to have a higher protein/calorie ratio.

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No, I’m literally talking about the bioavailable protein for you, a human.

Don’t forget that Homo sapiens evolved as fructivorous apes eating stuff like broccoli and our omnivorous diet is a recent development. (The bacteria-dependent digestion you mentioned is for the cellulose in grass, not protein.)

This is like saying “murder is bad.”

• Murder is usually defined as an illegal killing. However, many legal killings are bad and many illegal killings are good. For example, it was illegal to kill Nazis in Germany circa 1940, but it wasn’t immoral.

Context.

Per calorie, Broccoli has as much protein as steak.

To be fair our situation is unprecedented. Children with access to social media (for some reason) interacting endlessly with AI slop.

Research indicates we’ve already wiped out 30 years of literacy progress.

This is absolutely shocking. It’s almost as if those theorems from the early 20th century establishing that digital algorithms can’t replace epistemology are true or something. Who could have guessed? Other than Gödel, Tarski, and Turing.

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How did you make the text so big. Tell me right now.

1. Corporation makes evil thing.
2. Evil people use evil thing.

There’s enough blame to go around, don’t worry.

Normalize smashing pervert glasses on sight (while still on face).

Laws limiting the height of your fence are debated in the following way.

1. First, the benefits and harms to you and your neighbors are considered.
2. These considerations are weighed against the relative costs to the rest of the community.
3. Rules are agreed upon that take everyone’s interests into account.

This is a moral exercise, because to debate something is to engage in normative deliberation. Indeed, your only mechanism for social appeal is moral: “This is the right thing to do” for some reason, such as justice, fairness, harm reduction, or whatever.

If you pass a law protecting rare valuable books, then you also need to decide which books are protected.

You’re right. Laws are constrained by pragmatism. It turns out, figuring out which books are important is analogous to figuring out which natural habitats should be legally protected from construction, etc. This is fairly easy.

What?? Every law we have is a matter of moral debate. Why do you think murder is illegal, or rape? Because these are evil behaviors.