Why refusing AI is a fight for the soul

https://restofworld.org/2026/techno-negative-thomas-dekeyser-fighting-ai/

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ekZepp@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 168d (6 replies)

dune

teft@piefed.social · 27 pts · 168d (2 replies)

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

Thou shalt not disfigure the soul.

vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 165d (1 reply)

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

teft@piefed.social · 2 pts · 165d

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 · 7 pts · 168d (2 replies)

What's this image from?

EisFrei@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 168d (1 reply)

Dune

VaalaVasaVarde@sopuli.xyz · 11 pts · 168d

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

1984@lemmy.today · 24 pts · 168d (2 replies)

Just look at the big tech leaders, how they are all creepy and mentally ill. Its not exactly normal people with a love for humanity who is pushing this shit.

vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 165d (1 reply)

But they are powerful. Saying that you don't like it doesn't change anything.

1984@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 165d

Nothing we do changes anything. We can just talk about how they make us feel.

HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 168d

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

vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 165d

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.