ShowerThoughts

'People have legitimate criticism' won't change when they also have illegitimate criticism.

Compare GMO foods. Monsanto was a hideous corporation. The loudest condemnation of the underlying technology was still factually and morally wrong. People sneering 'is this ham processed?!' are not engaged in results-oriented consideration of complex and ambiguous research. They learned some no-no words and they're gonna posture about how smart they are.

Some people are overtly prejudiced against AI. Any pushback on the scope or relevance of their absolute condemnation sees them pivot to some unrelated thing they half-remember, that barely stands up to consideration.

It's a Gish gallop. It's the same tired pattern of behavior used to demonize anything mundane. It read the library and it doesn't magically say only good things and it buys electricity, so if you don't perform the two minutes hate with us, you're a big meanie who must be cast out from society.

Fuck's sake.