HopeOfTheGunblade

Distribution of money and power is a facet of society.

I mean, not everyone agrees what the problems are. We can’t even approach talking about solutions until we settle on the problems. And that problem seems to be getting worse.

Yeah, unfortunately I couldn’t find revenue numbers. It seems unlikely to be costing that much to host. I’d be really surprised to learn it isn’t cash positive at this point.

Not made -31.5 billion. Lost -31.5 billion. As in they brought in that much, not cost it.

Yeah, sorry, sometimes I can’t help my need to play with language, when given the slightest chance.

YouTube lost google -31.5 billion in 2023, approximately 10% of all of alphabet’s revenue.

If anyone doing an arms race wins at AGI literally everyone gets mulched, so I hope nobody who is, does.

Civil vs Criminal. Trump got a disgorgement, it’s not a fine. He’s been ordered to pay back his ill-gotten gains, that’s not the same thing as a fine. Anyhow, a civil case can’t end in jail time. That’s not how civil cases work.

Generally people usually it as a pejorative will include “radical”, like any MF who wants people to have healthcare is out here doing kick flips and grinds.

What do you mean when you say “true AI”? The question isn’t answerable as asked, because those words could mean a great many things.

It isn’t obvious to me, and I know a lot of queer people and feminists (there’s a lot of overlap, since queer people, as societal outcasts, can see matters from the outside in a way people plugged into social reality can’t).

Not every change is an improvement, but every improvement is a change.

Unpack this, please? What is that agenda? How are trans people and feminists being used to push it? What does skin deep “support” in the form of lip service have to do with it?

Tradition effectively holds no weight with me. Is the idea worthwhile? Then why does it matter what people did in the past about it? Is it bad? Then why would I do it?

I’m not hearing how trans people fit into this. You know the Nazis killed a lot of trans people and the book burnings included the research of the time, right?

It does not help that NATO loves weaponising trans people for neoliberal white power agenda.

Yeah like the other respondent I am absolutely going to request that you unpack this.

Alternative perspective: many “traditional” things are in fact bad. Not everything, but many things, and we should dump those things.

So, norms that aren’t serving us should absolutely be broken. That’s not to say we can’t apply a little Chesterton’s Fence, look around for what purpose it serves, but the old norms aren’t holy for being old. If they aren’t net positive, fuck 'em.

You might get some value from Stephen Baxter’s Manifold series; while they aren’t central to what you’re asking for they definitely deal with humanity coping with a hostile universe. Heinlein wrote a couple of short stories set on a generation ship, although I can’t bring the titles to mind. Accelerando takes place in many manufactured settings, rarely earth like (past the first major part). Brin and Benford’s Heart of the Comet may also point in the direction you want.

I get a sense about people.