This. You could probably count 100+ people in the death zone of the border crossing video alone. The final death toll will be terrible, with most never found.
Timely contribution from BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62m4zn1q6mo :-)
That factory looked like it employed a lot of easily replaceable manual work. You don't have to replace 100% of workforce, replace just the ones whose work is the easiest to do by a robot. Replacing 50% of workforce…
One of the (many) areas in which China is doing great is industrial robotics. Not the fancy dancing dogs, but robots that replace workers in factories.
There is no choice. The Ukraine is bleeding and getting destroyed, day by day. And things are getting worse, by Russian reciprocal responses, for every escalation success Ukraine has achieved. Recent examples: Attack…
Hmm, 19 calories per day is well within the margin of error when calorie counting.
This is very west-centric view. The countries of the south on the receiving end of US/western 'help' have been disabused of viewing US as 'a shining city on a hill' by their own experience, long time ago. They saw…
There is no 'if' for 'the US can't/wont provide security'. Just look at the Gulf countries (or Ukraine, for that matter). The whole 'security' was by intimidation, there is no actual meat on that bone.
if they route your requests via their cloud, they have you by the balls, that's the whole point
There are also other areas, maybe less abstract, but still very much of the same flavour - emotional/social intelligence - musical - physical (as in being able to do various physical activities competently, without…
> Yes, it is, and the reason people fail with it is not because calorie counting doesn't work, but because people's maintenance calorie estimates are often poor. I would have thought that it would mostly be because they…
Nah, what changed is preponderance of highly processed junk food. When I lived, in my childhood, in communistic Bulgaria/Czechoslovakia, nobody was starving. Yes, we did not have bananas and Argentinian steaks, but…
Yeah, I would be vary of accuracy of such tests. The infected unfed ticks have few spirochetes in them. The numbers grow by two orders of magnitude as they feed - the reason why old bites are much more dangerous than…
I grew up under communism. On TV, we had full movies without ads. There was 3-5min ad segment right before main evening news, that was it. I could not understand how people can watch movie interrupted 10x by an add…
My point is: Your post reeked by defeatist 'nothing can be done against market forces'. Yes, it can be done, and if we want to have a reasonable future, it should be done.
> Can you show me a place with high local productivity and low rent? Put the following prompt into your favourite AI and enjoy the reading: "How do rents relate to productivity in the area? How does Vienna compare to…
I apologize, I have indeed mixed up the Fed and the Treasury in my last post. To respond to your previous post: I (naively?) thought that the Treasury had some Euro reserves lying around (like other central banks have…
Yes, it is cynical. It is still the most likely outcome, based on past experience. Please, enlighten me what was the point of your post, I really, genuinely, missed it. To me, it reeks of toxic optimism and wishful…
Yeah, that was the first thing that comes to mind. And the second thing: What about modern taxi drivers that rely almost exclusively on GPS?
No, that is your wishful thinking. Based on recent years and the power of personalized AI influence campaigns, the winning Presidential campaign message (after 4 years of 'change nothing substantial Democrat' would most…
This. I lived in a communistic country, where BBC/Voice of America/Radio free Europe were banned/jammed, under the pretext of 'your feeble minds will not be able to resist the insidious allure of western burgeois…
No, the point is that with human in the loop the downside is (usually!) rather limited, as common sense would stop obvious fuckups (ok, not always, but still). With an agent (especially incompetently employed), the…
There are two thresholds. Below the lower threshold, you have to worry too much about money to just get by. Unfortunately, too many people live below this threshold. Even in rich countries. Below this level, it is…
You know, convincing the masses to 'work super hard' is a good trick. Too bad you have to work super hard until you drop dead, never managing to build that nest egg. Surely you just did not work hard enough. Soo sorry,…
It is exactly like that. Yes, there are exercise nuts who are exercising like crazy, but the average population is getting weak and obese. The same with mental muscles. How many people can do mental calculations in…
This. You could probably count 100+ people in the death zone of the border crossing video alone. The final death toll will be terrible, with most never found.
