aqouta
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aqouta
1yr ago
This combined with an easy excuse to find the outgroup dishonorable allows you quite a convenient relationship with when you are bound by honor.
aqouta
1yr ago
If the NYTs does do this at least someone should point them to https://www.vault.themotte.org/ it wouldn't take a journalist that long to get a feel for what the community values outside of picking some nuts in a community oriented around allowing nuts to cook.
aqouta
2yr ago
Look, I'm partial to these libertarian "I'm free to do whatever I want" arguments but you've not actually solved the problem here. How precisely do we solve this commons problem without the concept of intellectual property? Just poofing the idea of intellectual property has tremendous cost you seem completely unwilling to contemplate. And because what? some juvenile trantrum that you are being told that defecting on the intellectual property system is unethical? It's not very impressive. And yes, it will end up in subscription models and DRM because that's the economic reality you seem totally unwilling to actually confront.
There's plenty of ways to extort money from me which sound like they're for the greater good, it's still extortion though.
Offering you an informational good that you can absolutely refuse is not extortion. What an absurd idea.
aqouta
2yr ago
You are perfectly capable of living in the old way, simply only use and consume the free stuff. You want to have your cake and eat it too, an understandable desire but not an ethical one. Artists have gotten together and said they are willing to create larger works of art on the condition that you pay them for it. You are reneging on their condition and worse, you're sneering at them for having the gall to even try.
aqouta
2yr ago
I'm not trying to predict the price of corn in 70 years, I'm using the historical record and some basic understanding of systems to make cause and effect predictions. It's the exact same reasoning you must use in order to even propose a change, otherwise how could you claim it's going to make things better? The golden goose is laying eggs and I think we should have quite a high prior against fucking with it, especially in ways we know to have killed other geese. I think you have no appreciation for the stakes at play and that alone is enough for me to want you to be very far from the levers of power.
aqouta
2yr ago
This is really making crypto sound like the biggest scam ever created, all crypto. Anyone who believes crypto is the future of finance, this is not alone two black eyes for the cause, it's breaking arms and legs as well. Anybody who has fond dreams of decentralised finance, the sheer lack of accountability or accounting around billions is going to break that back too.
I'm so tired of keeping up with the stupid story and people just taking random pot shots at crypto in general. This scam has as much to do with crypto as a concept as 2008 has to do with loans as a concept. Yes, it's a high profile scam, but it's a scam that makes no use of anything crypto related besides the abundance of credulous money. Everything about crypto, besides that it is new and unregulated, makes it harder for this to happen by making wallet balances public.
aqouta
2yr ago
I find this pessimism ridiculous, what are the rich going to do with all that corn? Everything I've seen or heard about them is that they want to be admired and loved by the people, and I at least live in a democracy where it's not totally up to the rich to decide to let us all starve.
aqouta
8mo ago
I don't know why this claim keeps coming up, Bernie's path to the nomination required the rest of the pool to cooperate with him to split the vote of the majority position. When it came to having to win one on one he didn't. period. End of story. It's not ratfucking to notice you're splitting a position and stop doing that so someone with minority support who you don't agree with doesn't take the nomination.
aqouta
11mo ago
when he was the beneficiary of an elite attack on Sanders and RFK and Dean Phillips
Do the elites now include random middle class people in the mid west who don't like the anti-vaxx guy who had a worm starve to death on his brain or an avowed socialist? If the elite defended him against some of these people it's because of how incredibly embarrassing they are.
aqouta
1yr ago
Is there really a culprit? A crime? I don't know the tone of the comment over there, maybe it was totally mocking, but I also don't really share the fear that someone might notice us anymore. We're not on reddit, we are free of the gigajanny's tyranny.
aqouta
2yr ago
Honestly, you know that private property itself is a social concept itself right? Adding an extra dimension onto that shouldn't be that unbelievable.
aqouta
2yr ago
The IP laws are infringing on private property rights as they say that i cannot do anything i want with the property i lawfully bought.
