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Hollywood’s Fight Against A.I. Will Affect Us All: Screenwriters, actors, authors, and artists are fighting to ensure that human beings are not shunted to the margins of our culture.::Screenwriters, actors, authors, and artists are fighting to ensure that human beings are not shunted to the margins of our culture.

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Because the rest of the world exists. Can you name a single technology that massively boosted productivity but was regulated at a global scale successfully? Do you think a country with low goods export is going to hamper it's competitive advantage because some highly paid (yes American writers are highly paid compared globally) Hollywood writer says this is bad?

They have a term for this. Luddite.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you name a single technology that massively boosted productivity but was regulated at a global scale successfully?

Internet has tons of regulation. Pretty much all of chemistry. Try to buy some radioactive material. Copyright when it came to printing books. You know international law and treaties exist? There is this whole thing called patents that regulates new technology. Obviously AI will be also heavily regulated - what are you smoking, my friend.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

In fact it might get regulated into oblivion. Look at nuclear technology, people thought it would be powering the globe by now. It has not. Not because of industrial hurdles, but simply from fear and associated regulations.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Poor example, because the Luddites were correct.

They weren’t anti-technology, they were anti-capitalist/proto-capitalist workforce reduction and replacement to make the do-nothing owners richer.

They obviously lost their fight, but they get smeared as anti-intellectual morons in capitalist education systems for a very propagandistic reason.