I mean of all the things to criticize China about, a planned economy should be one to avoid.

Because the alternative to saving money with AI is providing better services with AI - if it can be done. And the people to do that are the people doing the job.

I find this kind of response insufferable. It shifts the conversation from a systems critique to personal responsibility. You could have posted this in response the OP, and it would be equally on point and useless.

I have personalized ads turned of in YouTube and it seems half the ads are for gambling as of late.

Reminds me of something Alok said about playbooks: we focus on the books but forget to play.

the actions of this system cannot be predicted by anyone.

Reminds me of TempleOS where the author thought a random number generator sends messages from god. It was fun when it’s just one person experiencing psychosis in a non-violent way. But the mass AI psychosis is the opposite of fun.

I mean ICE is both a joke and a scary brute squad.

And anyone who has a retirement holding index funds is also complicit?

I don’t think they want that smoke, better to let your competitor hurt themselves

How dare you have a healthy response to this garbage

No, but Milo threatened his friends to not defend him less they be a target of a harassment campaign.

I remember how the current congress led us to a government shutdown only to fold like lawn chairs in return for a pinky promise that was later broken. There are options that don’t require overriding the president because congress has the power of the purse and the power to investigate.

Somehow my addled brain remembers that there was a sex change in the episode and Kyle’s dad made a fuss about the bathrooms not being accommodating to him: “South Park” Mr. Garrison’s Fancy New Vagina (TV Episode 2005) - IMDb https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0705943/

They did Team America World Police, in which the lesson is we are total dicks but some assholes need to be fucked.

Ehh, they are funny but they have had some Ls in the past. Two episodes come to mind:

• Both parties are the same
• Comparing being trans to identifying as a dolphin.

The empire is falling, the question is whether it should be a controlled demolition

And Angie Nixon being the anti-Nixon

Sure, but that too is self-defeating and temporary. China will out innovate while we drain our brains and pocket books

What a fucking dipshit. Your valuation is based on “AI” being a commodity without the benefit of having a natural monopoly like with utilities. They don’t even understand capitalism for fuck sake