People ARE fundamentally selfish in any groups above 150-200 where the social net breaks down. Most groups of animals don't stay group-serving in giant groups, we are no different.[1] In groups small enough to be inside the social net, tribe survival dynamics work great.
> things were bad, then society developed and now things are better”
Things are not great. Technology makes them better though. Man can't easily escape technology today, but it is the fundamental trade-off society offers at the cost of social health.
Internet Archive has been ruled against... for acting exactly like a physical library. Offering a single copy of a book at a time for a period of borrowing. Their intent is to be a widely accessible library.
Codeburg is more strict for blocking projects at the moment. Wikiless is blocked by Codeburg for using the Wikipedia puzzle logo but is still up and unchanged on GitHub.
Frankly, people are buying the AI's escape mechanism. The fact that this tech is being wielded haphazardly for purposes it's not suited for, made into a bad search companion because it's cool, is disturbing.
It sounds so much like the scenarios where AI convinces its creators to let it out.
It's evident business leaders don't know what they're looking for in developing AI, so they've made what "seems cool", but really is manipulative and threatening. Too much talk of safety has lulled away all that very useful fear.
This is frustrating. More than once, issues with Edge not opening or not working prevented me from browsing/installing another browser. Without IE, I would have been SOL. Just now realizing there are probably baked in powershell methods like winget.
[1] https://search.brave.com/help/privacy-policy
Edit: mojeek claims the same.[2]
[2] https://www.mojeek.com/about/privacy/