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Something I’ve been thinking about a lot in the current battle over the futur… |
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Post #AvmjoBreHQhNIuK50C by [email protected] |
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"Millions of people were sold into slavery and worked to death *because* o… |
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@nazgulAfter all, it's not as if a bunch of jerks who treat human beings li… |
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@nazgul So explosion in slave trade was "likely" caused by invention … |
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Post #Avmw4zN7B9rYvqokFM by [email protected] |
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@older The “likely” was for cleaners moving to picking; that’s just a gue… |
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@nazgul @older It makes sense to me. It is a pipeline. You removed a bottleneck… |
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@sri Are you sure is was only white colonists who captured more slaves? I don&#… |
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Post #Avmw4zlZiDQe9iGHNA by [email protected] |
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@older @nazgul who created the slave distribution network ? How did those slave… |
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Post #Avmw4zt1GXNqWnkDya by [email protected] |
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@sri @older @nazgul The original capture of people in Africa was done by local … |
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Post #Avmw4zz2u8CipUZ2My by [email protected] |
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@eestileib @sri @older “There were plenty of people with dirty hands on three… |
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Post #Avmw6SmRKBBuQkMkr2 by [email protected] |
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@sriMostly this.To my knowledge, slavery was wide spread in Africa before the E… |
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Post #Avmw6StAv8ZwldW8Lw by [email protected] |
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@xilebo I saw estimates of slave trade scale from Africa to Muslim countries an… |
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Post #Avmw7syBREsBweXNNQ by [email protected] |
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@older @xilebo @sri It’s hard to compete with industrialized slavery.“Betwe… |
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Post #Avmw7t5H0sXoIdr2Qa by [email protected] |
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@nazgul The entire population of the world was probably 3-4 times bigger compar… |
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Post #AvmwCEXbBA2M0OAxQO by [email protected] |
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@nazgul This is one of the best takes on AI I've seen so far. Thanks! |
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Post #AvmwCEf2jTzYNTeu1o by [email protected] |
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@nazgul @naught101While this is indeed a good assessment of the role, ai will p… |
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Post #AvmwEKDD44yIAndVh2 by [email protected] |
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@nazgul nice comparison! Unfortunately words like 'Capitalism' and '… |
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Post #AvmwEKMQVoLOdNws3k by [email protected] |
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@glotcha @nazgul I mean, it's a perfectly good word for people who are comp… |
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Post #AvmwEKSS9PAGw4lgS8 by [email protected] |
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@TomSwirly @glotcha There have been studies though showing that CEOs tend to be… |
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Post #AvmwEKYplgGjFrkmOm by [email protected] |
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@nazgul @glotcha I have known three billionaires on a first name basis (Larry, … |
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Post #AvmwFGSoUDuopzNn4C by [email protected] |
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@emily @nazgul this. Blaming the cotton gin for an explosion slavery lets some … |
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@bracken @emily @nazgul a technology only exists due to + as a feature of a hum… |
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@bracken @emily @nazgul rhetorically this all too often ends up in bad faith te… |
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Post #AvmwFGqZ3uuk1eUl5U by [email protected] |
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@jplebreton @bracken @emily I think blaming “bad people” shortsells at leas… |
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Post #AvmwFGvsk9ASI8z0NM by [email protected] |
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@nazgul @jplebreton @emily fair. I include myself in "bad people" by … |
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Post #AvmwFHZaMWvWHHYiGG by [email protected] |
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@nazgul @jplebreton @emily Attempting to be personally virtuous isn't going… |
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Post #AvmwHJLmj0kqMy4TFA by [email protected] |
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@nazgul With huge error bars many corporations will just shake that off as acce… |
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Post #AvmwNcaA8Na3kmnyRE by [email protected] |
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@TomSwirly @glotcha My personal contacts max out in the high 7 figures. But the… |
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Post #AvmwQvxIYstWhuCqSe by [email protected] |
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@nazgul It wasn't just history that demonised the Luddites. It was an organ… |
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Post #AvmwQw3KCTiP0b1er2 by [email protected] |
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@Qybat I knew that, but reading what you wrote, something clicked. That’s a g… |
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Post #AvmwRC6OWpg4mkaKrQ by [email protected] |
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@nazgul Oh yeah, THIS. I think that this is an accurate parallel comparison. |
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Post #AvmwTN76YjSbW2xJD6 by [email protected] |
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@violetmadder People without morals follow the profit, regardless of who else i… |
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@nazgul @neilhimself @pluralistic @ThomHartmann All need to hear this Word#Cats… |
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Post #AvmwZLEKTV5RPbBIq8 by [email protected] |
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@cragsand Meta has been doing the same thing for a long time, and as they cut b… |
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Post #AvmwZom0dMG72SA6rY by [email protected] |
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@bracken @emily @nazgul So you're saying that the billions poured into this… |
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Post #AvmwdHFrCHI0Ezly64 by [email protected] |
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@nazgul My god, you are on the mark with this. I'm going to try and remembe… |
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@nazgul @jwz Jevons Paradox working for all forms of resources, including human… |
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@older @sri American slavery was very different than what went before. Not just… |
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Post #AvmwjWDQUCIGNWbzXM by [email protected] |
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@nazgul @older I mean, Hitler looked at all the things the U.S. did and modeled… |
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Post #AvmwlfHbkDfH50ai1I by [email protected] |
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@nazgul @TomSwirly maybe thinking in terms of sociopathic behaviour would help.… |
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Post #AvmwntWFmlNRoOVM0W by [email protected] |
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@nazgul But the cotton gin worked. |
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Post #AvmwntdhL5KeBTzIbw by [email protected] |
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@buermann @nazgul Yup, and "AI" is just the latest Silicon Valley VC … |
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Post #Avmwyj5usvbIfJLoFk by [email protected] |
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@nazgul @bracken @emily yeah to be clear i think the concept of "bad peopl… |
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Post #Avmx0oKwMhGfVGN852 by [email protected] |
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@nazgulCapitalism eats its regulators. |
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Post #Avmx3hg3a5W9iad1LU by [email protected] |
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@glotcha @TomSwirly@cstross wrote once of a future where all corporations had t… |
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Post #Avmx6SxgkYE6wnC14K by [email protected] |
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@nazgul @theluddite relevant to yr interests. |
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@bulletsweetp @nazgul @jwz Interesting. "Increased efficiency leads parado… |
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Post #AvmxFG14FZl7P5xuV6 by [email protected] |
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@PixelJones @bulletsweetp @jwz The main example of that I’ve seen is highways… |
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@65dBnoise @emily @nazgul no, I'm not saying that. |
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Post #AvmxIUr5XGCuILqHLs by [email protected] |
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@older @nazgul The Cotton Gin was a major driver in the politics that led to th… |
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@older @nazgul Then came the Gin and demand for workers, as cheap as possible e… |
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@bracken @emily @nazgul The cotton gin made the expansion of slavery to that ex… |
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Post #AvmxRWLvL01LXrZIWW by [email protected] |
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@emily @jplebreton @bracken I would say the investor at the end is the “cause… |
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@nazgul your last paragraph haunts me so often. People don't have the long … |
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@xilebo @older @nazgul My point is those things that happened in slavery were d… |
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@nazgul @jwz When I was a kid we were taught that Whitney's real invention … |
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@nazgul Thing is - the cotton gin actually worked. Using it you actually could … |
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@nazgul I love this and I learned a lot.But...the cotton gin did what it said o… |
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@nazgul Like crypto, it makes money for its purveyors by manipulating the marke… |
