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  • I saw another video of a robot “ultimate fighting league” recently with humanoid bots.

    The two clankers went for 100% roundhouse kicks and missed almost everytime, but when they fell down?

    It didn’t look real, they were back on their feet perfectly in milliseconds. It was clear the kicks was just the only scripted move, but these bots have picked themselves up off the ground probably millions of times. So that’s the only thing they currently excel at.

    Eventually they’re gonna be straight up ninjas.

    It’s fucking stupid to wait until we can’t beat them to try and outlaw them. We need to act now before the oligarchs literally have an army of terminators.

    We need to outlaw the bots and fix wealth inequality while we still have the numbers.


  • It’s not just flying drones.

    I saw video of Ukraine using three tracked ground drones with machine guns in concert with multiple flying drones used to launch rockets to clear a house.

    Russians were firing as they fled, but it literally doesn’t matter if you shoot a land drone, they’re mini tanks.

    If/when AI is really running that shit, the oligarchs will stop pretending they think we’re the same species.

    Do people realize how fucked we’d be right now if the US army was just machines who would follow any order incapable of disobeying?

    Even if we had a utopian government guaranteed to always be just, someone could just hack it.

    We need to make use/development of AI like this a major war crime while we still can.


  • It’s just always been ironic the two groups most opposed to it are the most extreme on either side of the issue

    If he/she disappeared tomorrow and everyone just always used “they”, >95% of us wouldn’t care.

    But ~5% of people would probably be really really pissed. Because they’ve made the entire idea of gender and sexuality their entire personality.

    That stuff being tribialized never works out well for any of us. We need to aim for society where it just really doesn’t matter.

    The only true equality is people genuinely not giving a fuck about it. And the first step to that is abolishing the distinction that language places between genders. As long as language draws a line, the human brain wants to put everyone on one side or the other.

    If there’s no line, there’s no division.




  • People with money think that the natural born working class will actually do all the jobs the immigrants did for the same low wages.

    Who do you think are paying the immigrants? Especially the ones not legally allowed to work?

    They absolutely know that this is cheap exploitable labor, and that someone not legally allowed to work are almost guaranteed not to report employers who break other laws.

    They want outrage against migrant laborers (regardless of visa status) because that makes migrant laborers want to keep their heads down and tolerate abuses.

    The wealthy absolutely know that domestic labor would be more expensive, it’s just hate against immigrants make migrant labor even more expensive.

    All ICE has to do if they want to get people working illegally, is hit up red state agriculture work, but they won’t because those employers are wealthy(ish) Republican voters.


  • But a teacher is one if the least AI-able jobs I think. There’s no way this will work.

    There’s no way it will give kids an adequate education…

    But that’s not exactly been the goal of the American public school system since No Child Left behind almost 30 years ago.

    Our public education system has been under attack for generations while the wealthy go to private schools and ivy leagues.

    And people act surprised when 18 year olds voted trump.

    Kids don’t magically become functional adults because of what a calendar says, someone needs to teach them to act right.



  • An immigrant joins a country

    An emigrant leaves a country

    OP doesn’t know where they’re going, just that they’re leaving a country. Because of that “potential emigrant” is the pedantically correct term for now.

    When/if OP enters another country, he would be an immigrant to that country and an emigrant from the US.

    They say “expat” in new country because they don’t want to call themselves immigrants searching for a better life, even when they’re open about that being what they’re doing. And they get to keep “US” in front of it which is a huge bonus for some people despite America’s reputation.

    But once over there when talking to people also over there, they should be identifying as an immigrant.

    Doing anything else, is only going to make friends with other “US expats” like the boomer communities in Mexico where no one speaks Spanish and they put zero effort into fitting in. Wherever you go that paints a target on your back, not just for outright crime, but to get taken advantage of by locals at every opportunity.

    Ironically they’re often liable to keep complaining about how immigrants don’t try to integrate in America, even after leaving.

    They just want to live somewhere that they’re “rich” compared to everyone else.