No, this is not a Black Mirror episode.

“This ‘groundbreaking’ AI proposal that they gave us yesterday, they proposed that our background performers should be able to be scanned, get one day’s pay, and their companies should own that scan, their image, their likeness and should be able to use it for the rest of eternity on any project they want, with no consent and no compensation. So if you think that’s a groundbreaking proposal, I suggest you think again.”

  • Flying Squid
    5•1 year ago

    So I don’t feel “entitled” to live in a first-world country where I have things like running water and electricity? Seems like the same sort of “entitled” as living in a city where you have a job that you think is the best job for what you want to do with your life. Shouldn’t I be working in a strip mine in Mongolia or not ever complain about my life?

    Or is Los Angeles somehow a special case?

    • @dudebro
      -3•1 year ago

      I just said Indiana was fine.

      California is the most expensive state to live in. People don’t need to live there and would be using capital more efficiently elsewhere.

      I’m not in the camp of “all or nothing.” I think magnitude matters and we can all be doing more to reduce the disparity in wealth besides “making more money.”

      • Flying Squid
        4•1 year ago

        If California was totally depopulated, another state would be the most expensive state and you could make the same claim.

        • @dudebro
          -3•1 year ago

          Not really. It’s supply and demand. Even if another state were the new most expensive, that doesn’t mean it will be as expensive as California is now.