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There are around 7,000 languages spoken in the world, but that number is shrinking. Unesco estimates that half could disappear by the end of the century. So how are languages lost, and what does that mean for the people who speak them?

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[-] etchinghillside@reddthat.com -1 points 1 month ago

So how are languages lost

I keep telling my coworkers I can’t wait for this whole internet fad to die down.

[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This is the second most damning evidence for catastrophic collapse of humanity, the MOST damning evidence being a lot of people are aware human languages are going extinct at an alarming rate but they don't care because their brains are so broken by tech hype fads they don't see we are truly destroying the last bits left to our humanity and home.

How is it that I can more easily convince someone to care about the diversity of the natural environment than it is to get someone to care about the diversity of human languages that represent generations of human intelligence honing thinking, communication and categorization tools in an unimaginable number of different contexts and situations'?

This is dire.

The key here is that techbro brainworms make you think communication is ALWAYS a means to an end instead of the genesis point for intelligence itself, and so techbros are always tying to skip past the artistry because they can't control that, they can't scale it up, they can't stuff it into neatly categorized boxes or structured approaches and they can't automate it, they just want the magic without allowing the conditions for magic to happen in the first place which is meeting every moment carrying the knowledge that it will be different in some new way than the last moment but being cautious not to pretend to know how.

The incomprehensible inefficiency in energy use of AI is a forced admission by people that want to play a 4x space empire game or Factorio-like factory games and dominate everything except in real life that this kind of mindset never leads to creation, only destruction... exhausting destruction that never ends. There is never a single place that kind of mindset can actually create anything, it is kind of shocking and disorienting and is the reason so many people spiral around endless denial finding solace in the fact that while this mindset is tragically and dangerously incomplete it is still very good for creating normal computer programs.

Techbros can only dissect love and shove it into woodchippers and show us the result covered in human blood while saying "Look what I made!" while they literally burn the world down, they are not only incapable of making art they are actually ideologically opposed to it at a basic level and will resort to hurting themselves to avoid accidentally making art and letting it become it's own creative idea that escapes them.

"Wait! That is mine!!!" they will say grabbing at the thing as it unfolds its wings and becomes a living work of art, and then they will go into their house and get a shotgun before it can fly up into the sky too far risen into the day to be snuffed out by a meager gunshot.

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[-] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago

I don't see a problem with this, generally speaking.

[-] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world -3 points 1 month ago

Half the world's population is going away so yeah

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