queermunist

Why is a family deciding to use a robotic womb "unethical"? What's the difference between a robot surrogate and a human one?

You seem to be thinking they're just going to pop out babies into the orphan factory and raise them like spare parts.

So by your logic, fatherhood isn't real. Only motherhood is real.

Do you not realize that an artificial womb still uses a fertilized human egg? Like, genetically, there's still two human parents.

It's not like someone is going to fuck a robot and get it pregnant.

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.

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.

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.