@somecat sure, but why exclude amateurs
(are there any converbs out there? or is everyone pretty much proverbial?)
@juliepagano My paranoid conspiracy theory about that is that it is done deliberately by the anti-taxers to drive popular sentiment against taxation -- it's the kind of legislative sabotage that one can get away with unnoticed, and leads to people being more supportive of reducing or eliminating taxes in general.
(...but that's just a pat diagnosis made without first obtaining a full legislative history...)
@rnd Yeah, good point. In my hot analysis, there are two parts to that shift, one of which is honest: once upon a time, technology had not advanced to the point where business had the potential to be anywhere near as dangerous as it is now, so it made a lot more sense to oppose regulation. I can allow some room for failure to update a philosophy in the face of changing circumstances. (This is making the perhaps overly-charitable assumption that it was accidental.)
According to Wikipedia, though, opposition to regulation was just one item on a list -- the rest of which are, as you say, much more egalitarian/lefty (and things I pretty much agree with, too). Quietly forgetting those items is the dishonest part of the shift.
(...but I probably don't really know what I'm talking about, and a random LLM could probably provide a more accurate insight.)
I should maybe note that in my view, Left and Right are fundamentally about power-concentration: right-wingers see concentrated power as inherently desirable (e.g. the "unitary executive theory"), while left-wingers oppose that and would prefer to delete all unearned privilege.
@alisynthesis @williampietri "It's more likely than you think!" -- though to be fair, I've only ever heard that one in advertising, which is almost always condescending.
@rnd Agreed... and yeah, there's often a grain of truth to those right-wing philosophies; they just overextend it into areas where it clearly does not apply... and then slowly withdraw it from the original area where it made sense... :blobcatupsidedown:
@dwallacewells It might also be informative to show monthly deaths by automobile accident alongside 9/11 and COVID-19 deaths, on a per-capita scale.
@rnd It seems to me that's actually long-term sensible behavior. If they can stop inflating the bubble, maybe it can deflate more slowly and less catastrophically.
Also, Amodei's argument seems based on legitimate concerns rather than "the AI Singularity is nigh -- repent all ye non-investors!" or something.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@axios/117258624508320078
I think it's safe to say he's not wrong.
@brooke I think I stopped there for gas a couple of times in the late 1980s. (It does exist! Really!)
@JulieSqveakaroo This stuff is too old to be internet-aware, so I know at least it isn't that. ...I think. :blobcatupsidedown:
@samuteki This feels very plausible to me -- and not at all distant from my own thoughts on the matter.
@Cdespinosa To me, "they hate our freedom" was always obvious BS. I'm disappointed in how many people bought it (and especially the ones who still do).
@vfrmedia Yeah, legislation needs to balance security against reuse -- where necessary -- and, ideally, come up with legislation that protects both.
The manufacturers, of course, would generally prefer to protect only security, which probably explains a lot of why things are the way they are.