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Comment Re:America's food security depends on immigrant la (Score 1) 105

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.

Comment Re:200 million angry, single disaffected young men (Score 1) 105

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.

Comment TBD (Score 1) 28

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.

Submission + - Pavel Durov exposes U.S. law that forces engineers to install back doors (x.com) 3

schwit1 writes: Pavel Durov blows Tucker Carlson’s mind by exposing U.S. law that forces engineers to install back doors—and bans them from telling their own company

This is why Telegram didn’t set up shop in America.

“You know what’s interesting, in the U.S., you have a process that allows the government to actually force any engineer in any tech company to implement a back door and not tell anyone about it.”

“Using this process called the gag-order, you know there are certain legal procedures.”

Carlson, stunned, asked: “Not tell his own employer about it?”

Durov confirmed: “Yes, exactly. If you tell your own boss, you can end up in jail. Like, gag order.”

Carlson: “Actually?!”

Durov: “Yeah.”

Carlson: “So your employees have a legal obligation to act as fifth column spies? Saboteurs against you, your employees?”

Durov didn’t hesitate: “That’s one of the reasons I didn’t move to the U.S. with my team.”

Comment Re:Sure glad the Bell System was destroyed (Score 1) 157

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.

Comment Re:America has 11 fully armed aircraft carriers (Score 1) 157

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".

Comment Re:Not a new thought. (Score 1) 240

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.

Comment Re:Familiar argument (Score 1) 240

It's something of a slippery slope. Media piracy certainly didn't go away with Napster. How long should intellectual property last for? Shouldn't the original Mickey Mouse be in the public domain by now? Certainly most academic articles should be available to the people that can use them for good, ideally for free. What happens when people prefer the AI generated content to the human made stuff? If the computer generated/synthesized stuff sounds just as good as the human made stuff, and I'm just listening to it in the background, why not go with the generated stuff? And there's no shortage of cheap imitations on Amazon already.

Comment Re:We're coming for you (Score 1) 157

The Chinese military is pretty competitive, and I wouldn't want to trifle with Russia or Israel either. The technology and manpower are what matter most, both of which it seems China has more of. There's a better world out there than the US of A. Personally, I prefer Europe, but Asia if very nice too. I prefer highly developed countries with high levels of equality (socially and economically). I don't think America is going to collapse any more than I think Russia or China will. If you don't like your country, you should be allowed to move to one you like better. There's always a political crisis, always someone with more and always someone with less. Combat, like prostitution, probably isn't ever going to fully go away, but maybe the AI revolution will reduce the harm and maybe some day world peace can actually be achieved. Peace takes vigilance, Si vis pacem, para bellum.

Comment Re:Sabotage for privatization (Score -1, Troll) 157

Still better than being in Gaza or Ukraine at the moment, or being deported, voluntarily or otherwise. Might be time to move on out from the US of A. But then why can't they lay new cable? Presumably the courts, or the unions, or who knows any more. I prefer to blame the system rather than oligarchs or billionaires, just glad I'm not in the states anymore.

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