That’s just a decision we made about what is taxable.

Purely an accounting artifact. We can pass a wealth tax tomorrow and it’ll suddenly be taxable.

Net worth is real money, and is usually a very accurate measure of what people can realize. There are a few outliers who own so much that they’d move the market if they sold it all. Selling 2% to cover taxes? Not going to move the market very much.

It completely solves the problem. I recommend you read “progress and poverty” to get a better understanding of it.

You don’t seem to understand how it works or what it does.

I do understand how it works, are you saying that the zoning will magically be fixed when the taxes go up or the land becomes more exlusive? because I can tell you which one has precedent and which one is wishful thinking.

Arson would be irrelevant for land taxes.

This is irrelevant. Who cares if someone has to type in “optimize paperclips” for it to go rogue. Same effect in the end.

The government can do whatever it wants. Laws are written by the government. We have a democracy. If enough votes exist to, say, pass a law banning drug dealing (like meta does), then the company will die.

Simple as that

Ah yes, the old 3 hour grocery list negotiation. This must be the lauded efficiency the capitalists are always on about.

Kinda happens if you go to the wrong store.

What happens if there's no agreement, you either walk away or concede to buy at lowest offered price? Seems like the store's AI should stick to its guns every time if you're already in the store.

But Google is a monopoly, so you have little choice in the matter.

Unfortunately these things are never so clean as in the theoretical model. As a monopoly, there are likely many situations where interaction with said monopoly is unavoidable.

Or, and here’s a crazy idea, people don’t like AI.

Something being useful doesn’t mean people like it. Burning Coal is useful. Anybody who’s read anything about coal as a power source doesn’t like it.

Like coal, AI has a bunch of problems that collectively make it undesirable as a technology

I mean it's not like the other players are any more responsible. Everyone is building a black box they don't understand, hoping it'll turn out fine. No theoretical framework, just successive training runs, a blind man in the dark.

I was definitely referring to all the players in this space. It's an arms race largely composed of soulless ghouls.