Imagine going to a car dealer, the entire transaction, the word "rent" or "lease" are never used. And you have to sign a 30 page agreement where hidden on page 18 there's a clause saying you're purchasing a license to use the car and it can be revoked at any time.
6 years later, the manufacturer decides they want to shut down the factories producing replacement parts, and won't license anyone else to make them, so they push an update out and now your car won't start anymore despite functioning just fine.
The entirety of this debate is whether companies should be allowed to treat game sales that way. Most people don't see buying a game like an artist licensing their song to a TV show. They see it like buying a toy.
Yes and no, as in any case to challenge power you'd need a rigorous understanding of it, which you can't get if you're severely autistic. The greatest works of humanity have been made with social co-operation.
That's trivial. Atrocity goes hand in hand with power, the same power that decimates a whole people also builds the city over their graves. The powerless cannot challenge power, there is nothing honourable in ineptitude. If you want to feel good about yourself for being weak you can go back to church and pray that a god will save you, but for those who wish to triumph in the world there is only one path available, and it is not bloodless.
Before getting all excited that your ML model runs on your brand new 2024 macbook, before you run off to create earbuds / hearing aids with it, please try to run it on-target and see whether your model runs within your runtime budget / power budget / device size budget / battery life budget.
And make sure if you're going to do bluetooth + wireless, remember that both bluetooth and wifi transmit on 2.4 GHz, and need to coordinate in order to coexist in the same IoT device. There are interconnects and wire protocols to connect the bluetooth and wifi chips together - or, preferably, you buy a chip that does both.
I think the idea that our lives are a set of branching paths, where once you go down one path you can't go down others, is partly a consequence of how the academic path of many careers is designed to "weed out" promising students from others. This "branching tree of time" illusion is created by the elitist, rejecting attitude of the gatekeepers of our society... and by our sensitivity to taking rejection personally in our young and formative years.
And maybe secretly we all wish things could've worked out with our first love... when in reality our first loves are those we are least likely to be compatible with in the long term.
If that's the case, then Tesla has a certain number of children their FSD solution can run over every year, below which its cheaper to settle with the parents out of court instead of improving their FSD solution.
This is a classic ethical dilemma. Self-driving cars will kill some amount of people via malfunctions, accidents, etc. Some amount will be children. Should we ban the development of the technology? What if it only killed 1 child? What about 10? What about 100? How many dead children is the benefit of self-driving cars worth?
The luddites didn't destroy the power looms because they were some kind of handcrafting purists - they destroyed the machines because they took away ownership of the means of production from individual craftsmen to big businesses. The problem wasn't the machine, it was the factory and its owner.
I'm guessing they were worried about their source of income, and not Marxist philosophy that came about 100 years later. However my history isn't so hot, and maybe Ned was a philosopher in addition to a weaver, and maybe Karl should've paid royalties to his estate for stealing those ideas. :-)
The anti-corruption movements on the right get co-opted by fascists. The anti-corruption movements on the left get bombed by the police and sniped by the FBI.
They just need the monopolies and the cartels broken up. A union is only a valid response to market power abuse and market power abuse comes from a company holding too much of the market. Instead of unionizing, we need to move much closer back to the way we dealt with these large corps prior to the Rehnquist supreme court (not all the way back but probably 80% of the way back, they were breaking up regional gas station chains at one point, which is a little too far for me).
Comcast and AT&T are plenty willing to cut off my internet if I pirate popular shows. Don't see why they can't just cut off infringing AI companies... and nations.
