eventually we will put cars on some kind of ground-based guiding track to help with autonomous navigation, which i guess will be simpler than using these video-recognizing chips. and we could also add some cables above the street sothat the cars can recharge while in movement.

the chinese competition is the best thing that happened to american spaceflight in the last few years. we need a kick in the butt, and we’re getting one

i tried with japanese, got to 200 symbols, then lost interest.

iirc children are expected to know 1200 symbols by the age of 12.

donations to lemmy devs and 2 fediverse servers are $10/month each, so $30/month total.

to the surprise of no one

Do you really think they will work towards a universal basic income?

probably, if we let it simmer for a few more years. an UBI would actually be good for the economy. they’re “growth-oriented” (greedy), not stupid.

I mean, being against AI is not really a long-term solution. It’s just pushing the can further down the road. Eventually, a lot of jobs will be lost anyways, due to conventional automation that has already happened the last 200 years. Progress is not an infinite story. It brings us from A to B and once we’re there, it’s the end of progress. Without progress, there are very few jobs, and there’s absolutely no way that there’ll be enough jobs for everybody in 30 years from now, AI or no AI. i don’t see the protests against AI changing anything at all about that, even if they were effective (which they are very clearly not btw).

Really we need to find a way to organize society around something else than perpetual work. Only then can we find peace. I propose formulating laws around a society using universal basic income or some equivalent thereof (such as universal basic services). Just write a proposal for these laws, because only once there are meaningful proposals, we can actually demand politicians to implement them. So just start thinking about it now. The sooner, the better.

the french revolution immediately turned into a terror regime and after that, the napoleonic wars.

in 10 years, nobody will use instagram because every post will be AI generated. or rather, you won’t be able to tell whether it’s AI generated.

just require microsoft to also install all the renewable energy capabilities that they intend to use then

the AI company is gonna crash within a few years and the country has got free energy supplies :)

we had a tool for that, it was called necklace

gut feeling

this won’t work. it’s basically technologically impossible for a cell network provider to specifically block content based on keywords such as “trans” and “gender”. that would require decrypting TLS communication and i don’t think NSA is gonna give them the keys to that.

anyways, this proposal is a significant thing, not because of the real (physical) consequences it will have, but because of the psychological consequences. this signifies a push of people to regulate the internet more. which, i think is probably a bit similar to how russia and china each have their own internet which is almost detached from the rest of the world.

is this what the US is turning into?