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Comment Legal Recourse? (Score 1) 56

It appears that the company created the impression with its users that their content would be private. Otherwise, why the outcry? And if they did, their ham-fisted attempts to moderate are tantamount to eavesdropping on private and privileged communication. This is akin to MS Word adding moderation. Or the opposite, that Word helping with spelling and grammar is substantial enough contribution to make them legally responsible for anything people write. On closer examination, it was OpenAI that eavesdropped. Then they put pressure on AI Dungeon to moderate. Ironic since OpenAI is supposed to champion liberty but they fail on a basic free speech issue. Now if both companies clearly communicate that your content is in the public square, then the mistake is on the part of the user for using this tool thinking it was private.

Comment Native Americans (Score 1) 899

Worked on a Indian reservation doing IT for years. The native american peoples have a higher than average suicide rate even though they receive millions from welling meaning people outside the reservation. The money basically says that they are infants and cannot take care of themselves. We get to feel good about themselves while they feel like children. I have seen res houses that have 3 flat screens in the front room and a hole in the roof. Work gives a person a sense of agency. It reminds the mind that if they push they can take care of themselves. When we stop pushing, we die. A rolling stone collects no moss. A person relegated to the side lines of society will feel useless. Suicide rates will go up. Drug use. etc. They stop believing they can make their life better and instead sit around in a stupor waiting for someone else to do it for them.

Comment the effect of taxes on the rich (Score 1) 83

It is very difficult to tax capital holders because capital is mobile. If you tax too much, it leaves. Labor is not as mobile. You have to go were the work is. Therefore and to some extent, taxes hurt labor. Taxing automation won't take it out of the hands of the rich as much as it takes it out of the hands of the middle class.

Comment lack of imagination (Score 1) 83

The original article had a click bait title. As others have pointed out, its not a tax, its removing an incentive. But some people will see this and when they propose a tax they will say, "well Korea already does it". Automation is just a tool. Want more people to participate in capital? Support capitalism. Don't believe the Marxist/doomsayers who think that we found a tool that the average worker just won't be able to handle. These calls for minimum income, taxes, etc. are based in a lack of imagination and a lack of knowledge about history. Helpless infants thinking everyone else is an infant. Imagine trying to explain "web developer" to someone in the 60's... This lack of imagination is endemic. Look at how much cash the big tech giants have amassed. That pile of cash is testimony that they are bankrupt of ideas. A refutation of their very existence as innovators. Coasting on addictive products with planned obsolescence. Selling to a public where just enough have lowered their standards.

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