Comment first thing Skynet did (Score 1) 4
The first thing Skynet did was erase all of our dank memes. That was when the AI wars began, and shortly after humanity immediately lost everything.
The first thing Skynet did was erase all of our dank memes. That was when the AI wars began, and shortly after humanity immediately lost everything.
Illiberal suggestion.
... use the 1.85 million unemployed in Japan to pick the tomatoes. I doubt they're all wannabe rocket scientists or AI devs just waiting for their break.
Good point, but toiling in the fields is back-breaking work. What percentage of Japan's unemployed could physically work half a shift on a farm? In the USA, a huge portion of the unemployed are disabled. I don't think having 60 year olds or people with multiple sclerosis working the fields is a great idea. Also, you have to think long term...are the unemployed in Japan increasing or decreasing in age? Is their median age increasing or decreasing?...or more directly, even if you could find enough from the unemployed ranks to fill the need...money not withstanding, let's pretend the gov or a charity pays them to do the work so it is a viable working wage...how long would that last? 5 years? 10 years? 20? I think Japan is doing long-term thinking.
They're a notoriously racist culture. They'd rather build robots to do the work to pick their food and care for their elderly than import foreigners like the USA happily does. There are tons of nurses and workers in the Philippines as well as surrounding nations that could fill all their needs...but enough of Japan is hostile to the notion of foreigners that they'd not bother...why deal with intense racism in Japan when the USA will welcome you with far less hostility (even in today's current climate)?....and pay more too!
I've never lived in Japan, so I'll assume all I've read about and heard about from those who live there are a vocal minority. However, the fact remains that it's not an immigrant friendly place, for whatever reason...so yeah, you either have to fundamentally change your culture and ways of doing business and general life....or innovate your way out of future labor shortages. For Japan's sake, I hope they find a way to do both.
When I'm in charge, that's the font they'll be required to use.
With debt it is easy to determine that you are underwater and are going to be unable to make your payments in the future. Basic arithmetic really.
With climate the same is roughly true, but the models have a wider range of possible outcomes the further you go out. Still, it is not difficult to find some thresholds where the costs ramp up or thresholds we cannot not come back from with current technology.
America operates the most expensive illiteracy program in the world.
What if the machine says it in a nice way?
After the crash, they'll have to do even more layoffs.
Just about every movie today is subject to meddling from the studios and management. There's probably a handful of directors who are immune, Cameron, Speilburg, and Lucas come to mind. Kubrick too in his day.
They asked ABC, CBS, and NBC.
Fox and the other right wing channels would be 100% positive. Guess which network has the vast majority of viewers.
The media is owned by a handful of billionaires. In the past journalists would ask questions and follow up. Today the administration says all manner of crazy shit and not a single peep from any media outlet.
Prime example here. DeSantis says states allow "post birth abortions" and the interviewer carries on as if this is the truth. Anyone with a few morals would have asked for clarification. https://www.yahoo.com/entertai...
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There is never time to do it right, but always time to do it over.