no one is claiming that.

"monopolies" aren't only about the number of products in a market. they're also about market share of a single company and anti-competitive business practices.

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if you refuse to think for yourself, someone else will do it for you.

which is precisely why ice must be abolished. and the laws must be changed.

yep, been saying this since I was in high school.

think how inefficient it is identify, track, investigate, monitor, apprehend, imprison, transport, feed, deport and terrorize millions of people who by definition are undocumented (as in, hard to find or process)... compared to a much smaller number of US registered companies with physical addresses and org charts and the names of their owners or boards easily obtainable.

the budget for ICE is now larger than the entire US Marine Corp (citation missing). we could solve the problem of companies knowingly abusing migrants labor in no time with a few thousand federal inspectors/agents/investigators assigned to shutdown known hirers. with a fraction of the budget. but expecting corporations to take responsibility for knowingly breaking the law isn't allowed in America any more, I guess.

tldr we shouldn't be punishing individual people trying to work to feed their families (and in the process actual feeding American families). we should be holding abusive employers accountable and also making a path to citizenship (or at least the ability to freely cross borders under a work permit, without fear of deportation while working).

if what the president is doing now is "legal" then the new president can "legally" have the old president marched into a meat grinder.

"sorry bro, but it was an official act of the president, nothing we can do about it"

it's a well written article. glad to see more opinion pieces countering the current AI Boogeyman narrative.

By convincing gullible politicians that unmonitored models represent an existential catastrophe capable of destroying the internet, the labs are engineering a regulatory moat to strangle open-source software in the crib. Mandatory compute thresholds, federal licensing schemes, and embedded monitors will never stop a determined foreign adversary. Those regulations simply make it a federal crime for independent developers, universities, and small startups to publish code without government clearance.

The outcome of this lobbying blitz remains in active contention, as deregulatory resistance in the executive branch pushes back against Silicon Valley’s manufactured panic. Even so, the sheer desperation of the campaign exposes the true fragility of the frontier labs. Gullible lawmakers genuinely believe they are debating the survival of the human species, while the corporate executives sitting across the table are simply fighting to erect a legal wall around a commoditising market.

thank you for this thoughtful explanation! great points, especially the need to tax the rich. finding a viable way to redistribute wealth is a necessary prerequisite to socioeconomic progress imo.

fyi you are not "the person" I was referring to at all earlier. regardless, I won't pretend that policing which types of jokes are allowed on the internet (a joke clearly intended as rage bait which you fell for, btw) somehow places you on a pedestal above others.

maybe for you, this is "real life" but for me this is a shit post comment section. this isn't the salon or academy or public tribunal. it's not an essay prompt asking you to stake a moral position on a controversial topic. no one is actually being harmed here.

the meme is OBVIOUS engagement bait to get people like yourself riled up over literally nothing. a meme by an edgelord. that you just REACTED in the most knee jerk way to, by claiming moral high ground about an unserious hypothetical scenario.

the worst part of this interaction honestly, is that posts like this divide and push otherwise similar minded people into "take a side or be condemned" type of thinking. i never once commented on the content of the meme but I did fall for the bait of engaging/warning others not to engage with certain posters.

qed, much ado about nothing.

... or banned until we have adequate time to study the long term effects this technology will have on child development.

we already struggle as a society with educating and shaping kids into well rounded, emotionally stable, socially competent adults.

we need to do a better job funding and prioritizing child welfare in general before we sign off on allowing billionaire owned Fortune 5 companies a direct pipeline into the consciousness of still developing human minds. just as a matter of public health policy, let alone performance/utility.