AI is \*not\* just a tool. It is a pea and thimble game in which a few, very rich people steal our entire cultural and intellectual history, and use it in a way that forever depletes it. It is a way of enclosing the commons. And it's taking us all, the demos, too long to get our collective heads around it because, like the climate, it is so strange to think of it being steal-able that the idea doesn't stick, it doesn't have language to describe and discuss it. 1/2 #AI
We are in the same kind of situation as First Nations people being offered beads for land, and not actually comprehending the terms of the deal because the idea of country being privatised was too, too wierd to comprehend. There is a huge and accelerating cultural shift going on, in which \*everything\* we have thought of as natural, given, the water we swim in, is being taken, used, turned into private wealth. 2/3
@lindawoodrow that story has been roundly debunked by historians as a weird oversimplification, a myth, that people keep promoting for some reason even though it doesn't really make sense.
@lindawoodrow but what they found is that that's quite a valuable trade for land, and just as importantly, questionable title to land.
It was a risky promise. The discount Factor is pretty big there.
@volkris I'm Australian. But yes, I was using "beads" as a metaphor. Batman's deal for 600 000 acres of Melbourne was
20 pairs of blankets
100 knives
30 tomahawks
200 handkerchiefs
30 mirrors
50 scissors
100 pounds of flour
6 shirts