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> "outputs al qaeda propaganda"

So does Microsoft Word. Both require a human to tell the software what to output.

> as if none of the other FAANGs could trivially cross any regulatory barriers that emerge.

That's the point.

This miracle technology does not belong to a few rich men, it belongs to us all.

Tech oligarchs are provably not more responsible than the rest of us, and do not deserve to lock us out of the garden whose fruit they seek to pick.

A rich man can meet the regulations that allow him to build a robot to take your job, but YOU are not allowed to build the same robot to help boost your own income? Because that might be irresponsible?



> So does Microsoft Word. Both require a human to tell the software what to output.

Clippy does what now?

Or do you mean "I can type", because if so you're minimising the very same capabilities that you're later describing as a miracle and saying belongs to us all.

> Tech oligarchs are provably not more responsible than the rest of us, and do not deserve to lock us out of the garden whose fruit they seek to pick.

"No more responsible than the rest of us" is a dangerously low standard.

The rest of us, collectively rather than each and every one of us, play lotteries, drive dangerously, addict ourselves to drugs, pickle our livers, and win Darwin awards.

For all our sophistication and sophistry, we're all just fancy balding primates with fairly similar tribal attitudes and motivations.

> YOU are not allowed to build the same robot to help boost your own income

Yes, obviously, with literal robots there are countless examples of public liability insurance and health & safety legislation. With computers, likewise, because they're connected to stuff.




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