BurningFrog

I read that book and strongly recommend it too!

Don't remember that part though. It's been a few decades.

I learned this from "The Elephant in the Brain", which I strongly recommend: https://amzn.to/4iSyLX8

Starving tens of millions to death is also part of the CCP's traditional values.

There may be a good argument for your assertions, but I don't think you're making it.

I would describe it at showing how poor/unproductive the rest of Botswana's economy is.

Or is the theory here that De Beers somehow keeps the part of the Botswanian economy they don't participate in poor/unproductive?

Astronomy/Physics is overflowing with unexplained physics phenomena these days.

Especially after JWT started looking deeper into the early universe.

I can't think of any rich free market democracies the US has fought wars against.

We have found a way to not kill each other!

Rich free market democracies don't fight wars against each other.

It also takes some load off the AI data centers.

IDK if that might be a concern for Apple or their AI partners.

That's actually a good explanation!

Eve Online used to be great.

Is there anything similarly great around now?

Does Claude claim a gender/pronouns now?

Just a guess, but maybe this is a result of the dysfunction in Congress.

Someone has to get things done, and if Congress won't do it, maybe the President has to.

There is no point for a Republican to fight Trump now. He'll be out of power in 2 years, so it's much smarter to just wait him out.

What happens then will be very interesting!

I don't see anyone who can keep wielding Trump's power.

We have been automating away jobs pretty frantically since the Industrial Revolution started ~250 years ago.

It has always resulted in no long term effect on unemployment and higher worker wages.

If you don't understand why that counterintuitive thing has consistently happened for centuries, you probably shouldn't speculate on the current automation wave.

We clearly live in very different moral universes. Hope yours works for you!

That rhetoric is old and trusted because it's true.

Technology like that would be incredibly valuable, which means it will be developed if it can be.

You might possibly convince decent democratic countries to not do it, but if you think China, Russia, etc, would hesitate to get hold of this power we don't live in the same universe.

People are terrified of AI, for a big number of both silly and serious reasons.

That fear and rage needs to be expressed somehow, ang going NIMBY on local data center construction is probably the only real way most people can do anything remotely affecting the AI boom.

Yeah, this is much like when your alcoholic friend says he's decided to stop drinking for real this time.

We already have 8 billion human brains, and we routinely duplicate them biologically.

AI is something else, as it should be.

Supporting parties or candidates you want to win elections is a core part of democracy.

Calling it "interfering with elections" is utterly bizarre to me.

And yet sorting a deck of cards is much easier than solving the cube.

43,252,003,274,489,856,000 is a fun trivia number, but it tells you nothing about how hard it is to solve the cube.

It's really 21, since the centers are all one unmovable piece.

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This is indisputably true, but downvoted without comment...

Sure, but it's only damaging globally. It's no more damaging to the local environment than to anywhere else on the planet.

Since not everyone seems to be familiar with human communication:

The phrase "X is the hard part" means that X is the hardest part, not that all the other parts are easy.

Stopped reading when he out of nowhere felt the need to say that Linnaeus was probably a racist bigot, based on nothing.

Yeah, but are you getting the perfectly targeted ads that Google serves you?

One theory is that the shipping lanes there are not forced to go near the coast.

Another is that Somalis are extra prone to piracy.