weapon of the enemy

"This isn't a mud pit. It's an operating table, and I'm the surgeon..."

It's hard to overstate just how fucking good Dark Knight Returns is.

And then DKR2 & 3 happened.
- Frank Miller is not a great writer unfortunately. It was lightning in a bottle for DKR, The 300 (though the movie did it more justice) and arguably Sin City (similar to the 300), but not much else landed well for him.
  He was always more of an edgy artist than a story writer imo.

Pretty sure Batman has a big ass AI computer in his bat cave

I love how this entire post is discussing batman and not AI.
- Well, Batman's the superhero in the comic. Al is just his butler.
AI. Alfred Intelligence
he isn't using it to fill social media with slop.
plus, "AI" isn't inherently evil, like ai models to fold proteins. but soulless generative AI models like diffusion models or LLMs, are practically useless and only make shitty outputs which only make slop.
- I've taken to calling the latter commercial AI. It's always some centralised service that is desperate to get to the vendor lock-in stage of enshittification, so they can start building the backdoor for advertisers, then start turning up the heat on customers, bit by bit.
  Mark my words, the advertising you'll see from commercial AI is going to be some of the slimiest, sneakiest, boundary-pushing, gas-lightning slop you have ever seen.

He says this after literally using a gun earlier, though. In the moment it was necessary to save lives, but Bruce absolutely used guns.

Has he ever used them as weapons though, or just tools?
As in; has he ever actually shot a person, or just shot objects like locks and engines?
- Batman from Earth 2 shot Mad Monk when they turned into a werewolf with a silver bullet that killed him, that's the only GUN "death" I'm aware of. But earth 2 Batman doesn't have a restriction on guns like prime Batman does.
  He's killed way more people than that though.

Driving a tank in a city, however, is necessary

he might be batman, but he still a rich American.
Killdozer vibes.

Easy for mr big bucks over there to say

Batman hates shotguns.

Got mogged by 725 dragon's breath on Shipment one too many times.
Batman secretly fought in WW1 on the German side.

I just want to say that i support this message. This meme conveys my opinion so well that i cant even add to it.

I remember reading a batman comic that presented as a very out of place PSA for landmines in which batman picked up an AK and said something like "I hate guns but landmines are worse" and shot up all the landmines.

Anyway thanks to that comic I know to never venture off trail or I might get blown up. I live in the US btw.

Not sure if batman's reach extended overseas when this was published.

thanks, i didn't know that. glad you're not around landmines anymore💜
no one tell Batman that all the kids are playing "mine"craft.

I kinda like AI.

Liking "AI" is kind of a modern day equivalent of liking gas-guzzling, enormous pickup trucks. Sure, it takes you from point A to point B and can tow shit, but there are many more human-friendlier alternatives that does not make you look like a giant douche.
- It takes less power to run my local model than it does to play Baldur's Gate 3, but I haven't seen anybody shaming people for playing games. Not every LLM is a giant wasteful cloud provider, many are open source and self hosted.
  It's kind of like saying all vehicles are gas guzzling enormous pickup trucks and therefore nobody should travel anywhere. Self hosting on a PC you already own is more like riding a bike in this metaphor.
That's why it's a huge, existential threat and may doom us all.
- It is not. It's a shpiele that LLM companies push to make it appear more powerful than it actually is.

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It is in a sense a propaganda weapon. We can collectively choose to not use it and ostracize it but the nazis and fascists won't have the same qualms.

It's like choosing to use bows out of principle when the enemy has guns. Fun in a comic book, doesn't work so well in real life.

no you kind missed a bit. it's going to deplete our fresh water source AND it's programed however they want it.
- There is quite a huge open source community which let's you fine tune it however you want.
It's more like choosing to not use grenades that blow up when shaken even though the enemy is using them, simply because you know that, sure, sometimes it blows up when you want it to and has the correct effect, but more often it blows up in your own face.
- We are talking about using ai to make memes? What is blowing up in our face in this scenario?
It really is. Which is why this propaganda is pushed on the left while the right embraces it.
It's one of the reasons I'm done with the left. They're dead in the water and have no idea what they're at anymore.
The entire movement has somehow regressed severely in my lifetime
- I completely agree it feels like propaganda to weaken the left leaning people.
  Though the rest of your comment makes no sense lol