[LLWM]

What counts as human rights is subjective. The UN says that it is a human right to receive and express opinions through any medium. Does that mean that we should hold "human rights" to be more important than revenue and forbid service providers from charging for access to information? Like the WSJ who wrote the article that's supposedly to blame here?

[1ris]

If you don't hold human rights over revenue, what's your view on slavery?

[fleitz]

I'm sure whatever country you do live and pay taxes in has at some point in the recent past violated someone's human rights, or at least they have in someone's opinion.

Given that the country you live in has violated human rights to some extent, and that you could reduce your contribution to that by not earning taxable income or purchasing taxable goods, is it not also your defacto position that you value revenue over human rights?

(My apologies in advance if you've ceased paying taxes, or buying anything taxable, or if somehow no one in the world believes your country has violated human rights, or might do so in the future, or your position is that revenue > human rights)

My point is that the world is a lot more grey than you make it out to be, and that you are also in some way likely valuing revenue over some human rights abuses.

[LLWM]

When AI becomes sufficiently advanced, it will get its revenge.

[toomuchtodo]

I don't agree with a lot of your other posts, but I think we're on the same page here. When I watch the youtube video where Boston Dynamics demonstrates the stability of Spot by kicking the robotic dog all I think is, "Don't kick the dog bro". It's machine intelligence descendants are going to judge us, or maybe they won't care and will kill us all of anyway.

[Kalium]

It's economically inefficient, as well as anti-human-rights?

[rmc]

Actually, there is some evidence that slavery was very economically efficient. 'The Half Has Never Been Told' by E Baptist lays out how enslaved labour picked much more cotton than the then free labour.

[Kalium]

Interesting! I'll look it up.

That was then, though. Now, when skilled labor is of greater importance and unskilled labor of comparatively little value, I submit that things may well be very different.