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AI vs Public Libraries

I asked an AI to come up with reasons to abolish public libraries. I can't dispute # 11!

I asked an AI (https://app.inferkit.com/demo) to come up with reasons to abolish public libraries. Like all such algorithms it just makes stuff up, but I can't argue with # 11!

Reasons to abolish public libraries

1. They spend a lot of money that could go to improving city parks and recreation facilities
2. They encourage laziness and bad habits
3. They are dead centers of social oppression.
4. People find value in library loans but then don't bother reading the material.
5. They are locked up and have no access to the wider world.
6. They should provide affordable books for poor people and need-based books for those with money.
7. They charge a lot of money.
8. They are basically like a department store in which you have no product control.
9. You have to use a card.
10. They are books. What could be more anti-libertarian?
11. You can go to the library and get lost.
12. They are staffed by liberal "open-access" people who like the notion of book competition but don't want to do anything about it.
13. They don't help me find books.
14. They don't sell books.
15. They should offer the same books on every subject, and charge the same rates.
16. Some readers prefer to be helped by someone else.
17. They have no consistent, clear message, which makes them easy targets.
18. They provide peer-to-peer loan services, which seems to put them on the side of unfair lending practices.
19. They only sell books that are already in print.
20. They haven't figured out how to sell electronic books.
21. They don't have any current authors.
22. The books are changed frequently.
23. They have been incorporated into the public school system, which is a very bad idea for books of any kind.
24. They are part of the Internet, which many people hate.
25. They are the center of the universe, and most people want to avoid them.
26. They have been co-opted by big government groups, which seems to be the case in many places where they are still open.
27. They are close to post offices. That's very bad for books.
28. They are located in city centers, which makes them easy targets for urban planners.
29. They have obstructed open-source printing presses.
30. They are a place where people hide away to smoke. That's terrible for books.
31. If you are a reclusive librarian, you should quit your job and move far away.