Quantum computing being advanced is where it all goes very far south IMO.
Stanford just had a massive breakthrough towards quantum computing that can be done at ambient temperature. Having to operate at absolute zero or near it is the limiting factor really for quantum computing. And quantum computing is also nearly useless without AI to decipher / run it, which is also ironic and comical. (Bauber follows AI compulsively and has for years. He hates it ).
AI will be a disaster eventually because humans are not capable of controlling or creating something that wonāt be used for greed or evil. And then when that thing you create becomes smarter by a multiplicative amount than us - even Skynet doesnāt touch it.
Iād like to see them develop the computational power that enables the ability for computations to take place before they happen. I think University of Chicago did successfully execute a signal that went faster than the speed of light (by mathematical abstraction) which could finally enable humanity to separate space from time, at least in virtual space.
Then we just need to scale it up in real space and time, bada bing-bada boom- interstellar travel at greater than light speed!
Somehow Trump managed to post the dumbest tweet in his history of dumb tweets in response to the Reiner murders. While it is true he had TDS, he could have used the opportunity to say something nice about all of his achievements in film.
Stand By Me, The Princess Bride, This Is Spinal Tap, and many others.
Iād still rather be stuck with a President who says dumb things and makes good policy decisions than a President who says smart things and makes terrible policy decisions. If anything, it leaves us with little remaining doubt that Trump is running his own social media. Iāll take a bad tweet over āIf you like your doctor, you can keep your doctorā, especially now that health care is less affordable than ever.
In local news, Maine Democrats seem to have actively prevented at least a dozen Somalis from participating in the special election caucus held in Lewiston this weekend immediately after the Rally For Our Somalian Neighbors. It was mostly white people who showed up, mostly from out-of-town, mostly the same crowd who shows up for No Kings protests.
A Somalian friend of mine who has lived in Lewiston for over 20 years and is a registered Democrat, and a very well-known one, was told her name wasnāt on the list and apparently they were requiring IDās for Somalians but not for whites.
This ties in with the Iman Osman saga, as his lawyer was running for the nomination against a sitting Lewiston City Councilor. Councilor Harriman won by a slim margin of 7 votes, meaning the Somalis would have likely swung it.
I suspect this was to avoid all of the drama of having Lewistonās most scandal-embroiled politician in recent memory become a distraction in the race for House District 94.
They also kicked The Maine Wireās reporter out of the event, but not the reporters from news organizations who have all accepted millions in purchase orders for āmarketingā from The Mills Administration.
Democrats would rig a chili cook-off if there was something in it for them.
Not sure how I feel about this yet - other than it was certainly inevitable regardless of president. More so with JD Vance as a creation of Peter Thiel.
I agree with this, but I donāt think Trump is going to be able to get anything done in this realm in a big way. The āgoodā answers here will never get anywhere with our shitbag politicians in Congress.
I donāt know enough about AI to have any strong opinions on it, except my dislike for people who are already eagerly substituting it for their own brains.
Health careā¦ I donāt know how to untangle that rats nest, either. Again, deportations provide at least some relief. It is hard to overstate how much illegal aliens are burdening Maineās medical system, and it isnāt even really possible to calculate since they designed the entire system to never check immigration status.
Iām about 15 minutes into it and I think his analysis is very good. Iāll try to finish it up later because he explains himself very well.
Iām not sure if he gets to this later on, but Iām still of the belief that Fuentes and people who express themselves that way do FAR more harm than good to MAGA.
Fuentes speaks like a leftist, with plenty of valid criticism but only vague notions about public policy and no coherent political alternative ever offered. Heās good at stirring up resentment to prime many minds to be receptive of social justice politics. Iām not sure where thatās going to lead, but weāll get to find out together.
Right now, it seems to be fueling the notion that MAGA is fundamentally fascist. At least according to the signs in Kennedy Park last weekend.
This is only the second time Iāve seen this guy. The first was a panel discussing issues including free speech(or lack of) in the UK and he did an excellent job clearly stating his thoughts and beliefs, especially for his age.
It weighs in to money in vs money out, then overcharging the remaining risk pool as a simplified summary that was discussed in more detail in the Mangione thread last year. With, of course, unyielding and even climbing (despite market force) provider cost propagated by govt fund collection and dispersion incongruent to demand.
There might be a lot of truth to this, but imo Peter Thiel is a very insightful, smart, practical guy. Iām ok with it.
When Trump was just a real estate guy, he had to deal with the mob controlled resources to get things done; itās been said that he always kept at least one degree of separation away from the ādudesā. Imo, Qatar is how he āspeaksā with the true Nutters in the middle east.
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So, the consensus in this thread seems to be that AI is the future āanswerā to the Fermi Paradox for Earth -destruction by AI/Skynet. Paradoxically, and just the kind of joke that The Creator likes to perpetrateā¦The Great Elon Musk is leading both the interstellar travel initiative, as well as the destruction of Man by AI Robots. Lol.
IMO we wonāt see a destruction in the literal sense, but life will change to something between where we are now and The Matrix.
Especially as brain plugins develop. Who knows where that goes, itās impossible to fathom with all the simultaneous advances.
On one hand AI could augment life by making tasks easier or non-existent. It would be awesome to have an automated house for example, but one that is intuitive and reactionary verses just tightly programmed on preset timers. Or once trained to effectively maneuver and environment a servant robot would be awesome. Especially if itās smart enough to day trade or research, open, operate and sell businesses lol. It could be that AI does stay contained and become the greatest tool weāve ever created. Economics will get weird though. With all the free time and total economic equality across shared programs generating it our existence will be completely new, so I guess we just start exploring outer space instead of earning dinner.
But humans generally look for the path of least resistance, adapt to comfort and since the Industrial Revolution or maybe Eli Cotton before it view automation and efficiency as progress.
Imagine being able to plug your brain in to a medium that can mimic reality or literally anything you can creatively dream up, processing at quantum computing speeds. In tandem with AI - planted right in to the brain. Gives a whole new meaning to ānight capā. What happens when reality as we know it is indiscernible from a created digital reality? Do we keep embracing the grind as enhanced humans in a sense or fade in to a false but very real feeling utopia? And how far does it go if thatās the route? Literal Matrix pods sustaining biological function or more like a video game of sorts people can actually live in? The ultimate drug and one you technically never have to come down from?
At what point is it even worth living if nothing is real? And what would the computer systems need us for if theyāre just keeping our pods clean of feces and generating a false reality until the body dies?
Maineās Governor Mills allowed LD 1971 to become law yesterday, which makes Maine a full fledged sanctuary state. No more cooperation with ICE or Border Patrol in a state with an extremely large international border.
Related to this, you can murder a person and only serve a couple years in prison here, as long as you are āmarginalizedā. All but two and a half years of this sentence were suspended.
The guy who caved in Donald Gustiās head with a rock in the middle of Kennedy Park as part of a mob beat down only got 9 months.
It all makes sense when you realize that every person who flees the jurisdiction is a political win for Maine Democrats.
I donāt loose any sleep over any of this because itās out of my control.
The republicans in the past have promoted gub run healthcare and IMO as Iām sure most conservatives feel health insurance probably should not be part of employers responsibility? I donāt know much about and I believe they all (businesses too) make it difficult for people who work 40 hours to understand much of it, so it all seems like a wide range scam too me.
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