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...you'll believe it, because that supports your Elon is a bad greedy billionaire theory... My mind was made up about Musk before he ever showed support for Trump. I didn't really have an opinion about him when he was just the Tesla / SpaceX guy. I remember in 2018 some coworkers were criticizing h...

...tip of the iceberg. I imagine you are alluding to how AI powers the surveillance state, but that stuff is totally opaque. I'm not sure what you can even do about it. You can't even go "off grid". But one of the areas I'm interested in is policy and law so I try to follow and support et...

...they will still use it. And I'll use it too, the same way I drive a car that is dangerous or use a knife that is dangerous. I just want the people around me to understand how and why these things work the way they do so they can make the right decision to use a tool or not. One thing I told a fr...

(Here is also where I disagree with sinewav from way earlier, there is a soft fuzzy limit over which state debt becomes a problem, because you have to cover for the interest of that debt in the budget. You don't have to pay it back though, letting inflation effectively shrink it away is good enough...

the most dangerous technology ever to be invented I mostly agree. A couple years ago I preached to some confused faces at a barbecue that AI is a greater threat than climate change. Both are dangerous for the same reasons. A rapidly warming planet destabilizes regions and will eventually lead to wi...

apparition wrote: ↑Sat Jun 14, 2025 4:41 pmI hope none of you harbor any negativity...

You were fun to play with! You were outspoken but I never thought you were a jerk or anything. Hope everything is good with you.

It's time for liberals to arm. The civil war is coming, we need to be prepared Wait, the Left wants guns banned, how's this possible they now want them? Typically, you are confusing left and liberals. They aren't the same. And even if they were, they are not a monolith. I'm not a liberal other than...

The civil war is coming, we need to be prepared It's will be short. MAGA types are reactionary and don't do anything other than complain, and on top of that they are heavily outnumbered. If violence starts these dumbasses will be paralyzed and bewildered by the swift and overwhelmingly forceful ret...

Unions get in the way of innovation... Right-wing made-up nonsense you can't prove. ...because the union is keeping you poor despite what good you think it is doing for you. Dumb statement. Everyone I know with a union job is solidly middle class. And thank god for that. One of my friends is not sm...

kyle wrote: ↑Mon Jun 09, 2025 3:10 am...the problem is the extremes on both sides, one pro-union another pro-oil...

It's crazy how people can be brainwashed to think unionization, the practice if fighting back against exploitation, is "extreme".

Elon Musk is not a Drug addict... That clip of him in the Oval Office says otherwise. As someone who has done drugs and been around drug users my whole life, that dude was obviously high as ****. I can't imagine someone without a drug problem being wasted in the presence of the president and nation...

Just because two rotten people argue doesn't mean either of them support my values. And now it comes out that Musk is a drug addict too? Definitely not a role model. There are so many better successful people to admire, like Satya Nadella for instance.

Z-Man wrote: ↑Wed Jun 04, 2025 7:21 pm"Dave's Deep Dives"

This is the one.

I'm not saying AI isn't dangerous, I'm just saying we're not going to be going to war against the machines anytime soon, if at all, ever. Right. I'm currently reading a book by Jerry Kaplan and he states that for AI to be like Skynet, first it would have to be hooked up to countless disparate syste...

Nice little jab at how poor Microsoft products have become... True, I don't know how people use Windows these days, it's a real mess. However, Microsoft seems really well positioned to be a leader in AI.* One of the books I read this year is AI Valley which is kind of an insider's look at the top p...