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#Humanity

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"But when technology transformed auto-making, meatpacking and even secretarial work, the response typically wasn't to slash jobs and reduce the number of workers. It was to "degrade" the jobs, breaking them into simpler tasks to be performed over and over at a rapid clip."

#ai #humanity #industrialism #replacement

nytimes.com/2025/05/25/busines

The New York Times · At Amazon, Some Coders Say Their Jobs Have Begun to Resemble Warehouse WorkBy Noam Scheiber

Human. That's my answer when asked for my pronouns, it has nothing to do with AI even though I guess it's useful for that now. It's simple, we can cut through a lot of issues, concerns, red social related tape and oodles of time if we just treat each other as human beings. In my opinion it's silly to actively reduce any other human being to a pronoun. Where required for logistical reasons or other (we are separating women/men/they for whatever reason etc) i'll provide it but otherwise... I'm human, treat me as one and i'll do the same and lets get on with whatever we need to do. #human #noai #humanity #youdeservetobeseen

“It is time to divert the great energy we’re putting into Artificial Intelligence into real intelligence 𑁋 the intelligence that we have a powerful capacity beyond our intellect that can bring us together into a real human family.”

How to go extinct

mettacenter.org/blog/how-to-go

The Metta Center for NonviolenceHow to go extinct — The Metta Center for NonviolenceMichael reflects on our collective destiny and the human spirit.