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Re:I wish GPT4 had never happened by blibble on Sunday April 09, 2023 @04:00PM (#35505929)
> If a machine can automate all jobs then it's a persons god given right to use that machine rather then pay someone to do the work.

it's no more a god given right that it's an incited mob's right to burn down the fab or datacenter that someone else "own"s

property rights in liberal democracies will not survive a starving middle class

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Re:I wish GPT4 had never happened by Herval_freire on Sunday April 09, 2023 @04:27PM (#35506161)
>it's no more a god given right that it's an incited mob's right to burn down the fab or datacenter that someone else "own"s

If you change societies current outlook on morality and law then yes you are right. But currently society has laws in place that define burning down a data center as wrong. Those laws do not differentiate between whether it was done by an individual or a mob. These laws are also agreed upon by most people. You can make up your own personal morality, but good discussion should be founded on a shared reality and the status quo majority interpretation of it.

>property rights in liberal democracies will not survive a starving middle class

And this is the paradox I am referring to right? Our current interpretation of morality is at odds with practicality.

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