> I cannot for the life of me grasp nihilistic resignation [...]
I agree that change is possible through a hard-fought battle, both legally and socially. On the other hand, "Everyone can just decide not to use these tools. Simple." sounded like a naive expectation to the extent that I'd expect to read it as a strawperson set up by someone making the opposing point that unanimous voluntary relinquishing of easily-available tools, against self-interest, is unrealistic.
I'm also relatively optimistic about the future machine learning. If I thought the change you wanted was entirely impossible, it'd probably be "smug contentment" rather than "nihilistic resignation".
I agree that change is possible through a hard-fought battle, both legally and socially. On the other hand, "Everyone can just decide not to use these tools. Simple." sounded like a naive expectation to the extent that I'd expect to read it as a strawperson set up by someone making the opposing point that unanimous voluntary relinquishing of easily-available tools, against self-interest, is unrealistic.
I'm also relatively optimistic about the future machine learning. If I thought the change you wanted was entirely impossible, it'd probably be "smug contentment" rather than "nihilistic resignation".