I knew several people in ruraltania who bought into the 3rd generation of raising Vietnamese potbellied pigs. First and second generations made a fair amount of money selling into a rising novelty market; the second generation also made money selling to third generation hopefuls. Third generation breeders lost their shirts of course. Before that it was small farmers in central Ontario who discovered that ginseng grows very well in that climate and soil and that was large, nay HUGE, demand for that root in the PRC. This is perhaps even more germane to the tech example because it takes the first crop of ginseng 7 years to mature, so many many Lake Erie-area farmers saw their early-in neighbors harvesting the crop and the cash - only to see the market flooded and prices crash the year before they were due to harvest.

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Most likely they meant that unemployment (or something similar) increased by 20%

Did you post this also when Musk said THE EXACT SAME THING?????

Unemployed people can't buy stocks.

More seriously, both this and Musk sound like the government seizing company assets and distributing it evenly to everybody. This is basically UBI, and it is a huge tax no matter how it is collected. It may work however, needs to be investigated with some seriousness and by people without preconceived notions of what will happen.

I'm pretty certain a robot will be able to dig ditches

The difference has nothing to do with the knowledge.

In the stock market, the money put in is actually used to advance the value of the stock. It's an investment just like you paying somebody to make widgets (that manufacturer could screw up his work and lose all your money, but that possibility does not make it gambling). In polymarket the money you put in is not used in any way to advance the outcome you are betting on.

"Protect" does not mean "it is impossible for you to get it". It means "it is less likely you will get it". You know that but you just want to rant and lie as it somehow makes you feel better. You are a sick loser.

I don't know what media you are watching, but every report I have seen is pointing out how unlikely spread of this will be. And this is reports from a variety of politically leaning media so it isn't even a polarizing issue.

Can anybody say what this app does (other than report your GPS location)? Does it do anything you can't do with a web browser and going to .gov web sites?

It’s obvious the criteria is going to be that all answers the AI gives are "not woke". This has absolutely nothing to do with safety, it is censorship.

He is suggesting an asset tax, but you can evade it by not using the asset as collateral for a loan.

I would think the main threat is from fooling users into running some downloaded executable code.

You can't call those e-bikes either

No. A moped is NOT an e-bike.

A lot of devious people are desperately trying to call mopeds "e bikes" because they want to outlaw e bikes (and bikes of all kinds eventually). Don't fall into the trap.

Most importantly, a motorcycle (or moped) MUST be in the traffic lanes. It is not allowed in the bike lanes or on the sidewalks.

The problem is that car drivers hate slow motorcycles in their lane. So they will lie in any way they can, in particular calling these things "e bikes", because the only solution that appeals to them is to BAN BAN BAN!!!! If they could get rid of the motorcycles they would jump at the chance to do so too.