So, if the FBI successfully hacked the phone, we have basically the same situation Apple wanted to prevent. The US Govt. can hack every phone and access its data if it wants to.

Optimism is fine and I’m all for it. But being optimistic doesn’t change reality. And the reality is that the takeover of many blue and white collar jobs is closer than most think. I work as a Typographer and was under the assumption that creative work can’t be done by a machine. But that’s not true. Feed an AI like…

Wrong purpose, false hope. And calling it imaginary is spot on.

Just one question. This is supposed to be fiction, right? I’m just asking because it sounds as if it was written like actual history.

The human species evolved for millions of years with these light/dark, summer/winter, warm/cold cycles. We need it that way. Changing something about it is stupid and it needs to end!

It’s not a false equivalence if you own a home theater (big screen, projector and decent sound system). Then, the experience at home is way better hands down. I have a big screen and always sit in the sweet spot. For the picture AND the sound. No annoying subtitles (in Switzerland they always do subs in theaters). No…

That last part, not true. I started smoking at 16. 25 years later I started worrying about my health. So I quit cold turky. It’s a habit so it took some getting used to. But thoughts about smoking fade with time and about a year after quitting, they’re gone for good. Happy non-smoker for eight years now. No struggle…

He got called out. By Sam Harris and others. He just utters more of his bullshit in response. If you have enough followers, you don’t need to make actual sense, I guess.

I see more Phil

Yeah, but neither of it is happening. The movie industry has been telling us the same for at least ten years. And yet, here comes the next Avengers, the next Spider Man, the next Antman, the next this, the next that. And apart from the story, these are high quality flicks. I happen to work as a CG artist for a few…

If a pilot with “years of experience” thinks it could be done, why do you think it’s ludicrous? Are you a pilot with decades of experience? Are you a pilot at all?

We could feed the whole world. We choose not to. Because profit. half of all food worldwide is thrown away.

No, a thousand gold stars for you, man! I’m so with you on this. Especially the “holding us all back” part. That’s exactly what I tell people when arguing why it’s not okay to let everyone believe what they want.

Best rant in a long time. Thank you!

Thank you very much for this concise statement. Exactly my thinking. Sad that we’re such a rare breed.

UBI might sound radical, but it’s the only option. Sooner or later, we have to decouple income from work because lots of people will be out of work. For good. Worldwide. Retrain and adapt sounds nice in theory but tell that to all the mid 40's workers who are simply too old to learn a completely new craft. Which, btw,…

No worries. if it catches fire, it’ll collapse at freefall speed into it’s own footprin a few ours later and nobody gets hurt. We learned that from NIST 15 years ago.

Yeah, Disney movies got a lot better. Who do you think helped them achieve it? I bet they were mentored by some great guys from Pixar.

How many of those are made out of cardboard? Or was that North Korea? I’m confused...