During an expedition to the Emerald Graves, sharing spooky stories devolves into an argument about which one of them Fen'Harel would eat first. A bit of silliness mixed with a bit of angst
is it a hot take to say that i think you need to understand why something is bad, not just that it simply is?
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this is a part of the problem
you need to be able to explain why you shouldnt use ai rather than “oh well its obviously bad and you shouldnt use it or else youre a bad person” because that isn’t logic. “ai generates child porn based off of real children and whether or not it does is entirely up to how it is built and if pedophiles are able to find ways around those safeguards, because ai cannot in itself discern right from wrong” is a genuine criticism. “amazon tried to build a data center the size of tuson outside of tuson just to power their ai that would’ve increased the inability to stay alive outside in parts of arizona” is a genuine criticism. even “using generative ai teaches you not to learn how to do things yourself even when they’re difficult, devaluing necessary skills out of practice” is a genuine criticism when you look at the amount of people who think they are able of doing a difficult major when they couldnt write their own papers in high school.
but “ai is just bad because it’s bad” will convince no one and is a morally lazy position to take. about anything!
you need to know why reading someone’s diary is wrong if you want to learn about privacy and respect. you need to know why child sexual assault is wrong if you want to be able to help children form healthy age appropriate relationships. you need to know why capitalism is bad if you want to replace it with something else. you need actual concrete ideas and ideologies rather than “you should agree with me because i have the right vibe”
Personally I much prefer when it’s not that characters can’t see a betrayal coming, but moreso when they make themselves blind to the signs. When they write off discrepancies. When they close their eyes and ears to anything that doesn’t fit their image. When it’s not only a betrayal of the other but also their own perception
Probably not going to continue this today, so I’m posting this now. This is the start of the default Solas tarot card, pattern by 99CentCrossStitch on etsy
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