Again, that is the thing I don't understand. They are already filthy rich. Why crash and burn everything? Wouldn't it be better to just continue making boatloads of money?
I'd like to point out that it is only one single proposal. If this does not get shut down, then it is time to be worried. But for now, it might just be one glue-sniffing Congressperson sniffing the wrong kind of glue one morning.
It is much worse. I hope I am reading it wrong, but:
The term ‘‘technology’’ [...] includes [...] any semiconductor, circuit board, operating system, graphics processing unit, central processing unit, tenor processing unit, field-programmable gate array, random access memory, hard drive, solid-state drive, dataflow architecture, or cloud-computing service, that is manufactured, designed, developed, supplied, deployed, completed, [...] [etc.] to function artificial intelligence [...] and any other hardware, software, equipment, device, component, robotic computer, processor, network [...] that is manufactured, designed, developed, supplied, deployed, [...] [etc.] to function artificial intelligence or generative artificial intelligence.
This would mean that importing and exporting literally any piece of IT equipment, from a Ubuntu installer to a RAM chip, is illegal. Good luck & have fun.
What if someone meets the person of their dreams? Or, as cliche as it sounds, finds Jesus? Or wins the lottery and decides to retire to a life of sipping cocktails on the beach?
What if you have a traumatic experience, can you look into the mirror and say you could never ever under no circumstances murder a person?
You don't punish people for things they have not committed, period. No matter if you think they are the wrong type, or wrong race, or wrong whatever. That is a road that leads to pretty dark spots in human history.
I fully support this. It would help on so many levels. Provide a cheap workforce to help with currently in demand stuff and fix shit, help young people get away from home, get a new view on life and get some starter cash, and mix people from all walks of life. I genuinely see no downside.
I disagree. Everyone is free to make their decisions. Whether it is a feeling of good and evil, a philosophical or religious belief or a simple "I don't like jail time" does not matter. Also, there is a very slippery slope of "this guy has an evil mind, better lock him up before he does something".
Kindly ask them about the current prognoses, like the Club of Rome one, the expected number of climate refugees in the next decades, and how well we are on track to hit any climate goal. And then about a protest form that will actually work and stop unprecedented human suffering.
Good news, we are on a good track to do jack shit about the climate and also severely cutting into rule of law and right to protest. Hooray.
Luckily, there is nothing you could do to change things, ever. It must be nice to have a clear conscience.
It is one thing I learned during Corona: a lot of people don't give a shit about erosion of fundamental rights or people dying horribly. But don't you dare inconvenience them in their god-given right to party on and pretend all is well.
Alright, let me finish my beer and then we throw hands. Belgian beer is meh.