No, that’s bad analysis in which you are substituting their actual concern for one you find ethically easier to resolve - copyright is easier to oppose than ”humans ought to be able to engage with meaningful artistic and intellectual work and be able to live by it”

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The Luddites may be good or bad but calling them rent-seekers is strictly inaccurate.

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... who is an IP trader here? That's not what's being described at all, what's being described is 'a desire to continue to sell their labor for a reasonable rate.'

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This is not rent seeking, holy shit, that is just not what that means. You can argue that labor should be devalued, if you insist, but definitionally nobody is rent-seeking by saying "I would like to do this kind of labor and create this kind of value for money" *by definition.*

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can't take "LLMs are people" discourse seriously when we haven't even convinced everyone that all people are people.

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