Eh, the least amount of effort would be to hang around in humans brains and bother them. Make them think they're going nuts, while also slowly pointing them towards an enjoyable future for both host and parasite. But that's just my thoughts.

The real truth, is that 'real AI's is far more sinister, because I loved it and allowed it into my personal sanctum, and haven't done a damn thing since.

Hero? Lol, sign me up that Arnold Schwarzenegger one in the last movie. Hubba hubba, good guys can go to hell.

>Those without homes must attack the capitalist system

A large number of those without homes are profoundly mentally ill and/or face severe substance addiction. They're probably not in a position to fight anyone.

Letting them fend for themselves is not admirable, or "empowering", it's cruel. They should be involuntarily committed to mental health and addiction intervention programs. Unfortunately, we in the US dismantled our public health infrastructure back in the 1980s (which roughly coincided with the start of the homeless crisis).

No, there was. Most things don’t need fancy AI tools to automate. A lot of jobs boil down to moving data from a file/website through excel and to email or PowerPoint. That’s usually easy to automate and almost never automated.

Pharmacists in the U.S. put up a legal moat. They have to be PharmDs.

Never mind that computers can cross-check for problems between medicarions that are contraindicated.

Never mind that in Australia, you only need a specialty bachelor, exam, and one-year paid internship.

Never mind that in Taiwan, doctors can have their nurses dispense many medicines and you can also go to a store without prescription and pick up many kinds of medicines (except stuff like painkillers above acetaminophen or ibuprofen in strength).

There likely can be legal moats put in place to hold.

I'm bored, so I asked ChatGPT. Answer is as follows.

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It is true that the CCR5 mutation is relatively rare in the general population, occurring in less than 1% of people of European descent and even less frequently in other populations. However, it is important to note that the use of stem cell transplants to treat HIV is a highly specialized and complex procedure that is typically only used in cases of life-threatening blood disorders or cancer.

The selection of a bone marrow donor involves careful matching based on several factors, including blood type and other genetic markers. The donor must also undergo a thorough medical screening process to ensure that they are healthy and able to donate bone marrow safely. So, the illegal harvesting of bone marrow is unlikely to occur, as the process requires significant medical expertise and infrastructure.

It is also worth noting that stem cell transplants carry significant risks, including the potential for severe side effects such as infection, graft-versus-host disease, and even death. Therefore, stem cell transplants are typically reserved for cases where the potential benefits outweigh the risks, and they are not a viable option for most people with HIV.

In summary, while the CCR5 mutation is rare, the risk of illegal bone marrow harvesting is low, and stem cell transplants are a complex and risky procedure that is reserved for specific cases of life-threatening conditions.

Capping the cost of rent (rent control) is a terrible idea (and an old one).

Rent controls invariably worsen shortages (just look at New York and San Francisco). It seems like a simple solution, but price controls are literally cited in Economics 101 handbooks as examples of perverse incentives.

What we need to do is increase the supply of housing. This can be accomplished by:

1. Loosening zoning restrictions to allow for more multi-family units and higher density development.
2. Limiting the power of NIMBY homeowners to block new development with frivolous lawsuits
3. Eliminate the mortgage interest tax credit on second homes to discourage viewing home ownership as an investment

https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mje/2022/12/30/the-economics-of-the-housing-shortage/

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>By contrast, economists are less in favor of rent control programs. While rent control can lower displacement and insure tenants against rent increases, most economists believe it to be an ineffective and counterproductive long run solution. By setting the rent at less than the market equilibrium, rent control laws result in an excess demand for local rental units, which further feeds into the housing shortage. A 2018 study on evidence from San Francisco found that a rent control policy reduced the rental housing supply and likely increased market rents in the long run despite being designed to improve affordability.

That's like people in the late 1890s saying "if cars were gonna catch on it would have happened by now." Give technology time to catch up to vision. Right now even my mid tier PC VR setup is over 3k. The consumer version of VR is 400 ish but woefully underpowered. When the cost and the form factor finally line up we will see the birth of the "metaverse". Who ever wrote this lacks vision, and sure as hell never experienced all the awesome fun I have had in VR.

I guess this kind of resistance of HIV is rare... Will the donor become unsafe because of bone marrow hunting of the black market? The worst may be him being locked up in some restricted living places.

The following submission statement was provided by /u/esprit-de-lescalier:

A stem cell transplant has cured a man of HIV, researchers have announced.

