Varyag

Cool. you're being the change you wish to see in the world :)

Title reads like all banks have ceased trading mortgages, which is ludicrous. here's a BBC article with a more reasonable title: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63041679

Man, if I went through all that I would be paranoid as well.

These technologies are going to have a deleterious effect on the work available for artists, I think that much can be safely asserted. Of course there's no way of really knowing what percentage of artist work this is going to eat up, but neverytheless: When coal miners lost their jobs to automation, they were told that the advancement of technology will create new, better, safer and more fulfilling jobs for people. But what happens when the fulfilling, enjoyable jobs get automated?

We live in a system that ties productivity to human worth, that (in the US, certainly) only gives basic human needs such as food, shelter and healthcare to those that are making money for the system. What happens when larger and larger percentages of the population are forced to choose butween uninspired, miserable work and a life of poverty and desperation? What happens when the productivity is locked to those with the wealth to purchase expensive automation tools to do the work, and the wealth circulates between the people making the automation and the people using the automation, with vast swathes of the population being excluded from opportunity?

I'm excited to see this technology move forward, but I'm more excited about what societal effects this type of automation will have.

There have been quite a few posts on here about how AGI is still really far away. I wouldn't put all your hopes on our machine descendant species appearing this century. Nevertheless this is touched on in the linked document; indeed there's an entire section on it.

We're staring down the barrel of the great filter and worrying about our feelings. Existentially horrifying.

"The Stars Are Going Out And Here's Why That's A Good Thing."

Relevant reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/s1oqv8/kb5009543_...

Is an semi-real-time readout of New(how new? Not sure) devices/addresses accessible from the internet, including unlisted stuff like power plants, fridges, Botswanan cable companies, etc.