Any semi-competent AGI would be able to hack our nuke control systems without too much difficulty.
Any basic ASI would be able to launch nukes just by thinking about it...
Watch Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) and see how we all become pets to the ASI...
UV laser sats delivering AM over IP to every car is the way to go.
We truly are serfs.
It's incredibly hard to create a viable search engine.
However, after 3 months of using Perplexity.AI Pro , it has replaced about 80-90% of my Google searches. It's phenomenal. It's more like an answer engine, and lets you choose between ChatGPT, Claude-3 and their own less-hallucegenic AI models. For $20/month, it's equivalent to, yet superior, to ChatGPT-4, so I cancelled my ChatGPT subscription.
Perplexity.AI is the answer to Google for me.
I’ve been able to redirect at least 80% of my Google searches to Perplexity and the other 20% to DuckDuckGo. It’s the first thing that ever really met my “needs” like Google did (back in 2019 and earlier).
Enhance 57-19, track 45 left, stop
What is Atlas's killer feature? What is it really good at?
It can track down and kill you easier
Yeah I like quite a few things about going to the office. It's a bit easier to switch between working/relaxing, you can meet people, there's free drinks, lunch options, staff to clean up after you, etc etc. Of course it's also nice to be able to WFH if needed as well.
That said, nothing makes up for horrible commutes. I live within walking distance so it's not an issue, but I don't get how people tolerate spending 40-60 minutes each way. I'd be upset about "return to office too".
that Jimmy Neutron film for ideas on how to launch differently from Mars surface.
A Star Is Born has been remade four times [after original 1937 film]:
- 1951 (a television adaptation) with Kathleen Crowley and Conrad Nagel
- 1954 with Judy Garland and James Mason
- 1976 with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson
- 2018 with Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper.
I don't really expect Hollywood to change any time soon.
Be that one person who figures out how to do stuff in your head.
Imagine what that feeling of power!
Could we not.
Fucking linear data feed of mouth-flappy-noises is for business management types who like to preen.
Sin taxes rarely do anything to discourage consumption, the most common outcome is the poor get poorer.
That's not true, they absolutely do work to discourage consumption.
Tobacco taxation, passed on to consumers in the form of higher cigarette prices, has been recognized as one of the most effective population-based strategies for decreasing smoking and its adverse health consequences [1â"4]. On average, a price increase of 10% on a pack of cigarettes would reduce demand for cigarettes by about 4% for the general adult population in high income countries [4].
The economic literature has made unique and important contributions to our understanding of the effectiveness of tobacco taxation on ameliorating the health consequences of smoking. Increased tobacco taxes, passed on to consumers in the form of higher cigarette prices, provide an economic disincentive to those who smoke or may be contemplating smoking. Indeed, the evidence from this knowledge synthesis strongly supports increasing cigarette prices through tobacco taxation as a powerful strategy for achieving major reductions in smoking behavior among some, but not all, high-risk populations.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3228562/
Really to claim that increasing prices don't lead to lower consumption would overturn the whole concept of supply & demand, or at the very least assert that the demand is perfectly inelastic.
If you're really concerned about economic inequality, you can redistribute those taxes to the poorest population.
Have some bad news about that too:
https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsb...
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