On: Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance

[TheSpiceIsLife]

If you can’t cope with the lies, what makes you think you’d cope with the truth? Which I guarantee you is magnitudes of order more horrifying.

[mitthrowaway2 → TheSpiceIsLife]

What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn't there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.

—Eugene Gendlin

[dgfitz → TheSpiceIsLife]

If who can’t cope with what lies?

Yes, the truth would also stink. I’m sure it’s also horrifying.

[TheSpiceIsLife → dgfitz]

The general you, the reader.