We are talking not about AI taking this job or that job. We are talking about AI making Cognition redundant. So tell us about the jobs that do not rely on Cognition. And donâ(TM)t say anything like agriculture or plumbing, because when you has r humanoid robots, thats just another form of Cognition. So name the jobs people will do that is not based in a form of Cognition.

It's wild to imagine Echostar/Dish being worth anything close to that amount of money. From my own experience working inside the company everything always seemed like it was held together with bailing wire and bubble-gum.

I assume there was a highly competitive bidding process for this because there's no way Dish's board of directors would have had the stones to set the price at "three times the company's market cap" on their own.

Perhaps what the world needs is a simplification and retooling of C++.

I recommend calling it either C+, or C+2.

Most A.I. junk videos are easy to spot handily.. and if you don't manage to notice, just go to the comments. There'll be someone calling it out for being fake.

Until they kill your ass.

Nah.

Iâ(TM)m 51. Iâ(TM)ve had health insurance continuously for 35 years and have used it exactly ZERO TIMES.

I am self pay. For everything but true life threatening emergencies, which Iâ(TM)ve had zero.

Even the ER is cheaper when negotiated self pay.

My urologist is stunned that I pay $85 for his visits. Self pay. Including labs. My colleague goes to the same urologist and his insurance pays $550 for the same visit and naturally it comes out of his deductible lol.

Insurance is a scam. All insurance is legal gambling and gamblers never win.

No, it's not. It is corporate welfare with a kickback. Don't pretend it's anything else and don't try to justify it.

Intel has been making terrible corporate decisions for several decades now. In an actual free market it should either solve its problems, sell its assets to others, or be relegated to the scrap heap of corporate history as an object lesson to others of what not to do.

One very damaged, confused, selfish, angry felon of a man.

More proof that dropping out of Harvard doesn't guarantee business success.

I'm largely in agreement with you. I don't think its terribly effective to tell people what they can and can't do. If we don't want people to gamble, making gambling illegal isn't going to move the needle meaningfully and it's probably going to increase overall harm. See, for example, the war on drugs.

But we can move the needle by regulating the supply side of the equation and the more infrastructure intensive the supply side is the more effective regulation is. Banning the sale of leaded gas, for example, resulted in a pretty painless transition away from lead in gasoline. We didn't need to arrest people using leaded gas; the inconvenience of getting leaded gas was more than enough to get people to convert.

That's the approach that makes the most sense for online gambling too. We don't need to be kicking down doors to card games or frog-marching seniors out of bingo night, but we probably would be substantially better off if it weren't legal to develop platforms and services which are specifically engineered to engaged young people and nurture in them a crippling gambling addiction.

And we can say "oh, but why can't you just convince companies not to build those products without the threat of government force" but building those gambling products, or putting heroin in the Big Mac special sauce, or handing out cigarettes and alcohol at middle school football games is a fantastic way to make giant buckets of money at the expense of people's lives and nothing short of the threat of consequences exceeding those potential profits is going to convince a profit-seeking corporation to pass on all that money.

Banning tobacco didn't stop smoking, but banning cigarette vending machines meaningfully reduced it, especially in under-age smokers and lighter smokers.

Yes, banning gambling doesn't stop gaming addiction but taking the casino out of your pocket and taking away the casino's ability to run A/B tests on what it takes to get you, personally, to place your next bet will reduce the harm of gambling addiction across the population.

I get it. When I read the title of the post I has already guessed that the issue of US comedies is related to international markets.

Comedies rely on common shared experiences, nuances of language, double entendres, idioms, wordplay, cinematic references to famous past movie scenes, mockery of recent events...and a ton of other things that often don't translate well into other languages or cultures. Comedies are often in-jokes for a community or culture and the jokes usually don't land for those on the outside. And uncomfortable topics like sex or politics or religion are often taboo or outright prohibited by other countries.

This is why action/adventure movies are the gold standard for international distribution...they are emotional, straightforward, and not prone to misinterpretation. They are easy to translate to other languages and often have little dialog to be translated. They're like comic books, easy to understand and easy to translate.

Anyone who did Not See this coming isn't paying attention. One of the hallmarks of a fascist ideology is the identification of any competing ideas as degenerate or ideologically poisonous. This is not a "both sides" issue; the insistence that we not teach political fantasy and conspiracy theory is qualitatively different than insisting that we teach what actually happened and we can tell the difference by imagining the opposite.

If tomorrow incontrovertible evidence that the 2020 election was stolen came out, you wouldn't see a bunch of Democrats insisting that we refuse to teach it. How do we know that? Simple: look at how the Lewinsky scandal is covered in Blue-state history curricula.

Supply and demand dictate this is exactly the case.

If something is valuable to everyone, it should only be accessible to those who have enough saved value to acquire it.

The poor fucked themselves. My parents are poor but worked hard so I wouldn't be.