I guess we’ll have to learn how to do that.

For a lot of people, education is “we will hold a gun to your head until you pass the exam”. For a lot of people, education is seminary school, and in many circles the priests are the best educated folks around.

If I don’t send my kids to school, a nice lady with a uniform and a gun comes around, and this is ‘civilization’?

It sounds like you’re worried education will, ‘become Bible school at the point of a gun’, but where I am it already is, and these aren’t the new models I’m talking about.

I’m talking about free access and communication as the pillars of education.

If you make a spelling error, Claude thinks, “we’re doing low quality work”, and it does.

I agree with you on both points, and the third (these people are idiots), but I’m happy to debate you anyways.

I think that we must actively dismantle traditional forms of knowledge (copyrights, private libraries, most of education) in favor of developing new completely open archives and internet based methods of organizing, developing, and interacting with knowledge.

Does that do it for you?

Here’s an insane idea. If the department isn’t being funded, maybe we should open the checkpoints and let airports return to normal functional spaces where people can eat at the airport and famlies and friends can meet each other at the gate?

This must be the real reason AI is so divisive among developers.

Classic two truths and a lie strategy for discrediting and manipulation.

Truth 1: There isn’t a lower age on who a sufficiently rich and sufficiently bored person will fuck, kill and/or eat. Truth 2: Pizza is used as a code word.

Lie: It’s the little green men from alpha centuri behind it all! Or at least the other team!

Of course, it’s easy to just lie lie lie lie. But consider the widespread media conspiracy to discredit conspiracy theorists… Someone HAS GOT to be onto SOMETHING.

It’s your stupid monkey brain thinking that you are talking to ‘that one guy called internet’ instead of thousands of tens of thousands of different people.

The answer is to disengage yourself, and to teach your children AND OTHERS to disengage from social media.

Social media is harmful, advertising is harmful, drugs are harmful, gambling is harmful. This is a question of societal level harm and is is a problem for individual counties, nations, and states to address by the creation and enforcement of law, and for individuals to address by collectively shaming participants.

Pavlov is fine on PCVR, there are plenty of games, lots of community content, and everyone reading this should definitely come play with us right now, today, this weekend, come on down.

I don’t possess conscious experience and even I think this whole thread is crap.

It’s an American idiom, probably emerging about 60 years ago but n-grams dates first usages in print to around 1947.

To wear many hats is to do many different jobs or have many different responsibilities.

I’ve been playing Sorcery, it’s really good!

Sienna was walled in at a time and place when roaming gangs of thugs could, and would, variously murder you everywhere outside the city walls.

Pretty good reason to want to get really cozy with your neighbors. Might be a good time to revisit the concept in some places.

I wouldn’t be so sure.

Pragmatically minded folks are not always concerned with the details of how something is done.

After all, he often uses code written by people other than himself in the kernel, he works to ensure those people are well clothed and fed, but that’s hardly the point of the linux project. The user experience is not so different from vibe coding.

Hell yeah! Those other stupid poor people are the reason your electricity price went up!

I have always respected him the more because I know that he dislikes flattery as much as he deserves it. (Voltaire)

Except it is, and it won’t be.

People are fucking expensive, if you ran the same uncharitable calculations people do for AI on people they would rapidly conclude that there is almost nothing more expensive then having a whole person do something, needing clean water and air all the time, destroying the environment by inefficiently cramming it into their face and then shitting it out a short time later.

Right now, it’s on the line (our current generation of AI is just a little more efficient then something which spends literally years in diapers and needs over a decade of careful and often misguided education just to punch a clock and read some email), but one of these things is getting more efficient and the other one is definitely not.

You can get emotional, maybe burn a data center to the ground or something, but the idea that, ‘what this stuff actually costs to run’ is going to land anywhere close to cost of the people doing it, you’re out of your mind.

How about figuring out how to use this disruption to create systems and technologies which are better? Imagine if the OSS and maker movements started in 1880 instead of 1980.

Imagine missing a game so massive it has had a billion sequels, an MMO, and a 700 million dollar television series made because of it.

Pick your poison, witchcraft, zen, Christianity… Being able to see things the way a child sees them is an essential part and something you might want to work on.

I’m going to take a guess and direct you (and most readers) towards a Christian reading, but I assure you, this observation is made by almost all traditions, secular or otherwise, across almost all the world’s cultures.

Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. - Matthew 18:3

(Edited for block quote)

Here’s a puzzler.

Did he start with illegals as the first stage in a general campaign to eliminate the poor and undersirable by force, or, now that he has moved to all immigrants, is he going to stop?