We just have to succeed before we get drone striked
The American Revolution worked because there were professional military veterans fighting in and leading it. The American Civil War was a war because the Confederacy had professional military veterans and leaders fighting for it. A second American revolution/civil war only works if a significant part of the military defects and sides with us.
That's the actual solution, we outnumber them by such a huge margin that just standing together and telling them to fuck off is our best bet. They're cowards, it doesn't take a lot to make them back down.
I didn't think you were suggesting violent solutions, I just also wanted to vent about the people who are like "wHy aREN'T AmERicAnS DoiNG MoRE?" and acting like because we haven't gunned down Trump and most of Congress that we're complicit
Fucking keyboard warriors telling us "just start a civil war, why haven't you done it already" as if grabbing a gun and executing your neighbors is the easiest thing in the world.
I'd love to go my whole life without ever having to so much as slap someone. But the rest of lemmy seems convinced that "American == gun owner" and that we should have been cutting each other down in the streets since November 2024
We don't need a dozen different plastic tchotchkes delivered to our doorstep the day after we order them. We don't need 64 GB of RAM for 10,000 steam games we'll never play in 4k at 60fps. We don't need to be able to order greasy piles of fast food whenever we want.
To me, blaming overpopulation for the world's problems always comes across as saying "I don't want to change my lifestyle, and if there's 6 billion fewer people, I won't have to"
Because with harm reduction as the goal, the solution is never "give them more of the harmful thing."
I'll compare it to the problems of drug abuse. You don't help someone with an addiction by giving them more drugs, you don't help them by throwing them in jail just for having an addiction, you help them by making it safe and easy to get treatment for the addiction.
Look at what Portugal did in the early 2000s to help mitigate the problems associated with drug use, treating it as a health crisis rather than a criminal one.
You don't arrest someone for being addicted to meth, you arrest them for stabbing someone and stealing their wallet to buy more meth; you don't arrest someone just for being a pedophile, you arrest them for abusing children.
This means making AI better, more realistic, and at the same time more diverse.
No, it most certainly does not. AI is already being used to generate explicit images of actual children. Making it better at that task is the opposite of harm reduction, it makes creating new victims easier than ever.
Acting reasonably to prevent what we can prevent means shutting down the CSAM-generating bot, not optimizing and improving it.
Totally fallopian tubular, dude!