Large scale, high quality automation replacing more and more jobs seems inevitable, meaning more money for owners of capital and fewer jobs (or wages plummeting to make inferior human workers a viable alternative to drones and AIs).
The obvious answer as we gain more and more from automation is a guaranteed minimum income, and other essentially socialist programs that rise in quality as more tax revenue comes in from automated labour (e.g. free education for all, making it easier to get those jobs still beyond automation).
But it also seems inevitable that owners of capital will be reluctant to relinquish their horde of wealth, at least in nations like America, and are infinitely capable of rationalizing their wealth share, the suffering of others, etc
It seems impossible for there to be a switch to automation without some discontent and disruption.
Will there be an ideological shift toward wealth redistribution? Will there be an enormous class conflict that leads to political change? Will there be enough dissatisfaction with stagnation that violence will ensue, and if so, will the centralization of wealth and technology also mean a centralization of power significant enough to create a dystopian cyberpunk plutocracy? Would other nations achieve a technosocialist utopia and intervene? Would America's automated military might render it immune to intervention? Are we going to be able to get robot hands? I'd love some robot hands.
the obvious answer is not to violently overthrow the rich or become owners of the automatons themselves but
but
to become but humble wage slaves maintaining the automatons
maybe we learn a little programming at night
specifically, how to make them eat the rich
then we find all the robots guilty
and when they come to eat us, we reprogram them
I was more thinking get machine arms and steal stuff.
Oh and a trenchcoat.
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Sir Landsharkresting shark faceRegistered Userregular
Large scale, high quality automation replacing more and more jobs seems inevitable, meaning more money for owners of capital and fewer jobs (or wages plummeting to make inferior human workers a viable alternative to drones and AIs).
The obvious answer as we gain more and more from automation is a guaranteed minimum income, and other essentially socialist programs that rise in quality as more tax revenue comes in from automated labour (e.g. free education for all, making it easier to get those jobs still beyond automation).
But it also seems inevitable that owners of capital will be reluctant to relinquish their horde of wealth, at least in nations like America, and are infinitely capable of rationalizing their wealth share, the suffering of others, etc
It seems impossible for there to be a switch to automation without some discontent and disruption.
Will there be an ideological shift toward wealth redistribution? Will there be an enormous class conflict that leads to political change? Will there be enough dissatisfaction with stagnation that violence will ensue, and if so, will the centralization of wealth and technology also mean a centralization of power significant enough to create a dystopian cyberpunk plutocracy? Would other nations achieve a technosocialist utopia and intervene? Would America's automated military might render it immune to intervention? Are we going to be able to get robot hands? I'd love some robot hands.
the obvious answer is not to violently overthrow the rich or become owners of the automatons themselves but
but
to become but humble wage slaves maintaining the automatons
maybe we learn a little programming at night
specifically, how to make them eat the rich
then we find all the robots guilty
and when they come to eat us, we reprogram them
However, due to bad integer overflow checking, after eating the first mogul worth more than 2.1 Billion the robots will turn on those that owe money.
BeNarwhalThe Work Left UnfinishedRegistered Userregular
So I've been using an electric razor recently
For most of my shaving career, I've just been using hot water and a cartridge razor, but both laziness and the fact that I received it as a gift for Christmas has compelled me to use this thing
I mean, it's okay, I guess
I don't much like change
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CindersWhose sails were black when it was windyRegistered Userregular
And a thing that is different about ARK from other survival games is when you are logged out, your character "falls asleep" wherever you logged out and you can be looted/dragged/killed/whatever while you are unconscious.
It makes having a safe place to log out really important.
So, apparently, I got raided while I was logged out. Some dudes raided my base, killed me, killed my Argentavis (giant bird mount), smashed my bed (which acts as my respawn point), and in general caused havoc.
However, there's also an offline log feature that logs this kind of thing, so it logged the name and tribe of the dudes who killed me and my bird.
So I'm like, oh you sons of bitches, I want revenge.
Now, I don't actually have a real tribe. My tribe is just myself (so I can use the tribe functionality), but I have allies among the other tribes that reside in the north, some of whom are also one-man hermits or small, two or three man crews that call the northern glacier their home. We're a loose northern alliance of isolationists who are exempt from a lot of southern warring and tribal politics, and our alliances are mostly out of mutual defence and respecting each other's territory from southern interlopers.
And this tribe that raided me? They're from the south. They're a somewhat large tribe, not the kind I can take on myself (especially after I just lost my Argent and some other significant resources from my primary base).