And the obvious patch on this is that you buy a diminished perpetual license, that's the world you're pushing for there are no other options. And stop pretending this is some kind of novel limit on private property laws, there are tons of things you're not allowed to do with your private property. You can't swing your totally legal axe at my head for example.
aqouta
2yr ago
Have you added me to that "we" of yours for some reason? I repeat - i don't see the problem you're talking about. Your system has some problems and i need to somehow solve it for you? I've already said that i don't feel any need to incentivize any production with or without any cost upfront, it's not a positive change in my eyes. Incentivizing creating crap isn't good, there's always money in the crowdfunding and private patrons for anyone who sees themselves worthy of it and private property rights aren't up for debate
I'm saying in your world without IP a whole lot of good stuff simply cannot be produced. To repeat this example from a different thread my grandfather was recently saved from colon cancer by a new cancer drug developed by some pharmaceutical company that raised funds on their research on the basis that their IP would be able to recoup the costs. Please explain how my grandfather survives with your preferred world without IP.
extortions for the greater good are unethical, that's all i'm saying.
We must have very different definition of 'extortion' can you please define yours?
Sure, but not because of the piracy but because it simply maximizes profits of people who sell it.
I am certain that spending money on stuff that prevents piracy is not profitable if there is no piracy.
Then feel free to exclusively consume art created by anti-capitalists who distribute their works for free. You'll have much more than in the past. What right do you have to the works of people who have specifically decided not to go with this model? Why do you think you're entitled to free ride off of those of us who support greater works?
aqouta
2yr ago
I find it hard to view a world with less and lower quality art/media but all of it is free as better than a world with higher quality art/media but only most of it is free and what isn't is easily affordable to someone with a very achievable income.
aqouta
2yr ago
What else could the nets be? I don't know, let's get wild and only hire combat vets as teachers. Go full Kindergarten Cop.
That you're only really coming up with unworkable suggestions is kind of my point.
aqouta
2yr ago
You can't demand an attractive, young, chaste wife with similar social background when she can earn 70-85% of that income and do whatever she wants.
Unless of course she wants babies, which is kind of the whole point. That's the missing enticement.
aqouta
2yr ago
People who even know about TFR as an issue are also usually concerned with dysgenics. I'm not really sure critiquing people for not acting like it's an issue makes sense, if we're going to accept flooding low iq people we might as well get the immigrants for free and pocket the money we'd spend on the nonproductive years of the kids. And really what are the individual actions you'd expect from people concerned with LFR? My investments take into account the likely lack of growth in certain markets, that's about all I can personally do beyond discussions.
aqouta
2yr ago
I've always found the word reactionary rather useless if not actively harmful. Opposition to a proposed policy doesn't magically transmute into an entirely different faction the moment it gets passed. It's just an artifact of trying to map complex ideologies onto a spectrum. But I guess that critique applies to all the other words used as well.
aqouta
2yr ago
What healthy political system do you propose, then?
The one we have now but where we all recognize that changes made before we were born are legitimate targets for conservative critique. Which may just be the one we have now but I certainly don't want the proposed one where it's not considered conservative to undo changes that happened a long while ago because then if there are truly bad changes that age long enough they're impossible to undo.
aqouta
2yr ago
Can we at least give some of the due necessary to the reasonable arguments for waving liability? In the middle of an ongoing pandemic that threatens million of lives you actually do have a pretty good case that a potentially dangerous vaccine is more useful than no vaccine at all and that is realistically your alternative if pharma companies feel as though they need enough rounds of testing to mitigate this additional liability. If they were only give to the very high risk populations and had some huge greater than 10% chance of complications that might still be a good play. The calculous is much different when forced on everyone but that's a different objection.
aqouta
2yr ago
All the crypto people I know weren't touching FTX with a 50 foot pole. Crypto people tend to mess around with decentralized exchanges.
aqouta
2yr ago
People regularly give their life willingly to cults. This is the population that eats tide pods for clout. I am not convinced that many prepubescent children can even understand what they're giving up when they agree to something like puberty blockers. I'm not going to ascribe this belief to you but it's frequently asserted that 18 year olds can't understand loans and thus college debt forgiveness should be taken more seriously, are we really supposed to believe the people who still sometimes believe in Santa understand the repercussions of lifetime pharmaceutical dependence?
One of the most interesting thing abouts this conflict that I've had the pleasure of learning since I too like @Folamh3 have taken to catching up on the history is how much you can tell about someone by how they read the tea leaves on this conflict and decide to characterize events. There is enough back and forth over many years that one can justify just about any framing and find facts to fit the pattern. The story to you starts with as some sudden wave of hundreds of thousands of Jews all at once showing up, in a place where there was some kind of coherent community to even betray.
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