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Everything is a finite shared resource.
That's the point of ownership.
>The idea of treating land as a pure asset has had a lot of negative social effects and ultimately will lead to a kind of neo-feudalism where the megarich own everything and the underclasses are perpetual renters.
The idea that land is not a pure asset leads to regular feudalism.
This is bringing us back to the dark ages in terms of land rights.
It very much does matter.
>Hey can I come into room 1?
Sure. That's the lobby.
>How about room 101?
Sure. That's where we keep the nuclear launch button. Don't press anything red.
I don't know, I use Open BSD.
Go back to 1996 and tell someone that in 30 years the government will be legally able to look at everything they have written, taken pictures of, or recorded in the last 5 years in private and it use to retroactively punish them for any crime.
This is the law for cellphones and computers for anyone who lives within 100 miles of an ocean, border or airport.
The most draconian possible next steps we can imagine are far too Utopian for the world we live in.
Systemd is doing just that and calling everyone who disagrees with them fascist.
Those are also just fields, and there's incoming laws in countries that target them. No internet for unsupervised women for example. You wouldn't want to break usability for the fine government servants of Afghanistan would you?
There are freedom respecting Linux projects, but those lead by redhat\ibm employees (past and present) don't.
How this number is going to change in the future with exponential growth in the environment is left as an exercise to the reader.
If it has no soul to save and no body to torture it deserves no rights.
Yeah the introduction of copyright was truly criminal.
> So many people whose life's work got appropriated without consideration, compensation or consent it is baffling.
Oh wait ...
No one was compensated for all the free labor they did before the introduction of copyright which copyright holders then privatized. For example the Disney corporation would have had to pay the Brother's Grimm estate for the use of Snow white under the copyright regime they instilled in 1998 with the Mickey Mouse Protection Act.
That we are finally having a sane pendulum swing towards no copyright is a breath of fresh air.
The only way the AI bubble could improve the world more is if we end up becoming a Type I Kardashev civilization to feed the data centers. Then when the bubble pops we suck up all the extra CO2 with all the now idle nuclear power plants we can't shut down.
At the same time it's truly baffling going on a site called _hacker_ news and seeing corpo talking points from the 90s/00s regurgitated wholesale. Information wants to be free.
We've had gpt2 intelligence for a while. Where's the end of the world?
At this point it's just marketing stunts.
If men are more effective than women why are women today more than three times worse at being housewives than they were in the 70s?
Getting paid 10 times the average US wage is a very funny definition of slavery.