Sure but Cambridge Analytica isn’t “anti-democracy” or whatever anymore then political ads are.

Lol what? Actively Undermining American Democracy? I have to see the source for this.

As a 40 something successful engineer who read GEB in my early 20’s, calling it the most “influential” of my life would be telling on myself. It’s a fine book, I’d absolutely encourage people from their mid-teens to their mid 20’s to read it. I really enjoyed the examination of Bach’s fugues in comparison with other mathematical concepts. But it’s just not that profound. There isn’t a lot of substance in the book, and much like Ender’s Game, another great book, you should recognize it’s limitations.

If you want a profound book that has a lot of hard math mixed with easy to understand concepts, I’d suggest Applied Cryptography, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119183471, or The Chemistry of Powder and Explosives, https://www.amazon.com/Chemistry-Powder-Explosives-Tenney-Davis/dp/0913022004

Yes zipper merging happens, but ultimately in any kind of traffic flow situation it only takes one person to fuck it up. Instead of being reactionary and blaming “bad drivers,” try to take a step back and realize that a transportation system that relies on millions of individual actors, having perfect information and behaving rationally is hopelessly flawed, regardless of the nationality of the drivers.

Right. I agree that in our current society, AI is net-loss for most of us. There will be a few lucky ones that will almost certainly be paid more then they are now, but that will be at the cost of everyone else, and even they will certainly be paid less then the share-holders and executives. The end result is a much lower quality of life for basically everyone. Remember what the Luddites were actually protesting and you’ll see how AI is no different.

I don’t think you are disturbed by AI, but y Capitalism doing anything they can to pay you as little as possible. From a pure value* perspective assuming your niche skills in c++ are useful*, you have nothing to worry about. You should be paid the same regardless. But in our society, if you being replaced by someone “good enough”, will work for the business then yes you should be worried. But AI isn’t the thing you should be upset by.

*This is obviously subjective, but the existence of AI with you troubleshooting vs fully replacing you is out of scope here.

I’m aware, but that’s why it’s a whatif. And honestly the Capitalists got way ahead of the Socialists before the 30’s so Communism was never going to take root as long as the “evil” USSR existed. The best we could have hoped for was a more robust FDR style Social Democracy which has a high probability of leading to what you are saying.

But who knows, maybe things could have been different. Maybe Karl could have moved to Texas in the 1800’s and the communist revolution could have kicked off once oil was discovered.

If the US had embraced FDR’s vision of democratic socialism instead of letting Capitalists be unfettered Capitalist, I think we would have more people be way better off then China today since we wouldn’t have out-sourced anything to China to begin with (Unions and DemSocs wouldn’t have allowed the outsourcing.)

The British Empire and basically the world was controlled by a single city of ~1million. And besides the historical and current examples of smaller cities controlling much more land and people then they had themselves, the statement doesn’t make sense. Why can’t a nation of 330 million control a nation of 331million?

The most effective way to become resistant to US intervention is to become a nuclear power. You don’t even have to make nuclear weapons, so hopefully they do actually create effective nuclear power plants.

There is no difference between (american/uk) liberals and fascists. The former just happens to be more polite.

Poor German Green-party. Either a willing participant, or what happens when you want to be an environmentalist, but also want to defend the status quo at all costs.

What if we could keep doing exactly what we have been doing for the past 150 years, but we just reframed the externalities into a friendly sound byte, and also lobbied the government to make us exempt from the environmental regulations that were targeting us?

This is environmentalism in Late-stage-Capitalism.

Maybe national security industries shouldn’t be in the hands of private enterprise?

maybe try voting for something? Let’s not be feckless.

Nazi’s don’t necessarilly have to be anti-jew or anti-israel to be nazis. The idea that somehow the opposite of a nazi is a jew is completely ignorant.

4chan makes fun of itself you arn’t going to add anything there. The purpose of this community “greentext” is to take a specific style of post that 4chan uses (that is almost certainly an absurd joke and not the secret desires of the poster) and join in on the joke. Kind of like how “memes” work.

It’s not appeasement in this case. Israel’s allies are fully on-board with the final solution of the Palestinian problem and there won’t be a world war that will stop them. Unless you have some kind of Arab league thing, but I doubt any of them care much more then how much they can hurt the US and bolster themselves internally. The Israel-Palestine situation is just an excuse for rhetoric, very few countries truly care.

Most people laugh and move on, the only “virtue signaling” are comments like yours lol.

Hmm, yea it’s probably the Anon who doesn’t understand reality and fiction, not the people taking a greentext at face value and making sexual judgements.