Recent content by Bohandas

All I know is that there's faulty logical shortcut being taken by people here. It is incorrect to say that people need jobs or even that they need money. What they need is the things that they get with the money they get from their jobs. The jobs and the money are ultimately incidental; they...

People? Our whole point is that it could all be done by machines. Maybe not immediately, but soon.

Then we're going to be waiting a LONG time, because people's resistance to automation is the main thibg holding a post-scarcity society back How about instead we go on replacing jobs with machines until society finally admits that human labor is obsolete and stops demanding it

Even something I like doing I would quickly grow to resent if it was something I needed to do

It doesn't need to be. We're on the cusp of ending that miserable paradigm It will be gone in a couple of decades if people just let it die

My job is crap. Both of my jobs. If I get replaced by a machine I'll find another crap job Frankly I'm astonished that my main job hasn't been replaced by a robot already, because for seven years my main duty was to retrieve bottles from alphanumerically coded shelves, and that's exactly the...

You're assuming your conclusion. Without IP law nobody owns the AIs. The hypocrisy is indeed unfortunate This I can work with. I suppose that reverting it to its original length and scope would be acceptable to me. Although I don't know if I could trust it not to get out of control again. A...

And pursuing a greater reach impacts artistic value how? Because I can only think of negatives. The wider an audience that one seeks, the more generic and bowdlerized one needs to make one's work. A work that a handful of people love is better than one that everyone on Earth agrees is ok. And...

Personally I like to lump Marx together with his supposed opposites. Whether it's an obsession with workers or an obsession with corporate profits it's still an obsession with the supply side of the economy, and the conceit that the supply side of the econony has value independent of the demand...

More importantly before the internet that's what happened. Copyright is the only thing keeping the businesses that copyright was supposed to protect people from on life support. The same goes for your worries about AI. How woukd they keep a monopoly of their program when anyone with basic...

Which faction do you most closely identify with? For me it would probably be the Hands of Havoc, followed by the Xaositects, and the Bleak Cabal

Disney is a bottomless pit of regulatory capturing copyright trolls and the world would be better off without them, without Universal Studios, without any othernprofitable movie studio or publisher, and most importantly without copyright law. I hope that AI steamrolls over Disney and over every...

Thank god. Good sense prevails. That it was a transformative use was blatantly obvious to me (and to anyone else who didn't have a vested interest in this technology failing) from the start. It's nice to see that reason won the day over luddism, superstition, and slander. I just wish that we...

Overbooked - A troublemaking deity has promised several different groups exclusive control of a certain patch of land. Now there's a war on. The PCs must expose the deception and end the war.

That's the Sidereal Exalted