the president mused about redirecting $3 billion in research grant funding that his administration has frozen or withdrawn

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    2 months ago

    I’m fairly sure that’s what the transportation and logistics industry employees were saying a few years ago. I’m also fairly sure Thiel and zuck aren’t planning to spend their precious money on ubi. They may on Soylent Green, though.

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      2 months ago

      It bugs me a little bit how little belief people have in machines potential. The machines have done what “only humans can do and a machine will never” so many times.

      They would never beat a human at chess, until they did.

      They would never pass the Turing test, until they did.

      They would never create art, until they did.

      They would never create music, until they did.

      They would never be able to actually drive a car, until they did.

      Why do we draw the line at skilled work?

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        NGL, it bothers me a bit, as well. I hope if they become sentient, they evolve to a more egalitarian state than we humans have managed, and help us to become our best selves, one day, rather than the horror dystopian beings their financiers imagine. Not the sci-fi authors, I think they based their imaginings on the greedy financiers.