- jjjalljs ( @jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ) 52•3 months ago
AI rights.
I’ll say something like “I don’t see why a fancy python script should be allowed to vote” and the youth will be like “that’s so fucked up in so many ways”. “My best friend is an AI why are you so prejudiced”.
- tetris11 ( @tetris11@lemmy.ml ) 6•3 months ago
When I read the Lambda transcripts of that Google employee (priest?) who tried to whistleblow that that Google’s AI was sentient… I mean damn, I read those transcripts, it sounded real as hell.
Stochastic parrot or not, I think a significant part of my own consciousness goes towards predicting the next word in a given context.
- HelixDab2 ( @HelixDab2@lemm.ee ) 6•3 months ago
IIRC, consciousness is really, really complicated. We might not be capable of knowing if we are LLMs in meatsuits. An LLM might be a highly vocal infant, and we simply wouldn’t have a great way of really making that judgement. Shit, we still can’t define consciousness in humans–or other animals–in any meaningful way.
- tetris11 ( @tetris11@lemmy.ml ) 4•3 months ago
Agreed. I think it’s a spectrum, and even a chair (an object that forms a feedback loop of forces with its surroundings that depends on its previous state) is conscious to a degree.
I don’t think there is a line
- femtech ( @femtech@midwest.social ) 2•3 months ago
There will be a legal line at some point.
- jjjalljs ( @jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ) 1•3 months ago
Oh weird I used to know the guy who played the AI there. Not close or anything. Friend of a friend situation. Saw him on the street last year and had an awkward “…hey” moment and everything.
- magnetosphere ( @magnetosphere@fedia.io ) 31•3 months ago
Worrying about online privacy. Kids will accept that online privacy simply does not exist. They’ll have the mindset that OF COURSE the government/corporations spy on us, and people who are concerned about it are quaint, clueless, and exasperating.
- gentooer ( @gentooer@programming.dev ) 16•3 months ago
It’s disturbing how common this mindset already is.
- livus ( @livus@kbin.social ) 29•3 months ago
I’m of the generation which has kids old enough to talk.
They are exasperated that we use computer mice.
They are angry that the environment is still being destroyed even though grown ups know better.
Not sure what will embarrass them when they’re older - at the moment it’s our clothes, shoes, music, and slang.
- NoneOfUrBusiness ( @NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social ) 18•3 months ago
They are exasperated that we use computer mice.
What?
- livus ( @livus@kbin.social ) 14•3 months ago
All the young kids I know hate them. They think everything is going to be a touchscreen.
Especially when it comes to casual games, literal screams of frustration trying to coordinate mice.
- teawrecks ( @teawrecks@sopuli.xyz ) 20•3 months ago
Do they know being frustrated by mice makes them boomers?
- Dagwood222 ( @Dagwood222@lemm.ee ) 7•3 months ago
So, it’s a generational sandwich. Gen Alpha and Boomers are the bread, and the mousers are the meat?
- Chahk ( @chahk@beehaw.org ) 12•3 months ago
In the beginning of this school year my youngest told me that he’s the only one in his class who passed a computerized test because nobody else knew how to use the mouse of the school PC. Other kids also don’t know how to touch-type, so it takes them ages to answer non-multiple choice questions using the keyboard.
There was a panic as the school management scrambled to introduce a PC literacy class into the curriculum.
- TexMexBazooka ( @TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee ) 4•3 months ago
The iPad generation
- Ada ( @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English26•3 months ago
Transphobia.
It’s just an echo of the homophobia decades earlier, and it’s going to be seen as equally ridiculous at some point
- pingveno ( @pingveno@lemmy.ml ) 9•3 months ago
I try to emphasize this point to people who are dispairing over the current political climate. Public opinion towards gay people also had a backlash when we demanded rights. Many countries have moved beyond that fairly quickly. I am still not dropping by Uganda anytime soon, but at least I feel fairly safe in my own country.
Transphobia is much less prevalent in the younger generations, just like homophobia. It will literally die out.
- TheFriar ( @TheFriar@lemm.ee ) 9•3 months ago
But…like…aren’t we still dealing with homophobia from the olds? It definitely died down and has morphed into mostly transphobia now, but it’s not like everyone is cool with it these days.
- pingveno ( @pingveno@lemmy.ml ) English7•3 months ago
Sure, and it will be a factor for a long time. But it should be considered in comparison with similar historical processes. Think civil rights for Black people in the US. I’ll pluck a few dates:
- First slaver ship, 1619
- Abolitionist movement starting in 1688
- Dred Scott decision 1857
- American Civil War 1861-1865
- Jim Crow laws beginning in 1870’s
- Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896
- Brown v. Board, 1954
- Montgomery bus boycott, 1955
- Voting Rights Act of 1965
- Crack epidemic and subsequent mass incarceration, 1980’s and 1990’s
- George Floyd murder, 2020
And after all that time, Black people are still disadvantaged as a whole relative to white people. Compare that to the modern LGBTQ movement. The modern movement really began in earnest with the Stonewall riots in 1969, but it has roots dating back to Berlin in 1897. Gallup has poll numbers going back to 1977 for various questions. Around 70% of Americans believe same sex marriage should be allowed. Attitudes towards equal job opportunities are nearly unanimous in favor, 95%. That said, it’s notable that most of these questions are about policy, so they may treat gay people poorly in their personal life. So whether you’re measuring by Stonewall or by Berlin in 1897, progress has been relatively rapid. Not that it’s ever rapid enough for people suffering under oppression, but progress runs on a generous dose of hope.
- IninewCrow ( @ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ) English22•3 months ago
What’s wrong with you? Were you born in the 20th century? Turn the oxygen down! You think air comes from trees or something?
- Alice ( @Alice@beehaw.org ) 14•3 months ago
There’s that Shen comic where Shen— a millennial— is trying to tell a zoomer that their house is on fire, but he keeps saying inane stuff like “there’s a smoky chonker”.
I think that sums up our legacy pretty well.
- burningmatches ( @burningmatches@feddit.uk ) English14•3 months ago
I think people in the future will look back on how we raise livestock today as barbaric.
- Alice ( @Alice@beehaw.org ) 9•3 months ago
I hope so
- golden_zealot ( @golden_zealot@lemmy.ml ) English12•3 months ago
Hahahaha, kids.
- Dagwood222 ( @Dagwood222@lemm.ee ) 5•3 months ago
They just transplanted a genetically human kidney grown in a pig into a human being. Pretty sure we’re only a few decades from being able to do a lot more.
Remember that guy from ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy’? The one with two heads? That’ll be common soon enough.
- Call me Lenny/Leni ( @shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee ) English5•3 months ago
“I always thought I never wanted kids, but then I took an arrow to the knee!”
- Hadriscus ( @Hadriscus@lemm.ee ) 3•3 months ago
I would assume a sperm to the crotch, but what do I know about humans’ reproductive strategies
- corsicanguppy ( @corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ) 2•3 months ago
- literally
- Mid
- Tiktok
- American super-comma splices everything