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Why refusing AI is a fight for the soul (restofworld.org)
submitted 2 months ago by BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

dune

[–] teft@piefed.social 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

Thou shalt not disfigure the soul.

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Those machines are not in the likeness of a human mind anyway.

[–] teft@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

The Orange Catholic Bible is against all thinking machines, not just AI/AGI. It's why they have Mentats instead of using computers and calculators.

[–] Kissaki@feddit.org 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What's this image from?

[–] EisFrei@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Dune

[–] VaalaVasaVarde@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 months ago

The silhouette and that cape looks like Dune Part Two (2024)

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 13 points 2 months ago

Just look at the big tech leaders, how they are all creepy and mentally ill.

[–] HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago

I'm more of a funk guy, but I agree with the sentiment

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 month ago

You are not refusing it by refusing to use it.

Anyway, rejecting tools is luddism.

And resistance to them is something very improbable in public field. One might think they are resisting, but due to all the power they have be in fact directed by convenient trajectories.