Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

quit worrying about if AI is going to be creating new consciousness

start worrying about AI learning how to enforce things like redlining and the glass ceiling

worry about it because *it's happening now*.

basically if people would just carve off 5% of the sci-fi panic and anxiety and spend that energy being legitimately concerned about how if you tell a computer "learn the rules of this game", the rules it will come back to report to you will be dripping with systemic inequality that must be directly confronted instead of excused or praised as infallible because "a passionless computer did it"

we'd all be much better off

WHAT PEOPLE THINK ETHICAL ISSUES IN AI ARE: wow.... we're creating... new life........

WHAT ETHICAL ISSUES IN AI ACTUALLY ARE: techbros worshiping the almighty algorithm, not caring to look at what bad patterns the machines are picking up (racism, sexism, etc) and how to avert them, and overreliance on neural networks meaning that said algorithms are treated as magical black boxes where nobody wants to (or can, really) point out exactly how the equation works (and why it may be faulty)

right i'm going to go long here and, despite not being in tech, toot about a pet peeve i know of because of a family member's specialty in that area

and basically anything more specific and i'll doxx myself lmfao

anyway, on an entirely different note, jesus christ i tried to do some trigger point shit with my pec minor and i have only succeeded in making it angrier. if i am murdered in the middle of the night please look for my pectoralis muscles fleeing the scene of the crime

anyway quelle surprise that the official line seems to be "i couldn't kick somebody out just for being unwell! despite the fact that active harm is being done to PoC, i've got to care about a white person's feelings over the safety of PoC", especially given that this seems to be something of a longstanding pattern.

yeah this is blatant subtooting but having never really known about this section of the fediverse in general before now, well,

, et cetera.

i should put away the popcorn, but just. LOL.

"i didn't know about this problem" has now become "i had my eye on this user for awhile, i had serious talks with them, but i never took any action because it just feels unfair to kick them due to their mental illness so as you see i am a saint and the best and a very sad victim here"

at some point an admin - especially an admin! - has to say "your right to swing your fists ends at the start of another person's face".

also i haven't been going to this particular doctor for long but honestly i feel like if your chronic pain has been going on for 5+ years, it's fair game for you to Dr. WebMd on occasion

i now have a folder of internet articles i have printed out to show my doctor

i am aware that this makes me That Patient, however, i think citing Mayo Clinic and Annals of Vascular Surgery (Volume 24) soften the blow a bit

maybe with physical therapy my shoulder will simmer the fuck down and i can, as promised, do a lolita fashion border print of public domain paintings of Sappho and sling it up on spoonflower for people to make some extra sapphic skirts

anyway i was peering around to see what the mod response was to, uh, All Of That, and it seems like the mod response was mostly

"hdu screenshot dunk one of my users i'm defederating"

i mean, i get "it's frustrating when i really needed a report of this so i could act but i'm only learning of it now". but also. sometimes a "screenshot dunk" is "i've preserved evidence of this bullshit and wish to make it clear what's up so others can be warned and avoid".

"i'm not a tankie just for exposing the truth about anti-north korea propaganda with words of real north koreans"

hmm

hmmmmmm

hhhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

i mean, honestly, if you're going to go be creepy with a body pillow of a historical figure

at least upgrade more than charles the second of spain. like, you're worth it. treat yourself.