Re:The Contradictions of Sam Altman, AI Crusader
by IAmNotACellist on Saturday April 01, 2023 @08:36PM
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The government can't even execute on a bipartisan motivation to ban Tik-Tok. They get greedy and draft the bill to strip away all rights of citizens to have any digital privacy or VPNs, and to give themselves the power to declare any app illegal at any time. The market can't save us, and the federal government definitely can't.
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Re:The Contradictions of Sam Altman, AI Crusader
by MichaelZuo on Saturday April 01, 2023 @08:50PM
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It is difficult to shake the suspicion that the advocates of banning TikTok are using it as pretext for their real goals.
It wouldn't be so terrible if their real goals were limited to just restricting social media in general, but beyond that...
The real benefit of having a Congress for broader society is that it forces at least partial exposure of these unmentioned goals.
In that sense the federal government is a wonderful invention, but the drawbacks are so many that it doesn't seem all that wonderful overall.
Re:The Contradictions of Sam Altman, AI Crusader
by chiefalchemist on Saturday April 01, 2023 @09:45PM
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The government can't even move on the fact we unnecessarily change the clocks twice a year. It's the 21st Century and werewe're still "motivated" by an 19th Century concept.