IMO, I think that artists, like any other person, should have wealth and income limits imposed on them. No one should be rich enough to buy influence, and artists would be especially dangerous if they had mogul money and the ability to popularize ideas through their works. JK Rowling, Ronald Reagan, Kanye West, Alex Jones, and others come to mind.

The answer isn’t to make artists rich, but rather to eliminate poverty and provide a baseline of living that allows anybody to succeed at life.

He loves gold, and will have golden dentures. Not even kidding, that is just the Trumpian way of being.

AI isn’t the problem, it is just an excuse to abuse and gaslight people. If AI didn’t exist, some other card would be played.

Instead of destroying the looms, we should take them over and make our own products. AI can be incredibly useful and might allow cottage industries and smaller communities to become strong enough to contest the powers above us. The big constraints is just the affordability of local hardware and the development of sufficiently powerful models.

Things are moving quickly, especially in the local AI space. Two years ago, fitting a 70b was difficult in my hardware, which had 4k context capacity, could take an hour to output, really sucked at calculating numbers, and was censored. Now a 122b can be uncensored, allow for 256k context, takes less than two minutes to output an lengthy response, and is much smarter.

What I am saying, is that we shouldn’t reject the power of AI. We should use it ourselves, and become the equals of the elite. If we foolishly abandon power, the wealthy will just continue bullying us.

Allow me. “Fucking barbaric. Every single one of the law enforcement personnel involved ought to be executed.”

No, the problem with keeping people in office, is that they get to establish strong networks of interests. By disrupting this and adding social uncertainty from unfamiliar people, we make it harder for corruption to become baked into society. Corruption is very much a social behavior that relies upon trust - the trust that the other guy won’t snitch on you, if the horsetrading is profitable.

We make it harder to establish that trust among thieves, by swapping people often.

Term limits are not the solution, they are part of a solution. Term limits alone wouldn’t work without other parts of the political process being reformed. For example, First Past the Post voting makes it much harder for independent candidates to get a fair shot.

The United States needs huge reforms across the board, because much of our processes were built 250 years ago.

Speaking for myself, there are many things that I couldn’t ever hope to do before AI became popularized. I don’t speak Japanese, can’t draw, lack the money to hire humans, let alone give them a fair wage. Any dreams I wanted to fulfill, simply are not possible without skill, social connections, and wealth. I lacked agency long before the rise of AI.

With AI tools, I can translate or retranslate foreign games, which is quite nice for me. There are quite a few niche games that won’t ever receive much attention, being only of interest to a select few humans. Hoping for the good luck of another person to donate their time and life to such causes, isn’t practical.

Plus, I don’t particularly like the nuts and bolts of computing. I am having a hard time getting the .git of DevilutionX to build, because it is missing SDL.h, and the repository instructions seem dated. An AI would likely understand how to fix that issue, any other weird technical problems. Learning the dependencies, console commands, and so forth is just something I don’t want to do with my lifespan. I want to just enjoy my media, without technical hurdles getting in the way.

Nah. Term limits help prevent the creation and perpetuation of “good old boy” clubs. Quite honestly, it is better to have an inexperienced but well meaning rando, than an expert who makes a habit of lining their pockets with their experience.

The lesson I am learning: the elderly should have the congressional keys taken away from them, before they can drive the nation into stupid.

I am opposed to IP copyright, so just about any published work would be fine by me. Ditto for public discourse, be it open chat rooms, Reddit, Lemmy, Youtube comments, or Twitch. Private things, such as personal medical records, diaries, and so forth shouldn’t be trained on.

As to who: ideally, government with public consent and money. For example, Switzerland’s Apertus, as an open model that can be free to be used by the public.

Currently, most local users of AI rely on corporately open weights, like Qwen3.6. This isn’t ideal, as companies will retract their offerings at whim, and aren’t working for the public interest in the first place.

Where I am, it is $5 for each refillable soda at Denny’s, and a plate is about $18. Before considering things like a tip, or appetizers. At a chicken place, it is $0.80 for each piece of boneless chicken, or about $34 for 40 pieces. The pizza place, you can get a deal for roughly $44 to get a giant regular pizza, mozzarella sticks, and a 2 liter soda. (No delivery)

I suppose my neck of the woods isn’t the most expensive, but it still ain’t cheap IMO. The best option for warm and cheap food is probably the supermarket’s fried chicken, which is about $28 for 24 pieces.

Even if the US was trustworthy, this is still a prudent move. Good relations are not forever between nations, and it reduces the opportunities for third parties like Palantir to exfiltrate data.

Personally, I think local AI will make computing far greater than it ever was. You can use it to recreate niche software like Stars!, you can play tabletop D&D without having to deal with human issues like scheduling or infighting, you can have original software created to do whatever you need, you can have manga from the 80’s fully colorized.

There are many possibilities, and it is one of the few things for me to look forward to as I get older. As someone without friends nor enough wealth to explore the world, a home AI server will be the closest that I can get to having genuine autonomy and happiness in my life.

Personally, I think it is because there was no Democratic Party primary. Biden stole the time that any potential candidate could have used to prove their mettle to voters.

I think a president should only have one justice that they “own”, at a time. When that president leaves office and the next president picks a justice, the old justice should be removed from office.

The important thing is to prevent justices, regardless of source, from establishing an nest of corruption.

Honestly, I think the “but” used by mainline Democrats isn’t just bad in a moral sense, but also complicates messaging. Black rights, trans rights, political rights, worker rights, all are rights, and should be part of the same package of human rights.

How much you wanna bet that Trump will somehow cause the entire deposit to catch fire?

By “region”, I mean the continental US divided into three huge territories, with the fourth region being comprised of exterior holdings like Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, military bases, embassies, and so forth. That fourth territory is basically a diplomatic and trade master of the union, to help compensate for the lack of physical land.

The purpose of the national court, congress, and executive is to coordinate the things that the regions agree on, such as the highway system, weather stations, sharing disaster teams, free movement of citizens, ect. Anything they can’t really agree on, such as some laws, are restrained to their own territories. Once a law or the like has become well established, the national bodies may formalize it into a general rule for the nation.

Each region essentially becomes a laboratory of sorts, where rights, policies, and implementation can be demonstrated. If a region is much improved by an idea, the other regions would want to adopt them in order to remain relevant. People will move away from badly governed regions, draining those places of influence. That in turn gives regions incentives to compete.

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Anyhow, as to why Florida and company should have a voice: Because they are people, and the people within those places will change. California was once a place of Native Americans, the Spanish, then Mexicans, now Americans, and may become something different in the future.

Considering that Florida is home to many aged boomers, it is pretty likely that they will begin keeling over at some point. That will be a major source of change in the types of Floridians who live there.

Elsewhere in the thread, I mentioned other things. Specifically, each judicial branch selects 2 justices without any interference from the executive and congressional branches. The congresses get to choose two of their own, and the executive has one justice, that is retired when a new president selects a different justice. Assuming we have four regions, that would be 20 justices on the national court.

In any case, the United States are already broken. We got an single executive branch that is in the process of kinging itself, a single congress that has abdicated responsibility, and a single judiciary without teeth nor independence.

To my mind, having regions would check and balance things, because there would be competition between them to be top dog within the overall nation.