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Comment Re:Gods (Score 1) 18

When money is your god, there is only one way to be happy by some definitions (sociopathic perhaps): exploit others to have more wealth and power.
AI is a potentially powerful tool for exploitation. And that alone explains to me why there is tremendous market forces and investment behind it. The vast majority of the wealthy are not involved in investing for altruistic reasons. They may want to change and reshape the world, but not primarily to make the lives of ordinary people better or easier, that is only a side-effect at best, a disingenuous marketing slogan at worst.

Comment Re:Magic (Score 1) 18

The future of economics is people who have money will participate in the economy by owning the means of production (AI). And those without a stake are going to be excluded from further participation. The ultimate rift between rich and poor. Even the security to protect the property and safety of the rich will be automated, so even bootlicker security jobs aren't going to be available to the working class. It's about time for cops to wake up and realize what side of the rich-poor divide the economics of technology is going to force them onto.

Comment Re: They were underpowered and underfeatured (Score 1) 9

Being tied to an online ecosystem is what made these convenient for most people.

I would like the open source equivalent. Where is a Ubuntu touch or Firefox Mobile (or netbook equivalent) that lets any group of people host the backend infrastructure for free or for a fee.

What I want is best of both offline ownership and online convenience. Fully managed laptops where I am also the administrator and policy master for the entire household.

Comment Re: How about fruit (Score 1) 106

The major grocer chains tend to stock fruit that was picked too early. Often fruit is harvested before the season is in full swing and heavily advertised, but it is usually not fully ripe and thus a waste of your money.
Sadly, most people don't know how to buy fruit. And most stores would rather move poor quality inventory as cheaply as possible than stock fruit that might be overripe in a few days.
Even with the corners they cut, the typical store's produce tends to be more expensive than a restaurant wholesaler or farmers stand.

Comment Re: China is a totalitarian hell (Score 1) 111

I have no doubt that China is serious. I've even been there a few times to work in a Shenzhen sweat shop.

But I don't agree with the philosophy driving their leadership. Which a position irrelevant to a hypothetical serious vs. not-serious axis.

It's so obviously a bad idea that it's bizarre that I even have to point it

I've seen enough 80's action movies in my day to also recognize that particular formula for a lazy plot.

Comment Re: China is a totalitarian hell (Score 2, Interesting) 111

Individual liberty is at best inconvient and at worst a threat to the state. Authoritarians oppose any idealogy that suggests that you can speak as you please to the government, work where you please, marry who you please, travel as you please, and generally puts individual rights above the needs of the state.
The people that run the world operate contrary to the optimistic propaganda that I was raised on as an American child.

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