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by verisimi 7mo ago
Even in the example you use of a friendlier corporate, you have no idea what is being monitored. You only know there are no loyalty cards. You don't know if they are tracking consumers through the shop, over visits, etc. They do do
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by verisimi 7mo ago
I think warrantless access, deanonymising the internet, etc, are things that go together. If you want auto-governance (technocracy), to micro-manage every citizen, these are the foundations you need. As it is already determined that this
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by verisimi 7mo ago
Yes, I know. Does it ever stop? The OP suggested there was a way to be apart from from society. /s
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by verisimi 7mo ago
> If you aren't free to leave, and you're kept apart from society it's a jail. Kept apart from society? And no one will be bothering me? Sounds like heaven.
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by verisimi 7mo ago
Do you think any corporate isn't extracting data from you? Put techno companies to one side (as if not all companies are not actually tech nowadays) - what about pharmaceuticals, cars? All extractive as well as selling a product. Su
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by verisimi 7mo ago
> Avoiding every corporation that does stuff you disagree with just isn't feasible. That would be all of them. They are all dirty. The idea of 'voting with your dollar' is ridiculous - they are all terrible, so there&#x27
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by verisimi 7mo ago
> I'd suggest spending more time studying words to relive your extremism. Should one study words to relive extremism? Or should one study words to relieve extremism? To a doctor of linguistics: "Dr, my extremism... What
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by verisimi 7mo ago
I think the personal pronoun you use is very interesting. In your case, you seemed to be representing the common idea of a different culture, ie 'my society thought your society was this or that', eg 'Muslims think western so
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by verisimi 7mo ago
> There's always another option: don't implement age verification laws at all. Where do you go to vote for this option?
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by verisimi 7mo ago
So why is it not our society? Are you an unintegrated human, hence why you have the external view on things?
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Three more AI psychoses, Cory Doctorow(pluralistic.net)
10 points by verisimi 7mo ago|1 comments
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by verisimi 7mo ago
Sure. Which is your society though?
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by verisimi 7mo ago
"200 for the shelter"! and they paid rent? Is property on your mind? I think you are in error to assume that the financialisation of property we have in our culture is a natural state everywhere at all times, and that it would h
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The web is bearable with RSS, Cory Doctorow(pluralistic.net)
4 points by verisimi 7mo ago|1 comments
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by verisimi 8mo ago
It's great that people are taking a moral position re their work, and are seemingly prepared to take a bit of a risk in expressing themselves. However, if we're honest, Google has a long history of selling 'the people' o
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by verisimi 8mo ago
It sounds to me like anthropic are basically 'all in' except for the caveats. Looking at the 2 examples they provide: > We support the use of AI for lawful foreign intelligence and counterintelligence missions. But using these
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by verisimi 8mo ago
There are such things and secret courts with secret rulings. You and I have no idea what is actually occurring because of this secrecy; we can only talk about that which is stated publicly.
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by verisimi 8mo ago
You seem to think that government and corporations are on opposing sides. I don't think this is the case. Governments want the data corporations collect. Both are encouraging the other. There are no adults in the room. Having (cor
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by verisimi 8mo ago
I would assume it would be not be regulated by government, so without constraints on age, restrictions on what you can do - you know, like reality. And I know that government attempts to regulate reality too, but if you drive at 35 where th
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by verisimi 8mo ago
> We'll try everything, it seems, other than holding parents accountable for what their children consume. You've missed the point. No legislator or politician cares about what the parents are doing. What they care about is gai
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by verisimi 8mo ago
If corporations and government are acting together, this is fascism (according to Mussolini). It seems that is already the case. It's just we call it 'democracy'. Perhaps 'crypto-fascism' is the right term.
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by verisimi 8mo ago
These numbers are surely numbers on a spreadsheet, unless you are referring to literal bodies that have been counted. In this article itself, we read that: > When Estrada-Belli first came to Tikal as a child, the best estimate for the cl
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by verisimi 8mo ago
In reply to my own comment, the answer of course should be that ai has no ethical constraints. It should probably have no legal constraints either. This is because the human behind the prompt is responsible for their actions. Ai is a tool.
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by verisimi 8mo ago
While I understand applying legal constraints according to jurisdiction, why is it auto-accepted that some party (who?) can determine ethical concerns? On what basis? There are such things as different religions, philosophies - these often
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by verisimi 8mo ago
> my taxes (in Canada) are way too low I'm sure the government will accept donations. Just pay extra as you think they are worth it.
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by verisimi 8mo ago
They do pay their taxes. It's just that they wrote the laws too. And, if you use trusts, foundations, corporations, etc, you are able to legally avoid taxes, while retaining the same control.
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by verisimi 8mo ago
Also, don't forget, that the work itself can be about 'preparing the ground' for your non-charitable interests (which are probably held in trust, ie not held personally). Eg if you involve yourself in child education (perhap
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by verisimi 8mo ago
Thanks, that's really great. I did my own too - and I was right - 156,501 / 327 = 478.6 Has anyone got a worse ratio than that?!?! lol
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by verisimi 8mo ago
It would be fascinating to see a word to karma ratio. (Mine would be incredibly low).
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by verisimi 9mo ago
Would the animal feel the same? Or if you were the animal and had reached your tastiest, would you be ok to die if you didn't suffer?

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