People are exhausted from work and that’s what causes them to perceive everything in an ugly light. Because it turns out, when you’re not doing well (mentally, emotionally), that skews your perception so everything looks a bit more ugly to you.
It’s amazing how quickly people dismiss technological capabilities as mundane that would have been miraculous just a few years earlier.
yep, and it’s also amazing how people think new technologies are impossible, until they happen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Machines_Which_Do_Not_Fly
“Flying Machines Which Do Not Fly” is an editorial published in the New York Times on October 9, 1903. The article incorrectly predicted it would take one to ten million years for humanity to develop an operating flying machine.[1] It was written in response to Samuel Langley’s failed airplane experiment two days prior. Sixty-nine days after the article’s publication, American brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright successfully achieved the first heavier-than-air flight on December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Current Ai has no shot of being as smart as humans, it’s simply not sophisticated enough.
you know what’s also not very sophisticated? the chemistry periodic table. yet all variety of life (of which there is plenty) is based on it.
I have been having this vision you described for quite some time now.
As time progresses, availability of resources on earth increases because we learn to process and collect them more efficiently; but on the other hand, number of jobs (or, demand for human labor) decreases continuously, because more and more work gets automated.
So, if you’d draw a diagram, it would look something like this:
X-axis is time. As we progress into the future, that completely changes the game. Instead of being a society that is driven by a constant shortage of resources and a constant lack of workers (causing a high demand for workers and a lot of jobs), it’d be a society with a shortage of jobs (and therefore meaningful employment), but with an abundance of resources. What do we do with such a world?
that’s already broadly discussed . there’s tons of articles like this one. just use your favorite search engine for “ceos replaced by ai”,
I just wish for once the “enemy” could be an abstract, like hunger and poverty instead of our fellow man. Just once.
(outer) “space” is considered the final frontier
Capitalism naturally moves money from the poor to the rich. So governments need to fight that. So low growth should naturally lead to the left gaining ground, as they want to do exactly that. However the capitalist fight it and they need to find an alternative enemy, hence fascism.
that’s part of the problem but not everything.
You’re underestimating the number of people who look at the mainstream culture from 2000-2020 and say “hey, they’re trying to take our way of life away, trying to replace us with immigrants, trying to declare our way of life criminal and illegal”. That causes a huge backlash.
But yeah, economic questions are also very important. Naturally, the left should become pretty strong around now by campaigning on taxing the rich and implementing a universal basic income. It’s very sad and unfortunate that the left don’t get their shit together and effectively campaign on these issues.
“annex” in the sense of “🥺️👉️👈️”
what people get from foreign invasions is a change of government, so they often even support this. but i doubt canada would be up for it, considering how much stress it could bring to them.
actual example from real life might be how the soviet russia defeated the nazi germans when the germans invaded.
they didn’t kill the german soldiers directly, instead they stalled them, cut off their food supply and then basically waited 3 weeks for the german soldiers to either freeze to death or starve to death.
the thing is that according to their view, what’s currently happening isn’t a “tyrannical government” but something they needed or something.
you could also read it as “slave-holding people”, i.e. “con-serva-tive” with-slave-ish (slaveholders)
being in favor of the existence of hard-working people doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re gonna treat these hard-working people well
just like animals need to keep circulating blood to stay alive, so does the economy need to continue circulating consumer goods and products. without it, it’s dead and becomes worthless rather rapidly.
basically, the economy has a stark interest in keeping consumerism running. that’s in fact such a large interest that it even justifies taxing the rich and redistributing money sothat it can flow in circles (from bottom to top, from top to bottom).
I think most americans aren’t even aware that australia exists, most of the time, so they won’t bother too much.
What it means for australia could be a huge change, i guess.
The research shows that - while engineers think AI makes them more about 20% more productive - it actually causes an approximate 20% slow-down.
AI cannot use logic or reason. Everything it outputs is a hallucination, even if it’s sometimes accurate. You cannot trust anything it outputs.
Research shows that - while people think having more people in the household gets the housework done faster - babies actually cause an approximate 100% increase in time spent on housework.
Children cannot use logic or reason. Everything they output is brabbling, even if it sometimes resembles actual works. You cannot trust anything they say. Parents are stupid for having them. (/s)
Developers see AI as a “child” that might need many years to grow up, but it’s still worth all the trouble they go through. It’s an emotional choice, not a rational one.
You’re absolutely right!
I completely messed up the picture. It should be the other way around. Do you want me to correct my mistake and generate a new picture?
/s
Make no mistake, a civil war is coming, trump is building his own private army (ICE) and now he’s getting his intelligence services ramped up. this can’t be good.
he sold those cows after he couldn’t find workers, it’s in the article …
who controls social media, controls the narrative and that makes a big difference. that is why we need community-owned, anarchistic social media alternatives (the fediverse).