So you can’t oppose outsourcing your brain power to a megacorp that will take zero responsibility for any consequence of its spicy autocorrect…
but you can oppose outsourcing your brain power to “the machine” because it’s against your beliefs.
I mean, if it works, yeah sure, call it a religion.
Humanism is a religion.
One Butlerian Jihad comming right up, Sir!
Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind
Where does it say that lol
They’re referencing Dune. In the lore AI tried to kill humanity, the war was called the Butlerian Jihad. As a result, AI was banned across the galaxy. I don’t know why you’re being downvoted just for not knowing
It’s in the Orange Catholic Bible
If you read the bible upside down, it makes much more sense.
Trump was trying to tell us that but money got in the way.
Probably won’t stand up in the Supreme Court which only recognizes the religious rights of Christians to be bigots.
The very first sentence mentions that this takes place in the UK
Edit: actually, I think I’m wrong on that. It sounds like this is a US story
University of Kentucky (UK). No worries, mate.
TIL there are more than zero universities in Kentucky.
There’s at least zero.
LOL when I read it my first impression was: Oh wow, I didn’t know UK also had a city called Kentucky, good that they pointed out it is not in US.
good that they pointed out it is not in US.
Huh? It is in the USA.
UK is University of Kentucky.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a US act. https://www.eeoc.gov/statutes/title-vii-civil-rights-act-1964
It’s a funny mistake though. I think intially I also thought it was UK, the Briton.
… I’m not sure if this is a joke or not.
The Amish and Sabbath observing Jewish people get religion-based exemptions from needing to use technology, it’s not unprecedented
lol jfc!
This reminds me of a quote from Star Trek First Contact- “We Believe that when you build a machine to do the work of a man, you take something away from the man.”
When I first saw the film, I rejected that. Seemed like backwards thinking, ignorant Luddite ideology ignoring the reality that when the machine does the man’s work, you free up the man to do other things. When a man doesn’t have to plow the field, he can focus on art and science and philosophy and music and poetry and otherwise taking his mind to the next level. At least that sounded good in my head.
Then I look at what we have now. We have built machines to create art and science and music and poetry, so the man is left to keep taking out the garbage. This is not an improvement. The Baku may not have been totally wrong.
That’s Insurrection, not First Contact.
I don’t want to be a statue!
I think the older I get and the more I see all of us being alienated from the fruits of our labors, the more I realize that there is/was value in the reproductive labor of food production, clothing production, etc. I don’t mean that we should all go back to being serfs (though, there are studies that show they worked less than we do), but I think that there’s something lost when most people don’t have anything of value they can point to and say “I made that” or “I had a hand in that.” Most people have bullshit jobs that have very little to do with human thriving/surviving and at the same time, don’t see more people doing science or art or poetry. IDK what the solution is, but it sure feels like we’ve been collectively sold a bill of goods in a lot of ways.
Those “they worked less” articles often twist and lose the truth. They worked less on the specific work for their masters maybe, but they had to because they had to work at home; everything and I mean everything took longer back then. They needed more time to prepare food and darn their socks and split firewood for the winter and whatnot. They couldn’t just run to the nearest store if they needed a loaf of bread. They had to actually make it. So yes, they “worked less” but they also worked a lot more doing their house chores just to survive.
Cool. So the first defense we have against AI is coming from the “shit we made up long ago” corner
I’d argue that humanism is a bit different from, say, Christianity. It has ancient philisophilcal roots, but it’s not like humanists are following texts from some crazy asshole tripping balls in a desert 2000 years ago.
Basically he opposite. The guy is a Humanist. Humanism is basically the opposite of established religion like you’re thinking. They focus on the belief that humans are ultimately responsible for their own autonomy and progress and that our morals and ethics can be defined from the fact we are social beings who ultimately must rely on each other. Humanism tends to emphasize science and human agency.
Someone should forward this to Proton employees.
If you told me this was from FTL Newsfeed I’d believe you
Are you trying to get religious exemptions taken away?
Being exempted for belonging to a special club is ass.
Being exempted because personal moral conviction despite not belonging to a special club: cool.
I prefer vague made up religious exemptions over a reasonable moral conviction /s
Rights that can’t be used for fear of having them stripped are not rights.
That seems correct.
I would personally have to see the holy book that talks about how AI is wrong before I could buy into this supposed right.
Honestly, that’d be great. Let’s not give people stupid exemptions for delusional beliefs.
