On a scale of -10 to +10, are you technophobic (-10) or are you technophilic (+10)
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I think I'm at like +3
I overall like new technology, but just a bit fearful at malicious people misusing it. Its not technology I fear, its the people.
+5 during work hours, -5 outside of them.
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I think I'm at like +3
I overall like new technology, but just a bit fearful at malicious people misusing it. Its not technology I fear, its the people.
I've been running from my problems by immersing myself in tech, I'm not sure if that makes me like it more or less but I've gotten very very good at what I do.
Last night I set up an event ticketing service so friends can come to an event I'm hosting without me having to schedule them or manage capacity. Then I cried myself to sleep. -2
But I also get to set up stuff for my collectives to use, like nextcloud and wordpress and it's awesome to be able to turn a grassroots bunch of ratbags into a semi-professional looking bunch of ratbags. +10
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I think I'm at like +3
I overall like new technology, but just a bit fearful at malicious people misusing it. Its not technology I fear, its the people.
Technology after everything phones home -10
Technology before that +8
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I think I'm at like +3
I overall like new technology, but just a bit fearful at malicious people misusing it. Its not technology I fear, its the people.
Absolute proof of the horseshoe model, I am at ±10, I both love and hate technology with avid passion.
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I think I'm at like +3
I overall like new technology, but just a bit fearful at malicious people misusing it. Its not technology I fear, its the people.
I am a pendulum, swinging between both 10's at a rapid frequency tha sometimes produces a sound loud enough to drown out my fits of rage at the stupid piece of shit technology that I just bought because it was cool
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I think I'm at like +3
I overall like new technology, but just a bit fearful at malicious people misusing it. Its not technology I fear, its the people.
+10 I think. I have an off grid solar powered trailer with a raspberry pi that controls it and a cell hot spot so it communicates to home base. I'm a geek.
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I think I'm at like +3
I overall like new technology, but just a bit fearful at malicious people misusing it. Its not technology I fear, its the people.
I'd say I'm pretty techophallic
I have more than a few Kickstarter beta products collecting dust, and I've broke my arch install over using the AUR -
I think I'm at like +3
I overall like new technology, but just a bit fearful at malicious people misusing it. Its not technology I fear, its the people.
Maybe a +3 or 3.5 max. After having a little bit of experience with artificial "intelligence", I have been doing everything in my power to block it out of my life.
People can call me a Luddite for this, but my response to those people is that I can at least think and form an opinion without needing an AI telling me how to think or what to feel.
The only exception to the AI rule for me are the people who either use their voice or get consent from a friend, to work together, to use their voice for something like creating a Diffsinger or ENUNU voicebank as that requires a lot more work than just typing a prompt on a keyboard and, when done in an ethical way, doesn't involve theft in general. Similar reasons I support UTAU voicebanks and older vocaloid voicebanks that are basically confirmed not to have used AI.
As for other forms of technology, I will absolutely agree with OP on fearing the people over the technology, even if I don't fully understand it all. Except for VR. I'm 100% worried, with the way my brain currently works, that someday we'll have realistic enough VR that I wouldn't be able to tell the difference and that scares me a lot.
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I think I'm at like +3
I overall like new technology, but just a bit fearful at malicious people misusing it. Its not technology I fear, its the people.
- I love attack but only the shit that's the heart intentionally broken or under their controlled corporations although sadly is most of it these days. Whenever there is a new text thing that's actually good I love it to pieces.
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I think I'm at like +3
I overall like new technology, but just a bit fearful at malicious people misusing it. Its not technology I fear, its the people.
4, I am known to be reluctant to adopt new technology, IE, I don't want to be a betatester.
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I think I'm at like +3
I overall like new technology, but just a bit fearful at malicious people misusing it. Its not technology I fear, its the people.
+2, I love what can be done with technology but hate what can be done with technology
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I think I'm at like +3
I overall like new technology, but just a bit fearful at malicious people misusing it. Its not technology I fear, its the people.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Technophilic +8 but some technology progression is utter shit
Like ever larger phone screens, social media, some uses of LLM, non-open source software, most uses of public cloud infrastructure, subscription-based software services instead of owning things. -
I think I'm at like +3
I overall like new technology, but just a bit fearful at malicious people misusing it. Its not technology I fear, its the people.
+2 despite writing a good amount of my own programs (mostly open source).
I just like making stuff on my own. New technologies are cool but I don't really care about them. It's not like I can afford them anyway. Even if they are FOSS it takes too much work to actually swap frameworks.
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I think I'm at like +3
I overall like new technology, but just a bit fearful at malicious people misusing it. Its not technology I fear, its the people.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Exactly at 0
Stepping back and looking at technology as inventions and the stuff they do and the ingenuity that goes into them, tech is dope. And even useless tech is fun as a toy.
But for Capitalism Reasons, whenever some new technology gets announced my first thought, by necessity, is "okay cool. How are they gonna use this to fuck us over and/or to kill people here in the global south"
Because the answer is not, has never been, and never will be "they won't". There is ALWAYS a knife under the pillow with capitalism.
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I think I'm at like +3
I overall like new technology, but just a bit fearful at malicious people misusing it. Its not technology I fear, its the people.
+10.i like technology itself, although a lot of time it's executed /implemented poorly.
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+10.i like technology itself, although a lot of time it's executed /implemented poorly.
you like technology but you dislike capitalism
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I think I'm at like +3
I overall like new technology, but just a bit fearful at malicious people misusing it. Its not technology I fear, its the people.
I would be more + if I had more money. At my income level I'm a luddite
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Exactly at 0
Stepping back and looking at technology as inventions and the stuff they do and the ingenuity that goes into them, tech is dope. And even useless tech is fun as a toy.
But for Capitalism Reasons, whenever some new technology gets announced my first thought, by necessity, is "okay cool. How are they gonna use this to fuck us over and/or to kill people here in the global south"
Because the answer is not, has never been, and never will be "they won't". There is ALWAYS a knife under the pillow with capitalism.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I feel the same way as you do now, all the new tech is very interesting on a zoomed out scale, but for me personally, I don't want anything new unless I can own it completely and (at least try to) repair it myself.
So I'd put myself on +8
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Exactly at 0
Stepping back and looking at technology as inventions and the stuff they do and the ingenuity that goes into them, tech is dope. And even useless tech is fun as a toy.
But for Capitalism Reasons, whenever some new technology gets announced my first thought, by necessity, is "okay cool. How are they gonna use this to fuck us over and/or to kill people here in the global south"
Because the answer is not, has never been, and never will be "they won't". There is ALWAYS a knife under the pillow with capitalism.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]It seems to me that you are blaming capitalism for a broader human phenomenon. After all, the conquistadors found and exploited the Americas due to improved ship building techniques long before the rise of the mercantile class. The aztecs slaughtered people in ritual sacrifice not for wealth, but for religion. Hell, smash-head-with-rock technology was invented in the stone age before "the means of production" even existed for someone to own them.
I have the utmost confidence in humanity's ability to inflict terrible harm and injustices upon itself regardless of the economic system that happens to be in vogue at the time.
