Not_mikey

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[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

if it just wants to die quietly along with the older people who just remain catholic by habit.

That may be true in europe and north america, but catholicism is booming in Sub-Saharan Africa in a lot of countries with younger populations. A lot of those countries also don't have very progressive views on LGBT people and would be fine with backtracking on that front.

This is why I'm for tarriffs dependent on wage, labor and environmental standards. If you're moving production to another country because they have some resource or large field of experts fair enough. If you're moving production over seas to dodge labor and environmental regulations you should pay up. It also encourages those countries to raise wage and labor standards to avoid tarriffs.

Trumps tarriffs are idiotic, tarriffs on countries with higher labor standards like Canada and the EU aren't helping anyone. The countries that do have low labor and environmental standards aren't going to raise them to avoid the tarriffs, it seems trump just wants to get them to buy more American goods to lower the trade deficit for some reason.

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Wouldn't call carney and the liberals lefty, there centrists. The left NDP party under Singh has been losing ground as people have ben rallying around the liberals to make sure the conservatives don't win.

Still would probably piss off trump and his crew. They just probably won't get much progress, but considering the direction of a lot of other western countries not backsliding into fascism is pretty good.

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 155 points 1 week ago (15 children)

Tradwife content is on the rise for women as well, more and more young people are buying into this mythical simpler past as the world gets more complex, alienating and difficult.

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

For anyone asking why it's strange, from the article

Traditionally, the dollar would strengthen as tariffs sink demand for foreign products.

If you're looking at the dollar with supply and demand, if international trade to the u.s. decreases with tarriffs, then the amount of dollars leaving the u.s. also decreases and thus the supply of dollars on the international market. Assuming demand remains constant then the strength of the dollar should go up.

For this decrease in strength you have to look to demand which has to decrease enough to counteract the tarriffs plus more. This decrease in demand is coming from both decrease in demand for assets priced in dollars (u.s. companies stocks, treasury bonds, real estate etc.) And retaliatory tarriffs which lower demand for u.s. goods.

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Robots don't get drunk, or distracted, or text, or speed...

Anecdotally, I think the Waymos are more courteous than human drivers. Though waymo seems to be the best ones out so far, idk about the other services.

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

triangle of the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas

Hamas triangle? Do you mean the red triangle on the Palestinian flag, the one that predates hamas by half a century?

What hamas slogans were painted? The picture only shows "free gaza", "killers" and "complicity", nothing supporting hamas, unless anything calling for the end of the genocide is supporting hamas.

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 weeks ago

The financial times and the Irish times have since picked it up.

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

The financial times and the Irish times have since picked it up.

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Yeah, checks notes.. Cooper Longbottom, Kasia Wlaszczyk, Shane O’Brien, and Roberta Murray are surely trying to turn Germany into a caliphate...

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I guess that's one advantage of stack overflow, sometimes you need a guy to tell you the entire basis of your question is dumb and wrong.

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 72 points 1 month ago (11 children)

The actual survey result:

Asked whether "scaling up" current AI approaches could lead to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), or a general purpose AI that matches or surpasses human cognition, an overwhelming 76 percent of respondents said it was "unlikely" or "very unlikely" to succeed. 

So they're not saying the entire industry is a dead end, or even that the newest phase is. They're just saying they don't think this current technology will make AGI when scaled. I think most people agree, including the investors pouring billions into this. They arent betting this will turn to agi, they're betting that they have some application for the current ai. Are some of those applications dead ends, most definitely, are some of them revolutionary, maybe

Thus would be like asking a researcher in the 90s that if they scaled up the bandwidth and computing power of the average internet user would we see a vastly connected media sharing network, they'd probably say no. It took more than a decade of software, cultural and societal development to discover the applications for the internet.

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