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Popular Media

• Cultural hegemony: https://old.reddit.com/r/tumblr/comments/179v5ti/happens_often/
  • There is an upside - at least to the progenitor, and perhaps sinister in a larger sense.
  • Is the US-ian upside worth my unwilling knowledge that the Chris Rock / Will Smith / Jada Whatever story is ... actually, let's just end that sentence at "is?".

Empathy

• Westworld, GPT, Player Pianos, "subhumans", Prisoners, Crimscum
  • Some particular crimscum may deserve to be tortured. If you commit a sufficiently heinous act, having a small measure of that evil befall you is not unfair. The reason we, society, do not *do* those things *to them* is not because they are not deserving. It is because we should not be made to suffer the pain of doing those things to another person.
    • And if you think that doing those things to another person is not painful, please keep that to yourself, lest we begin to think that you deserve such acts.
  • How do you talk to GPT?
  • Player pianos were a very early case of machines taking jobs from human creatives.
    • Except with no creativity.
    • Just like Midjourney and GPT.
• Haley v. Ramaswamy: https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/17r2gr0/haley_calls_ramaswamy_scum_after_he_mentions_her/
  • Never called out his attacks on others (no empathy).
  • Goes hostile to defend her in-group.
  • Commentary: "But it was her child!"
    • The ultimate in-group. But that doesn't change the lack of empathy. Treating your children different isn't wrong because you have empathy for your child. It is wrong because it shows you lack empathy for not-your-child.