Comment It's just like horse armor (Score 2) 14
Us old timers looked at them selling shitty microtransactions slop and knew it was garbage. It wasn't like the arcades where your quarter bought you as much of the game as your skill could handle and 1ccs were part of the fun. It was an infinite money machine where you kept pouring more in and getting less out. Like when the CEO of activation famously bitched about all the time people spent playing call of duty without constantly paying for it.
Basically you do the evil thing and kids grow up with the evil thing and the evil thing is normal so kids don't know any better.
It's like how you can live in China was absolutely no civil rights whatsoever and it's just normal so you don't think about it and you just live like that. Or like how in America every few years we freak out about some stupid moral panic because that's just part of Living in America. And we all act like it's normal and good.
They will do the same thing with ai. They'll keep cramming it down our throats until we have to take it because they're the ruling class and we're too much of a bunch of freaked out weirdo cowards to do anything about the ruling class. If all else fails they'll use the classic hey that guy's going to steal your cookie trick from the joke about the union guy and the non-union guy at the table with the factory owner...
I don't know what you do with these basic problems with human cognition. I don't think our species has enough time to evolve around them.
Basically you do the evil thing and kids grow up with the evil thing and the evil thing is normal so kids don't know any better.
It's like how you can live in China was absolutely no civil rights whatsoever and it's just normal so you don't think about it and you just live like that. Or like how in America every few years we freak out about some stupid moral panic because that's just part of Living in America. And we all act like it's normal and good.
They will do the same thing with ai. They'll keep cramming it down our throats until we have to take it because they're the ruling class and we're too much of a bunch of freaked out weirdo cowards to do anything about the ruling class. If all else fails they'll use the classic hey that guy's going to steal your cookie trick from the joke about the union guy and the non-union guy at the table with the factory owner...
I don't know what you do with these basic problems with human cognition. I don't think our species has enough time to evolve around them.