• PTSDwarrior@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    People react irrationally at times to certain groups or things, and that’s just a weird quirk of being human. I hate AI for example, and I know it’s not 100% rational. I probably ascribe certain aspects to AI that may not be true.

    • MLRL_Commie [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Big difference between having not logical feelings towards technology versus human beings. I don’t think those are comparable. Finkelstein’s works on Palestine can be highly valued while saying that the man lacks understanding and empathy for aspects of people not related to their ethnicity/nation of birth.

      Your feelings on AI might be wrong (though I don’t know that it’s so), but them being associated with non-humans changes the quality entirely