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Unhinged developers and AI; Sounds like a story we'll be seeing more and more

I notice that there is a huge difference in the attitudes of people who learned programming in childhood, compared to people who learned in adulthood. As someone in the former grou…

And that my friends is how we handed control of government to machines

It's also worth pointing out that if you practise enough and with a little spare time you can do an dh key exchange with pen and paper. I look forward to the day when I am arrested…

People just vote for him because he sounds funny, because the only thing the parliament is useful for is its entertainment value.

If you'd have read the article you would see that it has been used numerous times over the last couple of decades.

thaaaat is how the world works (that is how the world works)

It helps to realize when your panicking is going to create a worse disaster because you haven't accepted the current situation.

>I can protect you >myself (:

Why people insist on minimizing the fact that modern hyper-industrialized society (which people rely on to survive) is founded on cheap energy? Trying to execute degrowth at a pace…

when i moved my hand and let go of the ball the ball kept going so balls spontaneously fly actually

>The kill count from not fixing the problem will be so much higher. There is no scenario where the situation is fixed, there are only situations where it MAY be 'less disastrous', …

We don't have until 2050, we have -15 years or so.

Faster than expected, Venus by Thursday. >Humanity needs to act now. And do what exactly? The kill count from shutting down all emission-producing parts of society would be enormou…

technology is always good, and if it's not good it's the users fault, and if it's not the users fault then it's society's fault and if it's not society's fault then you're just bac…

Except that religious rules aren't 'random rules', they're believed to be of divine origin, there's no meaningful distinction between 'divine rules' and 'divine ethics', but there …

>The big reason for this is thermodynamics. Yes it usually is

>you can learn a manual labor trade quickly As with software you can get competent quickly, but quality comes with time and effort.

>while your friends are in college partying with fun girls and making contacts for easy jobs Most of those people are making extremely bad life decisions and you will be significan…

Go into trades, they will take longer to be automated since they require a wider range of skills, labor is still far cheaper than automation, they're more sensitive and have space …

you're only 30 years too late, that must be some kind of record

For any given law there may be a preceding reason, but that reasoning is ultimately derived from some kind of base morality, hence my use of the term 'expressions'. >One answer is …

Religious edicts are inherently an expressions of morality

>why is baffling, but thats religion. For any given moral position you can keep asking why forever and never come to a satisfying conclusion unless you actually define what a moral…

In addition to this I always use the legacy icons, it's much more obvious what they mean. I find the symbolic ones impossible to use, and the modern color ones are only a slight im…