Artificial general intelligence built by people who don’t have any. Sounds great, give them half a trillion dollars!

It’s weird because Xi is a chemical engineer. Putin and Kim I understand being gullible and clueless about scientific matters but I don’t expect the same from Xi.

So the first sentence says TV and movie streaming replacement is trivial… Can you elaborate for someone who still uses the pirate bay for movies?

I don’t want to type stuff into a command line. Like ever. If this is possible then I’m in.

This might be when I finally jump ship and go to Linux. I should do Mint, right?

The objections are about its personality? Who cares, as long as it’s good at coding? That’s the only thing it’s actually useful for.

That might mean they figure out their societal problems before they try to industrialize

America is not a monolith. Signal’s developers are very much aware of the risks of operating there and probably already have several escape plans given recent developments. I also think five-eyes probably has access but getting it might be comremovedtionally expensive.

Wild how international finance is now tied to a feud between a rodeo clown and an adult gundam nerd. I thought the subprime mortgage crisis was stupid but this has to break some record. I’ve accepted that the world will get progressively dumber in my lifetime but at this point I can’t imagine how.

If we decide to ban smartphones from schools we should ban them from work too. I’m supposed to be writing an article right now and instead I’m here. Then we should ban them from streets so that people have to pay attention to where they are going and the things going on around them. At that point we’d have something like functioning human beings again instead of mindless zombies. We could still have terminals for plugging into the Machine but our time with it should be regulated (like it already is with research clusters) so that we don’t waste energy. There, the whole problem is solved and all it takes is a global butlerian jihad.

Could you please finish your manifesto? I want to know what happens at the end. Do we mass shoot all the boomers?

Yeah every new technological solution has its associated ecological cost. Some are better than others. Guess which ones are the most profitable.

There’s something called the Kuznets environmental curve that explains this pretty intuitively. It’s an optimistic forecast that I only buy when I’m in a good mood.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuznets_curve

And this law came into effect last July

So now we’ll have a whole plethora of social networks for everyone to isolate into their own bubbles essentially because our global leadership is comprised of children who can’t play nicely with each other. Sounds good, sign me up for TurkmeniNet.

Ok, I’ll bite. I tried Ubuntu a few months ago. Logging into Eduroam was a bit of a process, but eventually I figured it out and it worked. Then one day the internet didn’t work and I had no idea why. Something to do with the network drivers. Then I was trying to use OpenOffice (or LibreOffice? The one that came with the OS), and I use Zotero for references. The Zotero plugin had a bunch of glitches that made me not trust it. The Internet (back on Windows) assured me that it worked fine, but it was way glitchier than the Windows version.

The bottom line is that I just need this stuff to work because I don’t have time to debug. I love the idea though; maybe I was using the wrong distro.