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Nah, it won't be that bad. Underemployment numbers are going to skyrocket though. You want 10 hours this week? Hah. But at least you're getting that higher rate, right?

Oh, you're not getting that rate yet? Ouch.

We're making America great again! 1929 was a beautiful year!

I hate that Elmo, one of the most kind and smartest muppets, gets his name dragged through the mud like this. Why don't people just use his real name, F. Elon Musk?

You're correct, it's more likely that humans will use a lesser version (eg. an LLM) to screw things up, assuming it's doing what it says it's doing while it's not. That's why I say that AI safety applies to any of this, not just a hypothetical AGI. But again, it doesn't seem to matter, we're just going to go full throttle and get what we get.

I know there's some that roll their eyes at the mention of AI safety, saying that what we have isn't AGI and won't become it. That's true, but that doesn't eliminate the possibilities of something in the future. And between this and China's laxness of trying everything to be first, if we get to that point, we'll find out the hard way who was right.

The laughable part is that the safeguards put up by Biden's admin were very vague and lacking of anything anyway. But that doesn't matter now.

An example I heard I think on Stand-up Maths' video was going in to buy a cheeseburger, and then demanding a tariff charge because the owner won't buy something of equal price from you. Imports and exports don't have to be the same to have a healthy trade balance.

That's exactly how it's being presented. I'm not necessarily against the research, but there are only a few species we'll be able to do this with. This isn't a back door to undoing damage done. Plus, why do we do it with things that will have to live in captivity, as a wild release would reek havoc on an existing biome. Actually, this is probably true of anything, even seemingly docile ones.

The US is a symptom of a world-wide problem.

A government that can't stand up to simple criticism is a weak government.

They didn't say they'd be keeping the people.

You are correct. There is even such a thing as dry water. I was first going to put the sky is blue, but similar arguments can be made there.

Also: water is wet.

It can't happen in a single day thanks to circuit breakers put in place (in 1988 because of that crash) to stop trading briefly or for the rest of the day depending on the percentage drop. It can come close though (20% stops all trading), and I don't doubt we'll see the first two levels hit (7% and 13%). Plus there's five days in a week, and this isn't going away.

The bail out was bad, but I can't imagine at that point letting them fail. The crime was how many people went to prison for what they did.

Can we have another mediocre President please? And boring news?

See, I can think of a few movies of his that I have problems with. Yet I wouldn't call them bad, only missing a few cylinders to bring them to perfect. He has been in a few that are top, damn Con Air is about the perfect movie ever for what it was aiming to be.

Not out of the question at this point.

Gotcha, like bleach and tariffs. Maybe he saw a clip from the movie Greenland and thought, we need that!

The problem with this idea comes down to soil and environment. One can't just pick up whole crop areas and transplant them into a new one solely based on the temperature. It's the same fallacy that invites fantasy maps of settlements on Antarctica. And the bunkers of the wealthy? Death traps because they're built on an assumption of a limited climate problem that goes away soon and allows them to emerge in some Hollywood rebirth of society (take the ending of the movie 2012 as an example of convenient, "it's all okay now").

The prosthetic industry funded the Jedi. It's not something the Jedi would tell anyone.

There is Project Lyra to catch up to it. Other than that there's many hypotheses on what it was and most importantly, why it seemed to speed up some as it left.