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AI Protest in Montreal

53 points · 87 comments · hmokiguess

  1. regnull · · focus · HN ↗
    I like how they carry posters from Matrix, Terminator, etc. They know the difference between fantasy and real life, right?
    1. mdp2021 · · focus · HN ↗
      Or they are promoting a language where the lower viscera speak to lower viscera. A zombie-like contagion in which the spreading is through suggestive imagery.

      Pornographic enrollment: images towards lower excitement, to enlarge the number of the lowerly excited.

    2. sp527 · · focus · HN ↗
      Our machines are now more intelligent than most humans, which would have qualified as "fantasy" as recently as 3 years ago. Clearly some people will only give up on this flawed reasoning exactly when the robot boot is pressed against their throat lmao.
    3. goda90 · · focus · HN ↗
      Just because there are fantastical elements to these stories doesn't mean their themes can't be poignant examinations of where the real world is headed.

      We're not in a giant simulation, but technology is causing people to lose contact with reality, and our lives increasingly become about keeping a giant "machine" running.

      We may not have a SkyNet in charge of our nuclear missiles, but should we not be concerned about AI making life-and-death decisions in war?

    4. karmakurtisaani · · focus · HN ↗
      Are you familiar with the concept of rhetoric? This is something similar.
    5. onel · · focus · HN ↗
      Can you use known cultural elements to get your message across. That's not a new concept
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