• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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        9 months ago

        Yeah, and Jews in WWII would disagree with you.

        It’s always easy to find a very specific group of people that are having a horrible time, that doesn’t mean that on average, humans live better and safer than in the entire history of humanity. Sure, the last 10 years saw a bit of a down turn, but thing are still way better than, say, 40 years ago.

        I guess it’s hard to remember how really hard life could be

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          9 months ago

          Idk man it’s really not a competition. AI powered automated genocide and industrialized genocide are both horrible in their own way and to me absolutely dystopian nightmares. Same way how China uses AI to track every aspect of their citizens lives + also genocide.

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            9 months ago

            The Uyghurs are absolutely living in a dystopian nightmare. China uses technology to track their citizens. You can’t blame it on AI, although AI has improved their technology. Their tracking predates AI. Also our current “AI” is just self-improving algorithms, not true AI.

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      9 months ago

      “Things can always get worse” is a pretty shit justification to say things aren’t bad now.

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        9 months ago

        No-one is saying that all is fine. Yes, there are loads of big issues right now, but we’re still living better and safer than 99% of all the humans that have ever lived. We are not living Ina dystopian world.

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          9 months ago
          • “We are not living in a dystopian nightmare”
          • ”The fact that things can always get worse justifies a lack of effort to make things better”
          • ”All is fine”

          These are three different statements. Not the same thinfs.

          Can we fucking stop with the sloppy quoting? Nobody in this thread is responding to what anybody else is actually saying.