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Information is absolutely stuff.




How much does that thought cost? How much does it weigh?

Information absolutely has a cost, somebody had to create it.

Weight is just nonsense. Physical presence is not a hard requirement for value.


> Physical presence is not a hard requirement for value.

Physical presence is a requirement for stuff. Stuff has value because of the balance between supply and demand. Information that has been digitally encoded has literally infinite supply. Information only has any value in the context of imaginary property laws that impose artificial scarcity.

AI companies downloading information is not subsidizing AI companies. Imposing imaginary property law is stealing from the public domain. Everyone's public domain.




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