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In light of current events in Syria, a reminder about operation Timber Sycamore
(www.middleeasteye.net)
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We don't have general purpose AI yet, but I don't think that's a prerequisite for automating many jobs out of existence. Humans will still be needed to solve really complex problems for the foreseeable future, but the number of humans that need to work will be greatly reduced. A great example we can already see today are automated ports and factories in China where there's a just handful people overseeing them.
they seem to be a lot quieter nowadays
I don't see why that's fundamentally impossible though. For example, people are already working on stuff like 3d printers that can produce copies of themselves by printing all the parts. So, you can have machines made out of modular components that can be printed. When a part fails, then a new one is printed and installed to replace it. This whole process can be entirely automated. And this would include the printers themselves.
It's highly implausible that a whistle blower would commit a suicide given that the whole act of whistle blowing implies that they care about what's going on and want to make a difference.
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According to S&P more than $2 trillion of commercial real estate mortgages will mature over the next two years. The average interest rate on maturing loans is only 4.3%. The rate today has doubled, making refinancing challenging. Also, roughly $200 billion of these mortgages are on office properties where the underlying value has collapsed. The size of the pool of distressed capital is much larger than the subprime mortgage market at its peak in 2005 at around $625 billion. The “extend and pretend” game that’s being played with the big banks only makes these problems worse because nobody knows where the toxic waste is buried.
and a lot less free time
Funny how liberals, who purport to be paragons of reason and intellect, will without fail reject any information that challenges their preconceptions. Both liberals and conservatives engage in dogmatic thinking that stifles their ability to consider the world as it really is. One of my favorite examples of this is the whole carbon tax thing in Canada. Liberals deride conservatives for rejecting the carbon tax, but then they get incredibly mad when you point out that the carbon tax isn't actually accomplishing anything in tangible terms. Turns out they don't care about addressing the problems with the environment, they just want to have a comfortable narrative.
https://www.readthemaple.com/a-crushing-disappointment-trudeaus-climate-legacy/
Indeed, the concessions were given because there was a fear of USSR as an alternative model. Now they've managed to convince Europeans that Russia is the second coming of nazi Germany, and they're using that fear to dismantle the social safety net that the oligarchs resented having to accommodate this whole time.
I use a plugin to disable autoplay in general
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/disable-autoplay/
It's always depressing to think about the sheer volume of food we throw away in the west. Especially considering that some of the critical fertilizer ingredients, such as phosphorus, are in finite supply. https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/what-phosphorus-and-why-are-concerns-mounting-about-its-environmental-impact