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by martin-t 1y ago
What kind of crimes does surveillance prevent or help solve? 1) It does not _prevent_ the most serious crimes. People who are going to murder or rape someone are often not mentally capable or understanding how likely they are to get caught
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> Good leaders seem to often pick bad successors This whole way of thinking makes my skin crawl. Just like sex, any kind of power exchange needs consent. This whole idea that people are led or need to be led is wrong. Perhaps some people
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Because when you call them leaders and when they see themselves as leaders, they see themselves as a separate class. A permanent difference from the " mere citizen" class. "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we a
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by martin-t 1y ago
Counterpoint: I dislike Musk because he's narcissist (subtypes: strongly communal, somewhat grandiose) but I don't wanna see spaceX fail. I just don't want abusive individuals in positions of power to have so much influence a
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As noble as the goal sounds, I think it's wrong. Software is just a tool. Much like a hammer, a knife, or ammonium nitrate, it can be used for both good or bad. I say this as someone who has spent almost 15 years writing software in my
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by martin-t 1y ago
Meta commentary: it's interesting that on very popular (hundreds of points and comments) HN posts, the prevailing sentiment is pro-genML and anti-copyright but here almost every comment is either a neutral but pertinent observation or
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I am usually not a fan of analogies but i really like this one. OTOH, don't underestimate how different other people's values might be. I suspect people who do this do it for status. Just like having a bookshelf full of books they
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My country has a law which says that rape and murder will not be punished if the perpetrator has managed to evade getting caught for 20 years. Recently, a case which involved both offenses passed the 20 years mark. So I can totally imagine
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And the product. The workers should collectively own the product they build.
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People should be compensated for the entire _transitive_ wealth created by their work proportional to the amount of time spent and their skill. If a translator's work is used to train a model which replaces him, he should get a part of
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> It is a pity that technology is only making work less expensive for the employers and not better for the workers. This is the core issue. Even if quality stays the same or is increased, a much higher percentage of the monetary income f
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by martin-t 1y ago
Bad analogy. In the past, workers complained that automation took away their jobs. The (roughly) same amount of wealth was created but the income went to fewer individuals (the owners). This was a valid criticism but at least they could mov
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by martin-t 1y ago
The dumbest thing a smart person can do is work on AI for a company he doesn't own. See, he gets a fixed amount of money[0] for his work and if AI is achieved, he becomes redundant, irrelevant, economically completely useless. The owne
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by martin-t 1y ago
And this is why I say I don't have an opinion on his killing. It's really easy to lie online (both mechanically by just taking stuff out of context as you showed and because people face no punishment for it). That being said, if
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From what I've seen, all that has happened is that aggressors ("bullies") are better at hiding it. When it was OK to beat somebody up (for pleasure or social status), they did that. Now, violence is being painted as the great
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by martin-t 1y ago
Do they say it in public or private? Because yesterday I learned that 30% of Americans think political violence may be necessary to fix the country[0], which was gathered from anonymous polls I presume, yet I see almost none of it online an
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And so plebians vs patricians turns into citizens vs entrepreneurs. It's not just about who owns the means of production anymore, it's about who owns the means of surveillance (the so called AI). Two thousand years and humans have
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by martin-t 1y ago
This is the key realization which is missing from talks about AI dangers. Total surveillance used to be impossible because the government needed people to spy on other people. They needed to find somebody willing and pay them. Now it can be
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Then the solution is fixing the problem, not removing any protections at all. In fact, copyright should belong to the people who actually create stuff, not those who pay them.
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So basically the only winners should be: - owners of large platforms who don't care what "content"[0] is successful or if creators get rewarded, as long as there is content to show between ads - large corporations who can aff
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by martin-t 1y ago
People should collectively own the companies they work for. The people doing actual real work often have a much clearer picture of what's a good or bad idea. Meanwhile management, let alone owners, are looking to either a) maximize sho
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by martin-t 1y ago
This is how all work should be rewarded. Workers getting paid a flat rate while owners are raking in the entire income generated by the work is how the rich get richer faster than any working person can.
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So people who spend time working on code or art should have exactly zero protection against somebody else just taking their work and using it to make money?
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It feels like big exploitative multimedia companies are the main force fighting big exploitative ML companies over copyright of art. I wish big exploitative tech companies would fight them over copyright of code but almost all big exploitat
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> ‘One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter’ misses the point It's meant to express that our "democratic" governments use the same tools as dictatorships. For example, every time somebody in a position of power
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The state is the single moat prolific user of violence by far. If it wants to claim violence is wrong, its first step needs to be to dismantle itself. Of course, violence is not always wrong. Violence is a tool, whether it's good or ba
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People are willingly blind. Kids are happy that homework takes less time. Teachers are happy that grading the generated homework takes less time. Programmers are happy they can write the same amount of code in less time. Graphic designers a
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by martin-t 1y ago
While this is true, it's hard to imagine people spending years perfecting the style would be happy to see it copied effortlessly without any compensation while people who made the copying possible are rolling in cash. This is not just
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56 minutes, 4 downvotes, HN is truly full of temporarily embarrassed millionaires. Does anybody here really think rich people deserve to just get richer faster than any working person can? Does anybody really believe that buying up homes an
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Power creates more power, money creates more money. Communism is tossing the frog into boiling water (tens millions of dead), capitalism is boiling it slowly (poor people in first world countries might not afford a dentist but they're

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