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Comment Trump likes that idea... for himself (Score 1) 92

Asked on Monday whether he would accept a deal that would allow Iran to take fees from ships to traverse the strait, the US president said: “What about us charging tolls? I’d rather do that than let them have them. Why shouldn’t we? We’re the winner. We won.”

and with echoes of the Mexico border wall:

The White House said last week that Trump is considering asking Arab countries to pay for Washington’s expenses in its war on Iran.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news...

Comment make The Culture movie/series? (Score 2) 13

'The AI Doc' raises much need awareness on the future of AI and this brings up the question of making a movie of The Culture universe. This could educate a lot of people on what is possible and a series was started and then canceled with no explanation: https://www.theverge.com/2020/... Damien Walter gives really good reasons NOT to make such a movie: https://youtu.be/0MOZubzNO6c?s...

Comment Good to raise awareness on AI future (Score 2) 13

The best thing is to envision the end goal - a society like Iain Bank's The Culture - and fight any changes deviating from that goal. Have not seen movie but good comments on Rotten Tomatoes

Take all of the YouTube videos made about this subject and combine them into almost two hours of even more gibberish, to arrive at no conclusion whatsoever, by a bunch of people that know, but won't tell you because they love to hear themselves talk, and save the 18 bucks you will pay for a ticket. Production value is not great, very silly and millenialish. It says nothing, clears nothing, and tries to be "innovative" but fails. Ai IS a problem more than a solution and this movie reiterates what we already know: The mega rich are in charge of this too and will use it to control absolutely everything causing more devastation than now. But this movie fails to ask the hard questions - it's all a big "who cares?". Not interesting at all. It has been said that Ai will be "a new species" that will control humans like we controlled the world when we came along - but the subject never even came up - in almost two hours? Booo.

Guillermo Q

The film is well crafted but doesn’t address the elephant in the room. As the world cycles to late stage capitalism, fascism, and authoritarianism, the final message to “get involved” rings hollow. Three CEO’s of major AI companies are interviewed and there is no direct interrogation “what are YOU going to do to help ensure the best outcomes?!” I don’t think you get to start a documentary with the quote “I know people who work on AI risk who don’t expect their children to make it to high school” and then end the film by placing the burden on the audience.

Robin G

Comment How to pay for Trumps 1.5 trillion war budget (Score 4, Funny) 126

Saw this on Yahoo finance but a very good idea. What does War department do? Advances the imperial interests of America's oligarchs though wars of choice. So who should pay for that? Yes the oligarchs should. So the war department gets completely funded by a tax on your net worth whether realized or unrealized (held in stocks), now that's what I'd call a fair tax.

Comment sorry it's my fault (Score 3, Interesting) 102

How did I know trump would not only see but implement my comment?

Look at Cuba, for years burning oil until Trump said no more oil for you https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/18..., and also said no more airline flights for your doctors going abroad to help people: https://www.aljazeera.com/news.... So Cuba is now turning fully to renewables: https://www.theguardian.com/gl... The US just needs to sanction oil for every other country as well

https://slashdot.org/comments....
but look on the bright side, if Cuba can do it so can you! Solidaridad con Cuba!

Comment Hello naysayers (Score 2) 66

Can you spot a trend? Even if your experience shows AI lacking now let's look at where it was at 3 years ago: zero. So in three years it went from 'zero' to 'useful sometimes/as good as recent graduate' and this is the worst it will ever be. If that trend continues at pace you are out of a job in three years. Things slowing down you say? The breakthroughs they keep a coming in software, like increased memory efficiency: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03... and hardware like Rubin rack computing units: https://www.tomshardware.com/t...

Now here is the grand problem: you need to spot your jobs are going away to change how you vote BEFORE your jobs actually go away, and if you can't do that the average joe surely can't either

Comment OMG he is implementing this scenario (Score 1) 57

which was posed by a student at Geogetown University:

I was just wondering, have you seen the movie Wall-E? Because I feel like, as you've been saying with AI and all the potential benefits, uh why does it not make sense for us to invest all of our money, all of our time into developing really, really powerful super AIs so that they can just take care of all of our problems and in the future we don't have to like worry about things like working and jobs?

Get the answer to this question here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Comment Re:Afraid to go after grok? (Score 3, Funny) 54

Given their stand against the Department of War, Anthropic are the Good Guys among the big LLM providers (esp with Ilya Sutskever still in stealth mode). And since the War Department is trying to squash them - supply chain risk - they don't really need any other distractions. You're kicking them while they are down.

Comment So a tax on Billionaires, GREAT! (Score 1) 44

This is exactly what Bernie Sanders has been calling for in many many videos: https://www.youtube.com/@Berni...
just one problem, Trump will send exactly $0 of that money to the working class.
BTW Andrew Yang was just on Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: the AI Era, Solving Job Loss, and the 2028 Scenario https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 61

If you are an optimist, The Culture offers a clear vision of where we as a society could head, read the books, here is a short summary online: The Culture War: Iain M. Banks’s Billionaire Fans Why Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos love Iain M. Banks’ anarcho-communist space opera. https://bloodknife.com/culture...
Video summary of The Culture, slow start gets better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Comment Re:Nationalization would be great (Score 1) 125

Think more along the lines of Europe esp Nordic ones. Americans have been conditioned by the media, which is owned by billionaires, to knee jerk rejections of just the word socialist or communist. Look at AI right now, no denying it is already taking over some jobs and it is still improving day by day. Even at a very minimal guess of 20% of jobs are taken what is the capitalist solution? Nothing, they avoid talking about it, ignore it, they'll just let it happen and tough luck for those out of work.

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