Yeah it's a real mess we've made, easier just to disallow it from vehicles altogether than fix that quandary, if companies want it that bad they can offer it as a physical addition to the car, it can contain the data collection and transmitting systems and the customer can pay or be paid appropriately for it, just like insurance companies offered.

I'm open to the idea companies find value in that data, if my personal goings on is worth something I would like the option to sell that if someone is paying but we should have control over that information. Let me access my global advertising profile, hell, I'll keep it up to date with my preferences.

I think your model is only one of several alternatives. I don't foresee a unitary intelligence as likely, but an executive function delegating different tasks to different experts depending on context. And it can't be limited to language, it needs to interact more directly with the physical world. But we're already taking steps in that direction.

Yes, it's difficult. Perhaps it will take awhile. But there's absolutely no reason to expect human intelligence to remain the top measure. (Even now there are lots of contexts where it isn't. Try to out-calculate a spreadsheet. What the spreadsheet can't do is design itself.)

Whatever will they do with only possibly tens of billions rather than hundreds of billions?!

Also actual, true libertarians are not anarcho capitalist or even minimists, those are silly.

The true actual libertarians are the Georgists

No, they are not taxed 100% and taxes are marginal you only pay more as you make more.

Nobody makes money without the foundation of society the rest of us create, no billionaire or millionaire can exist in a world without the society we all create and all it entails making such things possible.

Massive income inequality is bad economically and bad for society in general. It's societal and economic rot. Case in point: Post WWII America, most economic growth, most growth of middle class, lower inequality; high marginal rates.

Hey if anyone, and I mean anyone, you, me or the billionaires consider paying taxes as enslavement then please, by all means, relocate to all the successful developed nations with zero taxes.

I have always been told this but it has yet to be demonstrated to me, today or historically. I have a billion dollars, i dont want to pay taxes, where do i go?

Seriously, its 2025 and I cannot take anarcho capitalism seriously, this is a joke ideology, sorry.

See here's the thing, I don't consider taxation theft so we can disagree there. That argument holds absolutely zero sway over me, i consider it absolutely ridiculous and just memes, you gotta try better, to me thats a joke argument I made in my early 20's.

Hey you know lets agree to agree since I do think people are driven by more than money which is exactly why I advocate for much, much, much higher taxes of folks like Bezos, this idea that they will just take their money and not do anything isn't really true.

Good points, but not necessarily eternal truths. I suspect you could use magnetic fields to strengthen the cable. Of course, that would collapse if the power failed. But perhaps there are other alternatives that nobody has thought of.

Still, my favorite skyhook is the PinWheel, though it needs a hefty mass in a fairly low orbit (as well as long arms that reach into the stratosphere). But you need to lower as much mass as you raise (on the average) or the orbit decays.

Looks like you're implementing LISP.

For a second there, I was sure that they had discovered that some of us are lizard people.

What I wonder is whether it's any good. Admittedly, I don't wonder hard enough to listen to it, but then I generally (almost always) avoid podcasts.

There will be tools. But there will also be the more general intelligence. One can argue about the time-line, and that's quite reasonable, but denying it requires accepting spiritualism or some such.

For that matter, people are often used as tools. It's not an "either/or" choice.

We're talking the same thing, I don't disagree with your overall point of the human condition but you are holding Bezos actions as virtuous and that's my disagreement. Maybe barely versus him doing nothing but from the outcome of what this company does it could be negative utility particularly because this is just another me-too bandwagon AI venture.

  Basically we should t hold Bazos on any real esteem for this decision, he risks nothing, the success or failure of this venture will not affect him meaningfully nor is he really being altruistic at all either.

We used to use 3rd party booking sites. If everything went fine, there were no issues. If anything went wrong, it was a disaster. Hotel overbooked? The hotel won't help you. Wrong room type? The hotel won't help you. Can't find your reservation number? The hotel won't help you. You get to call Expedia and pray that a human picks up and can do something for you. This happened once to a friend, where a hotel was overbooked so Expedia got them a new hotel room on the other side of town. Didn't help our friend who was going to a conference at that hotel. If he had booked through the hotel, they would have put him in a sister hotel a block away.

We only book through the hotel sites now. You have a lot of leverage with the staff when you are sitting in front of them and they are responsible for filling your reservation. Also, if you are a rewards member, you can call the rewards number and they will usually fix anything the staff won't, or can't, fix.

The only way you could reasonably predict what jobs will be available would be to predict exactly how much more advanced AIs are going to get and how quicly. And any prediction is a "Wild Ass Guess".

FWIW, there's a company in China building humanoid robots for assembly line work. So far it's only sold less than a thousand, so it's probably still in the experimental stage, but if it's "nearly ready" then it will soon be ready.

Now most assembly line work is basically rote repetition, with only a limited number of special-case scenarios, to this is far from a general purpose robot...but it's enough to eliminate LOTS of jobs...if it's cheap enough. And if it is, one can expect incremental expansion into other roles.