Yeah, I don’t generally take anything as fact without checking it out, but that gives me some stuff to look into. Also, it doesn’t contradict anything I know to be true, so that’s immediately a good sign as I can easily sniff out bullshit typically. I appreciate your discussion, hopefully your education goes well for you and you have a nice day.

I didn’t realize it wasn’t until your comment

I mean yeah, that’s fair. That’s why I take the initiative and illegally fuck over any big company I can. Obviously can’t give any examples, but I believe the top rated sub outside of porn on Reddit back in the day was a good starting place. You like boats?

Well it was a real assassination attempt. They really killed that firefighter.

Lol you can definitely tell you’re European XD

The police here in the US are nothing like that. If you call the police to let them know you’ll be protesting you’re just asking for trouble, it’s like taunting them before trying to fight them. I wouldn’t be surprised if they show up at your house to harass you, or somehow set it up to where your planned protesting spot is either unavailable or otherwise impossible to use. They’ve been known to arrest people for giving water to the homeless, those waiting in line to vote, protestors, and pretty much anyone the government or specific officers dislike. It’s commonly stated here in the US that short of a murder occuring, there is no good reason to call the police unless you want a murder to occur.

the route of the protest has to be registered in advance

Wow, that’s dystopic. Very “you protest because I allow it” vibes. Nice for emergency services though

This isn’t an accusation, but from your comments I’m guessing you’re what they call a tankie. I don’t personally care, as I don’t make judgements on things I know I’m not educated about. But I do have a question for someone who is not immediately opposed to North Korea: it’s undeniable that there is an ongoing and long time food shortage. I’ve been told this is due to poor internal policy, and that it is due to sanctions. If you are willing, I’d like to hear your thoughts on why this issue exists and what could realistically be done by North Korea to solve it, whether it be via some external influence or hopefully something they could do internally.

As for your comment, yeah. That’s completely true, and I don’t really have anything to add to that, other than your enemy being wrong doesn’t make you right.

Definitely wouldn’t say they’ve done no wrong. The whole dispute between north and South Korea has been pretty wrong for a while. Also the shit they’re pulling with Russia in Ukraine is pretty wrong. But I see your point, looking at purely external policy NK is far superior to the US and has been for a very long time. Looking at internal policy, the US still stands higher, but not for long.

I am ok with making their children go hungry

But that not what you’re doing. They work for the company, company makes decisions. By choosing to work for that company you are standing by their decisions. When the company makes a bad decision, that’s on you. They are ok with their children starving because otherwise they wouldn’t be working for a company that pulls this bullshit.

And yeah, there’s always the chance that the company started good, and people didn’t realize what it had become until it became an issue. But when it becomes an issue, either deal with it, or leave. They’re top tier game developers, any team would be lucky to have them. If no other team will have them, they can start their own team. By choosing to stick with the company making shitty decisions you are making those shitty decisions. They made their bed, you aren’t the one sleeping in it.

I left it in the sun too long, oops. Well, now that this is no longer one of your seeds as it contains distinct genetic differences which differentiate it from the genes listed in your patents, I guess there’s no issue with me running experiments on it?

That’s cool. Good thing I have a black light, and can modify the seeds the same way they do. Therefore, not the same seeds.

Edit: didn’t make this clear enough, the idea is to lightly modify their seeds just enough to make it legal. If they want to be shitty, we can be shitty right back. Any rule they make for us they make exceptions for the rich. Therefore, with enough cleverness and a stubborn refusal to accept others bullshit(and a bit of spite) you can exploit their rules and bend them to your will.

Technology can enable the Earth to comfortably fit over a trillion humans, overpopulation has never been a serious direct issue, but rather it causes a lot of secondary issues. With the rise of AI and automation, we are quickly approaching a point where we will have one of two futures to pick from. Either the entire worlds biosphere gets destroyed to enrich one person(or an ai takes over, either way, this is the bad ending) or we overthrow capitalism and instill a government with strong social policies and UBI. Either way, resource scarcity isn’t a problem because the rise of AI and automation means we can harvest material on scales never before seen, and we can start harvesting asteroids(a single one of earths trojan asteroids can contain more gold than has ever been mined on earth).

