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- Comment on IP can’t save you from AI 11 hours ago:
Better to push for something difficult that could actually help workers than something some corporate factions are ok with precisely because they know it won’t.
- Comment on IP can’t save you from AI 2 days ago:
The closest example to that given in the blog post is the writer’s guild strike:
If we’re workers, then we derive our power from labor rights. The Writers Guild – the only creative workers in world history to have comprehensively beaten AI in their workplace – won their AI fight with a strike:
pluralistic.net/…/how-the-writers-guild-sunk-ais-…
The Hollywood guilds are able to pursue a limited form of “sectoral bargaining” (where all the workers in a field bargain with all its bosses) called “multi-employer bargaining.” Bosses hate sectoral bargaining, and in 1947 they got it banned outright through the Taft-Hartley Act.
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- Comment on All aboard the Pythagorean Express 5 days ago:
Why would they make a triangle train
- Comment on California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers 6 days ago:
I thought this bill did that, but it looks like they crossed out the consumer circumvention clauses.
- Comment on Celebratory Return to Online Meme 1 week ago:
I don’t think it’s outrage bait because again, often the context is someone talking about themselves, and no arguments are started. But this didn’t used to be a thing, so what changed?
- Comment on Celebratory Return to Online Meme 1 week ago:
What’s with the trend of mentioning that people are white and connecting it with things they do? I also see live streamers do this a lot (including in reference to themselves) and it’s strange to me
- Comment on Is Anon the asshole? 1 week ago:
I kind of have a hard time imagining such a thing being done with sincerely good intentions, how many people would really do that? Easy to imagine it as a way to exercise power over someone with a plausible pretense though.
- Comment on Top economist warns that the AI math doesn’t make sense: 'Profits are currently being funded by investors rather than earned from customers' 1 week ago:
Just imagine a world in which the only products manufactured are exclusively chasing the dollars of wealthy investors. So like yachts, custom giant statues, kill drone perimeters, etc.
- Comment on Why put data centers in space? 1 week ago:
My theory is that it’s so they are beyond the reach of protesters, the law, etc. I think that is going to be a very in-demand property for servers going forward.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I’d believe it with evidence, but this would absolutely get coverage from real journalists if it was real and directly involved academic researchers and a government agency like claimed, and that coverage doesn’t seem to exist.
- Comment on Could machines develop consciousness just like we did? 2 weeks ago:
Did we?
- Comment on EA's deal to go private under Saudi Arabia is officially complete 2 weeks ago:
I already committed to never giving EA money years ago but maybe this can get some more people in on that
- Comment on Anon overdoes it 2 weeks ago:
Nofap propaganda mastermind strikes again
- Comment on How do you people read books? 2 weeks ago:
I read mainly in bed (with my kobo) but finding it tricky and I am turning into a hunchback
I do the same but it’s not uncomfortable or causes me to strain my back, I lay on my side and prop the ereader up with pillows
- Comment on AI will make people work more, but they’ll be happy about it, Sam Altman says 3 weeks ago:
“We think of new things to do, to create for each other, to want for ourselves. People are very focused on how they’re doing relative to other people,” he said.
“I expect that to keep going. I think we’re all going to be much busier than we thought we’d be in a post-super-intelligence world, and we’re still going to complain about it. But secretly we’re going to be happy,”
What a cynical asshole, can’t imagine people caring about anything beyond wealth and status. I’m not sure what he’s implying about whether they will have any choice (does “we’re still going to complain about it” mean we will not?)
- Comment on What's the rarest Steam achievement you got? 3 weeks ago:
Is there an easy way to tell, I don’t pay attention to those usually
- Comment on An american on Reddit wrote: "I’m not sure it’s really a good idea to let legislation through on a 51-49 vote: making a change should really take more consensus than that" 3 weeks ago:
IIRC there’s also a larger majority required to pass legislation if the president vetoes it
- Comment on Gary Stevenson to quit YouTube channel, citing health concerns 3 weeks ago:
Retiring with burnout and disillusioned by the City, the self-styled anti-inequality campaigner argued for a 2% tax on individual wealth over £10m, which he said would raise £24bn a year for the Treasury.
Cool idea
- Comment on I may be wrong here. Isn't AI only as smart as the user putting in the information or commands? What's the big deal? 3 weeks ago:
As smart for what? What does that mean
- Comment on Anon is a tourist 4 weeks ago:
4chan is extremely racist against Indian people
- Comment on Supreme Court will review Alaska's bid to seize pilot's plane over 6-pack of beer: "This case isn't just about me" - CBS News 4 weeks ago:
“Alcohol abuse is a serious problem in rural Alaska, and airplanes are sometimes the only realistic means to commit the crime of alcohol importation,” they wrote.
Fermenting alcohol is in fact very, very easy
- Comment on Is Buying a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS Pre-Installed Dangerous? 4 weeks ago:
I was honestly surprised how user friendly the install process is, they’ve got a web installer that basically does everything, you just follow a small number of extremely simple instructions
- Comment on Concentric Firmament Formation 4 weeks ago:
woah
- Comment on A Majority of Americans Now Support Seizing Wealth From AI Industry 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns 4 weeks ago:
At least if more people ended up doing this on their own hardware with open source software, it would cut off a lot of the opportunities this presents for companies to abuse people’s privacy and manipulate them.
- Comment on Anon tests their IQ 4 weeks ago:
But then you’d be tempted to become someone who tells people their IQ
- Comment on These corpos who feel entitled to Open Source code 5 weeks ago:
In a way, I like to think about these maintainers kind of like 18th century weavers in North of England. Uh these weavers were kind of known as Luddites. They were specialty weavers. They built uh they wove amazing clothes. They were the best in the world at what they did. And then, British colonialism happened. They were replaced with machines. And these well-compensated weavers uh that lived on nice for farms in Yorkshire, they were forced to move to London and live in cramped housing and eat stale bread.
So, the future of open source maintainers is moving to London and eating stale bread.
Potentially.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
People have a lot of good points here, but I want to add that it’s ok and normal to be afraid of death, even if it isn’t rational. We’re animals, that’s just how we are built to feel about it. You can come to terms with it and obsess less, but it’s likely always going to be there anyway, which isn’t always a bad thing.
- Comment on If you need a portable reader, is there any reason to choose an e-reader over your phone? 5 weeks ago:
I want to read books after I wake up, but also not keep my phone in my room.