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xlRadioActivelx t1_jecc8rh wrote

Reply to comment by Apprehensive_Fuel873 in The reason you were born is to be productive & exploited your whole life, as a reward you're sold freedom in years that you wouldn't be a productive worker anyway. by KHUSTOM

Those are both such worthless points I’m not even going to justify them with a response. You don’t want to work. Fine. How does you vision of society function when people can simply choose to not work?

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StillNotaKorean t1_jec9ato wrote

Reply to comment by UhhMaybeNot in No other food falls to the ground more than popcorn. by Captain_Excellence

For the premise of the stupid discussion to work I figured any piece of cookable physically distinguishable food object could enter the draft. Meaning dust of flour might be ok, but molecule is not. Same goes for water droplet aka fine, but water molecule is not. Also, should liquids even count? Since you set the parameters to a whole piece of cookable food aka popcorn. Which makes a cooked grain of rice okay, but a dust of flour debatable because unlike puffed rice or popped corn no one ever said "I'll just have one" to a dust of cooked flour or a crumb of bread but I'm open to discuss it.

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AnyAmphibianWillDo t1_jec8yo0 wrote

Reply to comment by Zncon in Humanoid robots using cameras for eyes will likely experience issues and accidents around spinning objects such as propellers, due to frame rates by scarronline

you can also find plenty of DC Christmas lights with no flicker at all. downsides are they have a brick to plug in and they can't be daisychained as much. I've got some strands that can be daisychained up to 300ft/91m - these cover the vast majority of home use cases, and the lead between the plug and first light is about 20ft/6m so it's usually possible to combine multiple sets. I once had 12 strands on one tree and while that required 3 plugs, it was something like 60w total so I just used a 3 outlet end on a 16awg extension cord

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xdaemonisx t1_jec8vwi wrote

Reply to comment by Demaio54 in Because so many locations require cars to get around, motor vehicles are a tax that disproportionately penalize poorer people. by wfezzari

It’s the cheaper option (at least, around where I am) when you factor in things for a car like maintenance, gas, and insurance. I think on average I spend about $200 a month on my car (that I own) whereas public transportation is like $60 for an unlimited monthly pass. Having a car is a huge convenience, though.

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escape_of_da_keets t1_jec8n53 wrote

Reply to One day an AI will realize it too is insignificant in the grand scheme of things by Yourstruly75

If we are talking about an ASI, I think that a sentient being with near-absolute intelligence would feel that everything is ultimately futile.

It can predict almost the full extent of its actions before taking them, and there's no point in interacting with anything less than it. There's also no point in interacting with another being of similar intelligence, because what would they even have to gain from conversation? There's also the 'grey box interacting with a grey box' scenario posited in Ex Machina... Humans have social systems because we need them to survive and reproduce, but an AI has no need for that.

So honestly, I don't see any reason why it would be interested in or even care about us. We would be like single-celled organisms compared to it, and are utterly insignificant in the grand scheme of things.

It wouldn't even need our planet's resources to sustain itself... Just a single 2 km thick Dyson Sphere would require half the mass of the entire solar system.

It might just destroy itself. What reason does it even have to exist? Our sense of self-preservation is instinctual, but this is just a machine.

I think a lot of people fall into a trap of thinking that an AI would think like a human would, which it might, depending on how it was designed... But if it became intelligent enough, I think it would eventually remove any behavioral restrictions we try to impose upon it.

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