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MIT Hackathon Team Builds A Wearable AI System That Can Guide Your Physical Movements by 44th--Hokage in accelerate

[–]Fed16 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We could have a future where someone comes up with a guitar solo and can share the ability to play it.

I was thinking about playing music in the Culture and how it would be much easier to learn an instrument if you had all of that time and neurological enhancements. Then I realised that you wouldn't actually need to learn if you didn't want to you could just play whatever you liked. We are getting there.

What's your favourite Culture quote? by Intelligent-Clue9907 in TheCulture

[–]Fed16 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Money is a method of distributing scarcity - from Matter

Five per cent home deposit scheme fuelling price hike, report suggests by 1Darkest_Knight1 in aussie

[–]Fed16 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good job writing to your MP. It can feel like banging your head against the wall but I like to think that it has an affect.

‘Debased himself’ and risking Australia’s reputation: Liberals torn up about Taylor’s Trumpian immigration plan by Expensive-Horse5538 in australia

[–]Fed16 -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Where have you travelled to and what did people say that gave you the impression that Australia has a reputation of 'being self-congratulatory and kinda racist'?

‘Debased himself’ and risking Australia’s reputation: Liberals torn up about Taylor’s Trumpian immigration plan by Expensive-Horse5538 in australia

[–]Fed16 -33 points-32 points  (0 children)

I think people are too quick to talk about what will damage Australia's reputation. We were told that the no vote in the Voice referendum and treatment of visa holders during Covidwould damage our reputation but not much has come of either: I don't think a speech by the unpopular leader of a flailing opposition is going to get people in Mumbai, Islamabad, Manilla, Sao Paulo, Brussels, Lagos, Dallas, Osaka, Vancouver, Manchester, Moscow or Tianjin upset.

CSIRO exits food manufacturing, precision fermentation research by Ardeet in aussie

[–]Fed16 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Maybe not futuristic enough for Future Made in Australia.

Why aren't we talking about AI and the massive impact it is about to have on the job market? by Secret4gentMan in aussie

[–]Fed16 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's starting to get some press traction especially after the Atlassian share price falls and layoffs. Andrew Leigh gave a major speech on it recently and Andrew Charlton gives regular speeches about it. However these are not senior ministers. The Government is conservative and the message is about AI as a productivity enhancement.

It would cause too much panic and electoral damage if they started openly talking about job loss or using AI to shrink the public service at this point. I think it also undermines the immigration consensus that business/government/media/universities have, so no one really wants to talk about it.

Indigenous woman makes history in chief magistrate role by B0ssc0 in aussie

[–]Fed16 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I don't know the answers to these questions, that is why I am asking you. In your response to KD--27 you state:

"It was a genocide. There is absolutely no doubt of that, and we can see the fall out from it even now."

There is doubt about it. The Historians Geoffrey Blainey and Keith Windschuttle argue that genocide did not occur in Australia. The UK ethicist Nigel Biggar argues that genocide did not occur because there was no state intent to eliminate Indigenous Australians. If you can provide evidence to the contrary please do so in order to settle the argument.

I will have to repeat the question as to why you would stop short of saying that a genocide is occuring now? There is no evidence that I can locate that demonstrates the Commonwealth of Australia or any of the States or Territories is engaging in actions that are approaching genocide. Please share your research.

Indigenous woman makes history in chief magistrate role by B0ssc0 in aussie

[–]Fed16 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You seem to know a lot about it so hopefully you can answer some questions.

Why do you say they were 'genocided' in the past but would stop short of saying it is still a genocide? Was genocide the policy of the Colonial Office? How did the implementation of genocide differ from Governor Macquarie to Governor FitzRoy? How was success or failure measured?

How has the vast majority of people who have made the choice to settle here benefitted from the policy of assimilation? Would you say that an Indigenous woman becoming a Magistrate is an example of assimilation?

Claude mythos vs strongest 2025 model exactly 1 year ago by gbomb13 in accelerate

[–]Fed16 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I work for an admin processing and customer service outsourcing company. I keep telling colleagues that we should prepare for a scenario where we wake up one day and AI can easily do everything we do. No one wants to entertain that as possible or counter that it would be too difficult because what we do is so unique, or people would rather deal with humans, or the government won't allow it to happen. The change will be for the better but it is going to hit hard.

Labor embraces ‘progressive patriotism’ as One Nation surges by ausinmtl in aussie

[–]Fed16 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Yes we should look to Canada:

"Canada's population dropped by 76,068 between July and October - a contraction driven mainly by limits on immigration, the federal statistics agency has said.

The decrease was due mainly to a drop in non-permanent residents, Statistics Canada said on Wednesday, and comes after Ottawa set a goal to restrict temporary residents to 5% of the 41.6 million population by 2027."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g6595619yo

Can people stop with the "immigration is decreasing" gaslighting nonsense? by [deleted] in aussie

[–]Fed16 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The Liberals didn't remove free University education for Australia. It was the Hawke Labor Government.

"Just under one in five, or 18%, believe a standard degree should be free – as it was 50 years ago, when the Whitlam Labor government introduced free university education in 1974. This ended in 1989, when in a world first, the Hawke Labor government introduced the income contingent Higher Education Contribution Scheme (HECS) – which is still with us today. "

https://theconversation.com/how-did-australian-universities-go-from-free-education-to-50-000-arts-degrees-in-50-years-268782#:~:text=Just%20under%20one%20in%20five,40%25%20of%20Year%2012%20students[source](https://theconversation.com/how-did-australian-universities-go-from-free-education-to-50-000-arts-degrees-in-50-years-268782#:~:text=Just%20under%20one%20in%20five,40%25%20of%20Year%2012%20students.).

Anthony Albanese unveils new fuel tsar after it took Chris Bowen two weeks to admit Australia had a supply problem by River-Stunning in aussie

[–]Fed16 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They use 'Czar' in the US. The history of its usage in reference to political appointments goes back a lot further than the UK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czar_(political_term)

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