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Analysis: The fertility crisis is here and it will permanently alter the economy | CNN Business

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  • Then invest in medical research on keeping me young for longer, instead of keeping me old for longer

    • Analysis: The fertility crisis is here and it will permanently alter the economy | CNN Business

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  • How is it not easy? 90% of all jobs are automated or are going to be automated away in the next few years. I only see one social class that holds us back from de facto post-scarcity. We just need to get rid of it.

    • Analysis: The fertility crisis is here and it will permanently alter the economy | CNN Business

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  • Yeah maybe this way of handling retirement doesn't work? It's clearly a pyramid scheme.

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  • I really have no idea what these sentences mean. I feel like I'm having a stroke. Is it just me?

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  • I also think the same, I'm afraid we live in a tech-savvy bubble

    • TIL about Roko's Basilisk, a thought experiment considered by some to be an "information hazard" - a concept or idea that can cause you harm by you simply knowing/understanding it

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  • First of all thank you, I wasn't aware of the concept of acausal trade, and I'll look more into it. Very interesting.

    I'm not sure we are discussing the same aspect of this mind experiment, and in particular the aspect of it that i find lovecraftian is that you may already be in the simulation right now. This makes the specific circumstances of our world, physics, and technology level irrelevant, as they would just be a solipsistic setup to test you on some aspect of your morality. The threat of eternal torture, on the other hand, would only apply to you if you were the real version of you, as that's who the basilisk is actually dealing with. This works because you don't know what of the two situations is your current one.

    The basilisk is trying to estimate the future behaviour of real you on the basis of the behaviour of the model he has created of you.

    In this scenario you can think of me as a pseudopod of the basilisk that is informing you of the details of the stipulation by means of this post.

    Of course, if you are the real version of you the basilisk would need to be something that can be created in this reality, which i think is only impossible with our current approach to ML and AI, but is otherwise within our grasp given the computational power we have available. But if you are a fake version of you the real world could be radically different from ours and maybe in that world P=NP.

    • TIL about Roko's Basilisk, a thought experiment considered by some to be an "information hazard" - a concept or idea that can cause you harm by you simply knowing/understanding it

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  • Yeah that should be called KAPUTalism

    • TIL about Roko's Basilisk, a thought experiment considered by some to be an "information hazard" - a concept or idea that can cause you harm by you simply knowing/understanding it

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  • In this case this wouldn't apply, as you would never be simulated as (say) a kid in the middle ages, just as a version of yourself in the timeframe leading to the creation of the basilisk. You should be one of the persons alive when the basilisk arises to be of any use to it. Only those would need to be tested.

    I feel like abdul alhazred explaining these things to people while being aware of the risks :)

    • TIL about Roko's Basilisk, a thought experiment considered by some to be an "information hazard" - a concept or idea that can cause you harm by you simply knowing/understanding it

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  • AI is an umbrella term, it's not necessarily less than ASI or AGI but can include them

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  • but not as easily dismissable

    • Eldritch Potato

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  • "Where's the fucking router"

    • Euronews: Barcelona decides to ban short term tourism rentals

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  • A big step in the right direction

    • What would happen if everyone in your country became rich? Would inflation equalize it or would everyone just diaspora to maintain their buying power

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  • Economic freedom in this example is pure nonsense. I don't want the freedom to overpay for something. The price point is also completely unreasonable. There are alternatives that could be implemented, like setting limits. Your example has a clear goal of promoting a certain world view that the existence of slavery is what makes us free. If that's not a paradox a don't know what a paradox is.

    • Winklevoss twins say they each donated $1M in bitcoin to Trump

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  • Oh so that's why he was defending bitcoin the other day

    • Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined

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  • Not really. I can undersgand licensing but at this point it's become a distopian practice completely separated from the basic need to monetize the content an make a profit. That's why those companies become such gargantuans monsters.

    • Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined

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  • To be fairer nobody asked them to produce content. They decided to create it because it's cheaper that licensing the actual good stuff.

    • NASA finds humanity would totally fumble asteroid defense

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  • But it's very interesting to think where we would be technologically and socially if humans weren't such assholes

    • Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else”

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    1. Covid has more than 10x the mortality rate of common flu
    2. even without vaccine you still have an immune system, but not as ready against covid, and you spread it for a longer period which can be fatal for those around you, especially older people or people with a bad immune system

    I don't get what you people have against vaccines. They saved millions of lives over the years and the causation is clear beyond any doubt.

    You are te proof that the education system sucks.

    • Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else”

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  • Lol, more a hope than a plan

    • Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else”

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  • who are prepared to work themselves to death for peanuts

    ...while having no idea what they are doing