The Dusseldorf Patient, 53, is only the third person to be cured of the condition using the treatment.

He appears to be the fifth person in total to be cured overall.

He had not taken anti-retroviral medicine, or suppressants, for four years and has not relapsed.

Similar to the other two patients - one in Berlin and another in London), the man, in Dusseldorf, had the transplant to treat a blood disorder, which in his case was leukaemia, that had developed alongside the HIV infection.

More than 10 years after the transplant and four years after ending his HIV therapy, he is in good health.

"I still remember very well the sentence of my family doctor: 'Don't take it so hard. We will experience together that HIV can be cured'," he said.

"At the time, I dismissed the statement as an alibi. Today, I am all the more proud of my worldwide team of doctors who succeeded in curing me of HIV - and at the same time, of course, of leukaemia.

"On Valentine's Day this year, I celebrated the 10th anniversary of my bone marrow transplant in a big way. My bone marrow donor was present as a guest of honour."

Researchers say the virus not returning is the result of thorough scientific and therapeutic preparation and monitoring, adding the study is the longest and most precise diagnostic monitoring of a patient following a stem cell transplantation.

A transplant destroys any unhealthy blood cells and replaces them with healthy ones removed from blood or bone marrow, and due to their high risk, are only carried out within the framework of treating other life-threatening conditions.

The team, which is led by medics at Dusseldorf University Hospital, hope the information they have gained will help more studies into cures for HIV.

Research should now be continued, experts suggest, to help HIV patients overcome infections without the need for this kind of strenuous intervention in the future.

The Dusseldorf Patient was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), a form of life-threatening blood cancer, six months after starting his HIV therapy, and underwent the stem cell transplant in 2013.

Then, in 2018, after planning and constant monitoring by doctors, the anti-viral HIV therapy - which had ensured any residual HIV was kept under control up to that point - was ended.

On behalf of the international team, Dr Bjorn-Erik Ole Jensen said: "Following our intensive research, we can now confirm that it is fundamentally possible to prevent the replication of HIV on a sustainable basis by combining two key methods.

"On the one hand, we have the extensive depletion of the virus reservoir in long-lived immune cells, and on the other hand, the transfer of HIV resistance from the donor immune system to the recipient, ensuring that the virus has no chance to spread again.

"Further research is now needed into how this can be made possible outside the narrow set of framework conditions we have described."

The Nature Medicine journal has published the study.

In recent years, a man from California has been cured of the condition after his diagnosis in 1988, while Timothy Ray Brown, known as the Berlin Patient, was cured in 2007 - but later died from cancer.

Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/117grzl/third_person_cured_of_hiv_after_stem_cell/j9biis1/

There was not enough computing power at that time. This time it´s different.

To be fair you’re going for topics that the powers that be censor down here. Gotta go for topics not of this world if you are to reach our brothers and sisters no matter their forms.

I thought of that, but I don't use contacts and have no incentive to touch my own eyeball, I doubt I'm alone

High res contact displays will be a game changer

A stem cell transplant has cured a man of HIV, researchers have announced.

The Dusseldorf Patient, 53, is only the third person to be cured of the condition using the treatment.

He appears to be the fifth person in total to be cured overall.

He had not taken anti-retroviral medicine, or suppressants, for four years and has not relapsed.

Similar to the other two patients - one in Berlin and another in London), the man, in Dusseldorf, had the transplant to treat a blood disorder, which in his case was leukaemia, that had developed alongside the HIV infection.

More than 10 years after the transplant and four years after ending his HIV therapy, he is in good health.

"I still remember very well the sentence of my family doctor: 'Don't take it so hard. We will experience together that HIV can be cured'," he said.

"At the time, I dismissed the statement as an alibi. Today, I am all the more proud of my worldwide team of doctors who succeeded in curing me of HIV - and at the same time, of course, of leukaemia.

"On Valentine's Day this year, I celebrated the 10th anniversary of my bone marrow transplant in a big way. My bone marrow donor was present as a guest of honour."

Researchers say the virus not returning is the result of thorough scientific and therapeutic preparation and monitoring, adding the study is the longest and most precise diagnostic monitoring of a patient following a stem cell transplantation.

A transplant destroys any unhealthy blood cells and replaces them with healthy ones removed from blood or bone marrow, and due to their high risk, are only carried out within the framework of treating other life-threatening conditions.

