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by imh 3533 days ago
FYI about your edit: You aren't being downvoted because of "knee-jerk culture war" or because people here are too dumb to understand your enlightened view of epistemology. Your original comment is an incredibly unique view with no explanation that people probably disagree with, and your edit makes you sound petulant, like you can't handle disagreement. That's the reason for the downvotes.
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I'm being downvoted because my comment spat in the face of those who think general artificial intelligence automatically implies some superior Nietzschean post-human that is qualified to run the perfect communist utopia since it no longer has distracting human emotions like greed or envy. Somewhere, a Sanfraninite spurted himself to completion while watching a live feed of indigenous humans tending to some noble savage rice field he rented on AgroBnb with Bitcoin, mined entirely by solar powered GPUs made out of free trade copper.

When you drag people out of their fantasies, they used to kill you. At least they downvote you these days, so I supposed that's better.

Yes, this is an incredibly unique view. Yes, people are going to react negatively to it because it fundamentally undermines their revenge fantasies. Yes, I can call them out on their unspoken biases no matter how uncomfortable that makes them.