If it comes to that, I suspect the population will burn it all down. We will have nothing to lose at that point.

The problem with social security is pretty obvious when you look at it's history. https://www.ssa.gov/history/ra...

Shows very clearly why the system will fail. It's entirely predicated on having more people at the bottom (workers) pay into the system. Unfortunately, we've made having children expensive and we've told women not to bother with "old school" thinking and become worker bees instead. It's zero surprise our birth rates have dropped below replacement level.

Social Security will just be one of the casualties of that lower birth rate.

Can't wait for this behavior to leave the computer or otherwise when they decide video game scams aren't good enough.

I don't have any space for a garden and my cats would mess with a planter box. Keep casting stones over there though. I'm sure you are perfect.

So you don't consider reading, gaming, listening to music or watching TV a hobby? According to https://www.merriam-webster.co...

Hobby: pursuit outside one's regular occupation engaged in especially for relaxation

So by that definition, gaming most certainly is a hobby.

Being displaced by technology is not wage theft. Wage theft is when you perform a job for someone and they don't pay you. This is definitely not wage theft.

It will be interesting to see what comes of this case. If the judge sides with the artist, you'll see the stock market crash and a recession, if not a depression, will almost certainly happen. On top of that, other countries such as China will surge ahead with AI because they don't care about copyright laws. So really, do we support copyright laws that many of us screech at already or do we crash the economy and hand AI development to China?

If it takes the side of the AI folks, it could actually be a force of change for copyright, which definitely needs to be overhauled.

The reason people are scared of this new technology is simple because it could cost them money AND they know our society is perfectly cool with letting everyone starve if they can't provide for themselves. If AI lives up to the hype, no of us should ever have to work for food, housing, clothes and instead we could focus on passions. I don't think we'll reach that utopian but it has less to do with technology and more to do with rich folk needing to feel special and they only feel special if they get to live a life the rest of us can only see in movies.

It's copyright infringement. It's not theft. Different crimes here.

I think the difference between just copying something to use for your own personal usage is nothing like what these AI companies are doing. Now if I was distributing these things I copied and charging money for it, that would be akin to what these AI companies are doing.

It's copyright infringement, it's not theft. That's motto around here, right?

I'd be interested in the finer details of that OKCupid study since I know I don't click on super hot chicks nor waste my time hitting on them IRL. Why bother wasting my time chasing a physical 10 when I should be looking for someone around a 5 or 6. I'm not nearly successful enough in economics to attain a 10 and I'm definitely not a 10 myself, so the odds are not in my favor.

Not to mention, the competition over people that are "10s" isn't worth the effort at all. You think I want everyone constantly hitting on my girlfriend/wife? Takes a very secure man with a strong relationship to not be bothered by that. I got a buddy that landed a really pretty wife and he's told me plenty of stories were men will just walk right up to his wife, totally ignore him, and start chatting her up if she lets them.

Needless to say, I wonder how much of what I describe is at play versus AI just trailing behind what we conventionally think of as attractiveness. That does change over the years. Use to be ages ago, a heavy woman was more attractive because it meant she was well-fed which was expensive. The same can be said for a very fit gym girl today. It cost a lot of time and money to keep up that appearance and most without the time or money won't look that way.

Maybe if we could somehow change society to find intelligence attractive. Ahh who am I kidding though.

This reminds me of the movie Liar, Liar with Jim Carrey. He's in court and they are announcing the "Honorable Judge" and Carrey say's "Honorable my ass" under his breath but then quickly looks over at the court transcriptioner shaking his hands no no no don't add that.

If Amazon can have access to everyone's residential airspace, then why not? Shouldn't be about money. Of course, everything is about money. Sadly.

I honestly just don't want to see them flying all over the place. I get there could be many benefits to drone delivery. There's no doubt of that. I just worry about the effects on nature and to repeat myself, really just don't want to see them flying all over the place.

Maybe, as you say, they will stay quite high up and can tether something down, and it overall won't be very disturbing to anyone beyond what a delivery person would cause.

I wouldn't be so sure. We keep hearing of air traffic failures and yet all those folks still have a job. Good enough is good enough. No one rich died, so no one really died at all.

You won't need as many reporters. One will eventually be doing the job of 3 or 4. So sure, the job will exist, but it will be hyper-competitive. This will drive wages down for the job.