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> Real robots work behind barriers because they are strong enough to be dangerous. But that hasn't got a sci-fi narrative for the public to latch on to.

Wait till they are controlled by ASI - there is your sci-fi for real.

> If you take a moral position do it when you have real power.

If the condition for getting real power is having no morals, this is hard to accomplish.

It is just so that the CEO can claim they are an "AI first" company and the shareholders might believe that the company is not being eaten by AI but profits from it. Check the claims of the software vendors whose stocks have fallen by some 30% in the last few months, without any reason in the fundamentals.

> Actual product support is killed, and instead user supported forums are promoted. Useful idiots do the work unpaid for a mere digital badge.

Wow, that is a misanthropic take if I have ever seen one. People helping out other people for free are called "useful idiots".

While it might be an ethically bad move of the company, it certainly should not be used to disparage helpers. Otherwise, would you classify all unpaid FOSS work the work of "useful idiots"?

Punish one, teach a hundred (companies).

It depends. Maybe constant escalations at customers with unmaintainable products comes first.

As mentioned before - it depends on the circumstances. If you call someone wearing a full Nazi outfit a Nazi, it probably will not be seen as hate speech/insult. If you call someone showing nothing in that regard a Nazi out of the blue, it could. But that would be handled as personal insult, then. For hate speech it needs to affect more than one person, I believe.

Except for the Grote case you can very well criticize politicians, even in somewhat questionable language without LE raiding your home. That one case was an exception.

Just look at any political thread in any social media in German language. There is plenty of criticism or even insults regarding government officials, without them getting raided. It is only extreme cases (often with calls for violence) which trigger LE. So the chilling effect is missing or at least it has little influence.

It depends. One prominent figure of the right-wing populist party AfD in Germany has been called a Nazi. When he sued the originator the court decided that, considering the circumstances, was not an insult in the sense of the law.

That was a overall very rarely occurring abuse of power of a politician in charge of leading local law enforcement. It was declared illegal later. And you take that as a proof for what about the whole of Germany?

> the Germans elected the AfD

On federal level they are still at about 25% without an option to come into power. It is bad, but it is not hopeless, yet.

The parent was referring to the whole US as "market". In that sense the numerous exceptions and non-functioning markets invalidate the statement, IMHO.

> So yes - in a reasonably functioning capitalist market (which the U.S still is in my eyes) I expect gross inefficiencies to not be prevalent.

I am not sure that is true, though. Assume for a moment that Google would waste 50% of their profits. Truly, a huge inefficiency. However, would that make it likely some other corp could take their search/ad market share from them? I doubt it, given the abyss of a moat.

At least until they are running out of customers. And/or societies with mass-unemployment destabilize to a degree that is not conducive for capitalists' operations.

And only a few steps further and the leader rarely needs to employ the service of obedient judges, but opponents "just" fall out of windows.

Boy, will they be annoyed if the result of the AI race will be something considerably less than AGI, so all the people are still needed to keep numbers go up.

Are you sure that in today's reality the fruits of the AI race will be harvested by "the people"?

> Folks vibe with the latter

I am not convinced, though, it is still up to "the folks" if we change course. Billionaires and their sycophants may not care for the bad consequences (or even appreciate them - realistic or not).

If your corp is large enough to use a full-sized ERP system it will no longer be your choice to make. The whole software industry is desperately trying to fit AI functions into every pore of their software, ERP vendors being no exception.

Well, things like the eventual expansion of our own star or the probability of a sizeable asteroid/comet hitting earth tells me, that we should at least keep thinking about leaving. Even if the current tech is nowhere near good enough.

Combine that with the initiatives of many a conservative or liberal political party to raise the retirement age beyond or up to 70 years.

Yeah, you have to work but you are not allowed to drive or vote any longer. Sounds fair.

I am already doing this with our shared experiences and memories. But why do I need to add my online activities to that? I see no good reason.

I personally do not really care if my relatives are able to access everything I was able to access once I am dead or forget everything. But they should be able to access anything of monetary worth.

So, without any crypto my belongings are either real estate or depots and accounts at banks. Both can easily be discovered in case of my death. I think there is a similar discovery process if I am subject to guardianship (permanently).

So, do their AI devs have deep knowledge of the business processes, regulations/legal (of course in all kinds of regions), scaling, security, ... ? Because the LLMs sure as hell are lacking that knowledge (again, in depth).

Of course, once AGI is available (if it is ever) everything changes. But for now someone needs to have the deep expertise.

They were talking about western liberal democracies, though.

/s

Absolutely:

https://www.bundeswehr.de/en/news/eastern-flank-new-brigade-...

It is a bit more than "spitting on each other" which now is between the USA and its former allies. I seriously doubt that we will just go back to normal the moment there is a US president from the Democratic party. Possibly in some areas of politics and economy, in others (real) trust is more essential.

> There’s a chance that the current situation will start to resolve itself in 3 years and we go back to normal, however that might look.

There is almost no chance for that, as lost trust does not return instantly.

You have explained well how you are determining the point to sell. But how do you determine that "the dip" is now?

There are games distributed by GOG which rely on the Galaxy client for multiplayer functions. For example, the GOG version of Grim Dawn needs the Galaxy client being loaded to enable multiplayer. Solo play works without Galaxy.