It’s how all those Russian oligarchs feel so comfortable in London,

You know, when they sell apartments for $150m, i’ve always suspected it’s a kind of money laundering.

I.e. person A gives drugs to person B, and person B in return purchases an apartment from person A for $150m, thus creating the impression of a legit money transfer.

more like colonized, i.e. fucked in the ass

colonized, analyzed, rectified.

England has nothing else to do. England is the ruins of an once great empire. It can’t go back to its own glorious past, and it has therefore no way forward. If england does not adhere to the USA, it is nobody, it has nothing, and it can do nothing. At least that’s what they’re thinking.

and then elevating the crime to terrorism.

one man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist

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i doubt that

who controls social media, controls the narrative and that makes a big difference. that is why we need community-owned, anarchistic social media alternatives (the fediverse).

People are exhausted from work and that’s what causes them to perceive everything in an ugly light. Because it turns out, when you’re not doing well (mentally, emotionally), that skews your perception so everything looks a bit more ugly to you.

It’s amazing how quickly people dismiss technological capabilities as mundane that would have been miraculous just a few years earlier.

yep, and it’s also amazing how people think new technologies are impossible, until they happen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Machines_Which_Do_Not_Fly

“Flying Machines Which Do Not Fly” is an editorial published in the New York Times on October 9, 1903. The article incorrectly predicted it would take one to ten million years for humanity to develop an operating flying machine.[1] It was written in response to Samuel Langley’s failed airplane experiment two days prior. Sixty-nine days after the article’s publication, American brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright successfully achieved the first heavier-than-air flight on December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

Current Ai has no shot of being as smart as humans, it’s simply not sophisticated enough.

you know what’s also not very sophisticated? the chemistry periodic table. yet all variety of life (of which there is plenty) is based on it.

I have been having this vision you described for quite some time now.

As time progresses, availability of resources on earth increases because we learn to process and collect them more efficiently; but on the other hand, number of jobs (or, demand for human labor) decreases continuously, because more and more work gets automated.

So, if you’d draw a diagram, it would look something like this:

X-axis is time. As we progress into the future, that completely changes the game. Instead of being a society that is driven by a constant shortage of resources and a constant lack of workers (causing a high demand for workers and a lot of jobs), it’d be a society with a shortage of jobs (and therefore meaningful employment), but with an abundance of resources. What do we do with such a world?

that’s already broadly discussed . there’s tons of articles like this one. just use your favorite search engine for “ceos replaced by ai”,

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“annex” in the sense of “🥺️👉️👈️”

what people get from foreign invasions is a change of government, so they often even support this. but i doubt canada would be up for it, considering how much stress it could bring to them.

just like animals need to keep circulating blood to stay alive, so does the economy need to continue circulating consumer goods and products. without it, it’s dead and becomes worthless rather rapidly.

basically, the economy has a stark interest in keeping consumerism running. that’s in fact such a large interest that it even justifies taxing the rich and redistributing money sothat it can flow in circles (from bottom to top, from top to bottom).

The research shows that - while engineers think AI makes them more about 20% more productive - it actually causes an approximate 20% slow-down.

AI cannot use logic or reason. Everything it outputs is a hallucination, even if it’s sometimes accurate. You cannot trust anything it outputs.

Research shows that - while people think having more people in the household gets the housework done faster - babies actually cause an approximate 100% increase in time spent on housework.

Children cannot use logic or reason. Everything they output is brabbling, even if it sometimes resembles actual works. You cannot trust anything they say. Parents are stupid for having them. (/s)

Developers see AI as a “child” that might need many years to grow up, but it’s still worth all the trouble they go through. It’s an emotional choice, not a rational one.

You’re absolutely right!

I completely messed up the picture. It should be the other way around. Do you want me to correct my mistake and generate a new picture?

/s

Make no mistake, a civil war is coming, trump is building his own private army (ICE) and now he’s getting his intelligence services ramped up. this can’t be good.

while i understand your approach, your ideas might not be enforceable.

what if the offender is located in some other country where there are no sexual offense laws? i’m not so sure on the details but such a location certainly exists. then you can’t really get them out of the way. but on the other hand, the internet has no real borders so they can still connect to the rest of the world.

essentially, some kind of content-warning system needs to be established for certain platforms that are not guaranteed clean. this might affect gaming platforms, such as roblox. either they implement better quality controls or they don’t get a “clean”-label.

parents can then set a checkbox that allows their children’s computer to only show “clean” content.

why not sue Intel for making a processor that allowed the game to be played and discord to be used?

actually, lots of people are taking this approach

actually, restricting what operating system you can run on your smartphone is exactly that. you can only run stock android/iOS (if you don’t want a whole lot of other stresses) and those in turn restrict what apps you can run on them …

it’s not a good way, let me tell you, i just wrote an article about why this is so bad yesterday (it’s not finished yet or i’d post it here)

to sum it up: we need generic computing devices (“general purpose computing device”) that you can run any software on. (this includes installing any operating system you want trouble-free). there’s philosophical background to that idea, including “the software must act in the interest of the user, and since the hardware can’t know the user’s interest, it must be open to any software”.

right now, android/apple phones are not that. they’re targeted at one specific operating system. we need a label “general purpose computing device” that is applied as an attestation of good quality to phones that can run any operating system (trouble-free). this especially includes unlocking and re-locking the bootloader.

possibly this isn’t for everyone, but it should at least be a possibility. :D