What about homeless people, who neither have much infrastructure, nor can afford much food? If a homeless person makes a movie, you're ok with them being at risk of their work being lost before it enters the cultural record and starts being preserved by people, because you're allowed to have sufficient infrastructure for all your own files but the homeless can only afford solid hosting for text?
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If someone wants to provide a free image server for homeless people's movies, I hope they will. Maybe I'll even do it, if I have the extra money.
What do you mean by "the cultural record"? Who's cultural record? If you just mean their own, then yes whoever made the movie will have it in his own "cultural record", and any friends he can show it to.
But whyshould this person be given free resources and donated labor to have their movie inserted into someone ELSE's cultural record? What privilege does this filmmaker have that no matter how much people like or dislike the movie, it should end up - with it's rent paid out of others people's pockets - in some larger record than his own?
I bet there will be at least one brilliant AI movie written and carefully sculpted by a homeless person and then lost to time. Could even be you or me, you never know.
But not everyone has empathy so I focus on the brutal reality of how this shit is gonna end up.
"Ballot or bullet, you better choose one."
When Killer Mike wrote that sentence, he was mainly saying every individual must uphold their duty as a member of a democracy, and if they truly feel ballots are not a way to make any difference, then they must be ready to fight.
In the case of people who own servers or can afford to host all their content on the cloud or whatever, these are the people who control communication infrastructure. The choice between "ballot or bullet" isn't just individual when you control communication infrastructure. The holders of a centralized, censored communication infrastructure must choose between the ballot or the bullet for which type of votes they would like cast and counted in general, not only in their own case. If you'd like to decide winners by counting ballots instead of bullets, and you own a server or can afford all the cloud hosting you can think of uses for, then you must try not to let that movie be lost to time whether you care about the movie or the person or not.
We agree. If someone owns some infrastructure, they can CHOOSE to host someone else's content, for free, for whatever reason they like (culture, democracy, empathy, etc).
But now you are talking about an individual's sovereign infrastructure and their own individual choices - which is literally the same thing I'm saying.
We only half agree. I'm saying I'm a commie and I will look down on anyone who sees communication infrastructure as sovereign individual property in an era where it's got bullshit centralized censorship going on and everyone should be focused on solving that. Furthermore, we're going into world war 3 and all this bullshit censorship is ultimately people choosing to fight because they can't handle hearing each other's ideas to solve differences in life.
I'll choose to focus on the half where we do agree and ignore everything else. After all, I'm a sovereign individual and I am free to do so :D
I'm going to doubly-ignore your "everyone should..." recommendations. No thanks, I'll do what I like.
You're having cognitive dissonance or something. Get a grip.