"Embracing AI" means laying off 21,000 people for more compute hardware.

Anyone involved in creating deep/artificial neural networks knows that there are diminishing returns for the "fidelity" of language models when scaling compute capacity; "scaling" does very little in the face of the limitations of the current paradigms of SoTA frontier models' architectures.

Simply put, they're so stupid, they fired the people who could maybe innovate for more hardware... that requires many of the very same smart people they told to kick rocks in the first place.

When did the Internet come to reflect society?

When it became ubiquitous to industrialized societies. 1995-ish, in my opinion.

Were we always distrusting mean and vindictive before the net?

Absolutely.

Are we really that bad?

Without a doubt.

"The world is far better and worse than you can possibly imagine."

"You may have me at 'better', Dr. Sattler, but you can't hold a candle to me on 'worse'."

• Contact, by Dr. Carl Sagan

Taking the definition at its etymological root, all anarchy means is "without rule".

In my head-canon, that doesn't necessarily mean the lack of laws, state, institutions or governance; the implication is that there are no citizens or individuals with permanently elevated authority in the polity of government. Without rulers.

Many, of course, disagree with this mostly on the basis of practicality, but I'd like to think it's another way to describe the concept of "No gods, no kings, no masters, no slaves."

Are investors from the US or our government allowed to buy swathes of real estate in the PRC to the same extent that the CCP or Chinese investors are allowed to?

I'm betting no.

Disclaimer: the following is just my opinion and not to be taken as gospel. This is not financial advice.

The hope for them is that one day, after proving their ability to suffer a boot upon their neck, they will have proved themselves worthy to put their boot on someone's neck.

How does one perpetuate slavery?

Turn some of the slaves into masters.

It's interpreted.

As an elder millennial (1983), I too ignore Gen X. Especially after being shown the way they vote in U.S. elections.

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Follow Creators, Not Platforms

I've heard it as, "Nothing will materially change until the plutocrats fear for their lives."

I always felt connected to my inner Americium, but my mom said I'm a lanthanide through and through. My actinide father said, "don't sweat it, she's acting like a typical halogen."

Lukewarm take: if you don't make some effort to clean up to have less of a mess while you cook, you're not competent enough to be in the kitchen.

Just my opinion; don't burn me at the stake.

"Everything in moderation, including moderation."

Americans have had a long tradition of organizing and resisting. The 40-hour workweek was bought with worker's blood. The apathy of the American body politic is a relatively new attribute, historically. My opinion is that it metastasized in 1971.

I was taught all of this in American public high school and public university. Howard Zinn was required reading.

What's the reasoning behind it?

We crave validation from others and ourselves by being considered "rare" or capable of creating "rarity" in an ocean of mediocrity and banality to justify our state, choices, and attitudes. We consider "rarity" as inherently valuable and a virtue to aspire to.

So, appeasement spiced with a paper tiger's threat? This "proposal" is insulting.

Ironically, luddites against space exploration in this era call for the dismantling of a titanic field of science that is both directly and indirectly responsible for the very device from which they shart out their oh-so-learned opinions to the rest of the world.

symbolic

We learn about the past to understand the present.