AI actually is causing a lot of unemployment in tech.
Not because it has been able to successfully replace anyone's job, but because the big tech companies are all gambling so much on becoming trillionaires that they have to throw tens of thousands of workers into unemployment to pay for it.
Possible solution to the Strait of Hormuz?
If Iran blows up Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos I promise you here and now that I WILL convert to Islam and join the Butlerian Jihad.
Always a good time these days to repost this slide from an IBM internal presentation in 1979.
if i were a boxer i would simply spray insulation foam inside my skull, rendering me IMMUNE to all knockouts, and easily become world champion of the world
Vodka Drunkenski, the Soviet boxer in Nintendo's 1984 arcade game "Super Punch-Out!!" was renamed to "Soda Popinski" for the NES release of "Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!" in 1987, in what many have described as the first instance of "political correctness gone mad".
Younger people who didn't witness it cannot fathom the hype around the Segway. Every news station agreed it would revolutionize the entire social fabric of the Earth. That all future humans would divide history between the savage days of the past, and the soon to be new era of zoom zoom scoot scoot.
Not FREE BEER! Please Mr. Capitalist, I just want to work 16 honest hours a day in a factory.
Anti-Georgist propaganda from 1886 that makes Georgism look like the coolest thing ever.
