Trump is a guy with 26 credible rape accusations one of which is against two 13 year old girls, 34 felony convictions who gives out classified documents as party favors and has accepted somewhere in the ballpark of 2.5 billion dollars in bribes.

Also he is actively trying to institute martial law and suspend habeas corpus.

If you don't think we've crossed the red line we're done here. You are so far gone there is literally no discussion to be had. You're just a fascist now and a Nazi and congratulations.

We are past the point of any useful discussion with anyone who would support Donald Trump for the US Republican party. And if you don't understand that it's because you are coping or because you're joining the Nazis. Neither of which is going to end well for you or me.

But thought terminating cliches are fun aren't they? And it's so much easier to pretend everything's going to be fine that actually do something about it.

Don't bother trying. It's a thought terminating cliche it's explicitly designed to prevent thought and it works because that's what thought terminating cliches do.

Once you understand what a thought terminating cliche is everything about Trump supporters starts to make sense.

They have reams and reams of them. Fun little phrases they can say anytime anyone tries to make them think about or question dear leader in a negative light.

They are completely unreachable and it's a waste of time to even try. Best thing to do is to make fun of them so that other people can see how pathetic they are. And maybe try to help people learn to spot thought terminating cliches

Is what a thought terminating cliche looks like.

In what way is matter needed for energy to contain information? When we receive information from EM radiation that has traveled in space for thousands of years, where is the matter? We (beings of matter) need the energy to interact with matter for us to read it, but it's there if we read it or not.

We need smarter compilers so humans can write maintainable microservices or whatever and the compiler can build a deployable efficient monolithic binary.

That's the point of having a Universal Turing Machine.

Our concept of compilers is still from the 70's with incremental improvements. Perhaps Go has taken one step in this direction more than others on the journey of a hundred miles. SSA trees and such were once a hot topic of research but not everybody is distracted with sexy AI topics.

John is correct on the end goal but unrealistic on the path.

Complexity is always preserved but can be shifted.

It's possible transformers could be used to find such paths rather than traditional compiler strategies but retraining is too expensive for small changes at this point.

Maybe some young punk computer scientists will buck the AI trend in the near future since that's what everybody is doing.

And the company is plenty profitable. The CEO isn't firing people because mistakes were made resulting in declining revenue. They're doing it because of recession is coming and they're going to need a ton of cash for stock BuyBacks to protect wealthy investors.

The economy is fundamentally set up against you. And you probably voted for it if you're around here. I think most of us who haven't figured that out are just too old now. You get incredibly stubborn past the age of 40. If that teenage stubbornness hasn't worked its way out of your system by then I think it just doubles down

The only question is how bad and whether the Democrats will take back the House and Senate so that they can limit the damage for his last two years.

I get that Trump won because of voter suppression but he still had 77 million people voting for him.

And we've got hard numbers about how many people voted for him because they were panicking over trans girls and it was a lot.

If you're one of them congratulations you're a 50 year old man who's about to lose his job in the worst economy America has known since the Great depression. You played yourself kid.

Penrose's group has some actual evidence for the Cyclic Cosmology model in CMB patterns.

I'll go with hypothesis/data over formulae.

TIL: Leo (Bob) was a math major who tutored physics in college (in Philly).

Nerd as Pontiff could become interesting.

Maybe there are math majors who didn't drop acid in college and I just haven't met any.

Quote "Religion has been preaching against technological progress since as long as there's been religion".

In other words you're implying that the only solution is to burn the machines. In this case technically you are implying that the pope is the one offering that solution. But he's not. Neither am I.

The pope is just saying that machines need to be used in a way that uplifts all of humanity.

You immediately go to the idea that anyone who questions technological unemployment and negative impacts from technological advancement is opposed to technology.

It doesn't matter if they're religious or not (personally I'm an atheist).

Also for fucks sake you're just wrong. The Catholic church has all sorts of fucked up beliefs about abortion that are just scientifically wrong, the same for homosexuality and transsexuality.

But when it comes to every other area of science they're pretty damn good. In fact sometimes they're too good. At one point one of the popes was going to declare the Big bang and the science behind it to be part of their Canon but the guy who came up with the science asked the pope not to because science should not be something people are ordered to believe. And the Pope being the Pope agreed.

