Someone made that argument for computers.

Look I’ve found immense value in AI. It has helped me set up my own homelab with 0 knowledge of Linux or selfhosting in a fraction of time than it would have taken on my own using Google. And the kicker, I’ve learned a few things, enough that I don’t need the training wheels of the Ai most of the time.

It’s great for giving it expenses for an entire year and have it categorize them by merchant. I can do it myself but it takes seconds for ChatGPT to do it.

It’s great to get ideas to write marketing drivel just to keep your visibility. I never post anything it writes as it spits it out but with some polish it’s not terrible and it really speeds up the time it would take to write something no one is going to pay too much attention to anyways.

Mid journey has been great to illustrate my little world building project that no one will ever see.

Sure it sucks for customer service. It’s terrible at being an encyclopedia since they are trained to always have a response, even when they have no idea. But to say the tech is not incredibly useful is naive. I get that people are tired from it being pushed, so am I. I know that sometime soon many services that shoehorned ai just to say they have ai will either drop it or refine it so that it is actually useful .

It’s a good tech being used badly.

I mean not to defend Microsoft but this is how it works when you’re starting a new business with new technology. All of big tech is spending billions in a gamble to be one of the few who survive when AI as a tech matures and only market leaders are able to make a profit. It will be a tiny profit margin but they will be the only ones making money out of it.

People are losing their ability to objectively judge things due to their hate of the tech. It’s not great for everything and it’s certainly not good left on its own but it does speed things up under the supervision of someone who knows what they’re doing.

Probably the same reason everyone doesn’t just talk English.

So when does the movie come out?

I saw the Netflix series and the first season was amazing, like one of my favorite TV series ever so definitely will check it out. Sad that the second season was so… stale I guess? I think Anthony Mackey is just not a very good lead actor.

I think a lot of the hype is because it’s the first of its genre. It does for cyberpunk what LOTR did for Fantasy I guess and in that regard I can understand the hype.

Also he’s very good at using simile and metaphors to give a feel to the world and to kind of separate the genre from science fiction. He does some nice things by describing organic stuff using artificial qualities. Like of course you have the iconic “The sky above the port was the color of TV tuned to a dead channel”. But then there’s this other part where Case takes this potent drug and the description is something like his bones became chrome under silicone or something along those lines that I thought was awesome. But the plot itself gets lost in all these very vivid descriptions and how he literally moves from one scene to the next without anything indications.

Neuromancer.

I loved Cyberpunk 2077 and everyone keeps saying that it’s a rehash of Neuromancer so I had to give it a go.

I’m enjoying it but I feel like I might need to read this more than once, the writer’s style is strange to say the least and I feel like I’m never quite understanding what’s going on. I’m not finished but so far I think Cyberpunk’s plot hits harder, but that’s probably because I’m a brainlet maybe.

Also slowly working through Prologomena For Any Future Metaphysics. I’m trying to read Marx but to read Marx I need to read Hegel and you can’t read Hegel without reading Kant so here I am.

The cities state idea is more of a Curtis Yarvin thing, but he has the backing of Thiel.

Thiel is pushing whatever thing allows the existence of a libertarian state a la Bioshock. In his essay “Education of a Libertarian “ he talks about a few things that could usher such a state like the internet, space colonies or sea standing. So far he has funded two companies that could allow such a state to form. He was one of the first to fund SpaceX (Mars), and he funded a project of Yarvin that I don’t really understand but it’s something about cyber city states or some shit like that, it’s super obscure.

Both are funded by Thiel, it’s all Thiel down the way.

It’s not right wing nuts tech bros. It’s just one: Thiel. All the companies with the LOTR name have him as a common denominator.

Also this news is weird I thought Palmer Luckey really hated Zuckerberg. Luckey was fired from Facebook because he supported Trump before basically any other Techbro except Thiel.

I don’t know enough about programming to do it myself so I like to look at what the community says. This is one thing we’re AI could be very helpful no?

Excellent rebuttal. Well thought out.

International laws are not real laws. Unless the countries are willing to bomb to oblivion a country that breaks international law, there’s nothing to enforce it and therefore they do not exist in practice. They only exists when the US says they exist because they are willing to bomb the country breaking the law.

Elon’s success as a businessman beyond being very good at self promotion is that he’s a brilliant cost cutter. SpaceX exists as it does today thanks to his exceptional ability to make people do great things with the least amount of resources and processes possible. The problem is at this point he has bought in too much into his own myth to the point he’s a caricature of his own self. Sensors are expensive and ugly, so he doesn’t want to use them and his argument is that humans don’t have sensors, only eyes. Which is a fine philosophy if you’re trying to create a system that is as dangerous as humans behind the wheel but I thought the idea was to make something better.

Hierarchy will always exist yes, you did not discover something new. I don’t know if I would describe it in the context of masters and slaves though, for sure there is a lot of inequality but overall the difference in quality of life between the elites and the common person is much less than under feudalism. And you have a lot more agency over the outcome of your life.

Like I said, hierarchy. Hierarchy and feudalism are not the same thing.

1. Many very rich people own hardly any land. Many very powerful people own hardly any land. Many comparatively poor people may own many acres of land. You could move the goal post and say it’s ownership of corporations but then at that point it’s clearly not feudalism.

2. Yu do not work in exchange for protection unless you consider the democratically elected government a feudal lord, in which case again, number 1 doesn’t apply and therefore the system isn’t feudalism. Furthermore you have the option to get another job, move out, save and start a business etc.

3. You can see how that’s not the case anymore, even marriage is a legal contract.

So yeah, no we do not live under feudalism and you need to maybe touch grass. Feudalism was much worse than what we have now, like it’s not even close.

You do not know what feudalism is. What you described is hierarchy, not feudalism.

I’ll get downvoted to hell probably, but hierarchy is inherent to humans and to primates in general. Even if on paper we create a truly egalitarian society, there will always be people that by virtue of being more skilled or charismatic will always have more influence in society. It doesn’t mean that they “rule” necessarily but more like people will put trust in them to make decisions when everyone else can’t get on the same page on etc.

It has the most insane user tracking you can imagine given how hard it is to evade bans. The system will literally flag you as a possible ban evader through your behavior only. So not even having a VPN and a new device can hide your identity completely. You have to act different to throw the system off.

In order for cops not to have rifles the general population should not be allowed to have rifles. But being that is not the case then I think they are justified in carrying rifles.

That doesn’t mean I think people should have rifles. Before I get bombarded here, it’s just the reality that they have them and that’s not changing anytime soon.