BANNED USER: perfomative belligerence and declaring no desire to follow rules
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User ID: 2341
Banned by: @Amadan
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1yr ago
The social status aspect is true, I concede. Pre-2020 my go-to example of one of the few future remaining employment opportunities was live-action Titanic reenactment (the event, not the movie). But in the age of the degrowth I no longer believe that the desire to be better than dominates over the indignation of expending resources on the lessers.
As for the mechanism, why, Fully Automated Space Holocaust, of course! Imagine how much more efficient the Final Solution could have been if engineered and carried out by an AI! Or, to be less glib, but more pathetically nerdy, the way it went in the story from my link: a barest pittance handed out to the useless eaters of the non-capital owning class, discontent, violent response, riots in response to the response, outright massacre.
Yes, literally one man or maybe one man and his family existing is also a scenario I find plausible. And however epsilon is the incentive to make everybody else extinct, it will always be greater than the negative incentive to keep them alive.
P.S.: in my likeliest scenario you personally are quite plausibly among those that are left, so I don't think taking anything you say at face value would do me any good.
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1yr ago
That was not a precise number. The idea is that those who possess capital will be able to instantiate AGI and control productive output and meaningful means of violence, and those who don't possess — won't be able. The mechanism will be locking out the have nots out of the economic system entirely, giving meager hand outs until the pretext (genuinely believed! Human psyche is useful like that) to wipe them out is presented. And cimarafa is a daughter of a billionaire? Multimillionaire? Somebody who will be able to claim a share of the ownership of the post-scarcity abundance in any case.
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1yr ago
A two square meter sleeping pad and nutrient sludge for billions of proles is energy and matter that are uselessly diverted from achieving the goals of people with the private keys to the AGIs.
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1yr ago
I'm not talking about the map of effective tax rates and such, but about the underlying territory. Currently somebody with power over a hundred million people has more production than somebody with one million (ceteris paribus, which is never paribus in real life, but you get my meaning). Soon the former will be worse off as somebody who needs to feed and shelter one hundred times more useless eaters.
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1yr ago
I haven't met anybody in the top ten thousand period. I don't even know how many of them are even publicly known outside of their circle. But it's easily extrapolated from the dominant narratives, general human nature, and the traits which are selected for even in the people with far less power.
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1yr ago
I am! ( @arjin_ferman ) I'm agnostic on how real the idea of being born in a wrong body is, but I think no persecution of trans people is too strict, no measures against them are too cruel, because they are one of the most fanatical factions of my enemies, and because of my personal disgust reaction to them.
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1yr ago
I want to give them half credit, my reaction to seeing a trans-identifying male is not unlike that to seeing a spider. There are also rational parts to opposing them too, while spiders are beneficial, but there certainly is some similarity in the instinctive response.
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1yr ago
The book I'm currently into has a fictional cryptocurrency with a so-called “feedback problem” with its algorithm: it's viable to create sockpuppets and bounce transactions between them to ramp up your reputation. The resident math genius diagnoses that the protocol must be redesigned, because the problem is isomorphic with the Collatz conjecture. I can't imagine a way how it could be, but I have only a surface math knowledge and am only familiar with the conjecture from its Wikipedia article and a 4chan shitpost. Is there a plausible design where the two are similar? Or is it just used a piece of technobabble?
A nice work otherwise, judging from half of a book of a trilogy. Could possibly be a modernized Atlas Shrugged without the monologues.
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1yr ago
My bad, the title went away after rephrasing, it's Titan by Robert Kroese (Mammon trilogy 1).
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1yr ago
Yes, it's the relation I'm interested in, there shouldn't be one in a general case, but can there be a specific one where it applies?
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1yr ago
This is not what doctors do. The other 10% of the time they get it confidently wrong and prescribe you an incorrect course of treatment.
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1yr ago
Could you elaborate what those interesting results are?
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11mo ago
Thank you for such a detailed reply! Do I understand correctly that the main point is that you expect number of same-sex relationships to grow faster than linearly with proportion of bisexuals? And I feel bad to ask for even more elaboration after such a reply, but I was most interested in something you only just touched on: “a massive potential for changes in a lot of norms, both in single-sex and mixed-sex environments,” what have such changes been in the communities you know?
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11mo ago
Love the veiled threat. The right to eat meat is without doubt worth dying for, but against people on soylent diet it's more likely to be “killing for.”
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11mo ago
And yet men are perfectly happy with ordinary non-hyperstimulating women, in a stark contrast with the preferences of your sex to whom only relative desirability matters. As always, the world is ending, women most affected.
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11mo ago
do you really think elites all walk around with a view that they are better than all others, and the peasants can just die if they're useless?
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Maybe it works differently in your country or for globalist elites, but this is exactly what elites in my life explicitly say.
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11mo ago
How curious that yours is the only reply. Anyway, what is so unbelievable about leopards progressively eating every face save one?
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11mo ago
And I might have been too hasty with the “explicit” part. True, since the start of school and forever then every official messaging says that you're worth only as much as what you do for the country, but they still shy away from a straightforward second part, l'état ç'est nous, if I got my pronouns right.
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11mo ago
It is not the only reason. The need to expend the resources on us is another reason why you would want to do that. How is it destruction of wealth when you now have SolarSystem/1e6 instead of (SolarSystem - 1e10*UBI)/1e6?
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11mo ago
The only thing I, and I guess most other posters from outside the US, know about Duluth doesn't make it sound a good city to live in while male.
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11mo ago
The globe is too small for any of us not to live in the US, as evidenced by you and me posting here.
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11mo ago
For any men: Duluth Model. Crap, now that I think about it, I'm not even sure it's called that because it originated in the city. That was low effort and generally un-Motte of me, I apologize.
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11mo ago
I need to reassess the net contribution I bring to hair salons, as I never go to the same one twice in a row.
Why do the elites keep the rest of us around? Net positive contribution to the economy and fear for their lives. AGI negates both of those reason. And, as a pithy right winger phrase goes, “You are the carbon they want to reduce.” If the things continue on the current trajectory, I expect human population to be reduced millionfold by the end of the century. To be maximally cringeworthy, I propose imagining how the backstory of To The Stars would have went if there had been no magical girls in the setting.
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