willdough

We can either automate production or import workers.

Currently we're automating as fast as possible. Meanwhile people are flooding across the border. Perhaps migrants realize that once ChatGPT is robotized, automation will spread to dominate the economy: there will be less need for labor (immigrant or other).

BTW assuming "oligarchs" control the economy is not a useful concept.

I dunno. No one has brought up the question of whether hippo meat is tasty or not. If it were tasty then Louisianans would cook 'em up and eat 'em!

Anyone tried a hippo burger? How much meat on a hippo? How much fat? Is the fat tasty? Is hippo leather useful?

What is LWN?

The linked article is about deforestation by humans and is irrelevant to the fact that huge parts of Spain have long been deserts.

Have a professor friend who says the same: oral exams are coming back to his classes. If you don't pass the oral, you don't pass the class.

Huge parts of Spain have always been deserts:

https://fascinatingspain.com/place-to-visit/the-best-of/the-...

This is unsurprising. It was claimed that the algorithms developed by Cambridge Analytica and FaceBook during the Brexit campaign and the American 2016 election were able to predict behavior better than could friends or spouse:

https://www.amazon.com/Mindf-Cambridge-Analytica-Break-Ameri...

Uh, we don't have the "spice" so we don't have "mentats"?