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> Or maybe the AI is sufficient to act as a filter, but insufficient to surpass it itself. It stagnates. > After all, an AI that can destroy a civilization isn't necessarily "intelligent" in the same way humans are. Or
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But in any case, given that AI and automation will soon make the majority of US workers economically unnecessary, it's more important than ever for the powers-that-be to ban end-to-end encryption and guns and maintain full control over
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> They do. I do not have to convince you that 2+2=4. Yeah, because you're trying to convince me that 2+2=5. > If you have read recent European Human Rights Court decisions, you can clearly see what kind of domestic laws is in vio
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> But 3G is being shut down by many operators and more to come. So voice downgrades to 2G, but 2G has a very low limit of concurrent calls, let's say a few dozen. So it's possible that your dumbphone won't work at all. 2G
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> So I switched to the Punkt MP02 That is one expensive dumb phone.
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> I later learned that if you use a portable solar panel battery pack, let the pack charge and then plug in your phone. Don't plug a near-dead solar panel battery pack into your phone and let. There's something about the low-vo
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> I would agree, but then I also would have agreed with this sentiment about much of what Snowden revealed. If you want to be paranoid, may as well go all in. What Snowden revealed is way more believable than the government continuing to
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>>> Don't trust old-school typewriters > I mean, photocopiers have the exact same technology They absolutely do not have the "exact same technology. That's totally, 100% wrong.
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> Don't trust old-school typewriters and the postal system either. Letters are routinely opened and typewriters can be matched. For example, the Stasi (secret police of the former GDR - German "Democratic" Republic) had an
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> Not at all. Laws has to be compatible with universal laws, international treaties/laws such as UN Geneva Convention and for Italy also the EU laws. Along many other conditions such as arbitrariness. No they don't. What author
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> Tax companies at 2x the single-taxpayer withholding amount lost per employee displaced.... > Put that tax revenue directly towards social services or minimum monthly reimbursement for everyone (UBI, just with a different name) Nah.
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I think the main we need to do at this point is political, to prepare of the massive social and economic disruption. The first order of business should be the implementation (in jurisdictions that don't have it) of key escrow and rest
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They could also have some system to flag these listings for manual review by an Amazon employee, instead of expecting every individual customer to figure it out. I mean with all the AI hype, you'd think they could whip something up tha
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> I think the story is manna, by the founder of How stuff works. https://marshallbrain.com/manna1 Yes, that's it! > it actually ends on a positive note, it's trying to compare two possible ways society coul
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> AI/Robots should replace physical labor before it replaces knowledge workers. There's actually a kind of internet famous novel where the exact opposite happens. I don't remember the name of it or the site it's on,
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> Such images are shown in books about human sexuality, or sex guides. The purpose of those books is not to tittilate in an erotic sense, but to provide information or education. How-to sex guides and the like are not appropriate for a h
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> Well unless Levi's also makes the pants that the AI generates it's just horseshit isn't it? That's an excellent point. While a human model may not "look like you," at least he's wearing an instance o
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> I don't know, the US has been pushing that envelope for 40+ years and people are still paying taxes... And people can push the "meth consumption" envelope for years before they finally die from it, too. Getting away with
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> Parents who don't like what their school libraries stock should lobby their school board, vote for school board members who share their views, and maybe even run for school board. Maybe they should do that too (and I believe that&
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> As I said, the first picture is taken out of context... There isn't a context that could make that first POV/frontal view picture of someone getting a blowjob not-porn. If that's appropriate for school, so is hentai.
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> There is a clear difference between Hustler and a graphic novel that contains some sexual representations. Not in this case. Those images are 100% graphic porn (of the cartoon/hentai variety). I saw the pictures upthread. Porn tha
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> (Also: the whole conversation is hilariously non-unique to libraries. 90% of male teens watch porn, and that's probably an under-estimate given that porn is embarrassing/stigmatizing... I promise you there are exactly zero hi
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> I've read that book and it's not aimed at children. No sane educator or library person would offer that to a young child. It doesn't belong in a high school library either. I thought they were exaggerating when they said
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> It's not censoring books; rather a state choosing which books to publicly fund in school libraries. No one is banning parents from buying those books on their own dime. It's censorship and an infringement on the basic consti
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> It doesn't really make sense though does it? Musk is rich because people buy his cars. If we're all impoverished ants, no one is going to be buying cars. Musk's money has to come from somewhere. It does make sense, but
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> ...but at least most people know that "Google programming" is sort of bad. I think we're going to be cleaning up the GPT messes for decades to come because it's very confidently incorrect and much more accessible as
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>> The masses don't tend to act to project their interests until it's too late. > The masses are already showing signs of restlessness IMHO, "restlessness" doesn't mean anything. It would be expected in a
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> you assume that the vast majority of people in china are outright unhappy with their government right now, I don't think that this is the case. I'm not talking about right now. > And trump is simply an idiot that only get
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> you vastly underestimate civilians. probably not a single gun is needed. a crowd of people at some point will walk into the billionaire's home and make him agree with handing over his wealth. I'm not underestimating civilians
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> Yes, I'm seriously asking. If a junior programmer wants to create a mobile app, or a desktop app, or a cloud service, what are the barriers? All the ones I can think of will get lower, not higher, as a result of the AI revolution.

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