Quoting Upton Sinclair, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
The army of overpaid and incompetent political consultants, and their friends on the DNC staff, realize that the gravy train ends if Bernie wins.
@mattyglesias First, Repeal SEC Rule 10b-18, adopted in 1982, which legalized stock buybacks. (Provided a "Safe Harbor")
It allows (encourages) CEOs to steal from the shareholders to boost their stock options through stock buybacks.
@matthewstoller The problem with AI is not a lack of regulation, it is perverse incentives driving reckless behavior.
If you exempt AI algorithms and data sets from IP protections, so that anyone can use them for free, you eliminate the profit motive, and the perverse incentive.
QED.
@ChePivara@RnaudBertrand I was using lizard people as a metaphor.
A human being without empathy is not a human being.
Look at the Nuremberg psychological assessments. Central was the lack of empathy.
@AlecMacGillis You mean that the school that gave us Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, Joe Lonsdale, Carly Fiorina, and Elizabeth Holmes has a self-entitled amoral sub-culture.
Well, knock me over with a PzKW VI.