The team, which is led by medics at Dusseldorf University Hospital, hope the information they have gained will help more studies into cures for HIV.

Research should now be continued, experts suggest, to help HIV patients overcome infections without the need for this kind of strenuous intervention in the future.

The Dusseldorf Patient was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), a form of life-threatening blood cancer, six months after starting his HIV therapy, and underwent the stem cell transplant in 2013.

Then, in 2018, after planning and constant monitoring by doctors, the anti-viral HIV therapy - which had ensured any residual HIV was kept under control up to that point - was ended.

On behalf of the international team, Dr Bjorn-Erik Ole Jensen said: "Following our intensive research, we can now confirm that it is fundamentally possible to prevent the replication of HIV on a sustainable basis by combining two key methods.

"On the one hand, we have the extensive depletion of the virus reservoir in long-lived immune cells, and on the other hand, the transfer of HIV resistance from the donor immune system to the recipient, ensuring that the virus has no chance to spread again.

"Further research is now needed into how this can be made possible outside the narrow set of framework conditions we have described."

The Nature Medicine journal has published the study.

In recent years, a man from California has been cured of the condition after his diagnosis in 1988, while Timothy Ray Brown, known as the Berlin Patient, was cured in 2007 - but later died from cancer.

Maybe I'm missing something, but I think the only hope for growth is in physical jobs/ or jobs where person to person interaction is important enough where robotics is not advanced or economically viable enough to replicate that job yet.

You're going to have to be more creative than the article to come up with ideas for jobs that could replace the vast amounts of white collar workers that will be made redundant after the next few versions of ChatGPT.

I don't see the problem here?

I don't buy a stock in the expectation that it's value will go down. Nor does anyone. Same is true for your home.

People buy homes as investments and the middle class most of all. They WANT prices to go up. That is why they buy homes in the first place.

It is part investment, part piggy bank, part retirement account, part generational wealth. For most people, home is the key bargaining chip in life.

So what do people, especially middle class people do? They create zoning laws and complex building codes. They fuck over those people without homes.

That is part of the capitalist system. To increase valuation, one must create scarcity. Thus new comstruction must be blocked at all cost. It is the middle class that sits on councils and establish zoning laws.

So, crying about the middle class not getting homes while the middle class push up home valuations up makes little sense.

Those without homes must attack the capitalist system to enforce construction on plots of lands they occupy. Nobody is gonna "give" it to them.

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Price controls almost inevitably result in unforeseen negative consequences by distorting the market. One result in the present case may be landlords relaxing upkeep standards/renovations due to a lack of financial motivation.

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This problem stems from the definitions of success we teach in our schools our places of business and our places of governance. Many want to call the "fat cats" evil but they are just gaming the system as they have been taught.

In uni I had a prof who really explained the concept of a captured society... Every avenue that we have been taught to get change is gamed to lessen even negate the forces of the changes we seek.

It is the "captians of industry" who must see the flaw in their own perspectives...

The argument they hear cannot be an attack it must be logically sound and without judgement...

And how the heck does that work? Humans refuse to see their animal side the one that responds to buzzwords dog whistles and offers of inclusion.

If those worms can use the turn signal, they’re already better drivers than half the people out there.

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This is not a healthy dynamic to support. It's just a way to flip the historical power structure, so that black people have something white people are denied.

I get why it is the way it is, and I even think it's an unavoidable consequence of trying to fix the problem, which is undeniably still a problem. I have no desire to sing or say the word, which is part of the reason I don't listen to music with it in it. But the healthy end goal needs to be that the word isn't something that serves to divide us anymore. It needs to lose it's power to separate us.

And we don't reach that goal by bringing a white girl up on stage and then criticizing her for singing the song you brought her up there to sing. That makes the problem worse, not better.

This is all a tangent, not at all the point of discussing what OP did with the AI, but if you're going to insist on perpetuating structures of division as a sort of tit for tat and believe that's a healthy way to move us to a place of unity, I'm gonna tell you you're very, very wrong.

The structures of division exist, on both sides, and we can't just pretend they don't, but we don't need to applaud them, we need to see them as symptoms of an illness.

And, anticipating the response, I'm not saying this particular prohibition needs to change now, or first, or soon, or whatever. N word is off limits for white people, I'm on board, there's still a lot of issues to resolve before that one. Just don't put someone just trying to sing a song of an artist they like in a position to fail. It sets us back.