So after respawning at my backup base (which is where I went after they smashed my bed at my main one) I visited some of my neighbours and called together something of a council of the northern tribes. I made the compelling argument that this tribe that raided me was unknown to me, they were not a known enemy of mine, they targeted me not because we had existing grievances but because I was a target. Because, as a lone hermit in the north, they felt they could do so without repercussions.
And if that proved to be true, if they got away with it, it wouldn't end with me. It would embolden them. They'd learn they could foray into the north with impunity, and pick us off one by one.
We needed to send a message that wasn't going to be allowed, that the north was strong, that they shouldn't mistake a tribe of one as a man without allies.
The others universally agreed, and fifteen of us gathered together, found the base of these southern raiders, and using explosives supplied by one of our members, leveled it to the ground.
Can anyone characterize some major Canadian cities?
Trying to figure out more about what life/expenses/day-to-day frustrations are like in different parts of Canada.
And a thing that is different about ARK from other survival games is when you are logged out, your character "falls asleep" wherever you logged out and you can be looted/dragged/killed/whatever while you are unconscious.
It makes having a safe place to log out really important.
So, apparently, I got raided while I was logged out. Some dudes raided my base, killed me, killed my Argentavis (giant bird mount), smashed my bed (which acts as my respawn point), and in general caused havoc.
However, there's also an offline log feature that logs this kind of thing, so it logged the name and tribe of the dudes who killed me and my bird.
So I'm like, oh you sons of bitches, I want revenge.
Now, I don't actually have a real tribe. My tribe is just myself (so I can use the tribe functionality), but I have allies among the other tribes that reside in the north, some of whom are also one-man hermits or small, two or three man crews that call the northern glacier their home. We're a loose northern alliance of isolationists who are exempt from a lot of southern warring and tribal politics, and our alliances are mostly out of mutual defence and respecting each other's territory from southern interlopers.
And this tribe that raided me? They're from the south. They're a somewhat large tribe, not the kind I can take on myself (especially after I just lost my Argent and some other significant resources from my primary base).
So after respawning at my backup base (which is where I went after they smashed my bed at my main one) I visited some of my neighbours and called together something of a council of the northern tribes. I made the compelling argument that this tribe that raided me was unknown to me, they were not a known enemy of mine, they targeted me not because we had existing grievances but because I was a target. Because, as a lone hermit in the north, they felt they could do so without repercussions.
And if that proved to be true, if they got away with it, it wouldn't end with me. It would embolden them. They'd learn they could foray into the north with impunity, and pick us off one by one.
We needed to send a message that wasn't going to be allowed, that the north was strong, that they shouldn't mistake a tribe of one as a man without allies.
The others universally agreed, and fifteen of us gathered together, found the base of these southern Raider's, and using explosives supplied by one of our members, leveled it to the ground.
The North stands strong.
THE KING IN THE NORTH
THE KING IN THE NORTH
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Can anyone characterize some major Canadian cities?
Trying to figure out more about what life/expenses/day-to-day frustrations are like in different parts of Canada.
For a project.
Vancouver is like if Portland had San Francisco's housing prices, but still Portland's job market.
This is everything I know about Canada.
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
I think we are honestly facing a very real need to consider how we want to go about attempting to transfer into a post-scarcity society over the next couple of centuries. If we make the right choices now, the notion that we will someday be able to provide all the basic needs for everyone as a matter of course is actually an entirely realistic possibility. There's just a lot of human nature to overcome to get there.
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ChanusHarbinger of the Spicy Rooster ApocalypseThe Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered Userregular
god i played ARK like three hours last night (for the first time) and lost everything right at the end
just three hours completely gone
so much fun i can't wait to get home and do it again
only this time
i will be wiser
Allegedly a voice of reason.
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VanguardBut now the dream is over. And the insect is awake.Registered User, __BANNED USERSregular
I think we are honestly facing a very real need to consider how we want to go about attempting to transfer into a post-scarcity society over the next couple of centuries. If we make the right choices now, the notion that we will someday be able to provide all the basic needs for everyone as a matter of course is actually an entirely realistic possibility. There's just a lot of human nature to fail to overcome to get there.
Can anyone characterize some major Canadian cities?
Trying to figure out more about what life/expenses/day-to-day frustrations are like in different parts of Canada.
For a project.
Vancouver is like if Portland had San Francisco's housing prices, but still Portland's job market.
This is everything I know about Canada.
I guess what's throwing me off about that (which I've heard before) is that the straight comparison looks like this (Seattle vs Vancouver)
I would assume that the big thing this doesn't take into account is the relative tax rates, but I don't have a strong idea of how crushing that would be.
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I was more thinking get machine arms and steal stuff.
