When enough people go hungry.

Conditions have to be pretty severe for a crowd of people to make that kind of decision.

I suspect these useful applications will get a new name, when this is said and done. Statistical Compute Models. Something like that. “AI” is a marketer’s misdirection, not an actual description.

ah, fair enough

sorry for the harsh reply

I’ve heard the underlying maths is good for doing statistical analysis of particle physics. It won’t “find” new physics, but it will point to models that are at least mathematically sound.

Of course, researchers will still have to test those models with real world experiments. Science is mostly establishing how the universe doesn’t work.

If they’d just let the graphics card bubble pop with crypto, by now we’d be in the recovery stage and regulating digital securities.

But that would require admitting to irrationality in the financial system and putting in the work to fix it, which would be mildly embarrassing. So instead, the bourgeoisie have chosen the maximally embarrassing thing of being delusional about a crummy computer program.

And the bubble is now so big, the pop won’t be a normal boom-bust. I half suspect its gonna end the dollar as reserve currency.

Polite so long as you’re white, the canadian way. Ask a mounty for a starlight tour sometime.

That last sentence is not clear. Who is planning and who is exterminating? American Millenials are exterminating the rest of the world? The rest of the world is planning to exterminate… someone? Their own population?

Plants need direct light to grow… most need full sun

Except for all the plants that evolved and thrive in the low light beneath tree foliage. Evolution is not so picky as a pretty houseplant.

I think you could make a fun VR game where you row a boat and do flag semaphore. I’m not gonna develop that shit, though.

The healthcare plan they prioritized was developed by the Heritage Foundation, on behalf of insurance providers. Mitt Romney actually ran on implementing basically the exact same bill.

As I understand it, the “matter” part is a hold over from physicists trying to fix their faulty calculations.

Looking for “matter” that only interacts with gravity is a bit like looking for the perfectly smooth frictionless plane. I mean, somethings gotta account for the sums being off, but the real world explanation is anybody’s guess.

Alright alright. Twenty dollar tech demos that last 45min. Please don’t sue me for using rhetoric to emphasize a point.

it will never not be funny to me that Valve released VR’s killer app, and the killer app killed VR.

Nobody else has the time or budget to make something like Alyx, and strapping a monitor to your face is obnoxious in ideal situations, let alone to for a library broadly of $40 tech demos that last 15min.

If you pitched this as a scene in a satirical movie, you’d be told to tone it down a bit.

How do you account for growth in the real economy, then? Spain invaded and obliterated the cultures of a whole continent in part because they didn’t have enough silver to match their accounting books.

I get that we have a problem with venture capital and defense contractors having access to the federal money spigot, but putting an arbitrary cap on the monetary supply will just impose a new set of problems.

The religious fanatics self-segregated and sent themselves, for the most part.

…born just in time to be on television.

Come on, now, if you really think his ideal is “warlord”, you’ve been paying more attention to what conservatives fantasize than who he actually is. Trump is a theater kid. An Andrew Lloyd Webber stan. He has the soundtrack to Cats on hand at all times. His favorite part of the presidency is that he gets to be on TV whenever he so chooses.

Democrats could instantly and easily sidestep a lot of transphobic fear mongering by simply saying, “you don’t have to like or even understand it, but its these people’s right as free Americans.”

I don’t think they’re interested in doing that, though.

Obama also ran a sham campaign in '08, presenting himeself as far more progressive than he really was.

And it worked. So why has the DNC abandoned that strategy? Why can’t they countenance even so much as a falsely held progressive stance?

The air of something interesting in place of actually having something interesting to say. That’s just how Abrams writes. It’s not like just a mistake he makes kinda frequently, it’s deliberate. He has a whole TED talk about it.