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Comment Value (Score 2) 99

Things of value are usually rare. The amount of "entertainment" is ever increasing, and thus becoming cheaper and cheaper. Creating MORE isn't going to help.

And with AI starting to be used in the Creation process, that will lower the costs of making it, and start making it widely available to more people in the creation process.

This ends in a death spiral of more and more "entertainment" with less and less perceived value, chasing diminishing returns. I suspect that places like OF will make quick end once AI girls are able to do everything by prompts on the fly for their "users".

Comment Re: Government Sponsored Research (Score 0) 265

I am not a capitalist. I'm free enterprise, the free exchange of goods and services kind of guy. Subtle but distinct difference.

If one wants the protection of Patents (which I'm 100% okay with), one ought to pay for that privilege, in taxes. 100% completely voluntary with the benefits of patents expiring when nobody wants to pay the tax. Mutually beneficial Exchange being key component.

Comment Government Sponsored Research (Score 0, Redundant) 265

As a Libertarian, I don't suppose to support tax payer funded research. Mainly because such research leads to patents and other protections that are held not by the public for the public good, but rather commercial for profit corporations.

IMHO, the best case for solving THIS issue is tax patent holders for their patents they enforce, as a TAX. Make it steep. Stop paying the tax, the patent goes public domain. This solves a whole bunch of abuses. Make private research funded patents less taxed, and those discovery/inventions that had public funded (tax payer) at the highest rates. Tax the rich, but make it avoidable, just release to the public domain.

The protection of intellectual property ought to come at a cost.

Comment Re:Epistemology (Score 1) 109

There are really two choices, that General Relativity is horribly wrong by a few orders of magnitude.

False Dichotomy. Newtonian Physics works pretty darn well for a lot of situations, is simple, so much so, we still use it because it is practical. But it is wrong.

For all we know, Einstein's equations may be suffering the same basic problem, we just haven't figured out why it isn't working where we see it not working as expected. But it works for a large number of scenarios that it is still usable.

That is my current working theory ;-)

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