submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
 

I was asked whether I use any AI.

When I said that I don't need it, I was given a strange look and was called primitive/a madman.

Is humanity really that far gone that we have to rely on a data collecting machine by big tech to be our second brain?

It seems that people have gotten too lazy to even look something up online.

Edit: "b-but he bombed people" I in no way compare myself to the Unabomber and only agree on his take of humanity becoming slaves of the tools they depend on.

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[–] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

Theodore John Kaczynski was born in Chicago on May 22, 1942, to working-class parents Wanda Theresa (née Dombek) and Theodore Richard Kaczynski, a sausage maker.[12] The two were Polish Americans who were raised as Roman Catholics but later became atheists.[13]

What an odd thing to include.

Edit: Here's another oddity:

Kaczynski used a typewriter to write his manuscript, capitalizing entire words for emphasis, in lieu of italics.

Typerwriters didn't have italics and it wouldn't be only a crazy person writing on a typewriter in 1995.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

    Just seems like a detail that would probably be ignored in almost any other case. How often have you seen a parents later change of religion mentioned in a Wikipedia biography? I think the subtle message here is, "Maybe lack of belief in God led to his terrorism."

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    Interesting thought. Still, if anyone ever made a record of my life I'd want such a thing mentioned.

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    Yeah, but if you were a terrorist, they'd try to tar whatever your origins are, no matter how tangentially related.

    I mean, if I were a terrorist, I'd feel it weird if they mentioned something like me being 1/4 Jewish on my dad's, raised Catholic, side. I didn't even find out about it until I was in college. I'd guess it was some anti-Semite wikipedia editor with a grudge.

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