It's still government protection which caused Microsoft to be a monopoly. You provide a great example of libertarian goalpost-moving:

> Microsoft wasn't protected by the government.

> Yes they were, by copyright law.

> But the government didn't set out to make Microsoft a monopoly.

> The more developed a nation the more centrally controlled it is?

The central control has to develop, alongside everything else. Somalia isn't centrally controlled because it can't be, because it's not developed, and doesn't have a way to be centrally controlled. If it was, it would be. See: the history of any developed country.

> Also, when did any communist state ever threaten the US economically?

In the 1940s-1980s (USSR), and in the 2010s-present (China) and if the US's overreaction is to be believed, from 1960-present (Cuba).

"Don't blame me - I voted for Kodos!"

So if we all collect information and don't know who uses it, and the police can't find who uses it, nobody gets charged.

When they are one in the same, how do you plead?

Do you defend LG telescreens too? After all, by using the TV, you agreed to LG watching your every move.

Well those support programs don't provide support. They exist to make a profit, just like everything else. Providing a service is secondary.

No it's not, it's a cop-out. You really expect every member of society to individually stand up to Anthropic? That thing you just said is not an alternative solution - it is actually an attempt to prevent the problem from being solved at all. Which is fine if you're an Anthropic shareholder and believe the problem should not be solved.

They have that, it's in the Digital Age Assurance Act, which I've been unreliably informed is fascism.

Really hot take apparently: any technology that causes people to commit suicide during therapy isn't a good therapist.

Is your claim that human therapists have caused zero suicides? I hope not for your sake - that would be a really hard one to defend

Why do you think that a human therapist who causes patients to commit suicide is a good therapist? I don't understand that.

I think human therapy is a good thing despite the fact that it has caused suicides.