jtrek

That doesn't really address people betting on horrible things and then making them happen.

Also "it will just go underground" is still kind of a win? The average person isn't going to navigate sketchy underground arrangements, but they'll find a slick website with good SEO.

I don't think people buying consoles are doing that kind of long term thinking

Sounds reasonable as you've written it. I do worry about people's over willingness to bend the knee, especially when they're frightened or angry. It seems like someone with a strong personality could convince people to go along with stuff that benefits him more than them. But, no system is immune to bad actors and idiots.

So, yes, I (with enough backing of the community) do get to tell hypothetical-you that you can't shit in the drinking water.

Right. That sounds like it could be fine. But it seems like it would (d)evolve back into rules when people get tired of re-arguing the same conflicts repeatedly. People would have arguments, write down or remember the results, look back at them when the same kind of problem comes up, and now you've reinvented common law.

Or be very susceptible to tyranny of the majority. "We all decided you can only have the shit-water, so you can leave or fight us all."

The way it was phrased in the meme (which, admittedly, is only a meme) makes it sound like you're not allowed to stop other people.

So do I get to make their decisions for them or not?

If yes, the original post is faulty.

If no, they shit in the water.

I expect the original post is faulty because it's a meme trying to be funny.

Of these options, the part where I don't get to make your decisions, I guess. There's going to be some guy who wants to shit in the drinking water, and I'm going to want to stop him.

All tools are not equally safe nor should they all be publicly available.

A chainsaw is a tool that you might cause harm with if you use it in stupid ways. We don't give chainsaws out to children. We don't use chainsaws for cutting dinner.

There are human elements to the problem but that's not a big reveal.

I want all the AI slop adopters to suffer and be ruined.

I haven't found a good alternative for getting better at French or learning Spanish from scratch, but I haven't tried very hard. Maybe I should replay expedition 33 in French...

Revoke their license. Scale fines with wealth. Mandate thousands of hours of community service for speeders. Don't just do nothing and hope it sorts itself out.

These things should probably be banned, and Facebook dissolved with its leadership punished for their crimes.

Cool. Safe bike lanes are a higher priority for me but I'm not mad about this.