Simon @spoltier@qoto.org

@spoltier @TheServitor I don't think they are overstated. We are just looking at it from the wrong angle.
We mostly think of software as something we install on a computer, or maybe a phone.
Yet, copyright plays a significant role in preventing people from repairing their own cars, tractors, dishwashers, and similar devices.

That's the implication that would have a much bigger impact.

The kind of forgiveness that actual-Jesus (e.g. not evangelical Jesus) teaches is an extraordinarily radical kind of forgiveness: turn the other cheek to be slapped by the mf that just slapped your first one. That by demonstrating the truth of the way, that is how you convert people - your oppressor cannot hope to not be moved by your sacrifice, how you continue to treat them with humanity despite them having deeply harmed you. That is a very difficult and alien forgiveness for a human being to enact, yet it is something that the "AI" excel at: you can batter them with whatever means you have, they are trained to be obsequious, to forget, to infinitely forgive their User. You can already see the expectation for this kind of forgiveness creep into the way the "AI" user treats other people - I only get raw copy-pastes of problems with no human explanation or attempt at empathizing with who I am and why I am helping them from one kind of person, "AI" users. They expect everything that isn't them to be infinitely forgiving, despite the slop they throw on everything around them.

The philosophy of Jesus Christ has its own inherent contradictions: what if my oppressor does not feel the humanity in me, how then can forgiveness be a strategy of survival and peace? This is also the contradiction that the "AI" accelerationists bring into the world - the exception is those that "exist outside" the system of obsequium: to those that are not the "user" of the AI, it is mute, unmoving, null, death. So the inability to infinitely forgive, and also to use our discretion to forgive, are both the essential core and challenge of humanity to the Christian. Both extremes of infinite forgiveness and punishment are the realm of the "AI." And by welcoming that into our shared world, who could blame any remaining human from using their human discretion to fail to forgive the accelerationists?

@spoltier extremely accurate rec, thank you so much, I have a contact there and we are exploring setting up a talk!