you didn’t watch the video, did you?
How are global pandemics way down? hou often did global pandemics occur in the past?
Ok, you got me. WWII was afwul. I would also consider it a historical outlier.
And you’re gonna ignore climate change completely, huh?
I knowof Steven Pinker and don’t agree with his conclusions. I even got a video debunking him you’re probably not gonna watch either
but when actually pressed for specific ways it has gotten worse, they are almost always arguing from a complete ignorance of history.
You’ve ignored my point about climate change. I’m quite sure that concerning history, I got a bit more nuanced takes than you do.
Lifespan is much longer, healthspan is much longer
Medical advances have been made, yes. Inpart due to, technological advancements. These are fundamentally good and not what I’m arguing against.
rapes are way down
How is that a result of technological advances and not social movements fighting for a brighter future?
murders are way down, torture is way down,
I doubt that, if you look at it globally. Israel is currently performing a genocide. I consider that murder.
dying in childbirth is way down
Again, healthcare advances.
incest is way fown, pedophilia is way down, starvation is way down
Not touching those points.
dying from wild animals is way down
Ecodiversity is way down and global pandemics are way up.
wars are way down
Are you kidding me? Did you live under a rock for the last 50 years?
Problems now for lots of the world are things like people bickering over who gets to be next to who when they pee and who called a “he” a “she”.
No, problems now for “lots of the world” is climate change, job insecurity, housing crisis, dangers of a global war escalation, …
This idea that the world is way worse than it used to be
Not what I said.
selfish brats completely oblivious of where we came from
Says the person who choses to ignore how much progress has been done through sometimes violent, social movements.
Technological “progress” historically mostly served to siphon power to the wealthy.
Also, as a species, we’re currently in the process of conucting a mass extinction, as well as destroying our biosphere.
I recommend you to read the book “Blood in the Machine” as an account how industrialization worsened the life of 19th century textile workers and how the Luddites fought against the disenfrachisement of the people.
The thing you’re evangelizing only leads to more consolidation of power and money, loss of jobs and power for the working class and climate devastation.
Every word in every language changes over time. The term AI changing is the absolute normal. It’s not some mark against it.
Lumping machine learning algorithms, llms, regressive learning, search algorithms all in one bucket and calling it “AI” serves no proper purpose. There is no consensus, it’s not a clear definition, it’s not convenient and it only helps sell bullshit. Llms aren’t intelligent. Calling them that is the opposite of useful.
Current llms are phenomenally beneficial for some things.
Namely: the portfolio of tech shareholders and grifters.
Millions of developers have had their entire careers completely changed.
Lol, no. What’s your source for this?
Teachers are able to grade work in 10% of the time.
Poor students.
Children through to college students and anyone interested in learning have infinitely patient tutors on demand 24 hours a day.
Have you heard of the stories where students believed some AI bullshit more than what their teacher told them? Great “tutor” you have there.
The fact that you are completely clueless about what is going on
Sure, bud. /s
It just means that you not only feel like you are “beyond learning”, it also means that you don’t even have people in your life that are still interested in personal growth, or you are too shallow to have conversations with anyone who is.
Oh, please tell me more about my life, stranger on the internet! /s
What an asshole, seriously.
Have fun in your tech cult, you ableist bootlicker.
Thanks for demonstrating what a useless term “AI” is when you’re not trying to sell snake oil.
Didn’t know they?/she? was trans. That’s awesome for them/her! :D
You accuse me of knowing “alarmingly little” about history and hit me with that bullshit statistic of “dying under 30”? Get outta here. Also: I already explained that I completely condone the medical advancements.
I get a feeling that you’re constantly strawmanning me, by acting as if I’m like “everything used to be better all the time”. I’m not saying that some parts of life have gotten better. But I’m harshly objecting to the notion that technological progress has been a positive good to all of humanity. What I said was that technology usually helps the powerful to become even more powerful. I’m guessrng that you live in the imperial core (look it up) and therefore partly benefited from this concentration of power. This won’t stay that way, if you’re not rich. And a look at the state of common people in 19th century Europe (during the industrial revolution) backs me up on that one.
It’s simply naive to claim that “everything has gotten better”, while ignoring everything that has gotten worse.
Global pandemics weren’t a thing in the past. And the one we encountered could have been avoided, if it wouldn’t have been for the profit motive.
Don’t you think that some cooky infographic from 2020 might be a **teeny bity* out of date?
You’re talking about your strawman. I prefer a more nuanced take.
Measure your tone. You come off as a dick. You’ve yet to supply data that’s not ridiculous. Watch the video.
Well, if you allow me some wild accusation: if I’m a teenager, then you’re like a child arguing that Santa must exist on account of all the presents appearing on Christmas. And all the Stories of sweatshops for your christmas sneakers are lies, because obviously, the elves were making these.
Says the person who refuse to educate themselves to, learn things that question their held believs a tiny bit. I’ve literally proposed you history books to read.