Re:Facebook Discovers Fake AI-Generated Profiles
by rhizome on Friday December 20, 2019 @08:20PM
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My stance is that it's anti-your_country not to want to pay for good government. All of it, tax breaks for high earners, shelters, financial engineering to reduce taxes paid...all of it is treasonous to your fellow citizens.
Re:Facebook Discovers Fake AI-Generated Profiles
by wruza on Friday December 20, 2019 @07:37PM
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>People also don't want to pay for good government.
Maybe because it’s already a paid service and its quality still has to be observed. But if you take their government from them, returning that substantial income cut, they instantly want it back.
This doesn’t have to invalidate your point, but this particular comparison seems pretty shaky. (Or it’s not and I’m missing something.)
As a rule, people don't want to pay for anything that benefits them in a second-order way with non-immediate consequences - even if objectively the benefits are real.
It's a classic economic monkey trap. Holding onto something now is "better" than letting go and getting a bigger benefit later.
Which suggests that perhaps we should be doing more to eliminate monkey traps from our economic and political systems.