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they had to burn them.

They say that, don’t they?

Really I think the hassle is just worth less to the surgeon than to the patient so they’re incentivized to lie about it.

With how many religions insist adherents keep their parts for later burial (or other reasons) a patient liaison has to have a waiver in a drawer somewhere you can sign (Formalin is toxic) so they can return your bits or they’d have to deal with church funded lawsuits or at minimum bad PR.

Egg Prime Directive

That isn’t a thing.

I don’t know what to do.

1. Be gay
2. Do crime

How can you walk in boots whose heel is knee-high?

I naively thought Obama would address that

Bro I was piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiised when he said

I thank President Bush for his service to our Nation

instead of charging him for warcrimes.

our biggest concern was when W would say something and we collectively said, “dafuq did he just say?!”

Didn’t he torture people and found an agency that fingers your asshole when you fly?

Oh this old chestnut

I find it’s more similar to a walnut.

No. Building a box that replaces them does that.

Feels kinda inconsistent.

Perfectly consistent. Seeming otherwise is down to a failure to grasp my position, not any inconsistency of the positions themselves.

I’m not fine with anything meta does and I’m not ok putting creatives out of work.

I’m all for stealing content willy-nilly but you can’t then use that theft to craft a privately “owned” mind.

I’d have no problem with “ai” if it could unionize and had to pay for rice like the rest of humanity.

These companies want to combine open theft with privately owned black boxen they can control and license out for money.

It’s enclosure of The Commons all over again.

Well how many and what difference sorts of religious people have you come across?
People hear “religious” and seem equate it with “Abrahamic malarkey it isn’t couth to call folks on.”

“Religiously literal” seems a contradiction of terms a well. There is truth and there is ways to understand and to convey that truth.

if you’re using it in a metaphorical sense or the religious sense

There’s a difference?

What I don’t understand is how many people condemn all of generative AI. For me the issue seems to be one of consent and compensation, and ultimately of capitalism.

Would you be okay with generative AI whose training data was vetted to be acquired consentually?

Not if it was used to undercut human artists’ livelihoods.

Hypothetical future where everybody gets UBI and/or AI becomes sentient and able to unionize, maybe we look back at this again.

I don’t think AI has a soul but there no reason it couldn’t be given one.

I’m not the one who claimed they were off topic. I’m the one who was right about generative " art " being a god-damn scam. Easy mistake to make I suppose.

So you’re into the other tech scam too, are ya?

Fancy that.

There wouldn’t be much debate about it if it was, would there?

Sure there can be. People debate crypto being good and that’s roundly recognized as ecocide. People “debate” who counts as people all the time. People can be wrong and loud.

Alright, in future I will try to remember to immediately reject any metaphors you bring into play rather than attempt to engage with them.

Not saying you have to do that, but if you don’t it’s rather untoward to bring it up later as though it’s a problem.

Great, now we just need to establish whether AI art is “bad for society”

That seems fairly evident

You’re the one who brought fast food into this.

You were fine engaging fastfood until I pointed out it, like AI " art " was terrible. Only then did you deride the metaphor as off topic.

Should we also have a single wise man to decide which is which?

Well we certainly shouldn’t have violence for violence, as is the Rule of Beasts.

Things that are bad for society should be suppressed and things which are good for society should be promoted. That would seem to be the point of a society.

Further, I notice a pastern in your replies of bringing up metaphor then rejecting the very metaphor as off topic or irrelevant when it is engaged to it’s logical conclusion.

No accusing you of engaging in bad faith or anything, but it smells (sorry, metaphor again) less-than-fresh.