Do you really think they will work towards a universal basic income?

probably, if we let it simmer for a few more years. an UBI would actually be good for the economy. they’re “growth-oriented” (greedy), not stupid.

so you are saying, if people are not being kept, then they would die? like a pet that can’t care for itself? do you think that people are that dependent on government to provide for them? are you not an anarchist?

well, i’d go as far as to say that the reason why politicians haven’t cared about people in ages is because there was no reason to care for people. if you treat people badly and make sure that they’re stuck in a miserable position, that makes it more likely that they’ll take on crippling jobs and bad working conditions. if there are no jobs to be done in the first place, then that just means that you don’t have a reason to keep the people in these miserable conditions anymore.

I mean, being against AI is not really a long-term solution. It’s just pushing the can further down the road. Eventually, a lot of jobs will be lost anyways, due to conventional automation that has already happened the last 200 years. Progress is not an infinite story. It brings us from A to B and once we’re there, it’s the end of progress. Without progress, there are very few jobs, and there’s absolutely no way that there’ll be enough jobs for everybody in 30 years from now, AI or no AI. i don’t see the protests against AI changing anything at all about that, even if they were effective (which they are very clearly not btw).

Really we need to find a way to organize society around something else than perpetual work. Only then can we find peace. I propose formulating laws around a society using universal basic income or some equivalent thereof (such as universal basic services). Just write a proposal for these laws, because only once there are meaningful proposals, we can actually demand politicians to implement them. So just start thinking about it now. The sooner, the better.

the french revolution immediately turned into a terror regime and after that, the napoleonic wars.

in 10 years, nobody will use instagram because every post will be AI generated. or rather, you won’t be able to tell whether it’s AI generated.

yeah the typical reason for getting banned is “Rule 1 & 2”, in other words, having an opinion that a mod doesn’t like.

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sounds like it’s a domain-specific processor. can it do what a CPU does? generic work with many if-statements?

hah, calling silicon-based computing “soon to be obsolete” is surely something ;-)

it’s like calling solar energy a “soon to be obsolete” technology because surely we’ll invent fusion power / small modular reactors in a few years. how many SMRs have been deployed so far?

where can i buy these optical computers today?

nah it’s not that simple. it’s mostly about cost. chip manufacturing is hella expensive and developing new chip manufacturing techniques is even more expensive. it’s cheaper to do it all in one place in taiwan instead of every country opening its own chip manufacturers. it’s only now due to security considerations that this is changing, but it takes 10 years to build a chip manufacturing site somewhere.

I’ve been saying it for years, we need to produce our own chips.

how is this worth a post?

my cat says she wants another snack

I am not surprised. They break the law and account for the fines in their business model.

you can feel seen by a picture (webcomic) even though the picture has no eyes.

Open Source software is in many cases better than commercial software. Consider Linux / Windows.

Google telling the EU that the EU needs Google feels a lot like Cops investigating themselves and finding that they did nothing wrong.

You can make it if you just believe in yourself!

At some point one has to ask oneself not whether one can, but whether one should. Is it really worth it trying everything and giving your all for a company which will probably ditch you in the end, after all? I don’t think so. Don’t put in more effort than you expect to get as a result.

I understand you’re excited, but aren’t you overdoing it a bit?

In fact not. I may be awkward, but I’m not evil or cruel. So that’s that.