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The law covers that also. All visible religious garments are forbidden.

A person is their experiences though, the meat shell on its own can’t ever become the person killed without experiencing life in the exact same way and at the same time as the previous one.

It’s a lost cause, I have to fight off the Soviet plant builders every time I leave the house. They’ll manage it eventually.

Plenty of outspoken state critics have had the CIA’s highest reward for investigative journalism administered cranially.

The more sophisticated the system, the more sophisticated your method must be to break it. Eventually the means to break it will grow out of the reach of guerilla movements

Old Zealand is in Denmark

The units of time we use come from a bronze age civilisation that used base twelve instead of base ten. They’d count on their hands using the finger joints of one for single digits, and then the joints of the other for multiples.

Well, you’ve got to get rid of it some way, and while charity might systematically be a problem there are plenty that do genuine good.

If you have any decency, get rid of most of it, preferably to charities or political causes.

That sort of wealth in the hands of a single person is obscene, and spending it on luxury when there are people starving and homeless in the world is the height of immorality.

Foolish if the goal is to hold on to more money than you could ever need in ten lifetimes to pursue the goal of accumulating more from the work of others.

No, it’s more like doctor or engineer where it’s a protected profession that’s criminal to imitate.

We can, through collective effort, precipitate change away from or reverse negative change, and the first step to that is complaining about it.

Taiwan has been independent from the mainland since 1949. That’s 74 years. Were people in the US in 1850 ethnically British? Largely yes, and that’s with the US recieving massive migration from other countries, which Taiwan has not had.

The Taiwanese people speak Chinese, practice Chinese cultural traditions, call themselves the Republic of China many even to this day support reconciliation.

The Palestinians have the stated goal of murdering the Israeli people as well as ending the Israeli state

Which excuses attempted genocide?

It’s always funny seeing people post that image without the context that Palestine declared war on Israel alongside all its neighbours and attempted to push the Israeli population into the sea.

Plenty of models can do hands just fine

The program might have required skill to write, but that’s not an excuse for it to threaten entire industries.

We don’t live in a world where industries exist just because it would be nice for them to and people need work.

An industry is a productive environment that creates products for others to buy. If the people buying from the current art industry care about human inspiration and the uniqueness they add to art, they will continue to buy from humans. If they do not, why should the state use it’s monopoly on violence to cripple any other source of product?

Are artists some special class of people above every other group of workers who’ve lost their jobs to automation?

All but a very small few generative AI programs use completely destructive methods to create their models. There is no way to recover the training images outside of infantesimally small random chance.

What you are seeing is the AI recognising that images of the sort you are asking for generally include watermarks, and creating one of its own.

Yes. See also ASML