Geekboy

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There Are Signs of a Massive AI Backlash

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Adapt or die, dumb fricks.

Printing press
Fear:
• too many books
• loss of authority
• spread of heresy and false ideas

What happened:
• chaos did increase at first
• it also massively expanded literacy, religion, science, and political debate

Industrial machinery
Fear:
• skilled workers replaced
• social order destroyed
• human beings turned into cogs

What happened:
• real labor displacement and ugly factory conditions
• also huge gains in production, transport, and living standards over time

Railroads
Fear:
• dangerous unnatural speed
• bodily harm
• destruction of local life and older rhythms

What happened:
• some danger was real
• rail transformed commerce, travel, and national markets

Electricity
Fear:
• invisible deadly force entering homes
• fire, electrocution, moral decay from nightlife

What happened:
• early systems did carry real risks
• electricity became foundational to modern life

Telephone
Fear:
• loss of privacy
• weaker face-to-face community
• shallow communication replacing real interaction

What happened:
• it changed social life permanently
• but did not destroy human relationships

Automobile
Fear:
• chaos in streets
• death, noise, loss of community
• destruction of older ways of life

What happened:
• many harms were real
• cars also reshaped mobility and economic life

Radio
Fear:
• propaganda
• centralized manipulation
• mass culture replacing local culture

What happened:
• this fear was partly justified
• radio became both a tool of education and persuasion

Comic books
Fear:
• corruption of children
• delinquency
• moral rot

What happened:
• panic was greatly overstated
• comics became a normal art and entertainment form

Television
Fear:
• mindless passive citizens
• ruined attention spans
• corrupted politics and children

What happened:
• some concerns were valid
• TV still became standard household media

Rock music
Fear:
• sexual immorality
• rebellion
• collapse of traditional values

What happened:
• mostly cultural panic
• rock became mainstream

Video games
Fear:
• violence
• addiction
• antisocial behavior
• mental damage

What happened:
• overuse can be a real problem
• civilization did not collapse

Internet
Fear:
• fraud, porn, isolation
• death of newspapers and bookstores
• no one would read deeply anymore

What happened:
• many harms were real
• benefits were also enormous

Social media
Fear:
• addiction
• narcissism
• misinformation
• political destabilization

What happened:
• this backlash was not imaginary
• many of these harms did materialize to some extent

AI
Fear:
• job loss
• fraud and deception
• creative collapse
• machine control or human irrelevance

What happened so far:
• some risks are real
• long-term outcome is still unsettled

The repeated pattern is:

new thing appears ? elites hype it ? public fears it ? real harms emerge ? panic exaggerates those harms ? society partially adapts

When does Tucker wear a turban?

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And we know why. Even Tucker supporters will know why.

Bryon certainly had a handful.

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Completely unhinged and bat shite fricking crazy!

He gave his kids inheritance to a zombie. Try and guess why he’s really crying.

More hilarious follies from the mentally deranged Left! :rotflmao: