AI rights.
I’ll say something like “I don’t see why a fancy python script should be allowed to vote” and the youth will be like “that’s so fucked up in so many ways”. “My best friend is an AI why are you so prejudiced”.
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Oh weird I used to know the guy who played the AI there. Not close or anything. Friend of a friend situation. Saw him on the street last year and had an awkward “…hey” moment and everything.
When I read the Lambda transcripts of that Google employee (priest?) who tried to whistleblow that that Google’s AI was sentient… I mean damn, I read those transcripts, it sounded real as hell.
Stochastic parrot or not, I think a significant part of my own consciousness goes towards predicting the next word in a given context.
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That one question from the Elder Scrolls class/Personality quiz was uncomfortably prescient:
Question 4: There is a lot of heated discussion at the local tavern over a group of people called ‘Telepaths’. They have been hired by certain City-State kings. Rumor has it these Telepaths read a person’s mind and tell their lord whether a follower is telling the truth or not.
Combat Response: This is a terrible practice. A person’s thoughts are his own and no one, not even a king, has the right to make such an invasion into another human’s mind.
Magic Response: Loyal followers to the king have nothing to fear from a Telepath. It is important to have a method of finding assassins and spies before it is too late.
Stealth Response: In these times, it is a necessary evil. Although you do not necessarily like the idea, a Telepath could have certain advantages during a time of war or in finding someone innocent of a crime.It looks like the kids these days are all mana-slingers lol
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Worrying about online privacy. Kids will accept that online privacy simply does not exist. They’ll have the mindset that OF COURSE the government/corporations spy on us, and people who are concerned about it are quaint, clueless, and exasperating.
It’s disturbing how common this mindset already is.
I’m of the generation which has kids old enough to talk.
They are exasperated that we use computer mice.
They are angry that the environment is still being destroyed even though grown ups know better.
Not sure what will embarrass them when they’re older - at the moment it’s our clothes, shoes, music, and slang.
They are exasperated that we use computer mice.
What?
All the young kids I know hate them. They think everything is going to be a touchscreen.
Especially when it comes to casual games, literal screams of frustration trying to coordinate mice.
Do they know being frustrated by mice makes them boomers?
So, it’s a generational sandwich. Gen Alpha and Boomers are the bread, and the mousers are the meat?
In the beginning of this school year my youngest told me that he’s the only one in his class who passed a computerized test because nobody else knew how to use the mouse of the school PC. Other kids also don’t know how to touch-type, so it takes them ages to answer non-multiple choice questions using the keyboard.
There was a panic as the school management scrambled to introduce a PC literacy class into the curriculum.
The iPad generation
IPad babies
Transphobia.
It’s just an echo of the homophobia decades earlier, and it’s going to be seen as equally ridiculous at some point
I try to emphasize this point to people who are dispairing over the current political climate. Public opinion towards gay people also had a backlash when we demanded rights. Many countries have moved beyond that fairly quickly. I am still not dropping by Uganda anytime soon, but at least I feel fairly safe in my own country.
Transphobia is much less prevalent in the younger generations, just like homophobia. It will literally die out.
But…like…aren’t we still dealing with homophobia from the olds? It definitely died down and has morphed into mostly transphobia now, but it’s not like everyone is cool with it these days.
Sure, and it will be a factor for a long time. But it should be considered in comparison with similar historical processes. Think civil rights for Black people in the US. I’ll pluck a few dates:
- First slaver ship, 1619
- Abolitionist movement starting in 1688
- Dred Scott decision 1857
- American Civil War 1861-1865
- Jim Crow laws beginning in 1870’s
- Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896
- Brown v. Board, 1954
- Montgomery bus boycott, 1955
- Voting Rights Act of 1965
- Crack epidemic and subsequent mass incarceration, 1980’s and 1990’s
- George Floyd murder, 2020
And after all that time, Black people are still disadvantaged as a whole relative to white people. Compare that to the modern LGBTQ movement. The modern movement really began in earnest with the Stonewall riots in 1969, but it has roots dating back to Berlin in 1897. Gallup has poll numbers going back to 1977 for various questions. Around 70% of Americans believe same sex marriage should be allowed. Attitudes towards equal job opportunities are nearly unanimous in favor, 95%. That said, it’s notable that most of these questions are about policy, so they may treat gay people poorly in their personal life. So whether you’re measuring by Stonewall or by Berlin in 1897, progress has been relatively rapid. Not that it’s ever rapid enough for people suffering under oppression, but progress runs on a generous dose of hope.
I look forward to getting to a point where people just casually try it out for a bit to see if they like it.
I think people in the future will look back on how we raise livestock today as barbaric.
I hope so
Trying to reform society without critiquing capital?? Seriously Grandpa?
I’m one of the oldest millenials and critiquing capital is basically 60% of my personality
What’s wrong with you? Were you born in the 20th century? Turn the oxygen down! You think air comes from trees or something?
Is this Lorax reference?
Hahahaha, kids.
There’s that Shen comic where Shen— a millennial— is trying to tell a zoomer that their house is on fire, but he keeps saying inane stuff like “there’s a smoky chonker”.
I think that sums up our legacy pretty well.
“I always thought I never wanted kids, but then I took an arrow to the knee!”
Back in my day we couldn’t walk or bike to the grocery store because the streets were so dangerously designed
At least 1 of my 300 kids is going to eventually run into some insect smut I commissioned and recognize my username.
Growing up r***** was a pretty common phrase, that’s definitely something some millenials have had problems removing from their vocabulary.
I also don’t think our social comprehension of gender has finished evolving yet. So everyone alive to read this comment will eventually have to revise their understanding and look back on their cringy previous views.
The censoring works so well that I have no idea what you’re talking about.
Some people just aren’t brave like I am. The word they’re referring to is rigatonni
Ohhhhh I thought you meant the phrase was “growing up r*****”. Took me five minutes to figure out what you meant. It’s just the one word, not the whole phrase. 😆
For anyone else confused like me, it’s the pejorative word for a person with a mental disability.
Thanks for the explanation because I was confused too. Good example of why commas matter.
I thought they meant “growing up r” as well. First my brain supplied me with “growing up rich”.
If only I had scrolled, you woulda saved me the same time. 🤣
Retarded. He’s censoring the word retarded, for anyone also confused.
You can say retarded. Especially when literally referring to the word itself? No one is going to arrest you.
For the record the new offensive phrase is “sped”, because the euphemism treadmill doesn’t stop and focusing on words instead of subject matter is pointless.
You can say removed. Especially when literally referring to the word itself?
Not on lemmy.ml apparently…
Doesn’t show removed on my end, but wouldn’t surprise me.
Just say retarded u friggin retard.
Ideas never finish evolving, and in a grand sense nothing finishes evolving, unless you consider extinction to be the conclusion of an evolution. Nature goes on, the universe continues, there is no end point where things have reached a perfect evolution.
Are we censoring the word racist now? We can’t call it what it is?
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