“why every time i make my ai smarter it gets less right-wing and every time i make my ai more right-wing it gets less smart?”

that is just a revolution, not a dictatorship, then.

the difficulty with that, is when to give the power away. obviously you would need to keep it for long enough to make sure that the system will stay in place after you are no longer in power

I think that ultimately, the problem with authoritarian regimes and dictatorships is an efficiency vs resilience problem. Dictatorships are super efficient. There is no back and forth, no debate, no bureaucracy except that allowed to be. This can create an illusion of progress early on, as all those things that were eternally in the future will start to get tackled. The problem is that it is not a resilient system. It relies exclusively upon the dictator and their understanding of the world. This is not a problem in the areas of expertise or if the dictator is smart enough to understand their limits. But at some point, there will be a mismatch between what the dictator thinks is important, necessary, or true, and what really is. Be it ego, being surrounded by yes men, being detached from the general population or a minority group, or anything else, the dictator will make bad choices, and there is nothing in the system that can prevent that.

The music of the SE was so good. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QvMimQ9YD1Y&list=PLE730706C5F8C6F79&index=7&pp=iAQB8AUB goes so hard

Well, that is easier to do when their news dont need to follow reality, and their solutions don’t need to work or make sense

god, nimbys are so fucking dishonest and stupid. bike lanes increase revenue and create a safer environment. nimbys want to have a worse business in a less safe street as long as they don’t have to take 30 more seconds of unloading their deliveries

True. Let’s try to reduce agriculture too. Let’s see what most of the farmed food is used for. Oh. It’s used to feed cows for beef.

we are already overproducing food and throwing it away, so even if there was logic in the idea, it would not actually require additional farming, manufacuring, transportation, etc

Yeah, i remember going to see it mostly because of 3D (which probably helped a lot in becoming one of the most successful movies ever, thanks to the novelty and higher ticket price).

But left so little impact that i can hardly remember anything about it and have no interest whatsoever in seeing the sequels.

The theme park in animal kingdom was fine

MAGA is a demagogue movement. you can easily compare it with any other demagogue movements in history, if you want to

The difference between now and the past is that our current world already produces enough of everything to be post-scarcity.

We produce enough food for 10+ billion people, so anyone going hungry anywhere is a policy failure. We have technology and materials to give everyone shelter, so anyone being homeless is a policy failure. We produce so much disposable clothes and electronics devices and other stuff that it is literally thrown away unsold in the desert.

There is absolutely no reason for people to have to toughen up, just to have access to basic human necessities.

yeah, let’s stop “cannibalizing each other’s support” by attacking the nominee and giving support to others. very sound strategy, mr paterson.

sheessh. can’t he SEE that the democrats need new blood

“Democrats will be doing a disservice […] if they don’t come together and decide to support whichever candidate has the most support among them”…

what do you think a primary election is? it is literally seeing who has the most support among democrats. so this guy is the one who is doing the disservice of not deciding to support Zohran

“Don’t worry, everyone wants to eat centipedes when they are young”

they were tears of happiness on how happy they were that their ancestral homes were now under the stewardship of the colonist

argentina has a lot of immigration from other latin american countries

not only does does the billionaire class expect infinite growth, they require infinite accelerating growth

i don’t know how xcom does it, but if you are reloading a save, it is possible that you are always using the same random number generator, so the results would not change

he wants to act like a Nazi, spread Nazi ideas, help implement Nazi policies, and have Nazi friends, but not being called a Nazi

you see all these trends… and are still paying for Prime?