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    22 days ago

    “I used to have a living wage, friends I could talk to, affordable energy and water and intelligence that allowed me to think critically and make decisions for myself. When billionaires came along with their glorified digital parrots, you obviously can’t have all that now.”

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    22 days ago

    We simply need to tax billionaires at 99% and codify copyright law to require that AI training data is explicitly licensed by the rights holders.

    What we are seeing right now is a turducken of exploitation of the working and creative class by techno-oligarchs, and we must reject it.

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    21 days ago

    “We need to create new social norms,” Huang said in an interview. “I would advocate that everybody use AI. Just go engage it.”

    “Guy who sells shovels wants us to dig holes.”

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    22 days ago

    Do these new social norms include taxing the ultra-rich, to help subsidize the retraining and re-employing of many people who’s jobs will lost due to AI?

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      21 days ago

      Apparently he’s 63. So he would have played in the streets in 1960ies Taiwan or Thailand. Both countries where most people couldn’t afford cars at the time.

      Here in Germany, we can still play in the streets in 2026. We have streets designated for it.

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        21 days ago

        Kids still play in the street in the US. This guy is just a colossal twat.