Fuck AI

It was one of the first things I knew about him, yes. I was a vegetarian at the time, and he worked behind the butcher counter. He encouraged me to go vegan and I encouraged him to do his apprenticeship. Now that he’s nearly finished (final exam tomorrow!), he’s going to work for a vegan butcher shop. The water waste is awful. We do however get something out of it, making it not a completely pointless expenditure of resources. People have got to eat, and where I live, the tide is turning on meat products about as fast as I can imagine it going, but one of the better ways to facilitate that is to have a butcher who can tell you about how to make seitan without being judgy.

Why would I care what people on the street think about AI (I’m not going to ask people, because the last thing I want is to talk to strangers about AI, and people here would think I was trying to sell them something if I just approached them on the street)? I probably wouldn’t want to date them either. This guy might not know about the downsides, but does he just do things without thinking about them or learning what their downsides are? Would he be just as willing to try other new things without doing research, like renting electric scooters? Maybe he’s just lazy? Maybe he just thinks robots are cool and he doesn’t care to think about drawbacks, but does he also think cigarettes are cool? I don’t want to date someone with any of those qualities.

I suspect most people on lemmy would also prefer their partner to be able to read above a sixth grade level in their native language, or whatever the cutoff for that statistic is. That’s not because people on lemmy are unrealistic, it’s because lemmy is primarily text based and its users are not a representative sample for all literacy levels.