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by tim333 479 days ago
Wikipedia disagrees a little on mumbo jumbo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbo_jumbo_(phrase)

Apparently it comes from the Mandinka word "Maamajomboo". I don't think using African words is racist, if anything it's pro African.

re "but it was capitalism that ended up producing AI", capitalism has also produced sandwich toasters for example but to thus declare "capitalism can only be sandwich toasters" would be equally silly as "capitalism can only be artificial intelligence production."

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Using an aspect of an African religion as a metonym for "worthless nonsense", sonorous as it is, is still pretty fucking colonialist.

And the example you give to point out what you think is a false equvalence, is itself a false equivalence. Nobody says sandwich toasters are eating the world, if anything they help to feed it :)