It's not like we're printing books from old school printers where they had to assemble the letters by hand on a printing plate for each page, or they need scribes to hand transcribe books with a quill. It's all computer. There's no reason for any book to be rare.
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The text is what makes it valuable though? I guess there's some value in, like, the actual literal physical copy too, but that has nothing to do with rarity. A bible can have historical value because of who owned it, but that'd be strange to describe as "rare" I think.
But the actual words in the book can be easily recorded and don't actually require printing.
I don't understand the concept of a "rare" book. Every book should be infinitely reproducible, the fact that they aren't is a crime.
When cities can't afford other things they usually cut them to save money.
I'm not sure Flock is the exception. Might be, though. The US is a shithole.
That's called content moderation.
to the point their government have to regulate the shit out of it
Sounds like the system works. A problem was caused by capitalist firms doing stupid capitalist bullshit, and so the government stepped in to regulate them. What a country! Imagine if our governments would step in to regulate stupid firms doing stupid shit.
There’s a reason you’ve been trained to knee-jerk hate AI, who benefits?
The fuck does this mean? We're being screamed at to love AI and use it for everything.
Glass is not a car. That's a few components on a car.
Yes, some processes can be fully automated. No, we can not fully automate the assembly of a whole car. It's still too complex.
Lex is also a "12th level intellect" i.e. one of the smartest people in the universe.
Porky is a dumbass that thinks he can use a chatbot to replace his workforce.
On the other hand, there's not much normal humans could do against Zoom. They need superheroes to beat him.
Not so for porky. He's just a guy.
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A first edition has no value to me. The value comes from the words on the page, not the paper it's printed on. I could see value in a book that was hand transcribed or something, but the fact that it was the first book out of a printing press is worthless.
I should say being signed is important, but that's not really a rarity issue. That's now a unique historical artifact because it was interacted with by a specific person. That's basically the same as a bible having historical value because of who owned it.