We should stop glorifying stupid, disgusting, dangerous behaviors...and we should stop making excuses for pretending that doing it is okay.

More or less the core problem: Snyder took an entire series of ‘major stories’ and then distilled them down to a bunch of cutscenes that he stitched together into a trite ‘feature-film length’ trailer of what could have been much better movies if they’d been given time to breathe. It’s like if someone read a quick…

It won’t much matter — they’ve essentially taken months of community feedback about all the things that they did wrong with Starfield...and just completely ignored all the big ones, focusing instead of minor, irrelevant miscellaneous nonsense. Imagine, if you will, if Fortnite had constant connectivity issues and…

Ready Player Dumb....

Sure, if you ignore the fact that field experts for AI, robotics, and automation, who interact with billionaires frequently, are being asked what it would take to do essentially what I just said. They’re not ‘just asking’ because they’re ‘just curious...’

You ask, I’ll answer:

They are when they’re the only ones left....

Neighbors, yes. Friends and family, no.

Because people are ignorant, arrogant, stupid, shortsighted, lazy, etc, etc. It’s a failing that’s not reserved for the wealthy and powerful.

You just answered your own question: because they *won’t* be ‘above’ anyone. In the new world order to come, there will only be the wealthy and their ‘pets.’ And people also don’t reliably carry act outs of genocide on their friends and family. Machines...machines have no such failings.

You just answered your own question: because they *won’t* be ‘above’ anyone. In the new world order to come, there will only be the wealthy and their ‘pets.’ And people also don’t reliably carry act outs of genocide on their friends and family. Machines...machines have no such failings.

Sure, the ‘line goes up’ *IF* you ignore that it only goes up for a very tiny percentage of the population. And sure, the world ‘gets better’ *IF* you ignore that it only gets better for that same tiny percentage of the population. For everyone else, things are just as bad as they’ve ever been if not worse. Often a…

Yes, and an important part of the system to be replaced with ‘machines’ is ‘law enforcement.’ Because ‘human powered’ law enforcement might decide they’d rather be in charge instead. And that’s a problem, because ‘law enforcement’ is only effective if they’re armed. Can’t have armed people getting any ideas about…

Freeing humans from the drudgery of repetitive tasks has been the goal of every technological enhancement in human history.

That’s a big part of why the wealthy are so obsession with AI — so they can preemptively identify and eliminate all the people who might consider building a guillotine, along with anyone who might incite such actions. See: AI’s growing incorporation into ‘law’ enforcement.

Billionaires like Zuck are ‘reading’ the writing on the wall and are taking steps to ensure that ‘me and mine’ survives the coming catastrophes that *THEY* had a direct hand in creating, exacerbating, and/or perpetuating. It’s a *BIG* reason why they’re pushing so hard on AI. It isn’t about money or profit margins.…

Not entirely accurate. But yes, there’s a *BIG* problem with capital gains taxes. Not only that it’s not high enough, but that the system is (deliberately) set up to make it practically impossible to tax capital gains effectively, no matter what rate it’s theoretically taxed at. There’s a reason why Warren Buffet has…

It’s not like this was an easily predictable outcome or anything...

They ‘lose’ that money when the issuing country’s labor force is effectively worthless, because they’re homeless, starving, uneducated masses. And under capitalism, if a population isn’t producing things that can generate profit, that population is worthless. Which is already happening in the US, and why the ‘value’…

Once again illustrating that Florida Man is a f***ing idiot. It’s called parody and satire, and they’re legally protected concepts. The fact that you’re a walking magnet for parody and satire of your stupidity is your own fault.