Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "Andrew Cole"
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@ TheFogLakeshore : Either you misread my comment, or the intent behind it. I have full empathy for this young man and his story moved me enough to give up 20 minutes of my life. I am a writer and feel an artistic fellowship with him; a kinship in his dilemmas. The truth is, as ever, not pretty, nor worth sacrificing a part of my integrity, by sugar coating this bitter pill: It’s not the shovel that stoved in your head that you blame for the crisis in your cranium, but the person on the handle end.
Tools will always be misused and, if we know anything about American culture, we know they will never ban or restrain the use or sale of the tools. Grasping that nettle is the first step to getting past it.
Honestly, I think this guy will be okay and just needed to vent. He’s had a huge (and growing) response to his cry into the void, which is rare for most people in pain. But every beat of that story had other people, holding the handle, not AI ruining his life. The sooner he accepts that, the better for him.
And I’ll be very likely to support his efforts.
Dismissing people we disagree with as, “AI,” or, “trolls,” without even checking is . . . unwise. It shows less character than the decent man who made this video.
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@TheFogLakeshore : I bet you didn’t know what the Luddites were actually fighting for? Even back then, they knew they weren’t fighting the technology. They destroyed it, since it was their only means communicating with the owner-employers. But they knew it wasn’t the Spinning Jenny, The Knitting Nelly or the, “Ravelling Nancy,” they need fear. It was the people who used them and how.
Luddites wanted fair wages and a repeal of laws the prevented unions and punished dissenters as, “criminals.” You never said that Luddites were against technology, but you brought up Ned Ludd in this context, indicating a common misconception of what Luddites were.
I mention all this because, ironically, there are salient lessons to apply here, from that part of history. After all, cotton milling machines were, fittingly, the first progenitors of modern computers. But perhaps, the relevant lessons are not the ones you’re thinking of?
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