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  • One argument I've heard from the more ancap types is that these things are okay because intellectual property is a scam the stifles innovation. Let's take that at face value.

    Another concept that ancaps often support is time-preference behavior. In a nutshell, high time preference behavior is rewarded by immediate consequences (say, stealing the item gets it in your hands immediately for free), and low time preference behavior rewards long-term consequences (buying the item costs money, but you don't go to jail or contribute to the closing of the business). They argue that societies that primarily operate on low time preference behavior are more prosperous than those that operate on high time preference behavior.

    I would argue that the use of AI image generators in particular is short time preference behavior. Sure, you get the picture very fast and for very little money, but the widespread use of AI will discourage more and more people from either becoming or remaining artists. One funny thing AI researchers have found is that AI image gens can't be trained on AI images or else they'll produce objectively useless garage. So taking this to its logical conclusion, the society that relies on AI for all its images will eventually run out of human artists and thus be unable to produce any new art. AI fans are taking the short-term cost savings without considering the long term consequences of eliminating an entire industry.

  • If you saw a regulation stating that AI companies need to acquire redistribution licenses for all data used to train AI models, these companies would either destroy the government or shut down the day before it went into effect.

  • How often do more ethical businesses swoop in to rent out the spaces formerly occupied by indentured servitude corporations? If these businesses aren't replaced by something, what will the people formerly working there do for an income?

  • First, Alex Jones's trial was a civil matter. The families of the Sandy Hook victims took issue with him and took him to court of their own initiative. This is a criminal matter. This involves people being tried and jailed by a foreign country over laws of which they were potentially unaware. That is a significant escalation of the situation.

    Second, no country has the right to tell citizens of other countries what they can do in their home countries. That's nonsense. Allowing the UK to extradite random people over Internet comments would set an awful precedent for the future. If a right-wing extremist became PM and made it illegal to promote gender-affirming therapy online, would it be right for him to extradite US citizens for "causing physical or psychological harm"?

  • Here's a longer excerpt from the interview. In the words of the police chief at about 1:40: "And whether you're in this country, committing crimes on the streets, or further afield committing crimes online, we will come after you."

    "Being a keyboard warrior does not make you safe from the law. You can be guilty of offences of incitement, of stirring up racist hatred. There are numerous terrorist offences regarding the publishing of material. All of those offences are in play, if people are provoking hatred and violence on the streets, and we will come after those individuals just as we will physically confront on the streets the folks who are causing the problems for communities."

    I didn't pick up on the word "extradite," but the wording means either they're going after anyone in the world who commits a crime against their laws, or they're only going after UK citizens. Either way, this nonsense is what you get when there is no First Amendment.

  • Oh, I do know it. I'm just saying why it happens. It's a very hard hole to crawl out of.

  • It's the same reason people use porn, but for emotional fulfillment instead.

  • Imagine if this stuff becomes the new standard and it ends up harming a lot of people because the industry/whoever has it on hand reaches for "the big guns" when they acquire medications. Same deal with "MAX STRENGTH" NSAIDs that are rather normal doses, except those aren't usually used in life-threatening emergencies.

  • we distribute goods on behalf of manufacturers but that doesn't make us a distributor

    Complete and utter nonsense. I'm glad Amazon took an L here. Can they still appeal in some way, though?

  • I misread this as "talking trash to dumpster" and thought "The police will come up with any excuse to shoot innocent people and make it look like a suicide now, won't they?"

  • I had my Sonata stolen last year. The problem is that, by default, there was neither a key checker nor a steering immobilizer built into the vehicles. These are industry standard features for every car manufacturer... Except Kia and Hyundai. These are required features in every car sold in every Western nation... Except the United States. To have excluded this literal 90s tech from their vehicles when they're so common that no one would ever stop to think about whether their car has them constitutes a serious lie by omission on the part of Kia and Hyundai, in my opinion. If I knew that all you had to do was rip off the ignition and shove something onto a peg to screw off with the car, I would have told the dealer to stick it up his butt.

    For those wondering: I had comprehensive insurance, so I was paid the full value of the vehicle after it was totaled. I bought a Toyota Camry with the money and it's a great car. I am never buying Kia or Hyundai cars again and I recommend everyone else avoid them from here on out. Like, if this is what they're willing to do to save $30 per assembled vehicle, what else might be lurking in their newer vehicles that we won't know about until it's too late?

  • Electrical engineering. I'm not in the department that does all the heavy math, I mostly just do what people tell me to do. But there's satisfaction in making something comprehensible, even elegant, and solving the few problems I come across in my work. It's not artistic, exactly, but it's still very easy for the hours to melt away.

  • I'm an engineer. I don't usually spend more than a few hours on a single job, and there's always something to do. My favorite thing is finding out how to do an unusual job and becoming the go-to guy for it.

  • There's videos about it, but I don't care enough about ever fighting her again to actually watch them. I'm glad the Haligtree is an optional area, because I would have simply put the game down if it wasn't. Not like there's a lineup of stunning best-in-the-genre bosses after her, either.

  • You should have named this "BECAUSE THIS IS A TEXT POST YOU WILL NOT READ IT" and put a heartfelt journal entry in here.

  • Sadly, this won't stop Google from killing off Manifest V2.

  • There's also the insane enemy health+damage spike that happens after you beat Morgott, the poorly-telegraphed attacks, and the chains of attacks that are nigh-impossible to dodge. Also, screw Malenia. Worst boss they've ever made. At least that stupid tree in Dark Souls 1 could be done in with a few well-placed firebombs.

  • Being able to pause the game is one of the reasons Sekiro is the best Souls-esque game that From has made.