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Do you make enough from those investments to live off of them? If not, you’re not bourgeoisie.

No, I don’t think so. Just the subset of those which have no value for society and only exist to respond to and perpetuate useless burecracy. Unnecessary middle managers, hr, etc…

Just using email while also doing something important doesn’t make a job a fake job. Fake jobs are the kind of jobs that society would be fine without. Marketing, sales development, hr. Jobs which exist solely to peddle around useless emails like competitive reviews, social listening reports, messaging matrixes, research debriefs, etc., or responding to such bs in an ever escalating cycle of useless burecracy.

Sure but I still don’t get why they did that. Germans aren’t going around insisting that their country be called Deutchland in english as well. Or Spain => España. Or Sweden => Sverige. Or Finland => Suomi. There’s so many examples I could plug here. Languages have different names for countries, no need to throw a fit about it.

Fazer is a finnish candy company. They also make some baked goods and stuff, but no beans as far as I know :D

Space lasers yes, but I imagine that after the higher ups finally get the memo on that, most of the funding will go into optical imaging and SAR satellites for surveillance.

Your description makes it sound like they’re edible as well.

This comment here had a much more grounded explanation

AI has huge potential for surveilance. Palantir exists.

To continue on the nuclear analogy: Yes it resulted in bombs that can kill us all multiple times over, but nuclear energy isn’t completely neutral either. It encourages centralization of infrastructure and the dangers associated with it result in regulation by governments. Both of these shaped societies.

To quote a piece of text I read just recently that I feel put this quite neatly:

We are told that “guns don’t kill people, people do”, or that a component is just a component, indifferent to what its combinatorial potential is. This is a convenient lie. It serves only to allow the builders to wash their hands of responsibility.

But we know better now. We know that architecture is politics, and politics is control. The way you build a system determines how it will be used. If you build a system optimized for mass surveillance, you will get a panopticon. If you build a system optimized for centralized control, you will get a dictatorship. If you build a system optimized for extraction, you will get a parasite.

• The zen of reticulum

The current LLM boom is primed to deskill current and especially future workers and the biggest business case is to invade the workplace with even more technological feudalism through subscription services than is already in place.

My guess would be that plants optimize also for absorbing a significant amount of the light they receive from the blue sky, so they still get some when direct sunlight isn’t available.

The cameras will track you anyways. You’ll just get tagged as “2003 Honda civic, gray, license plates unreadable…” along with a descriptive list of any stickers on the back of the car.

I think it’s about bootlickers who mistakenly associate themselves with the ultra rich who start crying when anyone suggests increasing taxes on the actually rich people.

I think it (I define conciousness here as the awareness and deliberate examination of one’s own mental processes) is a natural next step after the theory of mind, and a great evolutionary advantage for a social animal like ourselves as it allows us to selfregulate our responses.

A good video that touches on the matter.

I like how the clancker threw in some umbillical cables for the suits too, like it’s the 70’s.

I need to get me one of those bicycle accessories.

why would anyone use a vpn to locate themselves in br*tain?

The HR person will get fired if the facial recognition sees her not smiling like that.

I think I’ll test this theory. I also agree that fascists should perchance go fuck themselves.

The superhuman AI did social hacking on the devs and convinced them that it was a good substitute for them doing their jobs

I suspect he might be a bit too clueless for that