He’s kinda like Hindenburg in that regard. Though Hitler was a lot more efficient than Trump is now.

It was an euphemism for the guys who went around shooting jews.

I’m in favor of a land value tax. See Georgism.

The problem is that even confirmed abuse does not get prosecuted. Adding more evidence won’t help.

Snowman has about the same visibility as a child. So if you can’t avoid hitting a snowman, you’d also hit a child on the road.

If you can’t stop for a snowman, you can’t stop for a child.

You could say doubleplusungood.

You have to consider that for most servers, the marginal expenses per customer are close to negligible, that’s why you can make a profit even though only 3% of users pay you. But AI is so wasteful, that even the paying users are subsidized. Basically, the demand is not sufficient to support profitable monetization.

I’ve read about guilds literally banning innovation in a 12 part series on German history.

With horse armor, its, you buy it once, and you have it for ever playthrough of Oblivion thereafter. A lot of these microtransactions are for advantages that are only good for one playthrough of the game. Though most of these games are designed to be played forever.

Nobody did that by hand even before Gen Ai was invented. Even before photography or computers, there were techniques to get textures without manually drawing them. The splotches, for example, could be accomplished by shaking the brush at the canvas.

Aging sucks though.

Car transit is literally the least cost efficient method of travel, and only affordable because it’s heavily subsidized.

1. Low level thugs tend to not earn that much money. Also applies to organized crime. There’s always superiors taking a cut.
2. Going with follows you for the rest of your life, it could easily be that a later regime decides to hold you accountable for having been part of ICE. (Funny thing though, in Germany, the Nazis who got sentenced earlier tended to get more lenient sentences, assuming they weren’t at the top. For example, Hans Bodo Gorgaß, vergasungsartzt in Hadamar, who was after the war convicted of 1000 counts of murder, got out after 11 years and got to live a mostly normal life afterwards. Today teens who worked as Death Camp guards get life sentences. Though, those “teens” are by now in their nineties, so life sentence is not that long)

It comes at the cost of being an ICE member, and that will follow you for the rest of your life.

I wonder if vampire brains freeze mentally once they’re turned

“Vampire: The Masquerade” has that as a downside of being a vampire. Vampires are less creative than humans, to the point that being turned into a vampire is said to hurt their talent worse than aging ever could. They also can’t properly adapt to new technology. Basically, vampirism comes with creative sterility.

AI doomerism typically refers to the belief that AI will rise up against us and kill us all. Given that current “AI” is just a guessing machine, that won’t happen, barring substantial breakthroughs. The end-of-the-world narratives are basically marketing for AI, as in, “hey, if this thing got any smarter, it would destroy the world”.

So, do they just keep buying 40% of the production in perpetuity? What if production of those chips gets scaled up, do they just buy more?

The problem isn’t the data center, but rather that the data center is being wasted on running AI. AI is a uniquely wasteful application, like crypto mining. If the data center does something actually useful, then it might provide utility greater than its expenses and externalities.

People claim to be effective altruists when they can’t claim that they’re altruists.