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Gerrymandle doesn't have horses

Well maybe it could happen with actual reserve currencies, but it certainly doesn't happen with platinum level, diamond tier luxury fiat currencies.

Oh you didn't know? I bet you trade in "dollars". That's cute.

I think you make a good point. If BCI is limited or impossible then then the future may be very intricate - perhaps Dune-like in the sense that natural human capability becomes the measuring stick for achievement. Humanity will become a beautiful anachronism like mechanical watches or bonsai trees or something. We will become dedicated to the art and science of our own self-cultivation.

On the other hand, If BCI is possible and useful, life will be miserable and we will borg ourselves just to keep up with the cost of living. We will be brains in jars on server racks solving captchas or something. We'll be the solution to AI hardware prices- the paperclip machine will be capitalism and nature itself.

They could open-source all of the car software/firmware and eliminate this regulation issue entirelty

What are the qualifications to be a professional philosopher? is there a bar exam?

Never say never

The way I see it, we have two good options here. We can let go or be dragged.

>take a dancing lesson

This is gonna be boring as hell, especially if you can download justdance.exe to your brain.

>get laid

It's not possible or desirable for many thanks to the current state of sexual involution. I suspect that the hyperintelligent sex robots might also may make this inviable as a source of human-human connection.

>Grow some vegetables, build a castle, anything

You need land ownership, which, as one of the few limited things in a post-scarcity society might just explode in value. But I admit it would be pretty cool if the post-scarcity world is basicially just like minecraft creative mode do whatever you want type of environment. Still, with some limitations still in place, I imagine it will look more like 2b2t.

There is no life outside of the internet. The nexus of canonical, shared reality now exists online.

You can try to make friends outside of the internet, but all of those friends will use the internet, or their friends-of-friends will use the internet. Eventually you realize that the social group is centered on the internet, and by trying to avoid the internet you separate yourself from reality more than you connect with others IRL more by avoiding it.

Not to mention people have their social needs met by the internet that would otherwise force them to go out and form IRL friendships. So people who would otherwise be friends with you aren't available in the real world. So it's this social involution.

Before the internet was this sort of escape from reality for nerds, but now it IS reality. It is super-real. You are a dork if you don't use it.

The person reading this comment is living in such a simulated reality, but forgot. Can you wake up?

Now if I find a $100 in a dumpster, that's a different story...

It's increased! It was $500 an hour ago and it's 2k now. I didn't bother because I figured I'm not fast enough

2xCMP 170 HX, epyc 9654 ES. I won't pretend its cheap, the value of this setup has probably doubled or tripled since i've bought the components.

On the cheap end you can do something like qwen 3.8 27B with 24GB on a laptop, and a very minimal linux configuration. That's more similar to my previous setup.

You can also do a lot more with mixed setups like cpu-moe. I could probably run GLM 5.2 on this hardware with the right setup, albeit without LoRA. I know people have been doing this to run qwen 3.8-flash-next with 32GB cards.

What do you think human relationships and intimacy entail and why can't some sort of high-tech robot legitimately emulate that?

>it sounds like you view women as a warm fleshlight

I think most people accept the fact that women and men are sexual objects. If you view me as a mysoginist for believing that, then I think I understand why you might think our society is still patriarchal or something.

In fact, I can't say that most straight men expect something cerebral or spiritual out of their partners. But even if it was the case, you could expect that a hyper-inteligent machine would exceed human capabilities in this regard.

The only types of people who aren't going to be humping robots are members of isolated societies who have a grudge against technology. Hence the amish.

There are an increasing number of loser men and women who have these AI partners. I think we may see a tipping point where "genetic dead ends" comprise the majority of the population.

With this level of sexual competition, who can blame them? If you're not at the apex you can put in the effort to reproduce but then your offspring are just faced by the same problem, one generation removed.

The majority of men born in this generation won't reproduce. For the average man, there is no sense in doing anything but devoting your life to some high-risk/high-reward strategy. I don't even know what that entails these days, but apparently it involves a lot of sports betting.

I'm normally endowed, as are like 90% of men (so I think these types of baseless insults fall flat). But if I wasn't, would you rather I pass on 3.5 inches of american steel to the next generation? Your insult stands regardless and reveals your underlying preference. If I was endowed well enough, I'm sure you would see my point.

It makes no difference personally, as a gay man who is uninterested in exploring robosexuality. I prefer to work my clankers.