the current rage against AI is 90% driven by the idea that humans need to produce output sothat we can donate to them and give them money sothat they can live.

What an absolutely insane straw man

Yeah same. For me, the alternate is to just not use YouTube so I usually give it a few tries with freetube before giving up

So like when the abused go on to become abusers themselves. Got it.

Hidden Fortress

Makes it even more annoying when some insane fascist shit happens IRL and people are like “omg it’s just like what Palpatine did” or whatever.

Like no dude, it’s like what fucking Adolf Hitler did

She got 100% fully naked in The Wolf of Wall Street fyi

The natives in North America had no word for ownership prior to the arrival of the Europeans, and therefore they had no concept of ownership. And it took a long time and being scammed again and again to grasp it once the word was added to their vocabulary (very much by force). A little bit easier to understand imo, since it’s not a word that they had and lost, per se. but one they never had.

I think it’s possible for words to lose meaning enough (and possibly with intention) to alter the way people think, but it takes generations.

I’m not sure making “literally” simultaneously mean both “literally” and “figuratively,” helps when we’re talking about every conversation in English everywhere. On such a scale, surely it can only do harm to the general acceptance of our shared reality.

It’s not that far off from Newspeak. Though instead of “the party will tell you what’s real and what’s not,” it’s, “go ahead and figure out what’s real. Oh you’re asking us if you’re correct? Oh that’s cute. Good luck.”

definitely industrial-scale automation systems. Mostly PLCs, but also SCADA for monitoring. Lots of 20-30 year-old tech. Those networks have no reason to be connected to the internet.

You’re talking a massive nation with more systems like this than you could ever imagine. Probably more than all of Europe combined.

They are in every state of repair and disrepair that you could imagine, and many have been receiving government funding for at least at decade now (def more, but I can only speak to the last ten years or so) to replace these systems, including SCADA and PLCs.

So you have a patchwork of countless systems, in every level of tech modernity that you can imagine.

The newer systems usually have an internal network of sorts, and they might have a portal for someone outside the network to log in to remotely monitor.

The problem seems to be that these idiots kept the default credentials, etc.

But to answer you’re question, they’re not all 20-30 years old, and network connectivity (without being open to the outside internet, obviously), is a very useful feature when replacing those old systems with newer ones.

That’s why.

Not only that but it said many of them were using the default login credentials

The worst is when you’re watching something with subtitles (in your own language because it’s hard to hear sometimes), then someone on screen speaks a different language with the subtitles hardcoded into the video.

Great, right?

Well no, because Amazon’s (or Netflix etc, they all do it) subtitles have a big “[Speaks German]” up the entire time, blocking the hard coded subs entirely so you cannot see what they say without temporarily disabling subs. Like bitch, I KNOW THEY ARE SPEAKING GERMAN, MOVE THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY SO I KNOW WHAT THEY’RE SAYING

It’s so fucking stupid and infuriating. How have they not addressed this shit?

I wonder if Sikhs are ever warned ahead of time that they’re entering a life full of catching strays

I mean you can think what you want, or even write a dissertation about it and have it published. But what I’m saying is established fact among people who dedicate their lives to this.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/379404191_The_Semiotics_of_Newspeak_Language_Power_and_Thought_Control_in_Orwell’s_1984

https://journal.ijarms.org/index.php/ijarms/article/view/757

https://www.academia.edu/721095/Orwell_and_the_Power_of_Language

And here’s Orwell himself defending his use of language as a means of control in the novel:

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/politics-and-the-english-language/

Now, it is clear that the decline of a language must ultimately have political and economic causes: it is not due simply to the bad influence of this or that individual writer. But an effect can become a cause, reinforcing the original cause and producing the same effect in an intensified form, and so on indefinitely. A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.

This last one is actually really interesting, I recommend reading the entire thing.

When was the last time it read the book? The entire point of Newspeak was to shape how people thought, and it worked like gangbusters.

To meet the ideological requirements of Ingsoc (English Socialism) in Oceania, the Party created Newspeak, a controlled language of simplified grammar and restricted vocabulary designed to prevent people from being able to think critically. The Newspeak language thus limits the person’s ability to articulate and communicate abstract concepts, such as personal identity, self-expression, and free will,[1][2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak

You can’t grasp the concept of personal identity, let alone internalize it and actually have one, if the concept for it doesn’t exist in the language.

Orwell could not be more clear about this stuff. To the point where my teenage (before witnessing it first hand in the US) self found those parts to be boring and far fetched. Boy was I wrong.

From the book:

the lexicologist character Syme discusses his editorial work on the latest edition of the Newspeak Dictionary:

By 2050—earlier, probably—all real knowledge of Oldspeak will have disappeared. The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron—they’ll exist only in Newspeak versions, not merely changed into something different, but actually contradictory of what they used to be. Even the literature of The Party will change. Even the slogans will change. How could you have a slogan like Freedom is Slavery when the concept of freedom has been abolished? The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact, there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.[1]

I was criticizing the argument that I replied to.

No. It’s not the same as “literal/figurative”. At least not yet. And it’s important that we don’t allow that to happen to these words as well.

Language directly informs our thoughts. Like literally, we think in our respective language, and controlling/molding that is an extremely powerful tool of control and oppression. Perhaps the most powerful. Read 1984 if you want someone to explain it much better than I ever could.

We cannot allow words like “objective” and “subjective” to colloquially mean the same thing. It will just continue making it more and more difficult for people to grasp what’s real and what is not.

People will also tell you that it’s bad to enslave people. You gonna be a contrarian and go against that one as well? Or are you going to be a thoughtful person and evaluate each argument on its own merits?

I think they were trying to tell you to go fuck yourself. Which I would say that they achieved.

No it’s worse than 8.

8 just looked bad, but it still functioned just like 7 in the background if I recall.

11 is just vibecoded trash through and through

No doubt about it.

And they are not the only ones.

Because Cletus has a tiny dick