ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) has a great series called "Black Swans" and the first episode is all about the overpopulation predictions that never panned out. Well worth a watch.

Can you watch them anonymously, though, the way you could with broadcast TV? Or do you need an Amazon account?

You know I've been on this thing for almost 30 years and never figured out the "upvoting" and other fancy finctions people often brag about...

You must have missed that "firehose" link that's been at the top for 25 years or so. I wouldn't brag quite so hard about missing it, personally.

There's basically two ways this plays out. First the Epstein class wins. If that happens we become a techno feudal hellscape and you'll have a about 50 to 60,000 people at the top and then everyone else will be living in abject poverty at the level of medieval times. Disease and starvation will wipe most of them out and keep the numbers down.

The other less likely possibility is that we go with a cooperative global civilization. You know that cookie spooky socialism crap. If that happens you will quickly see the population not just stop growing but shrink. People who aren't desperately trying to crank out babies without access to birth control so they can use them as cheap labor to replace machines that don't exist just don't have a lot of kids. When you take away the economic incentive it turns out the birth rates drop faster than even the projections your citing.

Either way the reason we have this huge population boom is because we were in a very bizarre and unique situation where we had just enough technology that a primitive culture that squeezes out babies left and right wasn't dropping dead constantly from war and disease and general lack of medical Care. That's not sustainable and it's not going to last. The Epstein class won't allow it. So we either get rid of the Epstein class which does not seem to be on the table or we let them turn us into something worse than serfs

The sad thing is that he has criticized so many people for corruption, but now we find out he was just projecting his anger that he couldn't do it. That other people had more social leverage than he did. Maybe the industries he was involved in worked like that. I think though that he was surrounded by other stupid people with money so he was able to play them. Now that he is trying to play world leaders the same way it isn't the same game and he is way in over his head, even with Iran.

People voted for a guy to run the country like a business. Well this is how he runs his businesses. He gets rich while everyone else gets fucked.

You really want to go down that road? Let's begin with the Gulf War 3.0.

Disney has given the correct blow jobs.

If the tyrant loses midterms he just might try to press the button. He clearly only cares about himself winning and beyond that the world can burn.

What's accuracy being measured against? And to what scale picoseconds?

Achilles, where's that tortoise?

To be fair AI can publish stories grand standing itself at a faster speed.

I wonder what Margaret made of the incoming age of stupidity dependent on AI.

I am hoping she'd say, "screw that" and get her slide rule out. She wouldn't trust it either.

I am a broken record.

Thank you Margaret. Hooray for humans!

That was the point I was trying to make, your example is very good, you needed to be familiar with the task.

That's a million miles from AI will replace all jobs nonsense. A highly irresponsible claim. Not unlike, crypto is the best kind of money.

I didn't know I'd meet the arbiter of intelligence today.

The only thing you are exhibiting here is arrogance and ignorance. You sound like a 14 year old.

I am hungover and can happily call you names all day long, unless you have something useful to contribute?

You could try it without using AI, see if you are capable.

 

Ordinary people do not decide about the pay of others in actual reality.

Yes they do. Management/employers are not some special class of person.