How old are you with a four number user ID? Do you support space travel?

It's one comment up in the thread by blackslashdot. And he's 100% right and rather hilarious when he said rsilvergun would say "If your dog dies, it's because you're a capitalist pig."

You act as though corruption isn't endemic in communism as well. The USSR had huge mismatches in supply and demand ultimately leading up to the Gorbachev moment. Cursing and bring up Enron don't really make your point either, and there are massive pitfalls with over-regulation as well, such as when the laws directly contradict each other. We as a society have concluded that a boom and bust cycle is preferable to one that consistently under-performs, ideally with socialism to mitigate harms for the common people. The world is very rapidly changing, with advances in AI/Robotics, Biotech, and Aerospace leading the way. A big enough wave can knock over the Chesterton fence (see The Coming Wave by Suleyman). None of these political system have been able to solve for long term world peace either.

Not necessarily... A lot of the tech people (and people in general) just stopped caring. When the political system is as bad and messed up as it is, what's left except for apathy. I think it's the extremists on both sides pushing for this mental drain so they can force their unwanted policies on the masses.

For once, I actually agree with this decision. I would compare it to a novice driver making unwittingly making a mistake. Ultimately it's up to the discretion of a cop to issue a ticket, and I would like to think that if a 15 or 16 year old driver made the same kind of error, the police would have the sense not to issue a citation. It's a whole different matter if it happens repeatedly.

The technology exists, and has for some time. Indoor industrial agriculture (vertical farming) has solved the overwhelming majority of these problems. The issue is what to do with the excess labour pool, and how vertical farming can compete with people living on subsistence wages whether in the United States or elsewhere. It's entirely an economic problem of control, power, and costs. This is the industrial revolution all over again, but instead we now call the luddites "clankers" instead, and it doesn't really resolve the issue of what to do with literally millions of young men with limited resources (food, money, opportunity, etc).

It can literally all be automated except for the human aspect. Human nature also favours inequality and violence, and it up to us to figure out how to use technology to solve for peace and prosperity for as many people as possible.

Did you even bother reading the summary? It says they are 80% male, likely a result of the one child policy and the traditional preference for male children. RSilverGun is actually 100% right for once. There are two massive theatre's of war right now in Gaza and Ukraine, not to mention the conflicts across Africa. And the "immagrants" in China are the Uyghurs who have literally been sent to "re-education" camps and more or less enslaved. This is just talking about the roughly 20% of the population in China with limited rights and employment opportunities, otherwise referred to as the working poor in most of the rest of the world. Lay off the booze or at least make an effort to read the summary before posting.

Or more to the point, Asia is out-competing America and somehow Mr. Dimon has decided to blame this on Europe instead of American competitiveness.

So first of all, this is referencing last year. Nothing failed with Apple intelligence, and that's the point, they play it safely. AI works, and it's as scary as combine harvesting, transistor radios and tape recordings. It's all solid state now though. Apple practices politics as one of the largest companies in the world. The animosity to Tim Cook is nothing compared to Musk or Trump. It's very hard to get the world in agreement on what a better world looks like, especially with all the hurt everyone has been through.

How do we get AI to solve for world peace and a post scarcity society, when so many politicians and young people don't see value in that? Many, many people don't want equality, they want to have more, and violence is an option.

They can find other food. Flies for example, or other bugs. I doubt we'll actually be able to eliminate them all, fruit flies could just evolve back in to mosquitoes. As far as population control, I suggest we start with you and your progeny.

Long distance calling and video chats work great nearly all over the world (depending on network connection). Now verifying the person you're talking to is actually the person you think you're talking to in the age of photorealistic video/voice filters is a whole different matter.

China also has a space station of their own. I'm not sure for how long aircraft carriers are going to be the deterrent they use to be in the age of hyper-sonic missiles and drone warfare. I'd like to believe in the supremacy of the American military, and agree the lunatics shouldn't controlling those weapons. The conflicts between India (US) and Pakistan (US+China) tend to indicate the Chinese weapons are very capable.

I don't think automation is a net negative though, just as the industrial revolution brought significant benefits to very broad swaths of the global population. I hardly think there's much of a need for more people working in warehouses and manufacturing facilities. I'd like to think the automation will push us further towards a post-scarcity society where the average person has significantly more while working significantly less, but working less is very "Un-American".

How long should copyrights and patents last? What happens when a 3rd party country, such as China, Laos, or Colombia, doesn't respect either? What's a fair price to pay for licenses, how should they be taxed, and what happens when there's no way to enforce these things?

So it largely comes down to military might and intelligence gathering then? If one country, say China, has no respect for intellectual property laws in America, there's really not anything stopping them from scraping up everything and ignoring all of the American laws then? So realistically it all just comes to money, connections, and power and with enough of it everything's legal (or illegal without money and power)? I guess that's largely what goes in some countries.