When AI can sit in a large chair and make money off the backs of others all day
Arguably this is the only thing AI can do. Would AI even exist if not for the huge datasets derived from other people’s hard work? All the money AI will generate is based exclusively off the backs of others.
Having flicked through a few spots in the video, and being British, my conclusion is this:
Britain has got some major problems, many of which there is a lack of political will to fix, to the point that I could identify the general subject of many sections of this video just by the title on the timestamps. But the video is still pretty rubbish and overly sensationalised, with some of the opinions presented (smoking bans being bad, switching to an American style insurance-based healthcare being a good idea) are just straight up idiotic.
True, if it’s somewhere nice, maybe everybody should protest.
I’d love to know the stats on the demographics of the pro-Palestinian protestors. Exactly how many American citizens is Trump proposing randomly dumping in another country because he doesn’t like what they’re saying?
I disagree. Neoliberalism turbo-charged all of the problems with capitalism, by encouraging the “everyone out for themselves, dog eat dog world” mentality.
A good economy serves the needs of the people. As soon as you have a situation where people are effectively ground into paste to feed the economy, it’s not a good economy.
Yep. An awful lot has to go badly wrong in an economy before rich people start feeling it, and that’s the only point they start caring.
Hence why I said “it appears to be due to Biden’s mismanagement only insofar as Biden has opted for largely continuity neoliberalism”. He didn’t create the situation and he’s tried to combat it, but there is so much more he could have done, given that the underlying problem is neoliberalism.
People will stop believing a country is in recession when it starts to feel like they can actually afford to do the things they want to do, like live in a home and eat food once in a while. They are incorrect to believe that it’s a recession causing their current dire circumstances, but they’re entirely correct to believe that something is amiss when they’re just barely keeping themselves alive. It appears to be due to Biden’s mismanagement only insofar as Biden has opted for largely continuity neoliberalism, which is how things have been mismanaged for the last 40 years or so.
Railways and public transport are grouped under infrastructure because even if climate change was not an issue, public transport is infrastructure that’s good for people and the economy. There’s plenty of statistics to support the idea that good public transport infrastructure has a wide range of benefits, including improved economic growth, that pre-dates climate change by decades, and will still be the case long after climate change is fixed. The Victorians didn’t build railway lines all over Europe because trains are better for the climate than cars. :)
It probably helped that Susan Hall is deranged, and the UK as a whole prefers its politicians as close to the centre as possible, rejecting extremes on both ends.
Just to play Devil’s advocate here… The US takes that approach to guns inside its own borders, expecting that asking nicely is enough to stop people shooting up schools. So it would be kinda hypocritical for the US to hold Israel to different standards. Guns are America’s real religion.
Republicans don’t think those are birthrights either, because they don’t care about anyone after they’ve been born. They wouldn’t care about foetuses either if they had to be fed and housed.
‘Is money a birthright now?’
If it’s not, then logically a 100% inheritance tax must be imposed. After all, nobody is entitled to money just for being born, right?
What about a WYSIWYG editor app like Dreamweaver? I don’t know if there’s any good free ones any more though, now that FrontPage Express is gone.
So weirdly enough, I posted about this earlier today in a different community. My use-case is different to OP’s, so I don’t think any of the options I’m investigating now would suit them, but the long and short of it is free, standalone WYSIWYG editors are really few and far between now.
That doesn’t mean that the parents’ concerns about how so much isolation would impact their childrens’ mental, emotional, social and academic development weren’t valid, though. In fact, it’s pretty obvious at this point that many children were adversely affected, many in ways that will impact them for the rest of their lives. It is definitely not a given that the people that joined Moms for Liberty because they were worried about their children being so isolated during critical stages of development are also Covid deniers and bigots.
That was not known at the time, though. What was known was that children were at a much lower risk of dying (and of getting seriously ill), and there were plenty of parents who had very valid concerns about the impact on their children. What we’re going to see over the next 20-30 years is an awful lot of children growing up with severely stunted social and emotional development, which was a much more foreseeable outcome of Covid restrictions in schools than long Covid.
I’m not saying having restrictions was right or wrong. There was probably an ideal balance in there somewhere, but given the situation, it would have been a damned miracle if anyone had figured out what it was. What I’m saying is that the parents with entirely valid concerns about how the restrictions affected their childrens’ development were not necessarily Covid deniers, and are certainly not necessarily bigots.
I dunno, there were plenty of parents over here in the UK who took Covid seriously, but still opposed the degree of restrictions in schools because of the impact it had on their kids. It basically came from a place of being aware that children were much less at risk from Covid than older people, so they accepted the need for measures that protected the vulnerable while still disagreeing with the need to keep children so isolated.
(Interestingly, the ongoing government inquiry here about the government’s response to Covid has concluded that if any women had been involved in the decision-making on Covid restrictions, the restrictions on children would not have been as extreme as they were - not because women are inherently Covid-deniers, but because they would have considered the long-term impact on children, which the entirely male decison-making team simply didn’t think of.)
So my assumption is that many mothers in the US felt the same way - and these people aren’t Covid-denying, anti-vax, racist, homophobic, transphobic bigots. They just wanted their kids to be able to go to school normally. While undoubtedly the loudest voices in Moms for Liberty were Covid-deniers, I would expect that the majority of those who joined the group were just normal mums worried about their kids during the pandemic.
I wonder if a big part of it was that there wasn’t as large an overlap between being unhappy with coronavirus restrictions in schools and being opposed to children learning about diversity as the Moms for Liberty group thought. All the mothers who were only thinking about how the restrictions were impacting their kids social, emotional, and academic development (and those concerns did have some validity) have now got what they wanted: their kids are back at school and growing up normally. They don’t feel the need to go on a crusade against minorities because that was never what they were worried about.
There’s also the risk that the AI might decide that the best way of testing the company’s new product is to unleash it on the general public without any safety testing or thought of the consequences. That would be an absolute disaster.