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So don’t strengthen IP laws. Strengthen labor and antitrust laws.

Say: “You can’t use someone’s own creative work to compete against them in the same market”

Creators get a modicum of protection. The power-grab by the ultra-rich faces a major setback. FOSS models keep on truckin.

Dance Dance Soviet Revolution

To libertarians, yes.

It’s wild how we went from…

Critics: “Crypto is an energy hog and its main use case is a convoluted pyramid scheme”

Boosters: “Bro trust me bro, there are legit use cases and energy consumption has already been reduced in several prototype implementations”

…to…

Critics: “AI is an energy hog and its main use case is a convoluted labor exploitation scheme”

Boosters: “Bro trust me bro, there are legit use cases and energy consumption has already been reduced in several prototype implementations”

So is RealPage not a tool, or are tools not inherently agenda-less?

I’m not saying all technology is bad, but I am saying all technology is biased.

And I’m not saying all AI must be exploitative, but its mechanics are such that the easiest path forward for it is exploitative.

Convincing the working class that tools the system creates are free of the system’s agenda may be an even greater achievement.

Conspiring to jack up rent prices is exploitative when people do it. Is it any different when the RealPage algorithm does it indirectly?

I don’t see any value in saying that human behavior is the problem but then specifically carving out an exception for the automated agents we create to amplify specific behaviors.

When RedBubble ganks art and sells it on t-shirts, how is that different from when Stability ganks art and sells it at a text prompt?

So why take the heat off of AI, as if profiting from mass plagiarism is different when it has an API instead of flesh and bone?

Right, but the technology has the system’s philosophy baked into it. All inventions encourage a certain way of seeing the world. It’s not a coincidence that agriculture yields land ownership, mass production yields wage labor, or in this case fuzzy plagiarism machines yield a transhuman death cult.

Considering most new technology these days is merely a distilation of the ethos of the big corporations, how do you distinguish?

This is just the latest draft. It’s been building up since before the John Birch Society.

Come on now. Sometimes it's in that sweet spot where it's not hot enough to kill you but it's hot enough to make you want to go to a place full of gritty sand, sharp rocks, obnoxious birds, and aquatic predators so you can cool down in the water which will ensure you need to consistently reapply the cancer-prevention lotion that makes it impossible to hold your drink that you desperately need to finish to stay hydrated in this nice relaxing open-air oven.

Way better than wearing a scarf. You'd have to pick out one that's aesthetically pleasing to you, and then feel all cozy wrapping it up around your chin. Yuck. Give me kneecap sunburn any day, thank youuuuu!

I think Winter is pretty. The blowing snow, the silhouettes of trees, icicles… And the sounds are pretty cool, too. The wind, the crunchy footsteps…