Talcosis

Yeah, they’re the heart version of “have you tried turning it off and back on again?”

I don’t much like hypotheses that require certain size groups of people.

But I guess that’s just the instability of the dictator applied to the entire world.

That knowledge is nowhere near as restricted as you think. People regularly build small thermonuclear reactors in their basements for shits and giggles. It’s not exactly cutting edge technology.

Similarly, anyone with slightly more than a passing interest in model rockets knows someone who’s been visited by the ATF, as your average solid fuel model rocket engine is basically a pipe bomb with one of the endcaps taken off.

I came across this conspiracy theory the other day.

You know how back in the day, company towns had to use company scrip to make sure workers couldn’t leave?

Well, not you can be tracked by AI, and as soon as you leave your “boundaries” granted to you by your level of privilege, suddenly your bank card stops working, because that looks like a “fraudulent transaction”.

The systems are already in place, too. If I go on an impromptu road trip and spend money six states over, my bank calls me and tells me my card is being used in a weird place, and they ask if that transaction is legit. Usually I can be like “yep, let it through” and everything is fine.

What if the AI decides that in fact everything is not fine, and I don’t need to be able to spend money outside of my town?

This feels a lot like the collapse of the USSR. Like, yeah, shit wasn’t necessarily great before, but what comes after is worse.

Conduction sigh

Convection works with all matter, just that we normally associate it with air. There is the question of conductivity.

No, it will stay overpriced because it becomes a part of the NASDAQ 100 on 7/6 and 401ks are then legally required to buy it.

Have you ever looked at the color theory of economics? It was originally about cars. When the economy is nice, people buy fun color cars, because they like fun colors. Then the economy is shit, people buy black/white/gray/red because those colors maintain resale value.

The thing about Chernobyl was that it was, ultimately, an unwanted mistake.

The thing about AI is that the shitty mass casualty outcome seems like the intended outcome.

Could you imagine being in orbit during an AI datacenter kessler collapse, and just getting smoked by an rtx 5070 travelling at mach fuck?

The Master and Margarita

Probably won’t get as much out of it as someone who lived in the Soviet union, but it’s an interesting dissection of the absurdity of authority.

Internet is just a really fast messenger pidgeon.

I see an immediate collapse followed by a quick recovery, personally. If the Internet goes down, a lot of other shit goes down too…until we get the old telegraph lines running again.

Like I said. I agree with your explanation.

My point is simple: when you say “it’s only cheap because…” Every CFO in the world stopped listening after the word “cheap”

Yeah. Exactly. Like I said: they build it in neighborhoods because it is cheap.

Cold as fuck and sparsely populated is another way of saying expensive as shit to do anything.

They build in neighborhoods because it is cheap.

No, there was. And there is. That’s the worst part.

We produce more food than we need. We produce more goods than we need. Starvation and poverty are both choices made by those in power to ensure their own power.

Sometimes. Especially if you run into tankies.

Institutionalization.

It’s like that one movie…pretty sure its Shawshank Redemption? There’s that one guy that gets out of jail and then commits suicide in a few months or so, because he can’t handle the real world after spending most of their life in jail.

I think work operates in a similar way…but the cruelty of the trap is that the things that make life worth living, i.e. hobbies, friends, a life outside of work, etc. kind of interferes with your ability to get that high level income you need for early retirement.

I think a lot of people that work even though they have the means to live comfortably for the rest of their lives are there because…work is their entire life. They have nothing outside of it. No purpose.

We talk about retirement as a question of resources: do we have the financial resources to live x years? What we don’t talk about is every other resource. Social, emotional, physical (in the does your body work sense) etc. Sure, you’ve got the house and the money…but your friends are all at work, and making new ones is pretty hard…even if you manage to make bank and retire in your mid 30s.