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> And you think the vast majority of people do not have access to the overwhelming majority of those things? The evidence suggests the opposite. The comment I responded to asked: >…

> Gemini read out loud "setting an alarm for 7am tomorrow morning". But it was bullshit, it doesn't have the power to set alarms, it was just gaslighting me. The Gemini on my Googl…

I remember that website. It was a cool experiment, but I mean conventional motorcycles with standard fairings.

Land, housing, water, energy, food, medicines, healthcare, security, and proximity to influence. I'm sure I forgot a few.

> Electric motorcycles are on the way too, though the range isn’t there for my riding patterns yet. A small battery pack charged from French nuclear grid electricity would eventual…

> Commuting to work in peak hour, zipping past all the gridlocked traffic on the motorway (filtering is/was legal) and then cresting over the Auckland harbour bridge on a sunny day…

> Could capital owners try to capture it all? I'm sure. But it's not a natural result of the technology, Unless the capability to create high productivity enabling AI is in the han…

> Is the Apple fandom strong enough to get Tim Cook his own private army of zealots when society breaks down? Society won't break down (in the chaos sense) and resources will still…

> Question stands, if anyone can offer a good equivalence for something similar today. Then no, it's not possible for the average worker, largely because the advance of technology …

> How well would you need to be paid now in any career to support a family like that one while accumulating that wealth already early in life? The answer is that you don't do it by…

> s the policy now to "harvest whatever we can ASAP" without any regard Given the degree of corruption and criminality, a more appropriate metaphor might be "smash and grab".

I'm no expert, but I heard an AGI researcher explain that if they could figure out how to create an AI with the intelligence of a squirrel, they would be closer to AGI than LLMs ba…

> Don't corporate profits depend on the 99% (the poors) spending? If the consumers fail, and stop spending, how long before the corporations feel mildly inconvenienced? 50% of cons…

> That car can be full time serving 4-10 units daily? A bus could serve 40-100 daily. The infrastructure already exists - the same as for cars. It's pretty low cost also - especial…

> WWII proves the US is perfectly willing to suffer at least 5x the casualties of Vietnam in order to achieve their objectives. The US today isn't the US on the dawn of WWII, and t…

> I've seen them for a house as well. (when the utility offers a large discount for power used overnight - 40 years ago my local coop was trying to sell my parents on this, but sin…

> Just to heat my house for a few days would need tons of rock at temperatures I'd allow in my house (I have kids and so I worry they will open the rock container and get burnt). R…

> They also, for reasons I simply cannot fathom, go out and buy a green Range Rover. What part is unfathomable, the Range Rover part or the green part? I ask because Range Rovers a…

More appalling than the publicity stunt is the fact that several people were desperate enough for work to take them up on the offer.

> I could imagine how a potential interviewee might say something like “I’d tattoo myself with your logo for a chance at a job” and a CEO might respond “Hell, yeah! That’s the kind…

Have a broad range of interests outside of CS, and also develop interpersonal skills, not only for your own social enjoyment, but for interviews and compensation negotiations you w…

> such a business plan has not yet created economic value, being able to roll out features at rocket speed is not a huge determinant of a startup's success. Speed of feature implem…

> if this doesn't change the near term trajectory of humanity to a parabolic move upward there is going to be a lot of economic pain "trajectory of humanity to a parabolic move upw…

> There's no sense of stylistic ingenuity or choice - e.g. deliberately breaking from convention or leaving things out. Is stylistic ingenuity, breaking from convention, or leaving…