I knew I should have shorted it 😭

Gee, you have used so many logical fallacies at this point that your comments could be used in a highschool philosophy class as examples. You win, there is no point in arguing about this anymore.

The argument isn’t over whether I behave in a morally responsible way when it comes to the products I consume. The argument is over whether my diligence to check the background of the products I consume is a political decision.

I am not trying to highhorse anybody here. Of course I make uninformed decisions once in an oftentimes. Of course not all my clothes are socially conscious sourced nor my toilet paper is bought from an environmentally friendly forest.

But my lack of information when I make those decisions is political.

I am sorry you are feeling personally attacked, clearly, but not paying attention, changing what you buy, refusing to consume, or consuming products; All of those are political decisions, and that is the argument. No whether you are good or evil, uninformed misinformed, or not informed, moral or immoral. My argument is just that every decision you make has a political ramification whether you like it or not.

So, back to my original point, liking AI is political.

But there is a difference: If you buy the toilet paper from the loggers who bribe your local officials, or who lobby to let them ravage national parks, you are supporting the bribery and the lobbying; your money is being used for those purposes, even if you do it unknowingly. If you don’t inform yourself, you cannot make informed decisions. But just because you choose to ignore the political ramifications, it doesn’t mean they don’t exist.

Sure, everybody just wants to live their lives, and that’s how lobbyists and crooked politicians get away with it, by appealing to your apathy.

Wait for real!? I think I read the first 2 books, I never saw similarities. May need to read them again.

You’ll have to explain this one. I was making fun of the fact that George Lucas plagiarized Dune.

Everything is political - the toilet paper you buy, the corporations you support, the things you pay attention to and the things you don’t, the media you consume, the books you read, your decision not to read, whether you pay union dues, the parks you visit, the roads you use, the services you rely on, what you decide to ignore.

People who say they are not political just mean they don’t consciously engage with politics. But even the decision to not engage in politics is a political decision.

AI may eventually replace jobs, pollute water, take up energy, and concentrate wealth at the top even more. Whether you support, are against, or ignore AI, all 3 are political decisions.

I thought Frank Herbert created Star Wars

Well, I will have to start looking for alternative services, I guess