Labor know exactly where they stand, on the side of business over the people.
It really is shocking. For decades, copyright laws have been enforced; and various new laws and powers have been added to prevent people from sharing content with each other. And yet now, it seems governments are willing to accept that big companies are allowed to just take whatever content they want and put it into their own products to on-sell however they like. Like, governments have gone out of their way to block people’s access to sites like zlib; but their the entire zlib archive is just downloaded as a matter of routine business by mega-corps - not to be read, but to be exploited for profit, with nothing at all given to the actual source of the value; not even acknowledgement or a ‘thank you’. And certainly not with consent. Is this somehow ok?
Do we want a Shadowrun future? This is how we end up with a Shadowrun future.
Listening to the politicians today on Afternoon Briefing. There is a lobby campaign from Big Tech saying “You need to hurry or you’ll miss out”. You can tell the word are coming straight from lobbyists because the politicians literally had no clue what that actually means.
“…hurry or you’ll miss out…”
It’s interesting that I listened to some podcasts recently, and the general idea was that the FIRST to get an AGI could never be caught. The slope on the improvement in smarts curve will just be too steep.
All other AGIs will be like a cute puppy in comparison. And humans, well, we might be like a microbe…
