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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9288792" data-attributes="member: 7006">Sure... you say this about your own list.  You think your list of things isn't controversial and it's other people's opinions that would be the worse ones and not equivalent.  But of course, that person would believe that their list was the uncontroversial one and that yours was the one with things in it that should be ignored.  And that's [USER=2525]@Mistwell[/USER] 's point.  Not a single one of us can sit here with a straight face and say that our opinion about something is the right one and that other's opinions are the ones going too far or are silly or make no sense or are flat-out wrong.  Because everyone ends up just pointing at everyone else.At that point, this is where the "70% popularity" idea comes in-- the idea that even if some people think something is wrong, if at least most of the people agree on something then the majority wins out and that's the choice the person with the authority makes because it will satisfy the most people.  And if that means the minority opinion thinks something absolutely disgusting has come about... well, it is what it is.  In this particular thread's case... if the people who decry AI end up being in the minority because most other people either like it or don't care one way or the other and the people in charge know they can use it without suffering blowback... then it's going to get used.  The people who hate it will obviously complain about that, but if it falls on deaf ears then it's not going to change anything.</blockquote>

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