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I can’t help but feel bad for this guy. He fell into the trap in late 2024, before most people knew just how bad AI could be.

My sarcastic answer is that it’s not a write-off because he’s not already rich.

My honest answer is that I don’t know, because I don’t know shit about taxes.

The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin is another great book. The protagonist is from an anarchist moon orbiting a very capitalist planet. The author explains how an anarchic society works in that context.

My argument (this was in a literature class) was that an anarchic society would be virtually impossible to maintain on Earth. Militaries are, by nature, very hierarchical. Anarchists don’t take orders. Unless the anarchists are protected by other countries for some reason, their society would be an easy, tempting target.

That’s why I thought Le Guin’s moon solution was so elegantly simple. It doesn’t even have enough resources to make it worth a single trip, much less a coordinated takeover. Conditions are livable, but barely. Malnutrition and starvation are common. The moon just isn’t worth fighting over, so the government let the anarchists have it. Their demonstrations and protests were causing too much trouble anyway. Everybody was happy with this compromise.

Don’t try to apply reason/common sense/logic to ANY religion. You’ll end up with more questions than answers.

Besides, I was told that the point of the story was resisting temptation. God wanted to see if Adam and Eve could do that. Spoiler: they couldn’t.

This is the kind of behavior I’d expect from this administration.

I remember when I was 16, some middle aged guy at work accused me of having no personality. In reality, I kept all conversations short as possible with him (like almost everyone in the store) because they were casually racist and misogynistic.

lol sounds like an asshole to work with. I would have handled it the same way.

Idiotic decisions like this will haunt AI for years, even if it eventually lives up to its promise. That’s fine with me.

Mockery

That’s what should happen to people who simp for the Fourth Reich.

Idgi

I love Lego too much to use it for propaganda. I don’t mind seeing Mango Mussolini called a loser, though.

I don’t think this man ever “asks” for anything.