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0c3ca83 • today at 4:23 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

> I'm having a hard time demonstrating the enormous activist potential these tools present

The problem isn't that they don't have potential, but that the downside isn't worth it.

You're trying to convince people that asbestos has great potential as a building material. You're saying it does an amazing job of fireproofing, and don't worry your pretty little head about cancer.

Asbestos is everywhere in older buildings because it was excellent fireproofing. We're still dealing with the consequences.


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komali2 • today at 4:44 AM

> but that the downside isn't worth it.

This is also my argument against militarization and armed revolution as a strategy of establishing anarchist or communist society. The downsides are illustrated and argued against in "The Anarchist Cookbook," a rewrite of the original by Keith McHenry. So, I'm interested in what you think the downsides may be here, since I'm not immediately able to think of any - at least not any caused by me as an individual activist.

It does seem that AI was used effectively recently in the defeat of Bolsanaro's son in Brazil, which I use as evidence for. I'm at this moment looking more into that when I really should be working, heh. Thanks to user solyin, sibling to you.

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