Operative word is “into” the sun. Hitting the sun specifically = harder vs the general “away” direction.

Imagine applying the same reasoning inside the US:

“Massachusetts buys $2 billion of oranges from Florida. Massachusetts is therefore losing $2 billion. If Massachusetts stops buying oranges, it saves $2 billion.”

That’s plainly incomplete. Massachusetts has oranges in exchange for the money. Requiring Massachusetts to grow all of its own oranges would probably make Massachusetts poorer, not $2 billion richer.

He has no understanding of trade deficit, thinks it’s zero-sum, because the word “deficit” is in it.

Yeah they are almost antithetical. Matrix uses humans as resources. Terminator kills humans. Maybe that’s why the cross is hard.

I mean, some elements of AI fever/panic do relate to that center notion you outlined. A lot of corpos arguing it’s amazing & transformative (happy). A lot of people who don’t know better are using the tools & using them poorly (dumb). We all know some drawbacks about this tech, and there’s unknown unknowns we don’t know. Some people believe it’ll lead to our demise (machine genocide run?).

I guess we’ll find out in time.

NE America. I’m happy to be somewhere online with mostly real people. Corpos don’t have much reason to care about the fediverse right now.

Why do you ask?

Not OP. Making guesses here…

• Idiocracy = humanity becomes catastrophically stupid / institutions decay
• The Matrix = humans are reduced to resources inside a machine-controlled system
• Terminator = machines actively exterminate humanity

Idiocracy X Matrix: People are dumb & happy, caused their own problems, so maybe Wall-E?

Idiocracy X Terminator: Our stupidity puts us in a bad situation of creating our own demise. Dr. Strangelove perhaps?

Matrix X Termiantor: Machine dominate humanity out of existence. The cross here feels shallow, like these films are pretty similar with regards to humans, machines, and the outcome. Oblivon (2013) kinda works? 9 could also work.

Center: I dunno, Robocop? Systems failing, corporations suck, lethal machines. Honestly Black Mirror likely wins, but it’s too broad a series.

Let’s say you made $50k/year. It would take you 20,000 years to make a billion.

Let’s say you make $1m/year. It would take you 1,000 years to make a billion.

A billion is a dumb, immoral amount, and we have humans with hundreds of them, in theory. If you make a billion dollars, whatever earnings after should be taxed at 100%. It’s not “socialist” to make this claim. Rather, it’s inhuman to argue the opposite.

I feel like their point was that the gains of technology were not distributed fairly, which is largely the concern today. It’s not “technology is bad”, or “technology make bad thing”; rather, “the owners of the machine undercut our labor, and we lose our jobs”, which I think was true. In the modern world, there are likely less tailors, as a percentage of the working population, certainly in first world countries. Sweatshops still exist, and it’s people’s labor competing against a production line, in terms of ROI for a business.

I get the sense we all know AI isn’t going to bring about a uptopia for all people, because the economic systems don’t incentivize that. There’s some hypothetical world where this sort of technological advance could benefit all people, but it’s not the one we live in. That’s a reality & major problem for the technology (among other issues).

I certainly think the cost of labor for tech development is going to drop significantly due to the market pressures; look at all the tech layoffs. At the same time, the upside is these tools make certain projects accessible & possible, because prior, would have needed significant funding, amazing solo skills, etc. There’s new opportunities available, but it’ll come at the cost of cratering tech position compensation & job security.

I don’t know anyone in my field right now who feels safe (game dev), and I have many talented friends out of work.

So basically we can’t like Berserk? I don’t like Griffith, I don’t have a BoS tattoo, but I don’t think getting one is “missing the point.” A lot of people have been through fucked up shit, they feel haunted by it, and they relate to that message of soldiering on.

Data fabrication is its own risk in this. Assuming we live in a society where a govt can argue it has all this information, they could make shit up & conjure the “evidence” to support their version. Because the apparatus is established as “we know everything & can uncover the ‘truth’”, they could falsify files, they could plant files on devices, and they could edit information at a grander scale than in the past. Flock’s financial backing is connected to a company that makes money from footage editing. If they establish, “Flock shows footage of reality,” while being able to manipulate it, then we’re all a deepfake away from being accused of shit we didn’t do. That’s like Black Mirror episode 1.

Absolutely. I work in the industry, and one of my predictions for the coming years is a further commercialization of games as the cost of development falls, either the actual dev or just plain entrance cost. More places will make micro games to sell things, like mobile game ads for every day businesses. I was saying to my wife, I expect politicians and weirder avenues to take up games as a means of engaging with audiences.

I sincerely hate that this is one of the first examples of what I imagined.

I didn’t think I could hate it more, and then I saw the screenshot. I fucking hate this whole thing.

https://youtu.be/wbfoyRAUfys?is=XcHt3vJmig56akRD

I think he has 0 chance of winning, unless the system completely fails (which, eh, not unlikely?).

I think what’s more likely is he runs one of the sons & snubs Vance. He doesn’t care about the Republican Party at all. He would love a Trump party to exist beyond himself & MAGA today.