Ask Lemmy

Seeking communities to reinforce an existing bias or emotional response to something is like saying "Where can I find less healthy food?"

Yes, it feels good and you get little dopamine hits when you say things that make people give you little up-arrows, but you're literally walling off entire sections of your mind from growth and development.

I say this as a fierce AI critic. I could speak for hours about how it's being used as a tool from fascists to support hate, how it's being exploited by commercial companies to inflate stock value, how it's being shoved into every product and system not to make our software better but to validate that inflating bubble. I could say how delusional people are about it and how it's harming the minds of our population.

But I don't hold these opinions as values. It's analysis of a situation, of an intersection of ideas and socio-economic trends.

It may change tomorrow. Someone might develop an AI tool that actually benefits society. Someone might prove some aspect of it is doing more good than harm with peer-reviewed data. If that happened, and I sneered at it reflexively and ignored data and said "I don't care what the data says, I know what I feel!" what would that make me?

It's a technology like the internet. It's not going away. We may rightfully hate what it is now and how it's being used or misused, but we're not escaping it. It's not fucking going away.

Your choice is to be someone adapting as the environment changes, or being the old grump who whinges and whines endlessly how they don't understand anything, just watching as the world passes by.

Use your head to guide your heart, not the other way around.