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Comment Re:At least they are trying (Score 1) 79

Sounds like they'll try to identify some highly physical things a person could do better than AI, and provide training for it.

No, they'll tell you to go get your own training for it, for which you can get a nice student loan!

And then, let's say an awful lot of work does get done with less and less effort on our parts. This could mean that things become cheaper and easier to make, therefore less expensive to buy.

What it means is the number of jobs contracts and people can't afford things, and since the masses of asses think dumb shit about UBI we can't have that either, so a lot of people are going to have to die.

Comment Re:False Hope (Score 1) 66

this is a false hope and a misleading headline. If one actually reads the story, these engineers are being hired to complete training of AI that was incomplete due to earlier departures

hurble durble false hope, then I shall present my own false hope!

The will never do what it is supposed to. And when it is capable of doing it then it will replace us all. We'll find out about it when the bombs drop.

Comment Re: Amazing if it works (Score 1) 105

It's a sad fact of life that this level of consumption is only possible through systematized large scale cruelty to animals with current technology.

I don't agree. In fact you could fix a lot of what's wrong without even spending more money to do it than it would have cost to do right in the first place. Modifications to slaughterhouses like having the cows go through a curved passage so they can't see what's happening to others in front of them for example. Obviously you can't fix feedlots without eliminating them, so some things are basically unsolvable, except that we don't actually need feedlots and could eliminate them.

Therefore I'd say the sad fact is that we don't even give a fuck about reducing the cruelty.

Comment Re: Jailbreaking will never get fixed (Score 1) 53

Really? As a frequent object of your deep derision, you're far too easily insulted by things that aren't insults.

You're frequently insulting, apparently without realizing it, which implies that you're a lot dumber than you think you are. Learn not to be insulting all the time if that's not your goal, or continue to be looked down on for people you sound like you're looking down on when you talk to them.

Comment Re: Probably for the better in the long run (Score -1) 98

His observation is not "blaming" anybody,

False. Learn to read.

it's simply stating a fact.

What he stated as fact was "nobody is just going to shrug and abandon the lifestyle we have all enjoyed the last 50 years" but that is completely fucking irrelevant and places the blame on the masses whose fault it isn't. They will use what they are forced to use, as always. The people who are deciding what they will have available to them are the culprits, as always.

I take it back. You don't need to learn to read. You need to learn to think.

Comment Re:Amazing if it works (Score 1) 105

Just consider one example: Animal cruelty. Of course some people are still quite cruel to animals, but they're the exception, and this was not historically the case.

Are they the exception? Given what we know about shelters, there's no shortage of cruelty. The difference is that instead of enjoying it, we pretend it doesn't happen. On one hand that's better because it's not a celebration, and on the other hand it's pathetic weakling bullshit with people too cowardly to face the results of their own actions. And that's before we even get into how CAFOs didn't even exist before the 1940s or so... Everyone who eats meat (myself included) is funding whole new levels of institutionalized animal cruelty.

It's NOT an advance to PRETEND that you're not cruel.

Comment Re: Probably for the better in the long run (Score -1, Troll) 98

You cannot solve this problem with advances in technology simply existing. They have to be implemented. We've had solutions which don't require the masses of people to change lifestyle for decades. We don't implement them so that a tiny number of people don't have to change their lifestyles. You're blaming the victims, a favorite slashdot pastime which accomplishes exactly dick.

Comment Re:Lame, Lazy criticism - the only agenda is $$ (Score 0) 154

See, this is what I'm talking about. You can invent reasons why it all makes sense. Some fans enjoy that, it's fine. But if you are willing to do it to explain away Luke's meteoric rise, why not Rey's as well?

I don't give a shit about Rey or Luke either way, as neither ever existed in the really real world. I'm solely explaining why your argument doesn't make sense even in the context of the goofy-ass pulp sci-fi canon.

Comment Re:Possession is 9/10ths of the law (Score 0) 70

If the truth is about to be uncovered, a corporate attorney hands over a check, a paper admitting no fault, and the recipient typically signs a non-disclosure agreement.

This all stems from a legal system which does not require punishment of crimes. This is supposed to make it more fair because we have the option to let people off when punishment won't actually help anything, but in practice it means that the wealthy can buy their way out of it and the poor cannot, and the judicial system is hard on the poor to make it look like it's strict when in fact it's only strict with the poor. We must require that all known crimes be punished if we are to change our laws, because there must be consequences for breaking laws for the people with the ability to actually change them.

Comment Re:Lame, Lazy criticism - the only agenda is $$ (Score 1) 154

In star wars land they have repulsors that let ships hover, and clearly they have input filtering as well given how we've seen people handle controls, so gravity isn't a deal breaker. Obviously you have to suspend disbelief to some degree for all fiction, but Luke at least has actual seat time experience, and the extremely force sensitive main villain was distracted by trying to get a line on the extremely force sensitive main hero.

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