Like neanderthals before us, if next level intelligence happens on this level humans will be obsolete. It won't really matter 'how do humans find meaning' as it simply won't be relevant.

Only meaningful question will be how long this superior intelligence keeps us around in the face of the destruction we cause to the planet and the purpose it finds for itself.

As religion demonstrates as an example, humans self-assign importance to themselves that simply doesn't exist in cosmic scale. The only relevance we have is what we make for ourselves. If we choose to create this as our next evolutionary step, we won't have any more of a say in it than wildlife does.

Quite foolish to think we could 'control' such a super intelligence, meaningfully guide its purpose, or ours once it exists.

They keep giving us more reasons to buy physical discs instead of these awful streaming services.

Laws of physics are setting in. Batteries simply are not to the point where this type of delivery is going to be economically viable until at least the next generation of batteries. Problem is magnified by the complexity of these systems, we are far from drones being reliable to the point where they won't need constant expensive human maintenance.

Until then these services are just stock pump schemes.

If an upcoming situation is 'unforseeable' laying off experienced staff that would allow the company to more quickly adapt to future changes is the worst possible strategy.

'Consistent with the value' eh? Apparently they haven't seen this study:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.17.22283625v1.full.pdf

Vaccine doses versus risk of covid during the 3-month study period, see Table 2.

- One dose, 1.7 times more likely to test positive for covid
- Two doses, 2.63 times more likely to test positive for covid
- Three doses, 3.1 times more likely to test positive for covid
- More than three doses, 3.8 times more likely to test positive for covid

"We still have a lot to learn about protection from COVID-19 vaccination, and in addition to a vaccine’s effectiveness it is important to examine whether multiple vaccine doses given over time may not be having the beneficial effect that is generally assumed."

With this 'value' they should be paying people to take that stuff, it has actual negative value.

Excellent, we can stop this pointless USB treadmill of eternal upgrades now. USB-C for the next 50 years, by worldwide government mandate!

Same experience here, I have only once in 30 years had a HDD fail entirely without pre-indications allowing me to recover at least most if not all of the data, and that one instance was on a reboot.

Every SSD I've had fail, although I agree at a lower rate, just falls flat instantly during use with total data loss and zero warning.

I'm not sure that's 'better' even if it is less frequent.

These got rid of proprietary formats years ago, as Steve Jobs made it his mission to open them up. One of the few things he did which I agreed with. See his "Thoughts on Music" treatise on the subject which led to the industry opening up.

https://web.archive.org/web/20071223160841/https://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/

iPods don't require iTunes either, there's a ton of other software options as Apple didn't close this part of them either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_iPod_file_managers

I still use my iPod nano, it's plenty large for my needs, connects to my car, doesn't need an internet connection. When it eventually does die there's lots of other options on the market nowadays.

Streaming idea gets more defective by the day as artists are constantly pulling and moving content, never know 'where' things are going to be stream-able from. And where I live internet is still far from ubiquitous. Maybe the idea works in principle for people who never leave major cities, but I'll stick with my private stack of purchased music files that actually reliably works and doesn't get retroactively changed because someone felt like it, thanks.

Movies are even worse than music, have started buying BluRay and DVDs again for my favorites just so I can actually watch them when I want to and so when I do they're actually the same movie.

Not where I expected things to go, the 'universal library' concept was close but then fractured due to greed.

Worst of this is caused by the Fed keeping their heads in the sand blaming 'transitory issues' instead of the real overloaded money supply which was the problem all along. Landing would have been softer if they started acting last year instead of waiting and making things worse in the year since.

I still don't think they're moving fast enough, couple percent they're targeting by the end of the year simply isn't enough to offset the huge lump of money that was pumped in. They need to at least match interest rates with inflation rates to have a meaningful impact.

While they continue to dilly-dally on rates to play politics, bubbles will continue to build. Especially the insanely over-inflated housing market.

Meanwhile most of us will continue to get crushed with crazy inflation and 'pay increases' that are actually decreases due to inflation.

To meaningfully eliminate speeding we need speed chips in cars to make it impossible to speed. We have these rolling out in Europe already this year, and although I don't completely agree with the idea, if this is their actual goal these would be a much more meaningful way to approach the problem.

This is exactly why we need Right to Repair; as closed systems automakers have proven time and time again they are utterly incompetent at making reasonable decisions on implementation. We need these systems opened up and peer reviewed before they will be reliable and, ironically, not trivially hackable.

I predict this is just another scam like the Foxconn con-job in Wisconsin. It is 'cool' to announce US sourcing right now, but I suspect they won't actually follow through with the long term effort and job training it would actually take to pull this off. In the meantime they'll happily harvest as much government funds as they can, and come up with the excuses as to why it 'didn't work out' later.

And it's an NGO so there's no open government process, auditing, or accountability, so the secret organization can be easily used to selectively ruin anyone's lives the powerful don't like, or exclude anyone they do like from being included in any action.