There are a LOT of stages between "resigning and doing nothing" and "deadly violence" that have some effect.

Demonstrations are a start, though they seem to be more useful for networking inside a group and forcing the press to pay attention to some matter. Decision makers can easily ignore them.

What's less easy to ignore are strikes, especially general strikes, as e.g. port workers in Italy threatened during the total blockade in the Gaza war.

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roryirvine 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Not just strikes: go-slows, work-to-rules, using whatever power you have at whatever level to act more ethically.

Also: disinvestment, boycotts, public shunning, adverse publicity, picketing, blockades.

Start small, increase the pressure over time, be clear about what you're doing and why.

	▲	ben_w 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Given what AI has always been about, since well before LLMs, go-slows and work-to-rules aren't going to help, they'll just speed up transitions to AI. The disinvestment, boycotts, public shunning, adverse publicity, picketing, blockades, I can see those working. Certainly seems to have an impact in the video game news I see.

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lores 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Those only work as long as legislators have shame, or there is a significant faction that can use the provided legitimacy to redistribute power away from the elites towards the people. That's not the case at a national level in the US right now.