SpaceCowboy

How many companies allow their employees to also be employed by their competitors?

Your idea of an AI being like an employee only if there's an AI company that will agree to an exclusive contract or at the very least respect data ownership and respect privacy. Is there an AI company that's like that?

Their economy is on the verge of collapse because of this. They borrowed a lot of money to create that high standard of living and "fuck shit up" means someone has to pay to fix things later which also cost money.

Sure it does. People build networks at these events. One of the tactics of fascism is to make dissenters feel they are alone and maybe crazy for feeling the way they do. These events tell people that they are not alone, and it is actually the authoritarians that are crazy, not them.

For a non-violent resistance campaign to succeed, you need to build up the numbers and reach a threshold of people working together to impede the actions of the authoritarians. You don't accomplish this by engaging in violent actions, that just scares people away and gives justification for the authoritarians to do violent reprisals. Violent acts actually help the authoritarians gain more power, non-violent resistance drains their power.

You probably shouldn't assume that monetized leftism is something that's authentic. Leftism is just a brand that's fairly profitable.

Hasan Piker is a creation of Jeff Bezos, and now he's a boogeyman being used to scare people into voting for the party that cuts his taxes.

Thinking wealthy social media influencers are going to bring about some glorious revolution is the flaw here. Wondering why wealthy "leftist" influencers stick with corporate social media is missing the whole point of the scam.

Must be nice to live in a world where you don't need to worry about where the money is going to come from to rebuild a building that was burned down.

Here in the real world, we understand the fallacies around broken windows, we know that resources used to fix the damage are resources that won't be used for making things better. Instead of building housing for the homeless (or anything else you could imagine that would make people's lives better) they will need to spend resources to rebuild their town hall instead.

This is an action that hurts government services, but I guess you're pretending it's some kind of socialist victory to do that?

There's a significant probability that there was foreign influence involved. Foreign actors seeking to make life worse for people in countries they consider to be their adversaries are always pushing people to burn things down. The end result is whatever movement does this loses all credibility and things get a little worse in the target country.

Nobody in France benefits from this action.

Ever consider the possibility fascism and socialism both suck?

The center is being squeezed by people suffering from internet brain rot on either side pushing for failed systems of the past. You're getting a taste of why fascism sucks. Do you need to actually experience why socialism sucks for yourself rather than just reading a history book?

If you burn your hand on one burner on the stove do you assume that pressing it on another burner will make it better?

And they use biometrics on everything, Data did have to speak in Picard's voice as I recall.

If you aren't setting the password, how are they sending the password to you?

Seems like they may not have a very good concept of the point of a password.

Yup. Star Trek is the Odyssey set in space. Everyone wants to pretend it's science fiction, but it's actually more fantasy than science.

Yeah, Blade Runner was great for the atmosphere, but it didn't really emphasize PKD's overall message about empathy. Robocop came out of that, it was about underlining that message. And yeah it's about a corporation literally taking away a person's humanity, but also removing humanity from society in general.

The US is at war with Mexico in Robocop, but nobody even cares. There's one line where a cop says "Damn! They bombed Acapulco!" the other cop says "So what?", and the first cop says "I booked my vacation there, I gotta call my travel agent!"

It's a world where there's virtually no empathy left, and turning a human into a robot is representative of what corporate culture is doing to people.

Alex Murphy is able to recover some of his humanity, but he doesn't fully escape from the system. He is still limited by the corporation's directives at the end of the movie, but he does have his identity as Alex Murphy in the end, so that's good I guess? It doesn't hold your hand about this, it's a smash cut to the end credits. It's just like "you figure it out!"

Yeah, there's a distinction between using an LLM as a tool and letting the LLM be in control.