1,392 karma · joined July 4, 2022
A different way of looking at this is that I'm letting you own a piece of land within my borders and in exchange I'm asking you pay a tax on it and if that isn't agreeable find a different settlement.
Clearly it is given that we are currently living with it.
> ...Seagate persisted and between August 2020 and September 2021 sold 7.4 million hard drives to China, in 429 transactions worth a combined $1.1 billion.
Useless fine. This is a rounding error to Seagate.
If people want to say this is a hard problem to solve then fine but a bit tired of government and news organizations acting obtuse like they just can't figure out what the problem is.
1. Enable more sophisticated scams and exploitation.
2. Create even more distrust in people through the use of Deepfakes and AI generated voice.
3. Put a lot of people out of work without the required safety nets to give them time to find their way through the turmoil.
4. Lead to a giant deluge of content spam that is just regurgitated AI text and art that makes the discoverability problem even harder to solve than it is now.
And from what I can tell, all 4 of those are currently happening.