What’s more, scammers now have a list of 750k people known for their gullibility

Beach is dirty Ocean water is dirty Sun causes cancer

Never understood the draw

“What are you doing honey?”

“Working”

“Looks like you’re playing nethack again”

“I’m waiting for the CICD pipeline”

PieFed

Seconds? Hell I been gooning to this story for hours

Nope, never read anything by Samuel R. Delany

I did read a lot of L Ron Hubbard, for a moment I thought you were referencing his short story collection

Dammit, that’s what I get for going on 25-year old memory of last reading the book. In my defense, one of the main character narrators captains a space ship that goes between Earth and Mars and this provides insight into the two cultures.

Oh and BTW he’s got a wife on both worlds. Spicy

If you’re asking this question you may very much enjoy Isaac Arthur

Moon colony playlist:
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIIOUpOge0Lv5kr9vrX8DJjlF1A3QWJ3D&ra=m

See also The Dispossessed by Ursula LeGuin

Granted it’s Mars not the Moon but the breakaway – and how it affects Earth politics – is a central plotnpoint

Also once Camacho found the world’s smartest man, he demanded his help

As opposed to decrying him as a woke pansy intellectual and deporting him

And that Canada was not on fire

And that USA still had science & was treating the climate emergency like an emergency

Your OG contribution:

Stop repeating corpo criti-hype

I pointed out that I am posting a short simple statement backed up by hundreds of impressive people, including over a dozen Nobel Laureates.

Your response:

the signers that are the problem (though the NYT is more than happy to platform the worst people)

So I listed their names and asked for how, specifically, these are the “worst people”.

How do you come to that conclusion? Is it by virtue of the fact that they have Nobel prizes? Or because they signed the statement? If the latter, which, at least, of the 3 points do you disagree with, and why?

Are you this reflexively contrarian with everyone, or just me personally? Just curious

You have an axe to grind, more like a religious tenet than an honest fact-based opinion.

Tell me, of the 16 Nobel laureates in Economics the list, who got their prizes over the last 20 years, on issues from the effects of institutions to markets, policy, dynamics, development economics, and behavioral dynamics … which exactly are the “worst people”, and why, specifically?

EDIT: make your job easier, here are their names. The scoundrels!

Daron Acemoglu

Simon Johnson

James A. Robinson

Joseph E. Stiglitz

A. Michael Spence

Eric S. Maskin

Roger B. Myerson

Paul R. Milgrom

Robert B. Wilson

Robert J. Shiller

Christopher A. Pissarides

Peter A. Diamond

Dale T. Mortensen

Abhijit Banerjee

Esther Duflo

Michael Kremer

It’s the New York Times. I’m not claiming they’re without bias, but <biden>come on man</biden>

Have you actually read their statement? It’s rather short. https://www.wemustactnow.ai/

1. AI may become radically more powerful over the next 10 years.

2. This could drive an unprecedented transformation of our economy, larger than the Industrial Revolution, but unfolding over a vastly shorter time frame. It could bring risks, including large-scale job displacement, as well as opportunities such as major gains in living standards.

3. Economists, policymakers and technology leaders must act now to understand the economics of transformative AI and to build the incentives, guardrails, and institutions needed to steer AI in a direction that complements humans and benefits society.

The statement, titled “We Must Act Now,” was signed by nearly 200 people, including 15 Nobel laureates and the chief economists of two of the leading A.I. labs, Open AI and Anthropic. Other notable signatories include Jack Clark, a co-founder of Anthropic; Eric Schmidt, the former chief executive of Google; and Vinod Khosla, a prominent venture capitalist.

Primitive tribes and increasingly many modern Sky Daddy children think they will need the organs after they die

Ditto. I use Codex and Claude Code on a daily basis. Copilot feel like it’s from the 80s, a few generations behind

As we discovered in DM: No it isn’t, but it’s truthy enough for US government work

Hell the air molecules in the room are moving near the speed of sound

If you want to extract useful work from that, the problem is they all go in random directions and for really short distances.

Same deal for subatomic particles.

Entropy and thermodynamics. Very much worth the investment of time and effort to learn.