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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:
I was thinking about how we have so much computing resources (not evenly distributed by any means) that people don't actually have concrete uses, so now we're into speculative uses and we've recently reached for creating competent slaves. The technology is actually harmful along multiple dimensions, but we don't recognize this and hand these "tools" off to people who definitely don't recognize the harm to themselves or others. Spreading the harm and damage. The dark side of empowering people through computing.
So I was thinking maybe we need to start recognizing the harmful tech so it can be as obvious to us as other tech intended to cause harm (e.g. guns). But maybe we really just have too much compute. I dunno...
(I realize this ties into capitalism and other things, and I should really leave the analysis to people who aren't managing a somewhat hyper 7yo early in the morning.)