Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org

@freemo Right, but if the stock price doesn't go up, the shareholders can, and often do, vote no-confidence to replace the board, right? I'm not familiar with the specifics of that, but I understood it to be a common remedy for not profiting.

@freemo Sure, but the nature of faceless shareholders seems to incentivize companies to prioritize short-term growth at all times in an attempt to keep the stock price ticking up, whether or not that's what their business really needs.

@fu I'm thinking slightly more extreme measures, like strong ethics laws with automatic ejection and disqualification when they're violated, and very thorough freedom of information laws.

Specifically, I think transparency is anathema to intrusion (i.e. nobody wants universal surveillance when the feeds are public and any creep can use them).

And both accountability and transparency encourage reductions in government scale. The former reduces corruption, which reduces bloat. While the latter allows for better analysis & reporting by third party civilian researchers, to help people make more informed decisions about which government programs are effective enough to continue supporting.

@Thebratdragon It's become clear you have nothing valuable to add to the conversation. Goodbye.

@Thebratdragon Words mean things, and nobody is served by diluting them with hyperbole.

"Secession" is an attempt to leave a union. Texas has stated no intent to leave the union, so there is no secession.

Texas is, however, (arguably) "rebelling" over a matter of jurisdictional law. Secession can be a casus belli for rebellion, but it's simply not the reason for this one.

@kegill Right, but as it says in the post you quoted, that's "not about breaking models", it's about protecting the work in question.

By "poison pill", I'm referring to tech or content that would intentionally break models and cause more anomalous output.

@kegill @Thebratdragon "Rebellion" is certainly a better word than "secession", I'll give you that.

@kegill Now that's interesting! If regular folks were able to generate and host "AI poison pills" on their websites, the AI companies would have far greater incentive to obey their robots.txt. Right now, it's just a polite request, but if there could be a poison pill behind it, it's more like a minefield sign.

@helplessduck @mentallyalex @GayDeceiver Yeah, but not all of us are.

The key marker for a tech like this being safe is when it's developed, not as a pipe dream from a douchebag for enhancing the able-bodied, but rather as a medicinal tool for closing gaps and restoring physical/mental deficits among the disabled.

@Thebratdragon By that logic, every state that's legalized marijuana has seceded.

@helplessduck @mentallyalex @GayDeceiver Yep, I'd never hook anything into my brain that Musk touched, but I am absolutely open to enhancing my body with technology. I already have artificial lenses in my eyes and I already enhance my cognition on a daily basis with artificially-processed chemicals (namely caffeine). In that context, implanting electronics into my brain seems like a logical next step on a path I've been traveling a long time.

@harriorrihar It doesn't matter what the CEOs think. Either your job is tedious and repetitive and the work you do can be replaced by a machine, or it's fulfilling and expressive and no machine could ever do it.

AI "art" is a great replacement for placeholders and stock images, but it will never replace true art that, at its core, invokes a human connection. Just as a mcdonalds cheeseburger will never hold a candle to a handmade one cooked for you by a close friend or loved one.

@NeadReport I am, but I'm now looking to migrate. Haven't done the research yet, but I'd like to make the transition before this Bard integration happens.

@harriorrihar Honestly, why?

I've done shitty jobs and I've done rich and fulfilling jobs and I honestly cannot comprehend why anyone would choose the former over the latter.