@perrymetzger @repligate Based on your post, I'm not clear if you read any of the rest of the series, but Consider Phlebas completely unrepresentative. The rest of the books are way better.

Elon's recommendation of the Culture books by Iain Banks is telling, because it's pretty much a Utopian society. The conflict is mostly from lesser societies, but the books are pretty much how wonderful an AI post-scarcity world is. Really interesting series (don't start with the first, though).

@bayeslord

@BasedBeffJezos This is provably correct. Electronics are 1M times faster than neurons. If you reproduced a human brain in electronics, it's potentially 1M times faster. That means it's provably possible to have 1 Einstein of intelligence that does one year of thinking every 31 seconds.

@SandboxMusicLLC @andrelealfaria @MarioNawfal If you want that analogy, it's the equivalent of cutting off one of the joints on a finger. Is the finger useless? No. Is it less functional than it would have been? Yes. Circumcision severs nerves directly related to sexual pleasure. And that was the original religious purpose.

@SandboxMusicLLC @andrelealfaria @MarioNawfal Both are sexual mutilation, just a question of degree. A "smaller amount of sexual mutilation" is still sexual mutilation. But again, I recognize we aren't ready to face this truth, because most men don't want to admit they're damaged.

@michaeltastad @BasedBeffJezos Second American Revolution, baby, and good fries are back on the menu!

@SandboxMusicLLC @andrelealfaria @MarioNawfal It's actually not that different. Circumcision cuts nerve endings and reduces sexual pleasure. We know this, but men don't want to face it. Too late for me, but I broke the chain with my son.

@michaeltastad @BasedBeffJezos People don't know how good McDonald's fries use to be. AS GOD IS MY WITNESS THEY DON'T KNOW.

@levelsio I've had good success for a similar problem with, "avoid flowery language, make it useful and practical."

@RichardDawkins Disappointing that you are part of the propaganda machine. Try having a nuanced view of medicine, and vaccines are strong medicines. Some are good and some not so good, and we need good science to tell us which. Right now we do not have good science.

Great! Then we're all on same page, and this fool's quote from Jesus is irrelevant. Illegal aliens are, by definition, criminals and they get a judicial process after they're deported. They're welcome to appeal and/or start a legal immigration process. Why do I have a feeling you don't actually mean what you say, and want illegal aliens to be automatically treated as legal immigrants? Why did this fool quote Jesus, if he "really" doesn't mean criminals? Jesus did not specify criminals.

@JamesMartinSJ Your interpretation of that verse is that all countries are required to have open borders, allow any number of criminals and no one is ever allowed to deport anyone? You are corrupting the words for your own agenda. Jesus (obviously) was not referring to country borders.

@elonmusk @OwenSparks_ We need college expense reform. Public universities should not be able to charge $50K/year. Reduce all staffs and expenses to inflation-adjusted 1960 levels.

@jacervva @C21H30O26 @Blockchainwork5 @elonmusk World stability comes from strength and standing up for American interests, not hiding under the bed while sheer lawlessness goes on. Of course there will be some instability when a new sheriff comes to town, but it's because instability is transforming to stability.

@DeryaTR_ There's no such thing as an "AI safety expert". Literally, everyone is self-proclaimed, because it's not science. In the future, we'll have engineers that are proficient in safety mechanisms we will invent, but right now it's a bunch of midwits sitting around making sh** up.

@Blockchainwork5 @elonmusk World stability is good for American business, which leads to putting money in American pockets.

RT @Nairebis: @robbystarbuck Every press conference should have a giant physical version of that debt clock and DOGE clock in the backgroun…

@robbystarbuck Every press conference should have a giant physical version of that debt clock and DOGE clock in the background.