zbyte64

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[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

We tax things that aren't money all the time, see property taxes.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 3 points 4 months ago

It's also worth mentioning Gates has made our public education system worse by introducing us to the voucher system. Billionaires are part of why we don't spend our tax dollars on things like universal healthcare or free college.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 5 points 4 months ago

I pay property taxes based on the value of my home, but what home is worth billions?

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 6 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Deskilling blue collar labor is how America gave China a manufacturing edge. What do you think will be the result of deskilling white collar labor?

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (15 children)

We don't don't need princes or kings doing PR. If we taxed billionaires out of existence we could fund that and so much more. This guy doesn't get to make up for whatever he was doing on Epstein's plane, at least not without coming clean first.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 5 points 4 months ago

Here's a question: why don't you take their advice seriously instead of being so sensitive to their manners?

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 6 points 4 months ago

The important thing is that we use our standards to not engage with what is being said but to pursue purity in our information sources. We should start by disconnecting from the fediverse because you obviously can't trust half of what is being said here.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 4 months ago

And they know what they want because they tell us

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 3 points 4 months ago

Sorry but my spine only lets me punch down.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Only disagree on how much they suck. There are many more reasons why they lost.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Enshittification is a paradigm shift, but not one we associate with the birth of the internet.

On to your list. Why does misinformation appear after the birth of the internet? Was yellow journalism just a historical outlier?

What you're witnessing is the "Red Queen hypothesis". LLMs have revolutionized the scam industry and step 7 is an AI arms race against and with misinformation.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

LLMs are not like the birth of the internet. LLMs are more like what came after when marketing took over the roadmap. We had AI before LLMs, and it delivered high quality search results. Now we have search powered by LLMs and the quality is dramatically lower.

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