The exact opposite of what Aaron Swartz would have envisioned for the site.

I can’t.

I believe what I said, but I’m not following the Chinese market in any serious way. One of my comment edits was to disclose that but I choose the more basic statement. I’m fully willing to be wrong when presented with data. I felt that removing my own hedge allowed comments like yours to more directly challenge the statement.

I’m in the middle of studying for a mid term. I don’t want to use the energy to dig into it. I got my stance mostly from articles I’ve read in passing on how they have regulated their AI market to protect workers and manage circular investing. It could easily have been propaganda.

can you clarify what energy the US is exporting?

China has been taking steps to keep it’s AI industry in check. They’ll be fine. Their bubble pop is essentially a market adjustment. We all just get bent out of shape because of how big these numbers have gotten over the last few decades. The important thing is that the Chinese government took steps to protect it’s other sectors which is why we likely saw their bubble pop before ours.

I’m of the general opinion that it’s when a company decides to go public and issue stock is when it’s lost. Once a company’s governance is beholden to stockholders and the board of directors it becomes only a matter of time before it’s garbage.

Same here. I didn’t understand that people with power tend to find ways to make the voices they like louder, even when we all had a vote in what was popular they found a way.

And then the other thing. People tend to believe what they want to believe and outrage is often just a form of entertainment.

See, this is why I love Lemmy. The good parts are like everyone’s grey beard uncles got together and are all trying to tell the best goofball jokes.

I didn’t build it, but I was raised by it. I was so hopeful when I was younger.

I often think about Swartz, and I wonder if he did what he did because he saw where we were heading and knew that they were never going to let him near a computer to fight it. I hope that he’s at peace.