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Comment REGULATION: the world's worst thing ever (Score -1) 77

Regulators should be afraid of weaponized Ai. So should censors. So should monopolists.

All of the things the State has done in the past 500 years has been corrupt and bureaucratic and caused harm. All. Not most, but all.

All of the people who supported it, from monopolists to lobbyists to activists caused harm.

Ai is undoing it all. Not piece by piece but all at once.

I, for one, can't wait to see folks zapped for restraining voluntary behavior.

Comment Re:I approve (Score 5, Insightful) 115

Yes. OS providers like Microsoft have forgotten the purpose of an operating system, They believe that the purpose of computing is the operating system,

Not really, Microsoft believes the purpose of an operating system is to a) generate income for Microsoft, and b) generate tons of personal data they can sell to advertisers and AI con artists.

Comment Re:OK that seals the deal! (Score 1) 70

I have doubts there ever was a Plan A, beyond "Let's see how much money we can get from the marks," but injecting ads has always been Plan B.

Even if there was a Plan A that would have made them profitable, and even if it had worked, there would still be a plan in place from Day One to "enhance shareholder value" by adding in advertising, more and more advertising, until there's nothing else left. (And if they time it right, the IPO will be just before the stock collapses, and they'll all go buy islands in the south seas somewhere, populated by nubile youths of their chosen persuasion.)

You know I'm right.

Comment Re: OK that seals the deal! (Score 1) 70

What really needs to be done is to take a page from China. EVERY Chinese business has government officials at the helm.

Did you really just say you want Donald Trump, personally, to control every business in the United States?

No wonder you posted anonymously. Wouldn't want the nurses to revoke your internet privileges. You might not get a cookie at bedtime. Or they might up your medication, and you know how that makes you feel.

Comment Re:Who cares (Score 1) 104

Romance novels have already been entirely formulaic for decades.

It is, by far, the more formula driven genre of fiction, and always has been, because that's what the market will buy. (It is also, by far, the biggest market for fiction, because those who want that same story, over and over, with different names, buy a lot of it.)

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