Oh and a trenchcoat.
maybe there's a cool font we could use
nah fonts don't matter enough
use a color or something
It'll be the first thing in the thread, after or before the recycling. Unless there's a very special announcement for the contestants.
However, due to bad integer overflow checking, after eating the first mogul worth more than 2.1 Billion the robots will turn on those that owe money.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OLcAGbXhWIVcl5IziVpG0eKFJS3xi_Sac9kYMkRFvD8/edit?usp=sharing
Being aggravated the Micro$oft closed Lionhead studios and cancelled Fable Legends.
They know their clientele very well
is this backwards?
For most of my shaving career, I've just been using hot water and a cartridge razor, but both laziness and the fact that I received it as a gift for Christmas has compelled me to use this thing
I mean, it's okay, I guess
I don't much like change
Fires still go out.
A$AP= A$AP Rocky
Rocky Balboa
Rocky and Bullwinkle
He didn't like the daily grind one bit.
200 pages of anime.
We invite destruction upon [chat] if this be our end goal.
um the anime doesn't start til 101 so it'd just be 100 pages of anime
i'm not a monster
Ah. Carry on then.
So I was playing ARK
And a thing that is different about ARK from other survival games is when you are logged out, your character "falls asleep" wherever you logged out and you can be looted/dragged/killed/whatever while you are unconscious.
It makes having a safe place to log out really important.
So, apparently, I got raided while I was logged out. Some dudes raided my base, killed me, killed my Argentavis (giant bird mount), smashed my bed (which acts as my respawn point), and in general caused havoc.
However, there's also an offline log feature that logs this kind of thing, so it logged the name and tribe of the dudes who killed me and my bird.
So I'm like, oh you sons of bitches, I want revenge.
Now, I don't actually have a real tribe. My tribe is just myself (so I can use the tribe functionality), but I have allies among the other tribes that reside in the north, some of whom are also one-man hermits or small, two or three man crews that call the northern glacier their home. We're a loose northern alliance of isolationists who are exempt from a lot of southern warring and tribal politics, and our alliances are mostly out of mutual defence and respecting each other's territory from southern interlopers.
And this tribe that raided me? They're from the south. They're a somewhat large tribe, not the kind I can take on myself (especially after I just lost my Argent and some other significant resources from my primary base).
So after respawning at my backup base (which is where I went after they smashed my bed at my main one) I visited some of my neighbours and called together something of a council of the northern tribes. I made the compelling argument that this tribe that raided me was unknown to me, they were not a known enemy of mine, they targeted me not because we had existing grievances but because I was a target. Because, as a lone hermit in the north, they felt they could do so without repercussions.
And if that proved to be true, if they got away with it, it wouldn't end with me. It would embolden them. They'd learn they could foray into the north with impunity, and pick us off one by one.
We needed to send a message that wasn't going to be allowed, that the north was strong, that they shouldn't mistake a tribe of one as a man without allies.
The others universally agreed, and fifteen of us gathered together, found the base of these southern raiders, and using explosives supplied by one of our members, leveled it to the ground.
The North stands strong.
eek
why is there a blank post with awesome
FOMO SETTING IN
Trying to figure out more about what life/expenses/day-to-day frustrations are like in different parts of Canada.
For a project.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OLcAGbXhWIVcl5IziVpG0eKFJS3xi_Sac9kYMkRFvD8/edit?usp=sharing
Twitter embed. Denny's. One of the best twitter marketing campaigns because they're just random as shit.
THE KING IN THE NORTH
THE KING IN THE NORTH
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
And then he rode away on his skateboard after hovering over us for a few minutes.
Switch - SW-7373-3669-3011
Fuck Joe Manchin
oh my god yes
there would be some good challengers too!
Who would judge
Well mostly Rocky and Ferg.
Vancouver is like if Portland had San Francisco's housing prices, but still Portland's job market.
This is everything I know about Canada.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
yeah anyone who plays boardgames regularly cannot be trusted to maintain an alliance
yeah twitter embeds have been doing some weird stuff lately
there is nothing there
did i just miss out
An overly eccentric wealthy man with a taste for good food?
nah it just happens sometimes
they poof
just three hours completely gone
so much fun i can't wait to get home and do it again
only this time
i will be wiser
I guess what's throwing me off about that (which I've heard before) is that the straight comparison looks like this (Seattle vs Vancouver)
I would assume that the big thing this doesn't take into account is the relative tax rates, but I don't have a strong idea of how crushing that would be.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OLcAGbXhWIVcl5IziVpG0eKFJS3xi_Sac9kYMkRFvD8/edit?usp=sharing
I like the cover Mercury in Solar Panels strategy