presses the green checkmark button the day after tomorrow

Someone just watched “the secret” or “what the bleep do we know!?” For the first time

>Humans are all driven by what they perceive as their best interest

Not necessarily at the expense of everyone and everything else though. Certainly for a long time I considered my main life goal as helping others - but I found that the people that needed help the most seemed to not listen to advice and rather fixated an attempts at exploitation.

>So when there are no jobs (this will never happen) we can talk about a UBI ok?

We can talk about it now, no problem.

> The cause was bad government policy that allowed people to get loans that they couldn't afford.

Incorrect. The cause was financial institutions giving loans to people they KNEW would end up defaulting.

It was made possible by deregulation, but it wasn't the government who actually made it happen. You COULD say that the government LET it happen, but it was really an inside job.

Those financial institutions were the cause and some of them are no longer around because of it. Frankly, we should have taken them over and made them a government institution for the good of the people. And that really SHOULD be the penalty for ANY company that betrays the public trust. Especially when the failure of it will cause widespread financial calamity.

So how do you force a supplier to ramp up their supply when they don't have to work as hard, spend as much resources, and will make MORE money by limiting the supply? What if they are a monopoly like an energy, medicine, or food provider?

>What you should be afraid of is people in power no longer needing to obey you.

This already occurs, but we have a process in place to remedy that with voting.

What remedy do I have when the single broadband provider in my neighborhood doubles it's prices for internet, considering that being connected is part of my livelihood? I take it on the chin.

What do I do when gas prices skyrocket? What do I do when food or electricity doubles in price? What can we do when healthcare costs quadruple in a 10 year period? We take it on the chin because we have no alternatives.

I'm capable, and I can afford it, but what is something that chips away at my finances may ruin a family who is not doing so well. When business won't do the right thing, you have to regulate them to DO the right thing.

The problem we're seeing is one that will cause repercussions YEARS down the road. Less people are having kids. Less people are spending on house. Less people are buying new cars. Less people are splurging on vacations. All that money that COULD be going into the economy is going on things they consider essential because they have no choice. Pooling that money into these industries that are ALREADY making record profits is bad for the economy, and bad for the citizens.

Ah yes, concern and precaution, the trademark of idiots.

“The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else ."

That’s a cold ass thing to say to a motherfucker.

do you think we would eventually get bored of fdvr?

Knowledge management. Arguably one of the better things Google got popular on. The ability to quickly and reliably search for things on the internet.

AdA?

Yes, because fascists have never lied to make themselves look good before

Could also be possible that models become 2x or 10x more efficient. GPT-3 was not optimised for cost, just for performance.

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Inspect Element exists

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Why are you complaining? At least four of your accounts have been permanently suspended

Price control is opposite of what you want. Prices will drive down to nearly nothing if supply is pushed. What you should be afraid of is people in power no longer needing to obey you. Increasing government control or power is quick way to extinction when robots do all the work.

IMO it'll be much more decentralized with lots of smaller companies and individuals benefiting the most.

World tends to swing back and forth between decentralized and heavily centralized order of things. 90-s and early 2000s was decentralized invention explosion. 2010s were when most successful startups capitalized on their success and maximized their potential. But this approach today is hitting significant diminishing returns - hence all the layoffs. It's too centralized, too large, too slow to react.

Right now the world is right after it's peak centralization and swinging right back towards decentralization and rapid change of landscape again like in 90s and 2000s.

You see hundreds of thousands of small startups having millions of ideas on how to do things that are much more capable today because of stagnation brought on by excessive centralization and because technology today require significantly less labor, but more ideas.

And this trend will continue. At least during this decade.

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Yes can’t wait AI to be used in music. Would be insane if someone develop an AI to describe a synthesizer recipe from a track.

Shouldn't you be busy spamming "WORKING PEOPLE'S COMRADES" right now or something, Consaine?

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> I am now referring to the evacuation of the Jews, the extermination of the Jewish people. It's one of those things that is easily said: 'The Jewish people are being exterminated', says every party member, 'this is very obvious, it's in our program, elimination of the Jews, extermination, we're doing it, hah, a small matter.' And then they turn up, the upstanding 80 million Germans, and each one has his decent Jew. They say the others are all swines, but this particular one is a splendid Jew. But none has observed it, endured it. Most of you here know what it means when 100 corpses lie next to each other, when there are 500 or when there are 1,000. To have endured this and at the same time to have remained a decent person — with exceptions due to human weaknesses — has made us tough, and is a glorious chapter that has not and will not be spoken of. Because we know how difficult it would be for us if we still had Jews as secret saboteurs, agitators and rabble-rousers in every city, what with the bombings, with the burden and with the hardships of the war. If the Jews were still part of the German nation, we would most likely arrive now at the state we were at in 1916 and 17

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> I ask of you that that which I say to you in this circle be really only heard and not ever discussed. We were faced with the question: what about the women and children? – I decided to find a clear solution to this problem too. I did not consider myself justified to exterminate the men – in other words, to kill them or have them killed and allow the avengers of our sons and grandsons in the form of their children to grow up. The difficult decision had to be made to have this people disappear from the earth.

• Heinreich Himmler, 1943

If you are unironically saying the Holocaust wasn't intentional, or that it was "faked" or exaggerated, you have either been lied to, or you are maliciously spreading Nazi propaganda, as I have seen multiple neo-nazis outright admit that Holocaust denial is nothing but a propaganda tactic

I explicitly spoke of the concept of art in a social way. Each individual can consider art what he wants. For you a drawing of a bird is art, but that is only your opinion. The truth is that a drawing is not art, its just a drawing. If that doesn't convey anything to others, what you think is irrelevant.

In the end, the point is that you can't decide for others what is art. It is decided by collective consensus of each culture. That is what you must refute if you want to say that my approach is wrong. Which is not objectively possible, unless you can break the freedom of human thought.

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