My Elon-brainwashed relative alerted me to the fact that on twitter, the main rumor is that he killed himself to bring attention to the drone sightings being a secret Chinese gravitic propulsion technology.
The goal is to save labor, then wages. If the point is that labor only results in improvements to people's well-being when paired with labor rights, yes. But that doesn't mean saving labor is the enemy.
Many of the food couriers I worked alongside were young international students struggling to earn an income while they make their way through school. Others were refugees or undocumented workers, navigating precarious lives.
I honestly wonder if pretty much all of the surge in illegal immigration over the last 5 or 6 years comes down to Uber Eats.
I'm the guy who won't sit down. You see if I sit down, I have to choose between sitting in the aisle seat (and being one of those assholes who blocks off the window seat), or sitting on the window seat - which poses the risk of someone coming and sitting next to me, in which case I might be forced to ask them to stand and let me get out when it's my stop. And while that might seem like a minor problem to the uninitiated, what if they do this when my stop is next, and then they may wonder why I wordlessly allowed them to sit next to me when I'm about to get up and ask them to move?
So I see what you're saying, and of course there's ways to argue this killing could accomplish something good. But let me ask you this - based on the history of society and the typical results of assassinations, violence, and instability, what do you predict will actually change from this?
When I look at this, I see parallels to past emotional leftist movements like Occupy Wall Street and BLM, that did garner a lot of attention and lead to a lot of discussion, but in terms of policy change were only followed by political defeats for those movements. It seems to me that yes these movements get attention, but it's the wrong kind of attention.
Except the US media usually skips the first part. When was the last time anyone saw someone with a PhD related to what they were talking about being asked something in the media? No they start with something Elon Musk tweeted about H1B visas and then cover what Laura Loomer said in response. The expert on H1B visas is nowhere to be found.
I fail to see a definition of murderer that includes this CEO and doesn't include literally everybody. I mean how many future people do we all murder when we drive our cars or even order a package delivered. Unless you're just sitting in a corner eating rice and beans and washing it down with water, you've probably contributed to someone's death by now.
The real murderer is the capitalist US health care system, and that's still very much alive and well. This CEO's death is negligible compared to the problem, instead it's just a second problem.
It's the same mistake that all of society has made for about 5000 years now. Punishing individuals for preventable deaths that are caused by bad systems at best causes suffering for a steep cost and virtually no actual benefit while providing an opiate that keeps us from confronting the actual problem, and at worst actually contributes to those preventable deaths.
Isn’t that how these diseases are generated in the first place?
No, livestock diseases were a problem long before vaccination. In fact it's been hypothesized that the reason Europeans killed off Native Americans with disease instead of the other way around is that European livestock spread so much disease that it meant Europeans carried and were immune to a wide variety of diseases.
As for why livestock diseases are so common, it's probably due to the obvious - the cramped conditions, often in close contact with other animals. Think of the classic Chinese wet market with animals from many different places stacked in cages on top of each other with fluids flying all over. That's the real bio weapons lab.
Most people just do not think entirely rationally. Take anything that most people believe - obviously religion, but also their favorite sports team, car brand, dare I say linux distro - it's probably irrational on some level. Instead people believe what they want to believe.
But why would someone want to see their own life as miserable? Perhaps part of it is who we want to be. Most people want to see themselves as having overcome some sort of adversity to earn whatever they have in life, and that creates a bias to see one's own life as unlucky and miserable. I definitely went through a phase of seeing my life this way as a kid. Now I try, when I remember, to focus on what's been lucky and not adverse in my life. And there's definitely plenty in that regard.
So then how do we define natural general intelligence? I'd argue it's when something can do better than chance at solving a task without prior training data particular to that task. Like if a person plays tetris for the first time, maybe they don't do very well but they probably do better than a random set of button inputs.
Likewise with AGI - say you feed an LLM text about the rules of tetris but no button presses/actual game data and then hook it up to play the game. Will it do significantly better than chance? My guess is no but it would be interesting to try.
These are not the same firms behind the proposal though. I know some of the funds listed like Blackrock and State Street have supported DEI at least in the past and have been targeted by the far right for that reason.
It does have precedent though. That's how Reagan won in a landslide. Very similar circumstances - inflation, small military disaster, uninspiring president. Of course Reagan wasn't as depraved and dumb as Trump so he won by a lot more.
However inflation definitely has a history of short circuiting voters' brains. Maybe it has something to do with how the media doesn't really understand it and does a terrible job explaining it to people. I'd guess at most 5% of voters know that there are multiple inflation measures - some of which were already rising during Trump's term - and that the typically-reported number is over the last 12 months, not right now (meaning the "record low inflation" at the end of Trump's term included the whole start of the pandemic when there was deflation). Republicans are great at filling an information vacuum with their narrative, so they said it was Biden's fault and people fell for that easy explanation.
It's actually technically correct that we all can be millionaires, at least on a household basis. The mean household wealth in the US was $1.06 million as of 2022, by now it's undoubtedly higher. So with a full redistribution of wealth every household would have over $1 million.
In reality though the median household wealth is just under $200k as of 2022, and doesn't rise as consistently so who knows where it is now.
A lot of people do this with 401ks and such because many times there aren't many other options.
People I know who are serious investors with a lot of money tend to not invest much in the S&P 500 because they think of themselves as superior investors, but I don't know of anyone for whom this is actually true based on past performance.
I invest some 20% of my money in the S&P 500, which is probably not as much as I should. It's some combination of the above hubris, which is natural, wanting to be diversified, and enjoying gambling on individual stocks.
That's because the death rate for these sorts of problems is very low and at best is a very weak evolutionary pressure which won't yield results for many generations. Additionally, the heritability of medical stupidity is very questionable.
Not enough innuendo, a lot of missed opportunities. I mean you have cookies and milk, totally unused. Like "fill my stocking with a duplex" could easily have been "fill my stocking with gifts from your sack". Is she even trying?
Trump is an actual reality TV star though. He's one of the most skilled people on Earth at appealing to low-effort thinkers. Others like him in the crime/depravity department (Herschel Walker, George Santos) haven't done as well electorally.
My Elon-brainwashed relative alerted me to the fact that on twitter, the main rumor is that he killed himself to bring attention to the drone sightings being a secret Chinese gravitic propulsion technology.
God I hate that site.