This isn't to say that historically the Catholic Church doesn't have problems with science. And Jesus fucking Christ American evangelicals are terrifying. Those guys want to burn down science.

But again to get back to my point the pope at no point in time criticized the technology they criticized the application of the technology and how it's going to be used to make everybody's lives worse.

And you can't even see that because you can't imagine technology being used for anything other than hurting people at this point. And at the same time you think it's morally wrong to oppose technology.

You see what I mean when I say you're not thinking. You got to jumble of ideas and thoughts in your head that you haven't taken the time to unpack and then you come to the internet and this website and you just start barfing them out and they're a huge mess.

And the problem is guys like you don't just barf your ideas out on stupid forums you also vote. There are real world consequences to the fact that you haven't actually reflected on any of the things you've been told in your life and what they actually mean.

You're doing the same thing to the Pope that everybody here on this damn website does to me. Even when I called you out in my original post for doing it.

Your brain is too locked down so you can't think of any other solution besides burning the machines. At no point did me or the pope say that we wanted to do that but your brain automatically inserts that solution without any thought.

That's because the image of a Luddite is a thought terminating cliche. It's something specifically designed to prevent you from questioning technology by terminating any thought about the impacts of technology.

And even when I pointed out to you you're completely incapable of realizing that you're doing it. I don't know how much clearer I can make it. Maybe if I used puppets...

First things first automation took 70% of the manufacturing jobs. Only 30% of them were lost overseas.

Next we took the national debt and our military strength and used that to artificially prop up the dollar making it the world's reserve currency.

This means an American dollar can buy a lot more imports than it really should be able to.

This means we get to bring in trillions of dollars worth of consumer goods and raw materials and heavy machinery for a fraction of the price and use those goods to artificially raise our standard of living. You couldn't really afford to have 70% of Americans driving big honking SUVs without that shit. We would have to, gasp, have walkable cities in public transportation. Ew.

You are a classic libertarian twat. Like the old joke about house cats unaware and unappreciative of a system they do not understand. Only at least a house cat is kind of cute and funny.

I'm not asking you to have a strong grasp of our economic system but for fucks sakes can you please learn the basics before you vote again? I really don't think that's too much to ask anymore.

Oh and for fuck sakes again, go look up how high interest rates are designed to cause recessions and mass layoffs. That's another aspect of our system I really really wish guys like you would understand. And I am way too tired to educate you further

Who couldn't be bothered to look up what a tariff was before voting for a guy with 34 felony convictions, 26 credible rape accusations, who hands out classified documents at his golf course like party favors.

If I had one wish to the Almighty I would ask for everyone on the planet to be given an extra 100 IQ points and for their kids to keep those IQ points. This thing where people cannot locate and process legitimate and real information is going to doom us all.

And I mean holy shit literally.

Technological unemployment was a major problem during the two industrial revolutions. It created an enormous amount of social stress and upheaval. They don't teach you about this in high school history. About how we had decades of unemployment following the two industrial revolutions until a combination of new tech and dead working age males got us back to full employment.

If you think the rich and the ruling class haven't realized that they are dependent on you as consumers think again. They are not at all happy that they need you to buy their products to maintain their lifestyles and they are eagerly anticipating the day when a combination of military drones and automated factories can produce everything they personally want and they can relegate us to the kind of reservations we stuffed the indigenous people on

Notice I'm not suggesting any solutions. I don't have any. The solutions I can come up with humans aren't willing to accept. We aren't going to destroy the machines and we aren't going to do fully automated space communism and we are too simple a species to try and come up with a middle ground.

Honestly as it stands I think in a few decades the mass unemployment is going to mean that the mega corporations preventing India and Pakistan from touching off world war III will be gone. And I suspect we're going to have enough working atomic weapons to make the planet uninhabitable for a species.

Basically we are going to Fermi paradox ourselves the stupidest way imaginable

I'm open to being proven wrong but feel free to suggest a solution that you can get enough people to get behind that we don't just get distracted by whatever current freak out or moral panic is put in front of us this month.

I mean come on, if we don't switch the fascism those 14 trans girls playing field hockey in the Midwest are going to destroy us all right? /s it's either that, violent video games or dungeons and dragons but one of them is going to destroy our civilization right?

How is that relevant at all to American companies rapacious mark-ups?