Swarmy ole gaius

I just loaded the front page without logging in out of curiosity. It’s utter garbage.

The timing of twitter collapse, threads paid celebrity launch, and reddit implosion feels… Very foreboding.

And bots. And sponsored content.

Thanks for reminding me meat is subsidized for some reason 😮‍💨

Tax meat, subsidize healthy meat alternatives.

Its by design. CEOs are replaceable, the corporation is not. Once all the shit changes are done they’ll get rid of Huffman (who will get a fat golden parachute for his hard work) and new CEO will walk back maybe 2 of his changes. Suddenly reddit is loveable again and to say otherwise is asking for too much.

Yep saw the guillotine thanos snapping before my eyes… This could’ve actually been fun but fucckkiinnnggg reddit.

Can we start out own lemmy place?

lmao I didn’t know what was happening in this one for a moment

IDK why you’re being downvoted. It might not be feasible for op to do that but doesn’t mean its not worth doing or thinking about.

A lot of non-profits have truly dysfunctional leadership. They leech off the hard work of people who do genuinely care about the cause. My friend worked for one of them that was supposed to help underprivileged children. They ended up getting burnt out and leaving, though her former boss who did jackshit was fired shortly after.

Nailed it. Virtual pizza party really drives it home.

I don’t think O&G outright tells them they’re buying it to shove it in the attic either.

I think low/no inheritance tax on the first X (50 mil for example) amount of assets/money, then the rest goes to gov is what he’s saying.

It would phase out billionaires in a naturalish fashion if executed correctly.

I agree with you when it comes to AI in its current form - I wouldn’t even call it a party trick, just dumb luck. Machine learning through repetition will use existing ideas and tropes.

However you can provide the model with unique ideas, new tropes, characters, environments, and settings. The model in its current form could generate something nearly usable (script wise) and still be a valid piece of art with some cleaning up. Just because you save time doesn’t make an idea less “good”

In the future we could have near sentient AI that generates actual pieces of art far faster and better than a person can.

I think it’s important to note that if you know there will be 1% deflation you will delay purchasing. If you aren’t sure prices will be lower tomorrow there is far less incentive to gamble on a lower price tomorrow, especially for things you need now or get better value acquiring now vs 1% savings.

In that context, a 1% deflationary rate that might drift around a little would be great. There are other consequences as well but just addressing your point.

Now you’re cooking with poison!

Great advice in here. Now, how do I de-radicalize my mom? :(

They’re just trying to remember all those big words in the pledge

I agree we likely need to downsize a lot of our daily conveniences (yeah fuck cars!) But I’d urge against trying to envision the solution before working on solving the problem. Saying we need to resort to subsistence farming in communities - why? We create food on a massive scale currently, and tons of it go to waste. Additionally so much of agriculture is lost to inefficiency through the meat industry.

Surely it would make more sense to focus on those two levers first before resorting to what sounds like feudal society.

Not looking to debate details, just urging a rational and realistic approach through steps that are achievable.

I’d strongly recommend the book “The Beginning of Infinity” by David Deutsch for a wider perspective on what you’ve stated. Humanity has always had problems and been in some ways on the verge of extinction perpetually, but we as a species find ways to solve these problems.

It’s weird how many users resort to instant doom and gloom (like not having kids?) when its another problem that will take hard work to solve. Just a quote from his book -

“It is inevitable that we face problems, but no particular problem is inevitable. We survive, and thrive, by solving each problem as it comes up. And, since the human ability to transform nature is limited only by the laws of physics, none of the endless stream of problems will ever constitute an impassable barrier. So a complementary and equally important truth about people and the physical world is that problems are soluble. By ‘soluble’ I mean that the right knowledge would solve them.”

Great movie and accurately depicts brexit