the_optimist

Truckin straight to the trash heap where you can sort recycled cans by hand for a living. What an abysmal vision.

Yeah because they got billions by extracting it like mosquitos. It came mostly from your billions I assume. Without that it would have been all yours. Clearly you have zero concept of how an economy works.

California is full of people who do not understand how investment works and want it gone. This is progress missing from progressive. It is the social missing from socialist. Ists and ivs with nothing, merely a pack of stupid ideas. The residual is reality: no-teeth, drug-induced stupor sleeping in street squalor and their rent-seeking enablers cozying up to the tax authorities.

Go innovate. Or find things that robots cannot do. It’s turtles all the way down.

The EU is not leading anything. They may as well just commit to becoming a subsistence agricultural society with EPCOT heirlooms on display.

It is telling that most aggressive forms of “capitalism” plead for government involvement to permanently limit new competition. I own something and I don’t want anyone else to have a chance. The marginal cost of bribing a senator is tiny tiny tiny compared to the value.

Completely correct. We are moving into a world where any person can have anything they want, only limited by capacity to produce it. People love information and digest great quantities of it. The marginal cost of information production is going to zero. This is only bad for people who spend their time shuffling bits. If you want to not suffer, go do things other than move bits around.

All of the things it has done is just what people are already doing. Every single one. It helps, but there are already people doing this stuff. And we already have defenses against the existing attacks. We might have to defend better, but the real problem is “Who is setting the moral compass over generations.” One one hand, that will inherently fall to future generations. On the other, we are laying the groundwork.

Imagine you use it to inflict trauma on your cruelest political enemy. Then next year they do that to you. That is war, and we already do it. But we don’t want people / governments in charge that are going to do this.

God knows we have governments and individuals doing this historically, and this is probably the greatest source of historic instability. It might be the single best argument for open models — a unified frontier where no single exploit is going to represent capture.

This is exactly the opposite of what Dario proposes.

It’s a bit of a self-serving argument, don’t you think?

And how does that relate to the ask for oligopoly licensing within global democracy?

“We must build the nuclear bomb first in order to make sure no one else builds one.” This the most nonsense, disingenuous argument imaginable.

It is an utterly silly premise that we should appoint insiders with permanent control.

Megalomania is not evidence of either a problem or a solution.

Sorry boss we live in a physical world, unplug it. Don’t grant information monopolies.

Purest form of collusive insider trading right there.

Somebody please stop me from destroying civilization by granting me a monopoly before my IPO!

why?