You sure showed us, edgelord.

That’s why I initially brought up all those forms of AI that are perfectly fucking fine. But you’re like, NOPE. So don’t throw that in MY face. Perhaps you didn’t understand what I was saying. But you were STILL like, NOPE. Which leads me to believe YOU don’t even know what you mean when you say, “AI”. “Generative AI” isn’t a specific thing. It’s any software that outputs something a human might consume as content. You just mean, “bad shit I don’t understand” I suppose.

The problem is not the technology, it is that entrenched capitalists are leveraging their wealth and power to steal culture from all of us, and cynical investors engaging in the largest pump and dump in history. And if you can’t make that distinction, your voice doesn’t have a damn thing to contribute to this conversation other than “Naw, fuck AI.”

I’ve been on the receiving end of a lot of moral panics and it’s not okay. Naw, fuck pearl clutchers.

Just, like, all of it. No more practicing chess against a computer. No more computer vision. No more single player Street Fighter. Fuck it all. It’s inherently evil, we’ve decided for some reason. Clearly a nuanced and well researched position.

Nah. Fuck IP raiders. There’s nothing wrong with GAN. There’s nothing wrong with LLM. There’s nothing wrong with gradient descent. There’s nothing wrong with diffusion models. There’s nothing wrong with markov chains, with expert systems, with fuzzy logic, with PROLOG. Not on a moral or ethical level, for certain.

To me, Linux is the almost unbearable compromise to the mainstream, coming from BSD.

No, it has never even once bothered my why people install Linux on their own hardware. Not even now that you have brought it to my attention. What is on my mind right now is why you care so much.

Orrrrrrrr fuck the American AI investor bubble. Fuck the American tech tariffs. You know what? Just fuck the USA.

Often the snack bars ran out of tuna sandwiches so your only protein source was cheese.

All plants are made of protein. If you are getting enough calories from plants, you are automatically getting enough protein. Protein deficiency is not a real thing. You are almost certainly suffering from the effects of too much protein, not too little.

Incoming ban.

Dude, you’re not that special. People want me dead in the name of their religion, too. But I can still have a rational conversation about the topic. You’re not even attempting to engage with the actual question that is asked and it’s not clear why, but I think it’s clear that you’re working on your own personal issues and not really available for discussion on the topic. Maybe consider keeping your coping private, it’s harmful to others.

There is a personal element to this, somehow. The developer’s relationship with Linux took a weird turn at one point and there’s been a will-they-won’t-they tension ever since.

I’m not sure you’ve understood the question, because you have (probably unintentionally) avoided answering it. Forgive me if I now over-specify.

You’ve presented some circumstantial evidence against religion; “religion was involved in these bad things.” I am asking for the mechanism by which religion causes these bad things to happen. What is it that religion or religious practice actually does that you believe leads to these outcomes?

You weren’t talking about “religions that want you dead,” you were speaking very generally about the entire concept of religion. Are you trying to hint that you have a personal history that makes you biased and I’m not going to get objective reasoning out of you?

It wasn’t a classification, it was a declaration. It was what side you were on in the Cold War.

So? You are reading things into the data and effectively turning it into a strawman. It isn’t presenting an argument, it is presenting data. You are being oversensitive and inferring an argument, and then criticizing that argument, but it doesn’t even exist.

reproduction taboos and mores? gay people can’t produce children for the family?

It’s confusing what you mean, because while “is first world” has come to mean “is a developed nation” for some reason, “used to be a first world” ambiguously summons the prior definition of the word, “an ally of the United States in the cold war.” Ideally this problematic phrase should be avoided.

Well, between the thighs.

What is the mechanism that you believe is at work? “Religion” doesn’t really explain anything and comes across as possibly bigoted.

They’re Christian like Trump is Christian. It’s not religion driving this.

Yeah, why didn’t I provision multiple backbones to my NOC? So shortsighted!