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Star trek fans will see the federation imprison genetically engineered humans from birth to death, prevent them from having careers or reproducing, criminalize having genetically engineered children, and be like "no you don't get it, the federation needs to institutionally suppress those genes in order to fight eugenics"

Some software business models I like:
- Paid support/management tier: The software is free, but for a price, the creators will deal with deploying it for you and/or be on-call for support.
- Patreon style. Creators create software, those who want to ensure its continued maintenance and perhaps further elevate its quality set up recurring donations.
- Gofundme style. Creators with a new expensive idea and established reputation raise donations, if threshold is met they use it to make the thing.

@thomasjwebb Ohio of course

@Zee@social.coop @railing but you're talking about regulation. Regulation just restricts what people can do. I don't see how I'm supposed to interpret you as suggesting anything other than IP laws

@Zee@social.coop @railing power to do what? To veto others using or sharing their art? That's IP

@Zee@social.coop @railing that's at least a somewhat sympathizable motivation, but I think it's an incredibly self-defeating strategy. If you strengthen IP laws or social support to try and protect artists, what you'll achieve is
1) the random people who would've have bought your art still won't buy your art
2) Disney et al will continue to rob people, kidnap them, ruin lives, drive people to suicide
3) Millions will die due to patents
4) Disney et al will be pleased that art production remains high-capital

@Zee@social.coop @railing If one person saves another's life, they become a determining cause of every further thing the person achieves. Should that make the person indebted as a permanent slave to the one who saved their life? Causing some good thing to exist in the world is very much not sufficient justification for having ownership of it.

@Zee@social.coop @railing
There very much are other ways to critique capitalism than arguing that people should be able to enclose the full extent of causally downstream benefits of their labor. Isaac Newton was the first to figure out modern physics, and thus is causally upstream of the vast majority of productivity done today to a large extent. Do we owe the majority of the global GDP to his descendants?

@Zee@social.coop @railing sure, that could be one such "added nuance," but this "telling someone's stalker their address" has little similarity or relevance to sharing art without paying rent on it

@Zee@social.coop @railing there's room for added nuance around endangering people, power relationships, etc, but fundamentally, the idea that you could say do or say something to someone and then assert a "right" for them not to tell others horrifies me

@Zee@social.coop @railing abolish power. Abolish any concept that in a just society one could veto the transmission of information between two others.

Wish I could say I'm surprised that "anarchists" are defending intellectual property in response to AI art. Technological conservatism seems to be the default left wing position these days.

The funny part is that if they want a fraction of the zero-sum financial benefits of IP without relying on government enforcement, they should support NFTs, which they also oppose for all the wrong reasons.

@tramssexual @spookedhams oh hmmmmm wasn't really considering how the desert aspect of it affected it. I guess I don't too much understand in what ways that affects it today either.

@spookedhams @rechelon hmm I mean definitely depends on the parts you find important to the aesthetic, right? Like, house and the families? No, lol, they're not anarchist. But the existence of a city, sure. One particularly interesting issue to me is, say in a wildcard ending where you suppose you try to anarchistize new vegas after the game, what's the least problematic way to handle the whole robot army thing as a resource?

@spookedhams @rechelon Love Vegas' aesthetics but like what connection are you making here? Like the vegas strip is full of billboards, but that's not really what I most associate with the whole aesthetic. If anything the ancient dilapidated billboards are almost a cool subversion of stuff

the correct way to do decentralized moderation:

anyone can offer to moderate for anyone else, and anyone can request others moderate for them.

moderation consists of tagging content in ways that are requested by the user of the moderation

the requesting user then can filter out posts, or not, based on the tags and who supplied them, in their client app

tagging can be done by hand if desired, and also by software, this is entirely up to the moderator

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oygCTq7zQlM

@humanisque hmm yeah, thanks for your thought, it seems right

I've seen several people complain that it's easy to use. This is the moral equivalent of "not even wrong."