TheJack
@TheJack@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why Didn't Democrats Do More When They Controlled Both Houses of Legislature, The White House, and The Supreme Court During Obama's First Term? 3 days ago:
Though if I recall correctly, filibuster rule can be removed with 51% majority but obviously Democrats are too nice to remove that.
- Comment on Why Didn't Democrats Do More When They Controlled Both Houses of Legislature, The White House, and The Supreme Court During Obama's First Term? 3 days ago:
Like it or not, the United States are of the corporations, by the corporations, for the corporations.
Now I totally disagree with Republicans on almost everything especially since 2014 but one thing I like about them is, how to pass the actual laws, and how to put justices in supreme court.
No matter how wrong are they, or who paid (directly or indirectly) to pass the laws… when they have majority, they just steamrolls.
Democrats on the other hand are just talks.
- Comment on Power-hungry AI is putting the hurt on global electricity supply 4 weeks ago:
Well, Transcendence from 2014 got this right.
- Comment on What will happen to large companies once poor people have no more money to use? 5 weeks ago:
The first thing that came to mind upon reading the title is the movie Repo Men from 2010.
Plot from the Wikipedia:
In 2025, advancements in medical technology have perfected bio-mechanical organs.
A corporation known as The Union sells these expensive “artiforgs” on credit, and when customers are unable or unwilling to pay for their artiforgs The Union sends “repo men” to locate and forcibly repossess the organ - invariably resulting in the death of the owner.
- Comment on Microsoft Pitched OpenAI’s DALL-E as Battlefield Tool for U.S. Military 5 weeks ago:
Now obviously, mere mention of word
AI
sparks outrage online.But I have a different take, and not for this particular instance but AI and military in general.
Even if the US shuts down any and all AI research and AI applications, do you think China, Russia, Iran, and others gonna do the same?
I don’t think so. Nvidia is super happy to supply expensive AI processors to China… officially or not.
It’s better to prepare preemptively than fall behind all eternity.
Look at North Korea, once they got the nukes, they became untouchable with unhinged loonies at the helm. And now South Korea and may be the US must keep throwing millions to them. They keep hacking anything and everything (except in China & Russia) they can get their hands on… without any consequences at all.
I have not seen any hacker being successfully prosecuted anywhere in the world from the “state sponsored hacking teams” of China, Russia, Iran or North Korea.
IMO all of these nations are never gonna be at peace with rest of the world, so why don’t stay (or at least try to be) in the lead while you can?
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
I would like an option within settings to get comments sorted by ‘Top’ (or any new/hot) when I open any post. Thanks.