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- Misses the point. Now that things are easier, we have greater agency, not lesser.by plasticchris
- I don't miss the point. Most of the comments that have been posted here seemed to be written by people blinded by efficience and power. None of them took care of my points about the waste of energy and water. Any technology threating against the natural habitat and its creator is no good.by alesrosa
- This feels more like unrelated political dissatisfaction packaged to hitch a ride on the AI discourse train. The experience of struggling for solutions only seems to disappear if you lack ambition. Keeping the amount of thought you put into problems constant only requires broadening your horizon to new problems.
- I understand that you didn't follow my point about the waste of energy and water at all. We are going to face a very serious problem, such as global warming is. Politics always enters everything we talk about, and my text does not contest ambition. Hence your comment looks completely pointless. If you are not code developer, I tell you that saving resources is highly recommended when the system state is critical. If you are, restart from the basics.by alesrosa
- > The events in the last three centuries attested that super-powered countries and corporations contributed to render the world worse than what they found.
The world is worse off than 300 years ago?
by andsoitis - The power of super-powered countries and corporations went up and down during those 300 years.
The claim is not that the world is worst off, but that the super-powered countries and corporations are making it worst off. Then you have backslash against them, rules and regulations, economies based on competition of smaller parties. Democracy can be on the loosing path or on the winning path.
Super-powered countries and corporations are not helpful or necessary for the good stuff. But they are capable and willing of causing huge harm. They come along with philosophies that make their operators believe that causing harm to others which pursuing power is a good thing on itself.
by watwut - Indeed. Think of how much we lose sitting in our AC rooms, eating our safe food, having light and hot water 24/7. And the anesthetics and antibiotics that allow surgery. We are softies.
Real men work the field with plow and welcome the gangrene that could come from a scratch. And the amputation is only done on whiskey overload. For both the surgeon and the patient.
by ReptileMan