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No I said that businesses are disposible and replacable. Businesses are not people. Business is the opposite of life and humanity. They can be primarily made of people, in a similar way to how the Human Centipede* was made of people, but that does not make the whole a person nor does it make...

Regulation to protect the consumer. Or to protect people from businesses. Yes. But not regulation on people.

The same thing I said about businesses being replacable goes for the workers too. Even moreso for the workers. The customer needs a specific product or service, but the workers don't need a specific job. Really. In my experience it's been mostly because of fearmongering and moral panics. Maybe...

I see it as iconoclastic. Everyone's always bending over backwards for businesses and those who don't get bent over forcibly. I'd like to turn the tables for once. And why should I care about businesses? They don't care about me. or about anyone. And they're disposable and replacable. If one...

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In retrospect I've realized that I do have a dream job. I want to be in charge of a large company that I don't like so that I can deliberately run it into the ground. Possibly by creating an unsustainable price war that takes some of the competitors out as well and ultimately benefits the common...

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Why should legal systems need to "catch up" to every new technology? It;s bad enough that they regulated the hell out of TV and the internet and now you want them to regulate the hell out of AI too? I wish we could go back to the lawless internet of 1990's and early the turn of the century, but...

Plenty of money can be made moving in that direction. All that needs to happen is for businesses to keep pursuing short term gains at the expense long term stability, and for anti-trust laws to remain in force. As long as the economy remains in a state of discord companies will keep one-upping...

Yeah. I had considered making it a poll but I realized that I'd definitely wind up leaving out several of them what with how many times they've been revised

I've said some utopian things here but even I have my limits Also, are you imagining factories? I'm more imgining the scope of household appliances and computer software being gradually expanded until eventually they do everything including writing software and building household appliances...

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...