Palkintovirka odottaa hyvintehdystä työstä isäntiensä hyväksi. Ei ole korruptiota kun palkinto maksetaan nyt vasta jälkikäteen ja vielä palkkatulona käsienheiluttelijapestissä.
The world basically lives in a monotechonlogy bubble. What you have others will have and what others have you will have and production can be eventually set up to almost everywhere when provided the capital and labor. Blocking anything or isolating anybody has become an impossibility and any move of blocking anything has no other effect other than introducing speed bumps or creating an alternative ecosystem of the same technology. US seems to live in this world of a last cold war when it was still possible to limit things and compete with having the better tech and forcing others to come to you to have access to it, but that world died when the iron curtain came down. Now it is never coming back up even if US tries to impose it around itself and Europe and other honorary western countries and even if it did US couldn't compete with its university STEM departments filled with Chinese and production outsourced to Asia.
The real risk here isn't AI take over but total desensitization and alienation to horrors of war. US is already extremely warlike nation and yet already extremely desensitized. American and wider western sense of war is that it happens to other people in foreign countries and only real touch towards war is when somebody they knew went to do war in one of those places and maybe got injured and died. For the rest of the world and those horrors are very real and with higher automation fo war it become even easier to politicians to do when even less bodies are coming home and act of killing is pressing a button and modern shell shock is kinda feeling bad for those people who you killed on that screen.
Like as if US and Taiwan business links wasn't going to be used to hurt China if a war comes. They are already being used to contain china. Why is this fart even suggesting that he can make a difference.
That is not an argument against central government, it's an argumenta against bad governance. Many things have clauses for special events and circumstances.
We basically need fragmentation - to small local counties, instead of a multinational hegemony.
That's unbelievably reactionary and impossible. Is this just one of those takes that is founded on the belief that governments are shit and they will be shit no matter what and we the people cannon change anything or hope for anything better? So the solution is that we all go back to the "peasant commune" where we will each build our treehouses with people like to live and see life like us? Will work fine until one realises that supply chains enabling modern western lifestyle and technology are global and dismantling central states will both take down the infrastructure and bureaucracy that makes everything run. Plus if one doesn't have the same or greater violence monopoly of centralised state there is no way to force outsiders or the neighbouring country just rolling over you.
People have tried this "going back to the simple, communal and smaller scale" many times and every time they failed, as if for example the transition from feudalism to modern states and towards higher centralisation wasn't the next stage in the evolution of human condition and just some singular shit choice made by evil, ignorant or bad leaders of the past that we can just walk back on any time we wish. Genie is already out of the bottle as we say and now the only way is forward.
In some applications centralisation is the only feasible solution. Decentralisation and cynical fear of centralisation is never the excuse to create and accept shit.
I want regulation and preferably nationalisation and putting them under democratic control to work towards social ends and not profit. Not corporate power, not fragmentation.
yeah and the problem here would be that it all would happen in one app? Seriously? It would only be a problem if google or Microsoft owned and controlled it and ran it rampantly for their own profit, not if it's handled as a public utility as such things should. That's why WeChat-like apps are progress and the future.
It's unironically good that there is further centralisation, integration and efficiency in payments, reservations, bills. What China is doing is It's progress and future. You just can't imagine that anything big and centralised can even in principle work for the people. WELL IT CAN AND IT SHOULD. No need to be a Luddite or dogmatic libertarian about it. What you are really worried that government or big corporation would control it. And if you are one of those that can't process the idea that government could ever be trusted in anything, because of bad experience (and probably partly because of propaganda) then it gets to be understandable position, but it isn't in reality like that and doesn't have to be like that.
ooh It's another american TIktok hitpiece, where Americans blame the Chinese for same exact things that they are guilty of. I still can't believe how butthurt some US elites are about TikTok. The worlds social media monopoly is such precious thing to them.
but you forget that governments in the West are simply employees of the big corps and banks.
True, or it's more like private public blob, with the private part dominating, but better to have nominal democratic and legistlative control than total corporate impunity to make and change the rules as the go and only being limited with nominal legislation by corporate puppet government. Also I mean something trans national, like the UN. obviously just giving all social media to their respective governments would just lead to same problems and wold still just leave the social media sphere into a plaything of US gov, that it is already, (and that why it will never happen because it would require US gov cooperating). But the minimal gain from all this would be that it would be only the government spying on you, not both government and the corporations.
Google controls way too much. People need to stop using their products.
At his point it's like saying stop using the internet. Also most don't even have the freedom to totally ditch google, since time and effort and knowledge of alternatives are still a scarce resources. Also work and school might be tied to their products. I fear they are too big to fail. This btw why any sort of Open source, crypto, fediverse shit is only the second best option in my option when taking on the tech giants. My preferred option would be total nationalization of big tech platforms and handling them as public utilities. Drop them under some new UN institution and we would golden.
most people participating in “fuck spez” already had an account, so they aren’t getting many new users from this.
Why would a person even become a new user just to shit on spez, they have no stake in the drama anyway? I still have an account but I have lessened my usage to a fraction. I don't go to R/place to "protest", nor do I make bot accounts or alts to spam the place.
Giving the site massive amounts of traffic in attempt to crowdsource a another 100x30 pixel "Fuck Spez" banner. Spez must be getting pads on his back for this.
Palkintovirka odottaa hyvintehdystä työstä isäntiensä hyväksi. Ei ole korruptiota kun palkinto maksetaan nyt vasta jälkikäteen ja vielä palkkatulona käsienheiluttelijapestissä.