Something surprisingly few people get about AI is if it had any intelligence at all it would surpass us blindingly fast, no matter the starting point.
It’s never going to be in the news that thinking machines got 23% smarter over the last month or three.
There’s an old comic I wish I could locate that has people standing at a train platform awaiting superintelligence. Nothing happens, then someone staring down the track says I think I see- whoosh and it’s already gone.
I’ve had one lie to my face and the person next to me about what they said to us less than a minute prior.
It’s understandably difficult for people who haven’t experienced it to understand or believe it.
We can all decide the government should take their money, and politicians can do exactly what capital wants as always.
To be fair to them the default with “user friendly” phone UI makes it difficult to have any idea where things are. You often really have to go out of your way to open a file manager.
pre colour film announcer voice
The worker of the [year] 2000 will work just 20 hours per week
Oops, we forgot to account for employers existing.
If I’d only put off de-googling a bit longer before I saw the news I could have skipped this hop. Oh well…
I’m eyeballing Tuta. Anyone have other recommendations?
Give it a few generations for the selection pressure of the market / the temptations of new leadership to take over.
Americans have been picnicking at unprecedented scale.
I saw a thread about it where someone asked “Ok, but what are our demands this time? All this turnout is useless if we don’t do anything with it”.
The answer given? Vote.
… That was all. …
All the workers in the company, or all the workers, period?
Internal democracy within entities that still have the same rapacious, anti-social incentives against broader society as traditional businesses won’t get you far. At best it might slow down the process of turning those within into faithful heralds of the algorithm of capital.
What would Machiavelli do? is a fine continuation of that energy.
… and it is only in so far as the appropriation of even more and more wealth in the abstract becomes the sole motive of his operations, that he functions as a capitalist, that is, as capital personified and endowed with consciousness and a will.
It’s actually really difficult to get your friends to switch over little things like ‘being a spy platform’, and ‘leaking tens of thousands of users private information’.