Assuming we go the utopia route, the first issue is water. This is solvable by various means, we can desalinate water at massive energy cost. That comes from nuclear, whether it’s on earth, off earth, or coming from the original nuclear source. I’m picturing massive solar panel arrays in space near L1. These would have the benefit of beaming terawatts of power back to earth, and they can be gimbaled to control the amount of light hitting earth, thereby controlling our inevitably devastated climate either way we go. Next issue is food. GMO’s and hydroponics are already set to solve this, if you’re really concerned then just construct an oneill cylinder purely dedicated to growing hydroponic crops. One such cylinder combined with a space tether, rail gun, or space elevator would enable you to grow enough food to feed everyone, and easily ship it to exactly where it needs to be a minimal cost(resource cost, “finances” are made up and a product of capitalism, we got rid of money because it’s literally useless now)

Next issue is housing. There is way, way, way more room on earth we can stick humans than you can possibly imagine. Earlier, I mentioned O’Neill cylinders. Those aren’t on earth, so don’t count towards my statement, but just one of those could comfortably house, feed, and sustain the entire current human population. We have tricks for doing similar stuff on earth though, too. You can reduce people’s individual footprint by culturally or genetically editing us to be more efficient, consume less resources, etc. Imagine a million people fitting in your bedroom because they’re all the size of ants, and have comparable caloric intake. We can build megastructures on earth too. There’s really no limit to how high we can build, just under capitalism you have to have the funds to make it work. You eventually reach the material strength of your material, for steel I don’t think you can normally build much higher than a mile before the structure weighs more than the steel can support. But we don’t have to rely on the materials strength, because we have active support. There’s a bunch of different ways we can do that, but the simplest, least efficient, but most intuitive way is simple: every 30 stories or so, we attach helicopter rotors to hold the weight of that section of the building. If that sounds wildly impractical, that’s because it is. But that’s just a proof of concept, what you would actually use is a loop of molten metal flowing at a high velocity through a constrained tube. You can make this arbitrarily long, although it exponentially increases the load on your pumps as you do so. It works the same way your hose works when you turn on full blast, the internal water pressure forces the hose to straighten out. Now imagine your hose was vertical, with thousands of times more deltaP. That holds up buildings.

What about culturally? It would seem I still haven’t touched upon an actual reason to unthaw these people - but I have. Strong social systems are a prerequisite to this type of future, if we don’t instill UBI soon there will be a complete economic collapse as more of the job market is taken by automation. We will have to shift away from the idea that humans have to work to survive, or we will die as a species. That sort of social understanding begets empathy, and without capitalism there is no “cost” to unthaw them. You don’t build a society to harm people(well, at least I don’t), you build it to help them. And if you have the medical technology and can’t come up with a serious reason not to, it would seem like a massive contradiction to not thaw these people. Youve been capitalism brained into thinking people only have the value that can be extracted from them.

That’s entirely unnoteworthy in a country that actively disables social welfare. A feature of the system, even.

I used the AI to destroy the AI

tism = autism

I have a tendency to over explain when I feel I’m missing basic social cues

Yeah, that’s a fair take. I have nothing to lose and everything to gain, so I’m. A little more willing to accept risks like these, but not wanting an alpha version of a piece of equipment inside your skull is a very rational take. In case my first response came off as snarky, I should clarify that I only responded that way because I didn’t feel that there was anything to add, but I should still acknowledge your statement since you clearly intended for me to read it.

Wow my tism is in full swing right now I think lol

Ok

Awesome! I hope it doesn’t turn out like neuralink, I can’t wait for this tech to take off. Assuming we last that long O.o

No no, we’ll win. It’s basically guaranteed. Just as it’s further guaranteed that we’ll squander the next presidential cycle so the ratchet effect can stay in full swing. Murica, fuck me.

If he says it’s bad then it’s a competitor