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Comment Same reason original Kindle is useless (Score 0) 44

You need to be moved on from old stuff that just works so you can be new stuff.

Remember when Amazon tauted Kindle as superior to an actual book?

My books of 10 and 20 years ago still work. My Kindle technically tuna on but cannot use new content...so this move to downgrade isn't surprising.

How likely am I to buy an Amazon product in the future? *Blinks*

Comment Re: "Great" for frightened, not for the species. (Score 1) 64

Agree with a lot of that but there is another element to consider. The living knowledge we have as a species. We have finite time to learn until daily life gets in the way of significant acceleration in further mental and intellectual growth and eventually decline begins. If the period we can learn and comprehend extends so can better solutions be found to limited resources etc.

Once most humans didn't make it past 50 - yet we now regularly see 80 and yet humanity has prospered.

It seems convenient now that the older population perishes and stops becoming a burden on the new generations but that is a specific circumstance of our time. It would be a short term solution and we would likely lose more than we gain if most old people would die of natural causes suddenly.

Comment Can we extract? (Score 1) 64

If we can get the"thing that makes them young" into old people they can be young again?! Maybe Vampirism isn't total BS...

Silliness aside, it seems we're getting very close to regeneration and lifespan extension. Anything that will extend old people's lives is generally going to be great for humanity. If I knew in my 20s what I know now sorta thing...

Comment Uhm yes. (Score 1) 164

But this is not an AI problem. Before chatbots were spreading shit and testing in IRC forums there were meat puppet accounts spreading misinformation. You know, old school propoganda.

Getting people to do what's in the best interest of others is a morally bankrupt race...but it can be highly lucrative. So while we all get poorer ask who is getting richer...

Please note that people that don't like to play by the rules are unlikely to change their ways if they succeed. This is why I'm voting for Trump for his third term. We've never had a president that was so transparent in all his dealings to enrich himself and his name. We need so much more winning that people will get really sick of winning.

Comment Your children are safe (Score 1) 30

It's just a cool site to post pictures and keep in touch with friends...it's totally safe. Just ask Meta.

Remember MySpace? Meta is going that way. Once you could share them cool pictures with family and friends unless you emailed that and with limitations the the nature of emails it was never going to compete with a "wall" and broadcasting your latest "look what I'm having for breakfast" pictures...but now you can share pictures through almost any chat app or just share folder access to thousands of them at once.

What does Facebook actually give you hat you cannot get elsewhere? (Besides their awesome privacy of course)

See ya Facebook! *waves fondly*

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