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Comment · 3 years ago
We can only hope they don't wake from the illusion and spend this money right away by hiring each other and get occupied. God forbid they realize that money is actually their own time and effort, and this guy just tricked them into building something for him in exchange for the opportunity (money) of them working for themselves at another time.

As inequality grows, it only becomes more evident. Workers can safely cut the billionaire middle man.

Comment · 3 years ago
Yes, because everyone knows the show bears no resemblance to the real world.
Comment · 3 years ago
Yes, at the end of the day the lucky laborers now hold a fresh piece of paper on their hands. While Mr. Bezos enjoys his real world tangible object, the laborers will discover that their work isn't done yet. Because their money is only worth if they themselves work for each other once again, otherwise it is just worthless paper.
Comment · 3 years ago
Why is it seen as acceptable for a government to jail people, but it’s seen as bad form for a corporation to do the same?
Comment · 4 years ago
Lets speculate a little bit for argument sake. Take this with a grain of salt because I am not a specialist, just a information hoarder.

Lets put miniaturization aside and focus on another aspects, which i judge will be more critical.

The warhead must survive mechanical stress of launch and reentry, and thermal stress at reentry. The question is: can it be designed only with computers and public knowledge? They could build small hypersonic wind tunnel to collect data and simulate the rest.

Comment · 4 years ago
It might not be, but is damn close to it.
Comment · 4 years ago
So what is the point of all this? If done by Ukrainians, what military objective does is accomplish?

Are we supposed to track down the people responsible for the Tomahawk cruise missile program as well? I mean, this piece does not make any sense to me. There is a difference between the people that make weapons and those that use them.

Comment · 4 years ago
Since when it became reasonable to build a life on such a weak foundation?
Comment · 4 years ago
This whole theme is sort incompatible with movies. Most people like to relate to the characters in the plot. The "genius guy" does something we can't understand has very little appeal as a story.

Same thing goes for mathematics that is too "deep". Most people could not care less about prime numbers. Yes, they drive important cryptographic procedures. But we care about cryptography. We care that the message gets to its destination "safely". If its done using prime numbers, imaginary numbers, geometric numbers or fantasy numbers, it does not matter.

Comment · 4 years ago
Or perhaps words are the byproduct of the real thing. Consider the moments where your mind just click and solves something. You find it hard to map words to what happened. Or when you judge a situation to be dangerous, you just kind of know it, and then you map your gut feeling into words so you can explain to someone.

Perhaps "intelligence" is the process that enables these leaps between islands of words.

Comment · 4 years ago
Biologists just won't allows us to have any fun. It is always this kind of rhetoric: "what, are you modeling the brain without considering the influence of <insert obscure type of cell> on the hormone regulated blood flow around ion pump circuits during chinese new year neuron firing patterns? you are obviously bounded to fail..."

This whole AI field keeps on failing because people like to overthink things. Did Michelangelo need to know molecular chemistry to make sculptures? Why do people pretend there is no artistic component to building AI? Rant finished.

Comment · 4 years ago
Point 1 would be very effective. Just a glimpse at this number and the enrollment will drop like a stone. No more dream selling, no more exploiting the naive.
Comment · 4 years ago
So why not write something like "accidents happen at a higher rate a night"?
Comment · 4 years ago
But it doesn't read "dangerous" anywhere?
Comment · 4 years ago
More like:

“We choose to do these things not because they are easy but because they are profitable”

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