But distribution isn't the only crime here, obtaining the material illegally apparently is a crime too. And the damn robot can also spit me harry Potter verbatim so I don't know how it would also not be distribution?
Announcers get very touchy with listings data, so even compiling listings from multiple sources is hard without getting cease-and-desisted. Then, realtors will certainly flood competing announcements and post fake reviews. It's an aggressive market.
I think that's a pretty well balanced first analysis of this, considering how much we don't know, the IPO "slots" seem to be the most obvious influence.
We liked to pretend that our current technology wave wasn't driven by any ideology at all, so much so that it became a dirty word. But look at these billionaires talking amongst themselves, look at Thiel, look at Musk: their ideology is so compelling and they're so willing to go to bat for it that it materialized in the current state of affairs; and now only ideologies that are different from theirs are in fact dirty words.
> No diabetic with baseline adult competence is going to drive their insulin-delivery vehicle off a cliff because some app said so.
if you can't trust this thing then what is it doing? the implication that people that trust this software do not have adult competency is also confusing.
> Is your perspective based on, say, opinionated principle?, or experience?
your perspective is solely based on recent trauma so I don't know if it is more reliable in any
capacity
HN is the most concentrated accelerationist audience in the whole world and its very particular type of crowd. I don't think this translates at all to general public (well, maybe I would agree with you that the aesthetic sense of people on here is really less sophisticated than average).
you're arguing against things that have no material effect. "oh won't you think about adversarial discourse about the most well funded industry in recent history"