Had a discussion with my 8yo niece the other day… turned out the lesson was, sometimes it can be worse to know the wrong thing than to know nothing at all.

Yes, but just because you are spending energy doesn’t mean you are emitting a lot of carbon. Especially if your power comes from nuclear.

So what if it required 1 watt?

You have to do actual math to determine if it’s worth it, not just write it off because it requires energy.

Can someone just do the needful?

State of morons. They deserve it.

Automated misinformation

They don’t just invest in them, they build them.

Knowing the definition of “fascist” is too intellectual for 90% of America.

Real answer: AI alignment is a very difficult and fundamentally unsolved problem. Whole nonprofits (“institutes”) have popped up with the purpose of solving AI alignment. It’s not getting solved (ever, IMO).

Or a society

It’s basically the GM bailout but with less steps and specifically avoiding bankruptcy which seems more efficient. Not that the gov’t won’t just turn around and run Intel into the ground.

The root cause is a profound anti-intellectual bent.

GEO Group - George Zoley and his son Chris

Every f***ing American should know their names and they don’t and they get to live in comfort because of it.

We could more easily get oil from Alaska, there’s plenty of it.

It was a brand deal with Solo “Smokeless” Stove (which he didn’t disclose until after it had made headlines) https://www.solostove.com/e-ad/p/the-snoop-stove-bonfire-2.0

Who knows? But look all around. There are so many signs that they want to ‘do away with the gays.’ In Florida, they are painting over the rainbow crosswalks for zero reason repeatedly deploying the state DOT to fight them. Then there’s this. And there’s talk of making gay marriages invalid.

Use credit to buy gold before dollars have no buying power

I’m not a financial advisor

don’t forget requiring biometrics to log in

It’s about to get even worse. With AI and deepfakes, including deepfake porn, it will become impossible to argue against the complete and total tracking of all access to compute for the general population. There will be literally no justifiable reason to “control your own computer”, when children could get hurt.

That’s a more boring version of the larger thing happening: ruling class decided it’s YOLO time, screw what the middle and lower class think. Buy a dictator, merge the military with the prisons, take over whatever you can laws and legacy be damned.