Naatan

joined 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

No one wants mass subscriptions. "Gamers" is a red herring.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That’s fair, but also moot while there are non electric cars available for less than 30k. Hopefully in time they can get the cost down.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (8 children)

I think the point is that they should be accessible to people without “luxury” budgets.

I refuse to pay 30k plus for a car that I only need to get me from point a to b. Not everyone is a car fanatic.

Pricing is very much the problem if they want wider adoption.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Doesn't this constitute insider trading? Sincerely hope some redditor takes them to court.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago

Every day New Yorkers and Americans lost millions, including their entire lifesavings.

Look, I hope these people get their money back cause this sounds messed up, but maybe also don't invest money that you can't afford to lose. ESPECIALLY when it comes to crypto.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Their terms of service have to be compliant with local laws though. You can't just put whatever you want in there and expect it to stand up in court.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

In this context I’d imagine you meant what the technology could evolve into. But what I’m saying is the technology is fundamentally incapable of being intelligent.

I imagine you think of “the technology” as just artificial intelligence in general. I’m talking about the actual technology in todays “ai”. The inner workings.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yeah I think you're dead on. I'm evidently not alone in thinking that the age of information is driving a lot of consciousness of worldwide issues on a scale we've never seen before. People in the Middle Ages only knew the small world they lived in on the scale of a city or region. If that city or region was prospering, their life was likely pretty damn nice.

These days, we're aware of all issues everywhere. And if you don't create that perspective for yourself, that can be incredibly overwhelming. You have to give in to a certain sense of wilful ignorance because you literally cannot be involved with every one of those problems. Not clicking on all the doom and gloom news articles has done wonders for my mental health. I guess you could say this thread was a moment of weakness.. :p

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

That's life. What value you assign it is up to you to decide. Philosophy is how I find my value, for others it's religion. Ultimately, that's something you have to figure out for yourself.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

By your logic, the first humans should've stopped having kids and died out the first time they faced any sort of existential issue. Life's hard yo, that doesn't mean it's not worth living.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You need to give articles making predictions about the future a heavy amount of doubt. We may be relatively intelligent as a species, but I genuinely think we way over-estimate our abilities. Predicting the future is hard. The biggest problem is that predictions are based on past data, and cannot account for what might happen that hasn't happened before. Which when faced with a brand new problem tends to be a brand new response.

Look at our lives right now. While certainly not ideal (who could make that claim, in all history?) it's pretty damn nice if you look back in time. Yes lotsa awful stuff MIGHT happen, but that's always been true. And compared to the challenges of the past it's not on any scale we haven't been on before (I mean the Cold War literally could have resulted in the planet becoming uninhabitable due to nukes).

I'm not saying I disagree with you, I'm merely trying to give it a glass half full perspective. I agree some scale of societal collapse does seem like it is a real possibility, but it's by no means guaranteed or necessarily even likely. We don't know what we don't know. Embrace not knowing what the future holds and just enjoy life for what it is today.

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