I post anti-American sentiment all the time, not because I’m a troll but because the USA’s systems affect policy around the world and these systems are horrible for most people. Example USA is exporting its healthcare system around the world, this has a polarizing effect on public healthcare systems,like Canada, Britain and Germany, now many specialists previously seen in public practice in hospitals can only be seen in private clinics, where services that were free in a public practice now must be paid for in a private practice. So the tendency now is to defund public services to save costs but for society as a whole healthcare spending increases rapidly. Some people see this as acceptable as service availability increases with cost if you can afford it, if you can’t too bad. The essential export is profits over public good.

Many Europeans and Canadians have anti-american sentiments yet they are our allies in many areas and an affront to reality in many others. Nothing is black and white or brown and woke, nuance is everywhere but it’s in this nuance we can understand each other.

Nope it can come up with novel jokes, just ask it for some. Most of the one's it comes up with are play on word meanings. So jokes you read as a kid.

But still they are jokes. I'll ask it to tell me a funny story next time and see how it does.

You need to read\listen to the bobiverse series about an engineer who get turned into a von Neumann probe and help colonize the galaxy, very funny stuff.

Are you kidding? improving productivity is replacing jobs. Lawyer needs 3 paralegals to prepare for a case now he just needs one part time to validate ChatGPT output on relevant case law. Soon as it’s trained up he’ll be able to that himself, and have it create the arguments which he then vets. Work that took days done in an hour, charge for days until competition ramps up, minder to bring this up at the next bar meeting so we don’t under cut ourselves. Radiologist hospital we only need one part-time now to review and sign off on diagnosis, before we needed 4, the AI is better than he is at finding stuff, fortunately it can’t sign off yet.

Any repetitive knowledge work can potentially be replaced, even high level work like cardiologists (interpreting blood work,bp, ecg, echo cardiograms), engineering (bridge design, stress loads, hvac optimization) let alone bookkeeping, accounting, reviewing/marking student work.

So much paperwork will be able to be automated, and then just have a human oversea training and exceptions. What took 20 people will go down to one with an AI helper. Will a company keep on 20. It may keep on two for redundancy and crossover training in different depts.

If this productivity was shared across the economy and all workers we would be in a utopia, but that’s not how our system works.

There needs to be significant benefits other than novelty for the metaverse to take hold vs In real life (IRL). I have trouble thinking of any upside, and many downsides including nausea, headaches, discomfort from having a headset on for long periods, lack of privacy inherent in such a coordinated space.

Much prefer a huds display on light weight glasses, with no visual recording ability (recording was the downfall of google glass). Either way big tech’s intrusion into life is becoming dystopian, “do no evil” is not their motto.

A hot stove for one...and a steaming pile of dog poop right through the pickup bag for two. Don't try to do these at the same time your nose will also be in sensory overload.

Turning trees into structured lumber (clt) can solve this problem. Each of the building listed here saved over 1400 tonnes of carbon vs buildimg with just steel and concrete… Clt structures can last a 1000 years if built and maintained properly.

https://constructionreviewonline.com/biggest-projects/top-5-tallest-timber-buildings-in-the-world/

you need ai spell check...

Cop city…sponsored by major corporations… who are the police for? Certainly isn’t for you or me.

Brought to you by OPC.

Settling the ocean with floating cities and Antarctica are far easier than Mars.

Doesn’t work in a heat bubble…same strategy in Canada…In a heat bubble, after a day or two night time temperatures are still above body temperature which is unbearable…throw in a nearby forest fire and well opening a window is no longer an option.

Sorry, I took a wrong turn, I didn't know r/futurology has merged with r/collapse. I guess the future is r/collapse.

They don't want people who question the status quo.

Are you taxed by force?

Nice boots you have there Context. I prefer the ones with cardboard soles as you can feel the street.

Already does it, but not systematically at the state or military industrial level. Funny hey we pay for our own surveillance.

And will do surveillance for the right price in a pinch.