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FeatheryBallOfFluff t1_jdm8y0u wrote

Reply to comment by Throwaway-tan in A recently submitted paper has demonstrated that Stable Diffusion can accurately reconstruct images from fMRI scans, effectively allowing it to "read people's minds". by iboughtarock

How is this in the futurology sub? On every thread with a new technology, everyone is hating on it because it will be used for oppression.

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PLAAND t1_jdmeyim wrote

Because tools can be picked up by anyone, even shiny new ones and we see very clearly who in the world has the power to pick up these tools and the kinds of things they tend to do with them.

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Defiyance t1_jdmmsja wrote

Because if it can be used for that it will be used for that by the current pricks in charge. Maybe we should restructure our society before we come up with a bunch of tech out of a dystopian wet dream

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Hiseworns t1_jdmc54a wrote

Well I mean, look around at how all current and even old technology is and has been used

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Chard069 t1_jdoslth wrote

Electricity: Zap people and animals to death.
Mechanics: Crush people and critters to death.
Chemistry: Poison people and critters to death.
Mind-control: Scare people and animals to death.
Media: Bore people to death. Beware animals.
Politics: Bludgeon people to death. Run faster.

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BaboonHorrorshow t1_jdn3z85 wrote

Because most Redditors are American and America is an inverted totalitarianism/oligarch-ruled dystopia.

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Dentrius t1_jdntoo7 wrote

Its just some loud minority of people who think they smarter and above all the rest because they read or watched too many dystopian fiction and now can forsee the dark future!

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