Timely contribution from BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62m4zn1q6mo :-)
That factory looked like it employed a lot of easily replaceable manual work. You don't have to replace 100% of workforce, replace just the ones whose work is the easiest to do by a robot. Replacing 50% of workforce…
One of the (many) areas in which China is doing great is industrial robotics. Not the fancy dancing dogs, but robots that replace workers in factories.
There is no choice. The Ukraine is bleeding and getting destroyed, day by day. And things are getting worse, by Russian reciprocal responses, for every escalation success Ukraine has achieved. Recent examples: Attack…
Hmm, 19 calories per day is well within the margin of error when calorie counting.
This is very west-centric view. The countries of the south on the receiving end of US/western 'help' have been disabused of viewing US as 'a shining city on a hill' by their own experience, long time ago. They saw…
There is no 'if' for 'the US can't/wont provide security'. Just look at the Gulf countries (or Ukraine, for that matter). The whole 'security' was by intimidation, there is no actual meat on that bone.
if they route your requests via their cloud, they have you by the balls, that's the whole point
There are also other areas, maybe less abstract, but still very much of the same flavour - emotional/social intelligence - musical - physical (as in being able to do various physical activities competently, without…
> Yes, it is, and the reason people fail with it is not because calorie counting doesn't work, but because people's maintenance calorie estimates are often poor. I would have thought that it would mostly be because they…
Nah, what changed is preponderance of highly processed junk food. When I lived, in my childhood, in communistic Bulgaria/Czechoslovakia, nobody was starving. Yes, we did not have bananas and Argentinian steaks, but…
Yeah, I would be vary of accuracy of such tests. The infected unfed ticks have few spirochetes in them. The numbers grow by two orders of magnitude as they feed - the reason why old bites are much more dangerous than…
I grew up under communism. On TV, we had full movies without ads. There was 3-5min ad segment right before main evening news, that was it. I could not understand how people can watch movie interrupted 10x by an add…
My point is: Your post reeked by defeatist 'nothing can be done against market forces'. Yes, it can be done, and if we want to have a reasonable future, it should be done.
> Can you show me a place with high local productivity and low rent? Put the following prompt into your favourite AI and enjoy the reading: "How do rents relate to productivity in the area? How does Vienna compare to…
I apologize, I have indeed mixed up the Fed and the Treasury in my last post. To respond to your previous post: I (naively?) thought that the Treasury had some Euro reserves lying around (like other central banks have…
Yes, it is cynical. It is still the most likely outcome, based on past experience. Please, enlighten me what was the point of your post, I really, genuinely, missed it. To me, it reeks of toxic optimism and wishful…
Yeah, that was the first thing that comes to mind. And the second thing: What about modern taxi drivers that rely almost exclusively on GPS?
No, that is your wishful thinking. Based on recent years and the power of personalized AI influence campaigns, the winning Presidential campaign message (after 4 years of 'change nothing substantial Democrat' would most…
This. I lived in a communistic country, where BBC/Voice of America/Radio free Europe were banned/jammed, under the pretext of 'your feeble minds will not be able to resist the insidious allure of western burgeois…
No, the point is that with human in the loop the downside is (usually!) rather limited, as common sense would stop obvious fuckups (ok, not always, but still). With an agent (especially incompetently employed), the…
There are two thresholds. Below the lower threshold, you have to worry too much about money to just get by. Unfortunately, too many people live below this threshold. Even in rich countries. Below this level, it is…
You know, convincing the masses to 'work super hard' is a good trick. Too bad you have to work super hard until you drop dead, never managing to build that nest egg. Surely you just did not work hard enough. Soo sorry,…
It is exactly like that. Yes, there are exercise nuts who are exercising like crazy, but the average population is getting weak and obese. The same with mental muscles. How many people can do mental calculations in…