Enforced sitting. School and desk jobs teach us to sit in one place for hours at a time. And if you don't actively fight it when you aren't attending school or the job, you fall into that as a habit that you can't break. I have to actively try to do upright things as much as possible outside of work or I fall into the habit of driving home, making supper, then just sitting in a chair until I conk out.

Evil and stupidity enhanced with shortsightedness look like twins. I suppose greed plays a role as well, but I feel like the root of what we're seeing sweep over the world right now is stupidity and shortsightedness. Greed is always there. We're just dumb enough as a species at this point in time to let the greedy make all the decisions about the important things, and the rest of us just shrug and go along with it as if there's nothing to be done to stop the greedy from riding roughshod over us, the biosphere, and the planet itself.

I suppose laziness plays a role there as well. Though it could be existential exhaustion manifesting as laziness.

I could see the US trying to regulate locally run models. Mostly because the broligarchy wouldn't much care for people running anything AI related that doesn't give them a direct hoover line for all the data, and our government is currently operating as a part of the broligarchy.

Yo mama is an over-dasher.

I keep getting told I'm an idiot for saying that once the world figures out how to cut the US out of its transactions, whether it's digital or financial, it's not going to rush to hook back in once it seems we've reinstated some form of reasonably sane government. We're setting a precedent that every four years there's a possibility we'll go completely insane again, and nobody likes dealing with an unstable individual with some form of bipolar disorder. When it comes to planning for the future, you can't trust that entity to remain on course, and other countries are routing around the US to avoid dealing with its inherent instability.

People can keep telling me I'm wrong on this one, but it's not going to change the fact that the US is going to be a loner on the world stage for decades to come if not longer. We've turned into some weird combination of toddler and bully, and the bully part won't be able to stand once other countries realize the toddler is in major need of a timeout.

Lawyers would most likely try to argue that the company wouldn't exist to have advancement if not for his initial outlay and try to blah blah blah they're way into making the legal powers that be believe investment encompasses all value. It's a completely idiotic tactic, and one that should blow up in their face if we lived in a just world, but since we live in this world, it just might work.

I wish I had mod points to raise this up. It's probably the most important part of this whole situation and should have honestly been included in some way in the summary above.

The owner class has decided that they don't really need a large population. They'll replace the need for "workers" with their AI and robots. I'm sure they'll keep a few folks around just for fun. I mean, they'll need some sex workers and the like until they can perfect robotic replacements. Perhaps some gladiatorial types for entertainment. But for the most part, they need a population decrease once they fully realize their AI ambitions, having AIs do everything, feeding other AIs, and automating the web in such a way that profit continues to flow without any actual humans involved.

The US officials are either going along with this knowledgeably, or, much more likely, being useful tools for the cause as they fall into their own rhetoric over the past two decades and forget that it was mostly meant to goad people into fights so they could own the libs.

Gonna be an interesting future we're creating. Even if there's a turnaround in policy at some point, we're setting up for a very slow recovery from this era of stupid.

As someone who writes both fiction and music, I'd be all for a return to this.

I'd like to see copyright go back to a reasonable time limit, like author's lifetime, or even less. But I really don't like the trend of folks decrying copyright as a concept at all right when it's convenient for the corporations who have traditionally supported extended copyright to abolish copyright outright so they have the right to outright steal all creative works from the moment of inception. Copyright of reasonable limits? Yes. Abolish it outright right now? Fuck no. Let those fucking tech companies work around it like the other corporations have made all of humanity work around it over the past few decades.

David Brin had an insightful take on this in his novel Earth. That the tech keeps getting more invasive until there comes a point where society deems privacy some sort of sin. The whole "what are you trying to hide" thing that people throw up when it comes to police searches will eventually overwhelm us through tech creep to the point where it's deemed exceedingly eccentric to want privacy at all. And it seems these tech companies are obsessed with making that future happen.

We will use AI to create massive piles of digital garbage, that will eventually flood the entire online realm with digital garbage that no one actually cares about, maintains, or wants to see or hear. Maybe, when we finally clutter it up with so much AI generated shit, and more AI generated shit created by AIs trained on the garbage of the previous generation of AIs, we'll finally create a new network for humans to use for a few years before it too becomes a digital dumping ground.

Our obsession with pollution is reaching new levels with AI's help. All praise the new AI God. Capable of shitting up entire networks with useless content.

I know cattle do. We had one cow in a herd of 125+ that would find a good patch of grass, then do the threat-pose to get the rest of the herd to respond. Head up, tail up, ears perked, looking panicked. The others would stare where she was staring, and eventually run off. She'd then lower her tail and head and get to munching all the fresh grass she wanted to before the rest of the herd would cautiously make their way back. Saw her pull this trick at least six or seven times, and according to the others she did it quite a few more times when I wasn't around.

Cat's are all trolls in their own way. Cute, fuzzy, little assholes, every one of them.

How did this guy keep his head from splitting in two the way he's talking out both sides of his mouth? Stop AI slop by creating more AI slop? What? Do these fools even listen to themselves anymore?

My director is extremely excited about how much time AI saves him writing up his weekly summaries to pass up the chain. He can write a single sentence, pass it to the AI to be written up into a big fancy report, the next guy up the chain uses another AI to decipher the big fancy report into a single sentence summary that may, or may not, be vaguely like the original sentence used to prompt the AI that wrote the big fancy report, and both of them are super pumped that they saved so much time. My director saved writing time, his next-up-the-chain saved the time of having to read what my director wrote. They've just used a bit more compute to avoid typing and reading things that were, at best, busywork created to make it seem as if they were involved in the process of what happens beneath them. AI can really help with busywork reporting.

I'm guessing neither of them will realize they're automating away the entire reason their jobs exist.