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by LightG 5y ago
"Real jobs and wealth" ... imagine putting them to work into something truly useful and creative, rather than a group of beck and call people.
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by LightG 5y ago
A class of people? You mean our democratically elected officials? For all their flaws, I would rather they do something productive with "some" of the resources we're talking about here rather than putting it to use on just an
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by LightG 5y ago
I'll take the 3 metres, thanks. I hate this kind of framing. People use it all the time. "It only costs 50p per person of the population to maintain the UK Royal Family" ... Pfft, in total there is the potential to do somethi
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by LightG 5y ago
Fair enough. I rarely use youtube on a TV screen anyway. Thanks for the heads up.
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by LightG 5y ago
Welcome to the world where I can just do wtf I like with the software at my disposal without middlemen trying to get their cut ... wakes up Don't worry about it, Roku ... I use your devices around the house and if I ever need a youtu
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by LightG 5y ago
"Better" should be defined ... do you mean "better" as in one more willing to bend over for them?
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by LightG 5y ago
Gandalf will be p!ssed.
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by LightG 5y ago
If you don't have the time to scroll for Ive's company, you can't afford them.
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by LightG 5y ago
If you say so. Maybe you have a different definition of "existential" to me, but whatever.
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by LightG 5y ago
I disagree. I'm reminded of the position people took with apartheid South Africa. People condemned and boycotted SA due to the extreme problems there. That didn't mean that they were hypocrites then because so many other terrible
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by LightG 5y ago
Good. Makes sense. Much of the speculative narrative around bitcoin has been pure gambling and it resembles a cultish sickness.
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by LightG 5y ago
LOL .... "nearing".
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by LightG 5y ago
Regardless. Nothing short of 100% reliability will convince me that handing over control to a closed-box AI is better. And even then, one small "bug" could change that conclusion. It just takes one weird, anomoly in the real world
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by LightG 5y ago
I have some chance of controlling the outcome of the suicidal/drunk/elderly driver situation. I have no chance of controlling a buggy AI. I like my chances better :-)
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by LightG 5y ago
I'll take 0.1% chance of death which I (arguably) can control, over a 0.001% chance of death which I absolutely cannot control at all. It's so clear to me. Yes, taking a plane is similar, but I only take that risk a couple of time
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by LightG 5y ago
But, I assume, a lower completely random error rate, which an AI might produce.
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by LightG 5y ago
But there's a choice involved. Reduce baseline accidents, but increase being exposed to completely random events that will kill you. Nope. I won't be part of that statistic.
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by LightG 5y ago
Me too. Everyone is cooing that they "made everyone whole". What if they weren't able to.
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by LightG 5y ago
I'm done with anything crypto. Daily. Bug after bug, breach after breach. I just don't see how, at any point in the future, crypto gets any more secure than, say, Microsoft Windows. There'll always be a bug, there'll alw
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by LightG 5y ago
Of course, absolutely impressive. But the inside of the storm looks like some huge waves crashing all around. Am I missing the lightbulb moment? Maybe a potential pivot to sell Saildrone to storm-chasing, surfer, adrenaline junkies. That&#x
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by LightG 5y ago
Tell that to the regularly highlighted examples of Covid-19 and/or vax deniers who end up ... dead. Scientific, rational debate is ideal on these subjects ... but is that even possible anymore when people are jumping off the deep end s
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by LightG 5y ago
If you must use one, then the least worst based on your values. That may be different for everyone, but that's ok. That's democracy in action.
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by LightG 5y ago
Correct. I maintain a "classic" car from 2005, which I hope to convert to electric in a few years as a fun side project. I ride a bicycle. And I walk. Yourself?
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by LightG 5y ago
I have a lot of respect for the engineers and workers at Tesla. But there is something rotten at the core of that company and I'd never buy one now. It's now a branding issue. Do I want to be associated with this company? No.
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by LightG 5y ago
Yes, that sounds right. Louder than the damned show you've just been watching. TV stations should not allow that, or we should be able to counter it with technology. Having said that, less of an issue now with streaming.
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by LightG 5y ago
Thanks for pointing that out. That's a revelation. However, we do still trade with the EU, so the current situation is less than ideal. As would be your "implosion" fantasy. Not my cup of tea, thank you.
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by LightG 5y ago
Compared to the USA, maybe (even that is arguable from what I've heard about the US legal system). But I'm coming from a situation of before-and-after Brexit. Before Brexit, trade in the EU was a comparative breeze. It's an a
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by LightG 5y ago
In English - Zuckerberg bought himself out of the legal system. Allegedly.
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by LightG 5y ago
In awe of how many games Sid Meier made that made my childhood. Didn't even know he founded MicroProse
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by LightG 5y ago
Yes.

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