You jest, but there was the "5G causes COVID-19" people.
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car chatbot
I mean, xAI isn't specific to cars.
The man had the most tax-optimized filing for a hot dog stand in the history of the United States.
Axie Infinity
I'm not familiar with Axie Infinity, so I can't tell you off-the-cuff.
It's showing cell phones as marionettes. Marionettes are sometimes used as a metaphor to indicate that someone else is, behind the scenes, controlling something. Here, the company is controlling social media accounts.
A16Z should be shut down
No point. I'm sure that they're not the only ones, and there will be more.
One possibility is that we just have to have expensive identities
the "Reddit model" where anyone who wants to can just create a new, anonymous identity doesn't work. We can maybe be pseudonymous, but we might not be able to create lots of identities the way we do today.
Or maybe we'll have to have a more-elaborate reputation system.
pyramids schemes
Pyramid schemes are not legal in the US.
There are some systems that have some aspects in common with pyramid schemes that are legal (Social Security sometimes gets called a "pyramid scheme" by people that don't like it, for example, and MLM schemes are legal, though they can, in practice, partially work something like pyramid schemes).
Lemmygrad.ml should be interesting.
That's possible.
That being said, John Maynard Keynes also made a similar prediction:
The economist John Maynard Keynes once wrote an essay titled "Economic Possibilities For Our Grandchildren." It was 1930. And in the essay, he made a startling prediction. Keynes figured that by the time his children had grown up, basically now, people might be working just 15 hours a week.
The specific quote:
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes
For many ages to come the old Adam will be so strong in us that everybody will need to do some work if he is to be contented. We shall do more things for ourselves than is usual with the rich to-day, only too glad to have small duties and tasks and routines. But beyond this, we shall endeavour to spread the bread thin on the butter-to make what work there is still to be done to be as widely shared as possible. Three-hour shifts or a fifteen-hour week may put off the problem for a great while. For three hours a day is quite enough to satisfy the old Adam in most of us!
"Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren" (1930); appeared in the Nation and Athenaeum (1930)
Basically, had we decided to leave our standard of living where it was in 1930, we could have worked two days a week. But...that's not generally what people wanted to do. We wanted to take advantage of new stuff that people produced to appeal to us, jack up our standard of living.
In the past, we've always managed to come up with new, appealing things that wind up making use of that new productive capacity. Climate control or anime video games or more space per person in housing.
Is it possible that in the future, we will be unable to make use of scarce human labor to provide something that humans want? Maybe! And that's something to think about. But simply the fact that human labor is finite, that things that involve human labor can be used like a status symbol, might itself fill the problem. We shall see.
One thing that I do agree with is that transition from the world of today to a world with AGI is going to be a very disruptive transition.
They should build a synthetic incubus/succubus
Thanks for the thought, Satan, but I think that consensus is that natural incubi and succubi are the way to go.
Why do you think they would do that at their age?
I have no idea if this is it, but there is a use for ingesting magnets with cows, which might have inspired him. New Zealand does export a lot of beef.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_disease
Hardware disease in livestock is traumatic puncture of the gastrointestinal tract with resultant spread of infection, caused by ingestion of a sharp, hard object, usually a piece of hardware (hence the name). These pieces of metal settle in the reticulum and can irritate or penetrate the lining.[1] It is most common in dairy cattle, but is occasionally seen in beef cattle. It is very rarely reported in any other ruminants.[2] It can be difficult to conclusively diagnose, but can be prevented by the oral administration of a magnet around the time that the animal reaches the age of one year.[2] Depending on where the infection spreads, the medical names for it include bovine traumatic reticuloperitonitis and bovine traumatic reticulopericarditis.
A cow magnet, which can be used to prevent hardware disease
That being said, those things are shaped to pass through the system, I don't think are super-powerful rare earth magnets, and you use a single one.
There are probably some communities that would be interested in this.
I think that it has very limited relevance to !Europe@feddit.org.
Perplexity isn't even a European company.