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Comment · 1 year ago
Flawless AI generated videos will result in video footage not being trusted.

This will simply take us back about 150 years to the time before the camera was common.

The transition period may be painful though.

Comment · 1 year ago
Is deepseek’s architecture not scalable anymore? I can see in a couple months some company with access to GPUs create a much larger and better performing model based on the deepseek architecture.
Comment · 2 years ago
I have a similar story, but not as serious as OP. A couple years ago, out of the blue, I started having almost constant unbearable back pain. Doctors I saw didn't know what it was. Eventually, one of the neurosurgeons, after I showed him an old MRI scan told me it was a cyst in the spine that was 80% of the time asymptomatic and unlikely to have caused the issue. That cyst required surgery and only 3 doctors in the world have done it before. During this time I started to go to the gym and train, and after some time, the pain went away on its own. Not sure if it was because of the better food I was eating or stronger back muscles that got rid of it. Since it's a neurological issue, some postures and chairs still cause pain, but it usually goes away quickly now.
Comment · 4 years ago
So almost all of energy used by humans today comes (or came) from the sun, directly (solar panels) or indirectly (fossil fuels, plants, meat).

You can divide the amount of calories a human needs per day and the amount of energy is provided to earth by the sun per day and that can be the theoretical limit on how many people can live on earth if we are 100% efficient with the energy.

Comment · 4 years ago
I am neither angry or riled, and I hope people who read my comment don’t get angry or riled.

It’s just fun to think of the dystopian possibilities of new tech, even if the likelihood of it happening in some cases is very low.

Comment · 4 years ago
That’s because there is no incentive to ‘artificially’ speed up wood decomposition right now.

With the right incentive and no thought on unintended consequences, it might happen.

You are probably right though.

Comment · 4 years ago
Imagine this:

Monsanto patents a genetically modified bug that eats plastic, sells it to governments and recycling plants.

Then, once it gets into nature and it starts eating things that isn’t trash, monsanto patents a series of plastics that is resistant to this bug.

Increasing the price of plastic bags by 10x.

Repeat this whole cycle over and over again. It becomes an arms race of patented bug, then patented plastic.

Comment · 5 years ago
Print and spend dollars at value ‘A’, right after the money gets in circulation, value decreases to ‘B’, the spread between ‘A’ and ‘B’ acts like a tax on all cash. This results in an increase in tax amounts (not actual value) because of price increases, making revenue numbers go higher, making it easier to pay off old debts

It benefits those who holds the most debt, and is horrible on anyone who is on fixed income. Presumably capital gains will still be taxed, which means that inflation + tax can wipe out any income from gains.

Comment · 5 years ago
Also, no president or congress wants to be at the helm of a ‘self inflicted’ recession. Every politian just kicks the can down the road.
Comment · 5 years ago
Debt levels being high means that a significant portion of the revenue is there to service the interest payments and the remaining is not enough to cover all other expenses. Therefore you either raise more debt, or default.
Comment · 5 years ago
Government revenue needs to come from somewhere, and inflation is a type of tax.

By the time hyperinflation is possible, the federal government will have two choices, keep interest rates low and keep borrowing, or to default.

Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
I started taking and deleting my data off FB 5 years ago, after I knew better. I'm only on FB because of messenger, and checks FB less than once a month.

I think that's a better approach than suing them and getting the $10 from a class action.

Comment · 5 years ago
Yeah it could be, will have to wait for more details first.

I would not be surprised if FB kept that phone number with a "deleted" flag to this day though.

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