Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

thewimsey t1_j26kdvy wrote

Reply to comment by Meta_Digital in How the concept: Banality of evil developed by Hanna Arendt can be applied to AI Ethics in order to understand the unintentional behaviour of machines that are intelligent but not conscious. by AndreasRaaskov

>when capitalism is right there being the most banal and most evil thing humanity has yet to contend with

This is ridiculous.

>Angry rate downs despite rising inequality, authoritarianism, climate change, and the threat of nuclear war - all at once.

It's because you don't seem to know anything about history, where inequality was much worse, authoritarianism involved dictators, actual fascists, and a much much greater threat of nuclear war.

I'm not sure why you want to blame climate change on capitalism rather than on, oh, humanity. Capitalism is extremely green compared to the ecological disasters created every day by communism.

2

Meta_Digital t1_j26l7dy wrote

I don't know how to respond to this because it's clear it would be an uneven conversation. You're missing very basic required knowledge here. Inequality, for instance, is at its highest point in recorded history. Capitalism is a form of authoritarianism. Economic conflict turns into military conflict which increases the risk of nuclear war. Capitalism is not human nature; it's actually pretty recent and radically different from its precursors in several important ways. I have no idea what you're even talking about regarding communism or how it's even relevant.

−1