• mountainriver@awful.systems
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    29 days ago

    What if my mechanical watch went rogue and killed Bezos?

    On one hand Bezos is responsible for a lot of suffering and some deaths.

    On the other hand, killing is wrong.

    On the third hand, it couldn’t do that, because it is just a machine.

    (It’s a watch, it has three hands. It also has about as much consciousness as an LLM, it “knows” what time it is. Much more energy efficient though.)

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      29 days ago

      Pretty sure the CIA tried to kill Castro with a mechanical watch at least once.

      “Killing is wrong”

      You are a child. A child with an infinitesimally naive understanding about the reality of the world in which you live. And you should stay that way for your own mental wellbeing.

      • YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems
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        28 days ago

        It would be easier to list things that the CIA didn’t use in a failed Castro assassination.

        Man, I remember being 14 and thinking I was having radical new takes on ethics. Then I grew up and realized that killing people* is* probably just bad.

      • self@awful.systems
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        28 days ago

        oh wow what uninteresting, edgy e/a garbage. time for you to fuck off back to Twitter now