There was also a skit on the Wayne and Schuster show about the “Super No-Frills” grocery store featuring this as one of their cost savings features.

Yeah, there is a mechanism that ensures it, and that’s the interaction between competition and artificial scarcity. Companies that try to do things in the best interests of their customers and society end up either getting bought out, or out competed and die. It’s a simple matter of survival given the rules of the game that we have set up. Greed is the mechanism that keeps these rules in place and even makes them worse, sure, but then, the rules are designed to encourage and reward greed as well; a positive feedback loop. To stop it, the rules need to be changed at a deeper level than most realize or are comfortable with, despite all the many benefits.

Picasochu?

If you are using DDG for searches and concerned about privacy related to using LLMs, have you tried duck.ai?

I did the same thing the other day when I saw “winedlloverrides” (for the program Wine if that helps).

Interesting. So the “post-truth era” isn’t just for the masses, but the rich as well, as they cannibalise each other.

I’m no expert, but this is my understanding as well.

So basically what it all comes down to is competition and not just greed like most people believe. If you don’t make more money than the competition, you will fail. That’s why companies keep getting bought out all the time, they lost this game. Most people have no idea just how many companies they know are owned by bigger ones they may not know. The whole thing is conglomerating like the T-1000 after it had been shattered and melted. So rabid profit chasing is a matter of survival.

Also, they’ve vehemently claimed for many years that it’s impractical to provide backward frame-by-frame stepping, but Celluloid does it just fine.

Ah, so that’s not just me, is it? That’s bugged me for a long time. I was so happy when I discovered SM Player could do it.

Not the power converters we were looking for. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpUkokRx3-k

I’m reminded of this book I had as a kid. It explained so many things so easily. It explained how an ICE works by using analogous items you’d already know as a kid for every part of the engine. For example, for the fuel injector it showed a perfume spray bottle. It was brilliant, and why it was never required reading in school is a mystery and tragedy.

It’s not just numbers though, is it? There’s that algorithm thing they use to steer things. Otherwise in principle I agree wirh you.

I prefer "sota !!"

According to the show Inside Job, he is! https://insidejob.fandom.com/wiki/Reptoids#Members

Because discord uses the word differently than the rest of the world. Convenient.

Exactly. Except it would be more like the one Tom and Harry designed. And not holographic.

I don’t think our government institutions are able to address the speed at which things are developing.

No, our current institutions are relics of our childhood stage, completely inadequate for handling the powers that science and technology have given us (our adult power). What we need is something completely different.

Primate brains. It all feeds back into itself as this destructive cycle.

Primate brains with the capability for higher, rational thought, but only when adequately trained.

I see it like we as a civilization are in the teenager stage of development: with the powers of an adult (including the ability to greatly harm ourselves and others), but still with the maturity and self control of a child. We technically know how to be a responsible adult (civilization), but we can’t help partying, fighting and drunk driving etc. We need to grow up fast.

And Caprica, and Limitless (the tv show, not the movie). Probably others. (Even a Babylon 5 episode was related, but more fantasy than sci-fi.)

Ditto!