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Preventing the hijacking and privatization of short phrases and language in general is actually an excellent thing. I applaud this decision, and wish for the rules to become even tighter.

What we need is a public service constellation, not more billonaire ones.

I price the externalities at infinite price. They cannot be paid.

Have you considered other people, the majority?

No one will do anything to stop it, nor ChatControl 2.0 in the future. No one will revolt, or seize the government in response to anything that happens.

The world that Liberal Democracy has built has escape valves (tv/streaming/videogames/entertainment, the illusion of democratic choice, mass media and information overload, public demonstrations) for the anger of the massed which despite in older times caused a government to fall or a revolution to start, today cause nothing and are comfortably absorbed or even assimilated for profit by the system itself.

Universal basic income is dystopic. It's a way of finally making everyone completely dependent on the government. It's a Brave New World kind of dystopy.

Change for the sake of change is what cancers are.

People that want to be powerful for personal gain will be filtered. People that legimitely want to give their all for their country will be encouraged.

The lifes of powerful people must be transparent.

The fatalist philosophers and authors have been mostly proven right as time marched on. And this time will be no different, the existence of "AI" ensures the future will be as dark or worse as the predictions expect. Why? Because humans are flawed and corrupt, too prone to excesses (specially conformism and convenience) and the exploitation of the natural world.

with no ability to censor it Except, of course, policemen knocking on your door. Wouldn't be necessary anyways, most people would not even try broadcasting on the mere threat of arrest.

You have too much faith in the masses.

Gotta pump the IPO.

For Peter Thiel, Argentina is Israel Nova now that the future of Israel is looking increasingly shaky. Not a surprise, a lot of people were calling for stuff like this to start happening.

There are a number of "hide AI overviews from google" browser extensions. Use them.

No such case.

Vibe coding a slop website drastically increases your bounce rate and reduces trust in your project.

The masses love this. Really! They love their slop like the good little cattle they are. Source: I work in this field with customers, they love the AI-slop corpo-fied website that looks like an app.

You are severy underestimating the stupidity of the masses.

Online communities are just as valid as offline ones Hilariously false. Nothing, nothing substitutes for real human contact in the real world.

Exactly. This is what many ai-sloppers ignore. Mental models are crucial. Nothing substitutes for having the program itself in your brain and being able to "mentally debug" it when something breaks.

Quintessentially nu-germanic site.

And why should anyone prefer a democracy over any other form of government? Doesn't it depend on the philosophy of each People?