500 karma · joined February 28, 2022
You gonna throw your computer away?
This is put forward with all the humbleness.
You've got a convert here. I don't think I'll publish my next book. I might just email it straight to Open AI.
And Cory Doctorow - I've attempted a few of his books. Felt like I was reading young adult fiction. He's pretty much the '2 prescient statements and a few average books' guy.
This give off an air of virtue signalling to the extend of self destruction. Almost funny thinking about it.
Of course you might get a bit of radioactive dust blow over the sea for a few hundred years but totally worth it.
I think you can't understand his analogy no? Without taking it literally to the point of making it your entire life's purpose to counter the point?
How about this: You have a 1 in 100,000 chance of eating an M&M which literally drains your bank account and you have to eat hundreds or possibly thousands of M&M's per day.
(some of your dreaded hyperbole for transactions)
Would you dig in to that bowl? There's shouldn't be a miniscule percentage chance of your entire livelyhood being ripped away and locked forever without recourse simply by using a certain payment platform. Is that fair? Or are you still intent on stepping on the cosmic merrigoround of potential ruin without a care in the world?