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what was really going on with COVID

Let me guess: a government conspiracy to push something pro-humanity

In 100 years the technology to build bridges improves so much that it is lot easier to build a new one

This hasn't even been true for 200 years lol

Also a great number of those services are valueless bullshit. It's much closer to the sum of all transactions.

We should really be letting in an order of magnitude more if we don't want our economy to drive off a cliff

Wealth inequality itself causes a great number of ills in this country. We should absolutely aim to lower this gap as a goal in itself.

The registry absolutely is an issue—it's everything bad people make the command line out to be except ten times worse because they haven't bothered to fix it in forty years. You need to cooy and paste an incomprehensible string off the internet just to set the functionality of the caps lock key or rewire a file extension. Just straight up dogshit softwareif you weren't raised in the cult

AI is doing the same and fundamentally changing the economics of production.

Not really. SaaS were already trivially replaceable; it's just slightly cheaper now. But the line item is still a line item.

What used to take years and huge teams to build can be built by much smaller teams much faster.

It takes years to develop a product, but only weeks or maybe a couple months to replace. You're greatly overestimating the work that goes into building a clearly defined product.

The expensive part for producers is figuring out what to sell and how to define the market. The expensive part for customers is burning capital while chasing after customers who would rather not think about the tools they've already committed to paying for. AI just burns the fat off of an already lean process.

What would be the point of any of this if the registry is still there? It'd just a particularly shit version of linux window management that happens to run games well

Even if the kids ARE illiterate, society will adjust to cater to them. Everything will be fine.

This runs against the grain of 2026 tech policy, which decrees that it’s young people who need their behavior censored and constrained, in ways that punish them for the actions of the perpetrator.

I mean social media is simply misanthropic. If humanity had any balls it'd burn these places down. Calling banishment from social media a punishment is a stretch. The point of these decrees has nothing to do with protecting children and everything to do with persecuting adults for behaving in ways the state doesn't like. The author's read is just weird

Well; nobody on this list has made much wealth at all for society, just shareholders—the most contemptible of parasites

What do Tun and Mars have to do with each other?

Sure, why not? The same reasons they succeeded originally will work just as fine now.

the lines have to clear.

Sorry, the lines have to clear what? Surely there must be some kind of constraint on "lines" that they have to overcome.

It's surprising how many of your comments place you in the US, and not one in Burundi. I'm guessing based on your past comments you're not too consistent on your claims.

I am in the US. Umuryango wanjye uri mu Burundi. My loyalty lies with my family, asshole.

That it has not solved everyone's problems on the planet is no argument it against what it has provided more than any other system.

Presumably a collective society would be able to provide for people regardless of their ability to produce quarterly profits for western corporations

Ok so what is the point of neurotically obsessing about intelligence? Would it not be more fruitful to emphasize computation?

Yeah, it only pays pensions, retirement accounts, provides liquidity for new industries, which then grow and provide jobs, and has been demonstrably one of the best inventions for pulling billions out of poverty and increasing standard of living generation after generation for hundreds of years over hundreds of countries on the planet.

What is it doing to feed my family in burundi?

We should outlaw all markets, right?

Nobody said this, asshole. But how is the market going to correct for western retardation? Any move towards rational allocation of earth's resources will strip the west. Are you willing to argue that the west is worth sacrificing the east?

Boy this really shows how little value the market provides

It's not clear that "super intelligence" is a meaningful concept. This presumes that our concept of intelligence can continue to grow beyond human capacity as opposed to asymptotically approaching what humans recognize as "very intelligent". Perhaps, for instance, how we evaluate intelligence is bounded not by some quantitative capacity but rather our inability to agree on basic concepts/values. And do we even have tasks that a supposed superintelligence can tackle but humans cannot?

I predict that what we consider "super intelligence" is just sheer computational power, but any potential of a very capable agent is bounded by the needs/wants of the person wielding it. That is: even if we were to hand, say, Elon musk this "super intelligence", most humans would consider it relatively stupid because the person wielding it is still a person with stupid goals and values.

Or, to put it another way, I suspect we already do have a superintelligence and have longer than any of us have been alive, and it's just "the market", and it is still incapable of overcoming the limitations of a few morons wielding immense power.... power they will never yield to some intelligence with values and goals "more intelligent" than their own (if such a concept is even meaningful), and intelligence wasted on the values and goals they do have.

It's not even clear that ASI is a coherent concept.

But, I don't trust capital with either.

Is there a commercial model out there now that wasn't trained on stolen data? Let's stop refering to these ghouls as "innovators": they're glorified bootleggers

Why would you blame AI when there are dozens of other crises with far more evident impact already?

That's also a bad look for any company who willingly hands its IP over

Steal

It's competition, buddy. If you don't think we got big the same way you're nuts. And anyone who is trying to kill tesla has my money.

Anyway, I don't think there's much worth stealing at the moment. Chinese models provide much better value than any american firm.

but US could stop all of this by simply stopping their supply.

A) good luck trying to prevent access to a service and b) this is obvious cope. Of course the chinese can compete; there's no american magic beyond "having loads of money and nearby universities", which china has too.

I think the chinese are doing just fine by themselves at this point

Ok, so why did you bring this up in the context of boko haram? Do you think pets.com is trying to make a bomb?!

Generally when a seller in state X in the US sells to a buyer in a different state Y the consumer protection laws of state Y apply.

I've found the person who lives in California lol, no it does not work that way.

And why would americans use regulated AI software when they could just buy it unregulated from china instead?

If the fintech sector can do it, AI can too.

Fintech requires turning the number on a screen into something you can use to make a transaction. Good luck regulating... text.

For that matter, why would anyone want to live in a country where honest citizens have to use crippled software while criminals have full freedom?

If everyone is using LLMs then nobody has advantage

People with more capital will always have an advantage. This is a large part why the american market fails to produce convincing competition.

...because terrorists in western africa are willing to follow american regulations? I hope this is satire.