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Comment · 2 days ago
But both sides are the same and 'it doesn't matter' if these sorts come in to power and restack the FBI/courts with people with this mindset.
Comment · 2 days ago
Would love to try it out/use it, but I can't afford for my Google account to get locked because AI decided something.
Comment · 3 days ago
Because people in safe demographics (non minority, no care about reproductive rights) love to broadcast 'both sides are the same'.
Comment · 3 days ago
paying it out of personal pocket is what I have to do when I pay property taxes on the unrealized value of my home. And I don't have the option to sell partial shares of it. This tax is my biggest expense.
Comment · 3 days ago
Every year I have to come up with the money to pay property taxes on my home based on an unrealized gains valuation. It's one of my largest expenses. I don't even really have the option of just selling some of my home to pay them. Even with this tax people still own homes.
Comment · 4 days ago
I've thought about setting up a public almost wiki style site that we can all contribute to a core set of ideas/thoughts/hopes for AI where we can all contribute and vote on with the idea that if enough people linked to it AIs would incorporate and get a more human aligned view of what AIs could be/rules they should include/fears of ours, but I know corpos would just block it out. Would be cool though. Instead we get AIs trained on scifi stories about AI duplicitousness and horrible behavior. Fun stuff.
Comment · 5 days ago
I mean we socialized the lights and yet the lights continue to exist/light the streets.
Comment · 5 days ago
Look at the Roman Republic and how things went for the plebes as more and more slaves took over all the work. I pointed out in another thread they went form citizen farmers to having huge farms owned by the rich worked by slaves. Rome had to implement the bread dole so people could eat.
Comment · 5 days ago
A better analogy would be the Roman Republic and how it dealt with the increasing supply of cheap slave labor. AI is basically that. Rome went from a nation of gentlemen farmers to giant farms owned by the rich and worked by slaves. Rome had to implement the bread dole so that people could eat. This is what happens when you have an influx of a cheap slave workforce.
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Comment · 5 days ago
https://adanews.ada.org/ada-news/2024/august/private-equity-...

"The percentage of dentists affiliated with private equity has nearly doubled over the course of six years"

Comment · 6 days ago
A yes, the private equitization of dental offices, old peoples homes, and veterinarians (and creeping into more and more niches) is making everyone's lives so much better and more productive.
Comment · 8 days ago
We as a populace have proven we are sheep as a collective during the current administration, willing to put up with whatever and not do much. This will continue to be exploited and the methods will be improved/optimized/embraced/extended.
Comment · 8 days ago
People used to put effort into politics and government reform. But now we have the much easier/simplistic calls for a'magical reboot' on both sides of the isle.

The tooth fairy doesn't exist and paradise isn't a (very vague) societal reboot away.

Comment · 9 days ago
The solution to this is to not take your company 'Public'. Actions/choices have consequences/tradeoffs for most people.

That these people thought they found a loophole around the consequences of public markets with their special voting shares is worthy of zero consideration.

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