Glad to hear that he's apparently doing okay.
But I must say, I think it's probably for the best that he dialed down his Fediverse engagement. Both for his own sake (nobody should spend that much time on social media) and for the Fediverse as a whole - he seemed to be everywhere that I went and it made the place feel small and monocultural.
I've always liked the way on Reddit I barely ever recognized anyone's name. I prefer engaging with the conversation, not with the people.
This guy's court cases are widely misunderstood by the general public.
In a nutshell: he's a crank who is trying to tell the court "I don't hold a copyright to the thing my AI produced, my AI holds the copyright."
And the court tells him: "Only people (or legal persons, like corporations) can hold a copyright. Your AI cannot. If you say that you yourself don't either, we can't force you to have a copyright on it. So I guess that thing has no copyright and is therefore in the public domain."
And then everyone gasps and exclaims "the court just ruled that AI-generated things are in the public domain!"
You asked a bunch of questions and then immediately followed them with "this is not worth addressing further." Not much of a useful comment.
The idea that history is inevitable is a fundamental assumption behind the perspective you are putting out
That's not what I'm "putting out." I'm saying that these events are a result of historic trends, not just because one man woke up one morning and decided "I'm going to make America a seething cesspit." As I explicitly said in the comment you're responding to:
Trends can be redirected with effort and taking out Putin would be part of that effort.
How is that the idea that "history is inevitable"?
A nice thought, but unfortunately probably not really true. It's dependent on the "great man theory" of history, which says that the course of history is shaped by a handful of individual "great men." IMO in reality history is shaped by systemic trends and "great men" simply rise up out of those trends to stand at the heads of them.
Russian society was ripe for a man like Putin. American society was ripe for a man like Trump. If those specific individuals hadn't come along, someone else like them would have likely stepped up in their place.
That's not to say that it wouldn't be a good thing to take out Putin, of course. Trends can be redirected with effort and taking out Putin would be part of that effort. But I don't think everything would just magically settle into an ideal new form if he died, it would just be a useful step in the process.
Joke's on you, the online survival manual can tell you how to do that!
Got a lot of people to click on it while raging, though, so it served its purpose.
In case anyone's interested in the source material, here's the press release it's going on about. The AI is about searching and analyzing evidence, it isn't fabricating anything that'll actually be used in court.
This just in: people who are used to earning millions of dollars and being the center of public adoration warn against anything that might change that.
Unfortunately, it's still a democracy. The electorate wanted what's now going on. That could rapidly change at this point, but for now not yet.
What an absolute surprise.
It might happen once, at which point there'll be a colossal uproar. Even compared to the various other uproars we've been hearing. I'm sure you'll notice if it happens.
Yeah, all this speculation about senators and electoral balance and whatnot skips lightly over the more immediate effects that would come from an American attempt at annexation. If the Americans thought trying to occupy Iraq or Afghanistan was bad, well, this would be like that, except that Canadians can pass for American and can access America's home soil quite easily.
How would rampant assassinations and terrorist attacks against Republicans (and the particularly spineless Democrats that enabled them) affect the electoral balance, Forbes? Ever hear of the FLQ, by any chance?
Americans still have this basic delusion of being "welcomed as liberators" when their Freedom and Democracy rolls in to town, even after all the times they've stuck their hands into ovens and been burned.