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I love these confident claims! It sounds like you really know what you are talking about. It's either that or you are projecting. Could you elaborate? I for one find the level of intelligence quite real, I use AIs to do a lot of quite complex stuff for me nowadays. I have an agent that keeps my calendar, schedules appointments with people that want meetings with me, summarizes emails and add these summaries to notion and breaks them up in todo-lists, answers questions about libraries and APIs, writes most of my code (although I do need to hold it's hand and it cannot improve by learning from me).

A processor? Luuuxury! In my time we worked twenty-six hours a day, did all the calculations with pen and paper and would be thrilled to use an abacus!

Its clearly only half of the answer.

The complete answer of the universe would of course be 42cm.

Presumably because C = performance?

Although I think it really depends on how you structure your program.

No this is not the middle that should be considered.

Nobody really thinks that AI is useless anymore. We disagree on timelines, we disagree on how useful it will be, but the extremes are not between useful and useless (although some people believe it will not change anything, but pretty fringe). The real extremes here are "evil god AGI" and "benevolent god AGI". This piece takes the road where they say: it's pretty powerful/useful, but it's not a godlike something because it's not everywhere, all the time, at once. It will change the world, but over a pretty long timespan and it will feel like normal technology. It will be used for evil and good.

You could make insider trading legal by law, but that would destroy a lot of the stock market because all non-insiders would basically set themselves up to be ripped off.

As a counterpoint: Most countries in Europe don't really have credit scores, but mortgages still exist. We even balk at the idea of needing to take on debt to show you are good for it.

It's an interesting thought. I have had a similar thought about AI and consciousness while tripping. But there are many pros and cons that just end up in speculation. Which is interesting but not very productive?

Like taking quite a high dose, having no visuals, no interesting thoughts just an endless itch in the throat, that gets progressively worse and worse until it consumes you completely. Haha

There are also other problems: while on acid once I came to a realisation that really changed how I experienced things later on. My realisation was that most of my perceptions of things were really "coloured" by a layer of society. For example, during that trip I found some husks of dead lobsters, that were sundried and quite rotten and gory. But during the trip they were this amazing structure of iridescent craziness on a dimpled hard and shiny shell, combined with dried out half rotted soft meat on the inside. I knew that I should keep the germs away from my mouth or cuts/wounds and I think I played and analysed it for a bit, being amazed by its structure, textures and colours. After that the trip got a bit stronger and the focus was on other things, however. Some hours after the trip I came by the same place that I had happenstanced the lobster husk. The same lobster was lying there. It was ugly and disgusting. I had washed my hands thoroughly after playing with it but really had an urge to wash my hands again. I laughed at how my amazement of the dead lobster had felt so profound just hours earlier.

But. The next day after a nice rest I actually started to see that many things are actually very special and beautiful but our upbringing has destroyed the ability to experience this beauty. Society has teached us that rotten things are ugly. But that is just a layer on your perception. The materiality of things has their intention embedded in them and if their intention is of great beauty, then the materiality tends to be beautiful as well.

What I am trying to say is that first order dismissal of "deep insights" might not be warranted. You might have really had a deep insight, but you cannot correctly assess it because the setting has changed.

Yes. APL is written in symbols

russia voted for or abstained from voting about the intervention in Libya if i remember correctly

Thats not true. Social housing does exactly that.

I see a few possible scenarios.

1) all work gets done by AI. Owners of AI reap the benefits for a while. There is a race to the bottom concerning costs, but also because people are not earning wages and come ang really afford the outputs of production. Thus rendering profits close to zero. If the people controlling the systems do not give the people "on the bottom" some kind allowance they will not have any chance for income. They might ask horrible and sadistic things from the bottom people but they will need to do something.

2) if people get pushed into these situations they will get riot or start civil wars. "Butlerian jihads" will be quite normal.

3) another scenario is that the society controlled by the rich will start to criminalise non-work in the early stages, that will lead to a new slave class. I find this scenario highly likely.

4) one of the options that I find very likely if "useless" people do NOT get "culled" en mass is an initial period of Revolt followed an AI controlled communist "Utopia". Where people do not need to work but "own" the means of production (AI workers). Nobody needs to work. Work is LARPing and is done by people who act like workers but don't really do anything (like some people do today) A lot of people don't do this, there are still people who see non-workers as leeching of the workers, because workers are "rewarded" by ingame mechanics (having a "better job"). Parallel societies will become normal. Just like now. Rich people will give themselves "better jobs" some people dont play the game and there are no real consequences, but not being allowed to play.

5) an amalgamation of the scenario as above, but in this scenario everybody will be forced to larp with the asset owning class. They will give people "jobs" but these jobs are bullshit. Just like many jobs right now. Jobs are just a way of creating different social classes. There is no meritocracy. Just rituals. Some people get to do certain rituals that give them more social status and wealth. This is based on oligarch whims. Once in a while a revolt, but mostly not needed.

Many other scenarios exist of course.

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Explain to me in English why that statement is a progressive left statement.

I really dont buy the premisse of this piece. I can easily make the same sounds with an underbite

I will call it as it is from now on as well

But they could... Its just not made yet.

You do this by knowing the talking points and asking the right questions. Many questions cant be answered easily. And this leads to Rethinking.

Its the new doublethink. Destroying is "making great", messing up is cleaning up, taking by force is "buying".

What about if you hack a lost wallet and then you transfer the coins to yourself. No proof of work needed then. It is just there, in your wallet.

You mean like a blueprint of a machine? Because that is exactly how machines are usually presented in official documentation. To me the skill of understanding how "2d/code" translates to "3d/program execution" is exactly the skill that sets amateurs apart from pros, saying that, I consider myself an amateur in code and a professional in mechanical design.

This. What makes this extra "funny" is that it implies that at least every business that builds something that can move information around must be knowledgeable about tianenman square and other chinese atrocities. Or else they would not be able to censor relevant questions. I have been to China a bunch of times and generally, they know what horrible things the Chinese gov did. They either say something like: "Yeah well, we live in a dictatorship, but it's not that bad" Or: "Yeah, the government is fucked up, but look at the government of the USA! We don't start wars in other countries and put in puppet governments." And there are so many good counters to both these arguments.

I think they are, but causality is the other way around. A lot of gang originate from prison. Its really logical too, you put all the crime-graduates in a place together and you think they wont become friends and partners in crime?

Dont you love Assembly-theory? Evolution is everywhere

So much S's a nice tongue twister

Seeing Sweden seize suspected sea sabotage ships.

No thats not true. Hedge funds get paid so well because getting a small percentage of a big bag of money is still a big bag of money. This statement is more true the closer the big bag of money is to infinity.

They are better than other guns though.