Motion: To Ban Objectivists and Pro-IP Libertarians from Using Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Whereas retarded pro-IP libertarians and most Objectivists favor intellectual property (IP) such as patent and copyright law,

Whereas patent law impedes innovation and violates property rights, and

Whereas copyright law censors speech and the press, distorts culture, violates property rights, threatens Internet freedom, and is now already hampering and impeding the development of AI technology,

I hereby move: To Ban and Estop¹ Objectivists and Pro-IP Libertarians from Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) since by advocating IP they seek to hamper AI technology itself.²

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I’m reminded here of Ayn Rand’s angry cursing of Nathaniel Branden after she discovered his lies and affairs: “If you have an ounce of morality left in you, an ounce of psychological health—you’ll be impotent for the next twenty years! And if you achieve any potency, you’ll know it’s a sign of still worse moral degradation!” Likewise, one would think that Sandefur, after having the terrible judgment to support the Iraq War, might refrain from commenting in public on libertarian matters for a while, or at least on matters of war.³

1. “Punishment and Proportionality: The Estoppel Approach,” Journal of Libertarian Studies 12, no. 1 (Spring 1996): 51–73; “Estoppel: A New Justification for Individual Rights,” Reason Papers No. 17 (Fall 1992): 61–74; “Dialogical Arguments for Libertarian Rights,” in The Dialectics of Liberty (Lexington Books, 2019); The Genesis of Estoppel: My Libertarian Rights Theory. [↩]
2. Libertarian and IP Answer Man: Artificial Intelligence and IP. [↩]
3. See similar comments on pro-war libertarians at The “deeply dishonest” opponents of the President …. [↩]