Notices by Jeff ♨️ Darcy (obdurodon@hachyderm.io)

@inthehands "We don't want politics in XYZ" is just another way of saying "we like the political situation as it is". Always. There is no "politically neutral" model of interaction. What we should promote is a *cosmopolitan* model, where people can express a variety of political views safely. Some views (e.g. those that deny others' rights including the right to their own opinion) should still have consequences, but most should be able to *coexist*.

@parismarx From a business perspective, the biggest thing about LLMs is not what they can actually do but how they can wash away responsibility. That's a *huge* deal to the rentier class, and "AI" proponents are well aware of it.

@georgetakei "As a non-member of the bar" 😂

@inthehands When does the garbage collector run? And is it generational?

@inthehands You know that thing about how accommodations for the disabled often end up being good for *everyone*? Same with queer-friendly (or ND-friendly) spaces. By accepting certain kinds of difference, people can learn to accept *difference itself* as a positive value, enabling things that wouldn't be possible otherwise. That's how diversity makes even the most "normal" people stronger.

@thomasfuchs If mastodon.social is OK being the psu.edu of the era, shouldn't that be OK with the elitists too? Seems like they'd *want* to have a place where n00bs have to prove themselves before joining the cooler instances. They're doing elitism wrong. 😆

@nova There are certainly many who are simply greed-monsters. And many *many* more who convinced themselves that they couldn't change the system, that if they declined to participate another person would simply take their place, and that they could still do some good - for themselves and/or more generally - around the margins. As had many generations before and probably many yet to come. It's a classic collective action problem (Stag Hunt IIRC).

@nova I for one am not against *some* accumulation of capital, but under much more constrained conditions than today and subject to strong regulation. Some might even say what I want isn't capitalism any more, and I'm OK with that. I'm enthusiastic about free markets but skeptical about focus on capital (including most of today's financial industry).

@nova Corporations as they exist today are the enemy of free markets (and humans). Limited liability should not be given away for free. Corporations operating under time-limited revocable charters, barred from political participation in their own right, might be OK, but we've come a long (bad) way from that.