Leo Gura

@Hardkill Yeah, you can still find ways to get rich even today. But that doesn't touch the structural problem of late stage capitalism.

The best counter-argument to my post is that guys like Musk don't just offer labor, they risk capital. The reason Musk gets paid so well is because he risked his own $100M to start SpaceX, which he could have lost, while ordinary workers risk nothing. That is a valid point. However, their compensation is still ridiculously unfair even then. They are simply rationalizing hogging all the money.

Yes, that is counter-productive. Feeding those New Age fantasies. What Bashar's audience needs most is a lesson in basic epistemology. Stop believing shit.

Part of culture is one thing, but living it is another. It used to be mere theory, now it is a lived reality and it sucks.

The tech-bro's self-importance is part of the ruse. "Only I can save you from the monstrosity that I must build." Lol

Oh, you will be employed. You will just be paid shitily for it.

You should be careful believing him. He's giving you nice stories, but you don't know if they are true. You certainly cannot take his predictions on faith. His predictions can and likely will end up being wrong. Nevertheless, I enjoy Bashar. Just don't take him too seriously. His predictions are not what you should be listening to him for. The value in listening to him is not in his predictions. In sharing his videos I am not endorsing his predictions.

@Rafael Thundercat Yeah, that's good stuff.

Rising income inequality. Capitalism is gutting the middle class more and more to make more billionaires, and then those billionaires are using that wealth to corrupt government even more. It is hard to be optimistic when capitalism keeps getting more toxic and there is no solution in sight.

@trenton Yup, that's the pickle of it.

Omnipotence means that Consciousness can hallucinate anything it wants. But the ontology of Consciousness cannot be changed. A TV screen can display any image, but the screen is the screen and its nature cannot be changed by displaying new images. God is limited in that it cannot not be God. The fact that Consciousness can hallucinate anything cannot change. Skeptics want to use this point as evidence against God, which is false.

Not even close.

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Confidence comes from experience and skill, not gimmickry.

There's not going to be a downfall of humanity. It's just a battle over who will rule. All this is, is a power grab, under the guise of sci-fi geek fantasies. While they sing the fantasies, they are quickly grabbing power. The fantasies will eventually evaporate, but the grabbed power and wealth will remain.

Because I want it to be a mirror of the hypocrisy.

@Natasha Tori Maru Brutal.

I liked the underground a lot. It is a great concept. It needed more unique content. Sky islands are also a great concept but needed more variety of content. Nintendo wasted too many resources on the vehicle building system. Those resources should have gone into dungeons and combat content. Zelda needs less gimmicks and puzzles and more combat like Dark Souls.

Sorry to hear that.

Vehicles in Zelda don't break anything unless you invest way too much time building them. I played mostly without building too much and nothing was broken by it. Building vehicles is kinda annoying after a while so you can just avoid it and do other things. Mostly what you build is simplistic gliders, but they have limited range and battery life. It is fun to build gliders to explore the sky islands. Tears is a revolutionary game if you never played Breath Of The Wild. It will feel very fresh. It is unlike any previous Zelda game. That is why I liked it. Nintendo actually made something new.

@Jordan Good work!

I had a weird dream about Xenomorphs attacking me today. It was scary. Of course death is terrifying. There's no way around that.

A few serious points: 1) AI can be used to find interesting correlations between all the math humans know so far. There are probably interesting low-hanging fruit to pick just from connecting unconnected dots in existing knowledge. But at some point this easy fruit will run out. 2) Some kinds of math problems can be solved with a brute force approach. Not nearly all, but some. So AI could play a role there, similar to how it did with the protein folding problem with AlphaFold. 3) AI companies are definitely betting that humans won't even need to understand things anymore in the future because AI will magically handle everything. However, my position is that this is a sci-fi fantasy, not how it will really work. There is no good evidence yet that AI can replace human understanding. If it can, that is the paradigm shift, but it may never come.

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I do. But I need some kind of webcam that records my face too and places it in the corner. I also need some kind of a small convenient microphone, and then some kind of lighting. It's a whole can of worms.