No, this is not a Black Mirror episode.

  • effingjoe
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    21 year ago

    That’s your opinion and you might feel differently if you had spent years working hard to achieve something in this specific field.

    It’s not really an opinion; it’s just not a right granted by IP laws. I know that people that are financially dependent on this type of work really wish they had this right-- and I fully accept that if I were in the same boat, I would probably also wish I had this right, but that doesn’t magically add it to the law.

    All the lawsuits you see popping up are hail marys (maries?); they’ll very likely all lose.

    some kind of UBI or whatever was making that possible for me and others.

    Something like this, set at a level that allowed a comfortable life (versus an austere one) would totally flip the whole employment dynamic. The pay for the worst jobs would skyrocket, because no one wants to do those jobs-- they only do them now to stave off starvation and homelessness.

    siphoned up to to the upper class and corporations and wages will continue to stagnate for the working class and income inequality will continue to skyrocket

    I can’t help but agree, with sorrow. I imagine it won’t get better (in the US, at least) until it impacts the wealthy-- as in, there aren’t enough people getting paid to buy the stuff that is getting created by automation. Capitalism needs money flowing to the bottom (traditionally, a wage) to sustain itself. If that flow of money dries up, the whole system collapses. We can either fix it by abandoning capitalism, or by patching capitalism by finding a way for money to flow down other than by wages. (A UBI, for example)

    • nicetriangle
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      1 year ago

      In my earlier comment in this thread I said my dilemma with using AI for my work was an ethical one, not a legal one. Ethics/morals inform laws for sure, but I think you’d agree that not everything that’s technically legal is also ethical. Especially so in a country like the US.

      I think a lot of people would also agree that ethics are to some extent individual. Meaning that what I find ethical or not is going to differ from others. So whether or not this is all legal doesn’t mean that it’s going to jive with my personal view of what is ethical.

      That dilemma is my own. Whether or not congress people who have a weak grasp of both technology and the arts think one way or another on the matter is a poor ruler for one’s own moral code of conduct in my book.

      In any case, good chat. I appreciate that while we don’t agree on everything we kept it civil. Now back to work for me (before it gets taken by a robot).

      • effingjoe
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        31 year ago

        I understand that you may not reply because you feel the discussion has run its course, but I wanted to clarify that I was, indeed, not following that you were speaking from a personal morality standpoint. Sorry about that.