Lathe time: it goes back up and keeps growing to the point that Trump coin holders need to be bailed out to prevent a global economic collapse.

Because selective enforcement of the law alone is massively powerful.

They also have complete control of the towns they inhabit including the police and judiciary to shield them from state efforts to stop them

Wish that was us

Sorry, but the athleisure-fication and goblin-ization of all fashion will continue.

Implement a system of eco-credits that accrue over time and allow people to buy luxury items when the credits fill up. Like okay, you waited X number of years, you can afford a small boat or whatever your hobby is.

Ban meat, except as byproducts from things like prairie restoration projects. Let people go nuts on that wild buffalo steak or whatever once a year on Christmas or something as a treat, if they want.

You won't take care of it.

Are these drugs not available from illicit sources either?

I've been expecting a lot more NATO fuckery in Belarus this whole conflict.

While I don't disagree, I'd argue that we're guilty of this kind of thing too when we let our (correct) economic criticisms of capitalism cloud the materialist lens for determining what makes for good science.

Yes, I agree with you (while simultaneously being really excited for the real advancements in this space).

While this is true, this sentiment is sort of overcorrecting in the opposite direction imo, since these quantum algorithms have the potential to be insanely useful. Think accurately simulating particle interactions and understanding the fabric of the universe level of useful.

I don't blame people for not seeing the potential of quantum computing... but it's absolutely not just a grift. Computing on the atomic level like this is potentially one of the greatest achievements humankind can achieve. There's a reason China alone has invested over $50B in this technology.

Edit: I see what you're saying now... that the bros will fake or approximate quantum tech for investment.

Please elaborate.

GOOD POST and sensical take that goes beyond the knee-jerk reactions.

These type of posts go over like a lead balloon here because people don't want to accept the material reality of what's happening with this tech, but it's undoubtedly a stroke of luck for all of us that ghoulish companies like openai don't have any special sauce here. Open source models have consistently been able to keep up or at least get really close to the frontier model performance from companies that spend billions only to see their efforts replicated by these abaolute Chads from China.

Going to get vaxxed and telling the nurse, "no spoilers"

Free museums were a culture shock for me.

In addition to being an asshole, he was also either completely uninformed or just flat out wrong about the technology he was critiquing in the first place.

You'd better be glad I'm not a mod or I would ban everyone in this thread for crossing my arbitrary red line with this joke.