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>We are doomed imho.

I encourage you to take action to prove to yourself that real change is possible.

What you can do in your own life to enact change is hard to say, given I know nothing about your situation. But say you are a parent, you have control over how often your children use their phones, whether they are on social media, whether they are using ChatGPT to get around doing their homework. How we raise the next generation of children will play an important role in how prepared they are to deal with the consequences of the actions we're currently making.

As a worker you can try to organize to form a union. At the very least you can join an organization like the Democratic Socialists of America. Your ability to organize is your greatest strength.




So your plan is to encourage people to "get off the Internet" by posting on the Internet, and to stave off automation by encouraging workers to gang up on their employers and make themselves a collective critical point of failure.

Well, you know, we'd all love to change the world...


Apparently you'd love to change the world; a good start would be accurately reading and recounting others' arguments.


Agreed, that's important. What'd I get wrong?


>Well, you know, we'd all love to change the world

The social contract lives and dies by what the populace is willing to accept. If you push people into a corner by threatening their quality of life, don't be surprised if they push back.


Exactly, so don't be surprised if you receive some pushback as well. AI may threaten you, but it empowers me.




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