The Buddhist economy is essentially a gift economy that has survived for 2500 years.

Shit, our genealogy is also basically a gift economy, and one much more ancient than Buddhism.

Which is my way of saying I think the system is in our nature. If we can learn to embrace life and stop being so terrified of our individual deaths.

The best systems happen organically after all. And without coercion.

People are capable of both competition and cooperation.

Capitalism goes out of the way to make the former a value.

Yes, greed is in our nature. But so is altruism. And the idea that people are just greedy by nature, and that all altruism has ulterior motivation, is something capitalists have actively encouraged to justify their values.

So yes, when it comes to greed in the West and how it’s become a value rather than a sin (Jesus eye if the needle parable), I blame capitalism. Of course, if humans didn’t have the capacity for greed capitalism wouldn’t exist.

But to dismiss capitalism as a non-factor at this point in history because humans are greedy by nature, well, it’s propaganda and not based on a modern scientific understanding of human nature.

That’s a lie capitalism has sold us to justify it’s value system.

The cost of living here isn’t very high. The people I mentioned in my comment as not owning property probably make less than 50k.

A lot of them camp together to split set up costs, gas, etc. So, they make it work, and I know a lot of them make sacrifices to make it work (living in a shitty apartment the other 51 weeks a year so they can afford the lifestyle for example).

It’s not for me, personally. A fun crowd. Like carnies on LSD. But chronic pain and a history of interpersonal trauma make the desert sound like a really horrible time. Plus I’m poor poor (like on disability poor).

I do enjoy the regionals though when I feel up for them.

Most people at Burning Man aren’t rich. I hung out with a bunch of people who go regularly last night and I imagine less than half even own their own property.

So yeah, you sound pretty callous tbh

Alright, the article convinced me of the legal argument.

Morally and ethically I think my main issue is knowing that for profit corporations will be putting many of my flesh and blood favorite artists out of work without any sort of compensation.

Really we just need UBI. I think the issue is less about plagiarism and more about livelihood for most people worried about it.

I’d love to hear the mental gymnastics behind this comment.

I’ll read the links.

Personally, I don’t have an issue with people copyrighting things they use an AI to make. I’ll let you know if my opinion changes on fair use of already copyrighted work being used to make (commercial) AI.

You mean corporate shilling. Corporate shilling isn’t a good thing.

The South Park games load so slowly on switch I found them unplayable.

The bits I played were phenomenal. I just don’t have the patience for long load times anymore

My point was within the context of the argument saying that it’s okay for copyrighted art to be fed to an ai without the artists permission because ai learns like people do and is essentially doing what people do to each other.

But AI don’t participate in culture and they’re not embodied entities. So they don’t have the relational capacity to get art, as I understand it. And therefore they don’t learn art in the same way people do, because they’re not touched by art the way people are.

It’s fine for ai to be used to make art. But to feed ai copyrighted art so the style can be mimicked, automated, and profited from… that feels a lot more like theft to me then if I went to the art museum and tried to ape a Picasso.

Police are not allowed to use anything other than the ‘naked eye’ (their own senses) without a warrant.

If this includes police dogs (it does, the SC ruled on this and a conservative justice wrote the majority opinion), it includes drones (with or without thermal cameras).

NYC will see a lawsuit out of this for sure.

What’s visible with the naked eye. If using a dog outside an apartment door to smell weed is unconstitutional, I imagine doing a flyover with a drone is too.

No bodies, no social circles. No joy. No suffering.

This is where art comes from. AI can make ‘something new’ out of inputs. The same way a toaster can make toast when you feed it bread. But neither the toaster nor the AI create art.

Because neither one can connect with or communicate what it’s like to be a human being. And neither is being shaped socially by other human beings.

I guess you found out

Decoding this, “autonomous” means a robot that can carry out complex military missions without human intervention.

So, AI?

The first lawsuit to keep Trump off the ballot was filed in New Hampshire this week.

By a GOP presidential hopeful.

So, in your scenario, person gets called names by a few ignorant people and flips to full on racist?

I think it’s more likely they were already racist and getting their feelings hurt allows them to justify it.

Didn’t MTG also provide aid and comfort? Would love to see more lawsuits like this for other traitors.

Most homeless people have employment lapses that make it hard to find work, even with an address and fresh clothing. Aswell as possibly still having debts that led them to lose housing in the first place.

In other words, $7,500 is a great start, but as you said, $7,500 doesn’t go far with recent cost of living inflation. And as I mentioned, getting back on your feet isn’t easy because employers aren’t quick to hire the recently homeless.