#laziness — Public Fediverse posts

It is considered a certainty that #quantum computers will crack all currently known encryption techniques in no time at all.

Once #AI runs on them—AI trained by human #greed and a #addiction for control, having learned that #security is an accepted pretext for establishing total #surveillance—the worst #dystopias will become reality. Hopefully, the cheers of all the proponents will then stick in their throats.

But go ahead and celebrate your #convenience; indulge in the #laziness of not having to learn anything new, while you exploit the knowledge and skills of those who studied and trained for years—only to be ruthlessly robbed. Your disrespect and stupidity disgust me!

A quotation from Josh Billings

Lazyness iz a good deal like money, — the more a man haz ov it the more he seems tew want.
 
[Laziness is a good deal like money — the more a man has of it, the more he seems to want.]

Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1871-08 (1871 ed.)

More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/82834/

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A quotation from Ben Franklin

’Tis easy to frame a good bold resolution;
But hard is the Task that concerns execution.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1743 ed.)

More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/80…

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A quotation from James Hilton

Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue.

James Hilton (1900-1954) Anglo-American novelist and screenwriter
Lost Horizon, ch. 8 [High Lama to Conway] (1933)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/hilton-james/76604/

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