Zompist Bboard Again

The same argument can be made about donkeys, or zombies, or green cheese: if green cheese was given absolute power over a corporation's activities or funding, it could act like the rich. Heck, strange as it sounds, people could take over and run a corporation. But those corporations are owned by ri...

I figure that a key question here is whether or not a thing-called-AI could effectively own and run a company, or an investment fund, or something like that. ultimately, that's power, innit ? legally they can't, but laws are just symbols on paper and on PDFs and we know that for the most part rich p...

great replacement doesn't mean demographic, cultural or religious change across historical time in general, I don't think, which is what you're talking about. all those are normal. GR refers to a specific conspiracy theory to the effect that "the elites" are engaged in a proyect to replace...

I think it would be useful to state positions explicitly here: what are you saying, malloc, that AI is going to strongly increase poverty, inequality and miserty? yes. this is correct. are you saying software can subtly manipulate human behaviours in order to achieve some goal that might not be what...

I don't think it's about replacing workers: what it is about is privatization. take chat gpt: I use it routinely to assist in coding (who can remember every method, class and parameter of every python library they use?), and the reason it works is that it's digesting and re-chewing what was, before,...

public figure who constantly reminds public to not trust media falsely reported dead by media lmao

I think i get something similar regarding anime: one of the reasons I don't watch one piece or, say, detective conan, is that there's like seventy million thousand billion episodes. I'm not sure exactly what about this fact discourages me, but perhaps it is a sense of "oh, golly, that'll eat up...

his ideal system is probably close to libertarianism. man, heinlein *and* herbert? and you're right that herbert was somewhat constrained: as I heard the story, the first book has the structure of a standard young-hero-boy-conquers-world because, well, that's what he had pitched to his editors. in ...

It's more or less the same everywhere: people get all riled up that immigrants are going to vote differently and in a way they don't like, but mostly as a justification for them already being riled up that darker immigrants are there in the first place. no one ever goes "all these argentinian i...

Myself, I just hope people in tech would just stop believing that they can MAKE MONEY FAST!!! with START UPS!!! and basically stop falling for scams, just a little. That might be possible; though already an ordeal; it would require massive cultural change, like turning away just a little from the c...

I don't think you can convince humans out of making money when, as in our society, access to the entirety of the social product (you know, almost all goods) is mediated, in some way or other, by money. ascetes are always exceptional.

like... hear me out: small recap, dune is about an aristocratic kid in a feudalistic society who is born into power, loses power as a result of an attack by his enemies, and then proceeds to accrue more and more power, at least at first, in order to survive and regain his former position and status:...

ah, I think i understand better now. a trump dictatorship -which is not an obvious outcome of this election, though not for lack of desire- would show significant approaches towards russia, that much is true.it's a long jump from there, though, to eternal global dominance by a cohesive and permanent...

abstention increases the odds of trump winning more than voting for biden, sure, but rallying cries aside, they're not the same thing: if they were, why is abstention not a vote for biden? what's the asymmetry? is trump the default? is abstention both? the us system is wack, but it's not that wack.....

so there are more powers that rival the us, but if the us loses power then there won't be? again, this is homefront: first worlders love to imagine poor third worlders as some powerful, scary threat when, in reality, they're living under zinc plates and making a hundred bucks a month. no, iran is no...

Aristocrats are vulnerable to regime change. Dictatorships can survive indefinitely by paying the police and the military. The only way to defeat that is coordinated mass action so all-encompassing that the police and the military side with the people against the regime. In my opinion, the most opt...

Vote for whoever he tells them to vote for? I kinda feel this is correct. I can even imagine the narrative. But you are the one who is saying "support Trump because it will weaken the US etc. and make the world a better place as a result", when anyone who doesn't vote for Biden due to the...

middle class really is a nebulous concept, but from the perspective of people in really poor countries (like russia was before the revolution, say), eveyone in germany is middle class or above. The last time the US engaged in reigme change abroad was Iraq in 2003. they've just otten better and less ...

I'm not so sure about that. I don't know exactly how effective the troll farms and propaganda are, but given the popularity of regressive authoritarianism they're evidently accomplishing something. yes! though they're by no means the only source thereof. I think zomp's model here is too simple as i...

at least here, pool halls are either expensive and in a posh neighbourhood or cheap and in street you wouldn't like to park your fancy wheels, so it's likely the two groups won't notice each other.