I use Ubuntu. Have slapped on a really pretty material theme. A couple of blur extensions. A cute furry wallpaper. Never felt the need to switch to anything else.

To the non vegans willing to approach this with an open mind:

I would highly recommend you to watch this.

Ethical reasons aside, if you do care about the environment and climate change, then vegan diets have a much much lower negative environmental impact.

If you’re smart with it, then vegan diets tend to be a lot cheaper too! Most humans are lactose intolerant. Maybe you are too. If you are, then switching to vegan milks could mean less gases, farts and bloating. It’s quite comfortable to not have all that…

That being said, if you do switch to a vegan diet, you would quite likely need vitamin supplementation (at least I do).

Weeeeell… Depends…

How does one define “superhuman”? Better than humans at a task demanding intelligence? Computer vision AI used for radiology is superhuman. Does it want to conquer the world? No. Chess AI is superhuman. Yet, it does what humans designed it to do.

The scope of the goals of the AI model matter. Now, we have to ensure that the goals of this AI align with the goals we set out for it. It’s definitely not impossible to ensure this ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

1. Do not engage with someone unwilling to have a good faith convo. Most folks unfortunately, don’t even know what good faith arguments mean.
2. Arguing with a bad faith counterpart makes sense when you want to explore your own beliefs further by probing them from different angles, when you’re simply having fun using your brain, and when you want to leave your argument for a third party observing the conversation.

Attempting to convince someone else directly is quite impossible online in my experience. Simply because people generally aren’t here to have good faith convos.

Leaving a convo/not replying to a rebuttal is NOT conceding your point.

I love the parking lot up top! That way, I can take my little bundles of joy trick or trunking! /s

No, you aren’t missing anything. You’re right that some sort of basic income is inevitable (universal or not). Even if you are a raging capitalist, you still need the plebs to have SOME income to be able to purchase goods and services.

However, for this to happen, it must be demonstrable that AI is actually causing high unemployment. Right now, while economic productivity is kinda increasing due to AI, unemployment isn’t. When it happens:

• Capitalists will advocate for BI.
• Market socialists will advocate for BI combined with government/coop ownership over some or all means of production.
• Socialists that prefer planned economics could advocate for an expansion of universal basic services.
• Primitivists will advocate for bans on AI or whatever, I dunno.

Massive unemployment is bad for everyone including the ruling class, as that leads to pitchforks, guillotines and chopped off heads.

Depends on how big your local LLM model is. You can easily run 2-3B param models on a potato. BUT, the model is shit.

Insta: to watch furry femboy thirst reels YouTube: to watch stuff Snap: Nudes Reddit: See reactions to governmental policies. Also, I really love the askeconomics sub.

Awooooooo

It’s all a joke at this point lol.

“So what new evil schemes are big tech up to? Ah, installing LLMs on people’s devices? Wonderful!”

I don’t think it would be in the advantage of a smart civ to willfully contact another smart civ till it is confirmed that the “to be contacted” civ has a really good understanding of game theory.

You cannot negotiate mutually assured destruction with a civ that does not understand what mutually assured destruction means.

Do I think we would be destroyed if some other alien civ finds us? No. If civ A observes civ B destroying civ C, everyone would want to destroy civ B immediately. The possibility of there being peaceful contact for civ B goes away.

Also, contacting us must be in the benefit of the civ that contacts us (assuming they are rational).

I sympathize with OP tbh. While babies being murdered is bad, I want SOME TIME in my life where I don’t have to think about that for the sake of my own survival.

Yea, fuck the corpos. The fandom is perfectly good the way it is. I’d prefer more interest (and suiting) for therians tbh. The realistic side of fursuits that is. SUITS THAT DON’T LOOK UNCANNY.

Thick of it (Ray Walter Music remix)

It’s always the same story, poor sanitation, environmental degradation, corruption and climate.

Naah I don’t buy it. Individual cities and countries collapse, but not anything larger. Also, poor sanitation throughout history was mostly because of a lack of understanding of germ theory.

Nawww, I was thinking more of a secret nihilistic text or something. Something that just makes an entire civ kill themselves or something. Or maybe some equation that spells eternal doom or something that leaves everyone absolutely hopeless.

I’ll try going through the summaries of the books you recommended! Thanks :)

That’s such a cool setting for SciFi! Discovery of an alien civ by studying UFOs. Astonishment at discovering multiple civs. Finding out the reason why these civs don’t exist anymore. Protecting ourselves against this threat.

I wish I had time to explore this :(

Oh…

Is this a leaked scene from Dune 3?

I don’t understand. Someone explain the joke to me please

Sigh…