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We can’t ensure the safety and stability of AI as long as lives and fortunes are tied up in tolerating or diluting AI’s repercussions.

Stålenhag isn’t just saying ‘what if the world had advanced technology like artificial intelligence and fusion reactors?’ He’s saying, yeah the future’s happening – and we won’t like how it turns out. He’s saying: ‘the future is a mirror, and you won’t like what it shows you.’ His work calls us out for who we are – children of an army of defeated soldiers who focused on winning every battle, only to lose the war.

That doesn't translate well to Hollywood.

Spare a thought for all those college students scrambling to write their essays by hand.

Oh the humanity (and the Humanities)!

you are ... plastic insects.

Didn't that happen in Andromeda Strain? The de-polymerized polymer?

I will be crying 9-5 today.

I'm more interested in the conversation than the post - always looking for like-minded self-sufficient people. My dream (one day) is to invest in a local aquaculture operation so me and my community have access to fruits, vegetables, and fish protein no matter what else happens.

This is interesting but conceptual - where are the 'as-built' plans?

Dang it, Cooter. :'(

"Well, Steve, I think there's more than one way of looking at it. I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it."