…you are “virtue signalling”
Last Updated on August 31, 2026 by o
The definition of this has lost meaning.
Virtue signalling is acting morally superior while not actually believing or behaving inline with those morals.
For me, as site owner of this website, yes, I actually do believe that technology can be used for good. But I also know it can be used for evil. I also know and have emotional scars from being poor. So I don’t think poor people “deserve” to live next to data centers for rich city dweller’s AI generated cat videos.
As an adoptee, I was sold for a eye watering amount of money to save South Korea’s GDP. The amount of money spent on me was more than the cost to save my family or origin’s from crippling debt and losing their house. I used to knock door to door as a 4 year old begging to save myself from being sold to an adoption agency and I clearly failed because I’m typing this now in fluent English. So don’t tell me bullshit like I’m virtue signalling. My family still lost that house and it was the South Korean government’s fault at the time as they didn’t give a shit about poor farmers and their network. The US government didn’t care either with one page of home study and no cares about trauma.
Virtue signalling my ass. If this is virtue signalling to care about the fate of poor people, because you once were so dirt poor you were begging on the streets, and still have trauma from it, then fucking call me a Virtue signaller, but don’t sit there and tell me I’m a virtue signaller while being a little concerned about Data centers and then turning around and saying, “I really care about unhoused people”. That’s more virtue signalling than actually having a set of principles I’d like to live by, which is minimize poverty in human beings and fix broken systems that shouldn’t exist.
I actually do try my best to live in this shitty capitalistic world minimizing poverty the best I can and doing what I can with my little powers of being alive to minimize and make sure what happened to me doesn’t happen to other people. I do not need to be an Eloi to be happy. I know I can’t be perfect in this fucked up capitalistic world, but I still do my best to minimize my impacts, and I think you should try to do that too. I do not abide by Hit and runs. Is that virtue signalling now to declare that you think Hit and Runs are immoral and should stay illegal?
You, on the other side of the screen must be personally affected somehow to be anti-AI, so are not virtue signalling if you are sticking to that moral core and asking society to be better. If you aren’t asking society to be better in some way, are you really a human being, or are you just a human existing? I would love to make the world a better place for all humans. And if that’s virtue signalling now, to have empathy and a set of morals, then I’ll take that label as you make virtue signalling about demonizing social justice in general. I’ll be Politically Correct, social Justice Warrior, “Woke” (though I kinda think it should be reserved for Black American Speech), non-hypocritical Virtue Signaller trying to fight or disenfranchised groups then. Reclaim it. Sure, I believe in equity for all and I’d be happy for you to cry about it.