I don’t mean to be controversial or annoying or contrarian, it is just my own personally reality that I am sick of everyone hand-waving away the downsides of AI. The outcome will be way worse than is widely appreciated. And academia is almost universally focused on the silly concept that AI will be fine if we just adhere to vague pie-in-the-sky ethical principles like transparency and collaboration. Every single company working on AGI has a little manifesto where they talk in circles about “ethics.” It’s not about ethics, it’s about societal economics so to speak. People don’t realize how much of our world is propped up by the fact that humans are the smartest and best. It will make all forms of human labor worthless and simultaneously turn everything upside down as new, earth shattering technologies are discovered daily, it will the most complete and acute chaos ever in the history of life... but it’s ok because google said they have it under control. And people act like none of this is true because AI is inevitable, which even if it were fundamentally true wouldn’t make sense anyway...
Just for some context, Tesla has been approved to reopen in other places in CA. The reason why musk is doing this is because he thinks given the context, what the county is doing is illegal. Also, all the other auto makes have been greenlit. So musk has a point.
What I saw was this guy flatly asserting that a socialist revolution is coming, I thought at first he was talking about Bernie Sanders, and where there should be a punchline there is no punchline. Then everyone gives an awkward and half-cocked chuckle as one does when presented with something so bizarre.
Right but he basically asserted to everyone that a socialist revolution is coming to wipe them out. Is there something I don’t know? Should I be getting ready for this?
I’m not even sure if this would parse as legitimate English. What?
And in response to your other recent comment, my entire family has been “consumed” (you idiot) by one disease or another. I am the only one left. Nobody was hysteric when they died. People were apathetic. It’s difficult to sympathize with people’s hysteria when just a month ago they were apathetic in the face of countless lives lost to other preventable diseases even though there were easy prevention methods available. Difficult to sympathize with the hysteric mob when a month ago I watched them stream from the back doors of bars, staggering into their vehicles and driving off - the same drive of stupidity that fuels the hysteria and apparently your comments.
My friend, take the number of people who end up dying after herd immunity and compare it to the population that it infected. If it’s more than a drop in the proverbial bucket, then please excuse me.
It is worse for sure. I was stuck in a hotel for the past two months so all I did was watch cnn. It was amazing to see the sentiment of the language on cnn actually become politically neutral as the disease spread in the US. That was when i really knew that this is something big. Anderson cooper actually defended Donald trump in a minor but explicit way at one point and I thought I was dreaming. The people at cnn were definitely scared for a little while there.
I’m talking about the death toll at the end of the day, not the current death toll. I’m talking about the likely maximum number to ever be infected (roughly herd immunity number) multiplied by the percentage of people that the virus kills. I understand exponential growth. People who have their own opinions are not necessarily suffering from a lack of math knowledge.
Actually the “flu bro” crowd has some really good points. For me, it’s impossible to ignore the inconsistency. Imagine tens of thousands of people standing before you before they perish gruesomely. These people who died of preventable things other than covid 19, are ignored by society — nobody cares. You aren’t considered a murderer for going to work with the flu (but you technically are) and you aren’t considered irresponsible for taking your kids on unnecessary car rides. When you look at the amount of death caused by unremarkable things and the amount of death caused by covid 19, they are the same. Compared to 7 billion, they are basically the same in that they are a drop in the bucket. After covid 19, will we care about all the people dying from other preventable things? No. Because this is hysteria. It’s not logic.
I think hospitals should maintain enough capacity to handle influx. I think that people should wear masks and wash their hands. But none of that changes what I wrote above. And it doesn’t change the fact that many, many people have a fetish for doom. It’s the same with global warming or the second coming of Christ — a kernel of truth or good intention becomes a mass fetish for doom and no reasonable discourse can survive.
I’ve visited almost every state at least briefly. In the past couple months I visited El Paso, New Orleans, Huntsville, Lincoln and Omaha, Wichita and Des Moines. Des Moines was the best by a mile.
Nope. I spent the last year looking to do this and it’s not as simple as you say. If you buy a plot in the middle of Arizona or something, you might be responsible for road upkeep or charged for other things. And you still have to pay taxes every year as well as follow building codes. And there are hidden problems. You have no privacy, you will be in a wash and get flooded, you will probably get robbed, an industrial farm might move in nearby and spray fecal matter upwind of you. You’ll need an off-road vehicle just to get there and you’re going to have to off-road truck all your building supplies to the site. Oh and you want water? Good luck. And you have to pay tens of thousands at least to get the land. By the end, it’s not even close to being cost effective. Back in the day you could buy land in Texas with no zoning or building codes and get a huge area for almost no money. That just doesn’t exist anymore.
And plus, you are at the mercy of the county. If they want to raise taxes or make your life hell with some kind of development like a highway or something, it’s them vs little old you. And guess who’s gonna win. Oh and if you have a small medical problem you are 100% dead.
If you want to get out of the rat race, you should move to a midwestern city. You can find houses for less than 50k in safe neighborhoods by California standards. For 50k you get low property taxes, decent neighborhood, reliable internet, nearby hospital, Costco, cheap gas and cheap electricity. And plus, when the county wants to fuck people over with taxes or developments, they have to deal with half a million angry people rather than just you. That’s crucially important. I’ve been researching this intensely for a year and casually for almost a decade.
And you can live cheaper than you think. If you live in your house and aren’t selling in the next two years, you can perform almost any alteration to your house yourself. You don’t have to hire an electrician or plumber as long as you pull permits yourself and follow code. You could build a whole house yourself in most places — just need an engineer to draw plans. People have no clue about this, they just assume you have to pay thousands to do anything. You can live quite well outside the rat race if you are smart.
I hope you have been saving because the next 6 months will probably be the best time to do this in the last decade. I bought a cheap house just like this a month ago and while I still paid very little, I am kicking myself.