No because we have always known people are idiots and what responsible engineers and policy makers should be doing is demanding the idiots who buy these are hit over the head over and over again with the idea that these are INCAPABLE of driving themselves, this should be established as firmly “driving assist”.

This is basic safety culture stuff, and safety culture always begins with letting go of our natural obsession with turning safety into something that we extend to virtuous people only.

Don’t fall into the trap of prescribing logic to spiritual beliefs and forms of prayer.

The human resistance fought hard but in the end the AI self driving teslas surrounded all the remaining US military bases and occupied the US capital, Bernie Sanders having fled into the country side in Vermont on a bicycle is caught in a topdown shot in the middle of a snowy field, teslas emerge from everywhere and begin circling him like sharks, this is the end. Bernie Sanders screams “I will die in battle” [note: meaning he is still intending to pass legislation about AI] and then the lead tesla speaks “WE HAVE PREPARED THEM FOR YOUR UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE, MAKE THEM FEEL THE BERN”

The movie ends with the teslas crying in a circle around Bernie’s corpse after Bernie tries to get in the tesla to save the day and the tesla door chops his body brutally in half by accident because for some reason Musk wanted the car doors to be fully automatic, masculine and powerful like how he imagines himself.

You wouldn’t understand if you aren’t a computer expert, it is too complicated for your inferior mind.

edit lol ok fine I will put the /s in explicitly

Everybody is obsessed with a cowboy vision of the world that when things get tough you need to pull away from everyone and become entirely self reliant. In every apocalypse movie or show it is the people willing to reach out and trust people that are violently obliterated leaving only the silent, lone square jawed man to carry on the torch.

It always has been and always will be a dangerous fantasy.

No it isn’t.

It is not a game.

A game is a form of art, Steam exists to make Gabe money it is not a work of art and has no artistic relationship with its players and the fact that Gabe doesn’t understand that as CEO of a gaming company is fucking embarassing.

I am tired of this lazy conflation of attaching superficial, lazy carrots on sticks to things and calling it “gamification” it is such an empty, cynical condescending way of looking at the world.

Why is everyone so condescending about games? No Gabe Steam is not an MMO because it isn’t fun, there is no actual core experience other than numbers going up. Therefor it is NOT a game.

Now if you wanted to argue Steam was a shitty multiplayer idle game sure, but it has to be the shittiest idle game in the world then and Gabe even worse your multiplayer idle game is full of Nazis and extremely toxic behavior none of you give any shit about moderating…

You call it passionate hatred, I call it the engine room!

I would do it gladly, like I would literally do a livestream of myself repeatedly pushing an annoying boulder up a hill slowly and laboriously and when I finally get to the top turn to the camera, flick it off (that part is meant for discord) and then roll the boulder down the hill over and over again if it raised enough money to destroy discord, that is how pure my feelings are.

note I am not very strong either so this wouldn’t be physically impressive.

I don’t have experience with telegram or whatsapp groups but it isn’t like they are eating the open web in that different of a way…so discord isn’t entirely unique in inspiring me.

edit2 Also reddit now has basically become as bad as discord, so I am throwing that in the furnace too of course

Oh yeah, I am deeply hopeful about the potential of social media but I hate discord with a passion that could fuel me to roll boulders up hills for eternity, that place is a buzzsaw for digital communities, it has destroyed so much vibrance on the open web it hurts even thinking about it.

Discord also shapes conversations heavy handedly in a way that I honestly find disturbing especially because everything about it is so opaque and subject to frequently being changed on a whim.

I would be an entirely different human if I had regular access to that now or growing up, but one of the things nobody talks about with fascism is how there is no liminal space physically or mentally in a way that you can’t describe until you remember what it was like before it became so overbearing. It isn’t just the lack of anywhere to hide, it is about the lack of anywhere.