[ermir]

Sounds very cruel, another sign that we can't control our technological growth at all. I have a friend, a former FAANG veteran that has dedicated his life to destroying what he calls "techno-Satan", maybe he's on to something.

I have also noticed that programmers have a tendency to sometimes distrust the stuff they make. I for one will never install "smart" home devices, I'm happy with my classic light switch that won't spy my on/off status and send it to China, or my toaster that needs a monthly subscription.

[majormajor]

We can certainly control it - this is a deliberate action by people, not an inevitability. They are 100% in control of the choices they are making here.

If we want to control that as a society, we first have to fight back in the war that's been waged for decades, claiming that any sort of "control" over what people do - even against things that are blindingly obviously bad/cruel/etc - is bad. We've been sold a bill of goods that any control over people doing bad things will simply result in the government doing bad things itself, ignoring that (a) bad things are already happening and (b) none of this moral outrage is actually very effective at stopping the government from doing bad things anyway. We need to be more active, period, in order to fight cruelty in both the public and private space.

[otikik]

I have noticed something similar on myself. I was buying a used car, so I naturally checked the new version of the same car to know what I was missing.

The new version has "always on connectivity" and an App that allowed you to know where the car was, and a bunch of other stuff.

I was so happy that my used car didn't have any of that.

[burmer]

People often conflate technological progress and some sort of overall bettering of society. Science/Technology have nothing, inherently, to do with morality, and people have not changed much. The future may be published by technology, but it will be written by our impulses.

[xwdv]

It’s similar to how when Doctors receive a terminal diagnosis, they choose to just accept it and die, rather than pursue aggressive treatment.

[hinkley]

Honestly I think we've crossed the line from compassion into Enabling.

Yeah we can maybe give your granny (with 6 months to live) another 2 years of life by taking $250,000 out of her estate and putting her through hell for 4 months, including no visitors for part of that.