Its been speculated that was probably done intentionally (making removing the detailed copy easy to remove but the adhesive hard to remove) knowing the standard response would be to take it down.

It would fit the more performative art style that they’re known for.

Yeah, it seems like a demise built around suffering and helplessness. If you crave the sweet release of death, this isn’t it.

Yup. The people pushing AI are not concerned with the social or economic reprocussions of pushing AI. They just want line go up.

The “Don’t Look Up” greed + willful ignorance will crush us all.

I think the most reliable way to advance a scientific field is to find a technique used in a different field and apply it to yours. Even more reliable if you use techniques from theoretical math.

I think it’d be better if a door behind them swung shut and a speaker said “You are now employees of the house until your debt is paid”.

It’s so weird thinking about how we’re just copying DNA. That’s pretty much the purpose of life; replicate these strange molecules as much as possible. Consciousness is some unintended byproduct of the ‘copy forever’ algorithm.

This is why lectures should be obsolete at this point. Lectures should be a video done really well once. Class should be practice time where you can ask experts for help when you get stuck.

Is this just gerrymandering in sandwich form?

Haha yes, I did mean causal.

I think it’s a casual argument. People are saying pitbulls are not inherently more violent, they just tend to be the dog of choice for people who want violent (guard) dogs. They are then taught violent behaviors by their owners.

I think of it the same way as the paradox of tolerance. If a society extends tolerance to those who are intolerant, it risks enabling the eventual dominance of intolerance.

If a peaceful civilization allows the expansion of a non-peaceful society, it could spell the end of the peaceful civilization.

Issac Arthur is a fantastic YouTube channel that delves into the many possible types of alien civilizations and how they could fit into the Fermi-paradox (where is everybody?).

What you propose is generally not accepted as a likely state of the universe. If a civilization is ruthless, evil, and expanding the last thing a more powerful, peaceful civilization would want to do is allow its expansion. The logical choice would be intervention either in guiding their morality (probably hard), or just extermination (quite easy if you posses even modest interstellar space travel capability).

Fun to think about! We’ve only been broadcasting our existence for about 100 years, so it could be we’ve only recently been noticed and our doom is already en route!

Technically that is profit maximizing, where as profit is just surplus value created. Nothing wrong with profit, profit maximizing at the expense of all else is a recipe for civilization collapse.

In our tree mushroom example, if both organisms grow faster by sharing nutrients than by hoarding, they have both made a profit.

This argument doesn’t hold water. The largest demographic backing trump is the boomers who have not been in the education system for 40-50 years. You’re telling me the pinnacle of our education system was before 1960? I just don’t buy that argument.

Should we improve our education system? Absolutely! Is it the single contributor to the worldwide authoritarian pivot of the last decade? No.

Not half as many as you deserve.

I understand the current context, but I hate seeing people cheering for gerrymandering.

That’s an expensive snack!

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

Can we accidentally leave the keys near ESA HQ?

Technically they made the EPA, which I guess they decided was a bad idea.