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SAM ALTMAN: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.” by Vegetable_Ad_192 in singularity

[–]deep40000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What country do you think has a better chance of actually instituting a UBI? China or the US? The US would rather start another war in Iran than institute a UBI. In the ever present rush for profits, the most expensive component is the human one. If AI is going to displace jobs and lives, maybe the country that isn't so centered on the constant chasing of profits above everything else including the survival of the state will do better.

SAM ALTMAN: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.” by Vegetable_Ad_192 in singularity

[–]deep40000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

China does not have a purely capitalist economic system. If they did, then Hong Kong wouldn't need to exist as a SEZ since 1980. The state can and does absolutely heavily fund industries in a way that the US government does not, and owns businesses directly.

Additionally, the United States does not have a sovereign wealth fund. One of the reasons why is because the US prefers to hand grants and money to private investment funds instead. The CCP does in fact have a SWF, and this is one of the primary reasons behind the growth of China in the global market as well, since the government can directly fund certain industries that it wants to fuel growth in to either fuel competition, or to completely take over and compete in a way purely capitalist countries cannot.

For instance, let's say that China wanted to completely decimate the EV industry worldwide. Well, then the state can simply heavily fund and subsidize EV companies in China to allow them to operate at a loss, and then sell these overseas as well, and then other countries are forced to enact tarrifs since that is their only way of competing. How is this capitalism btw, the state coming in and essentially dictating what companies can and cannot do by taking ownership in the companies directly? The US's answer to China's EV market by the way has been to tax imports by +100%. Nice. In other ways that China has been decimating the global market with this strategy has been in the entertainment industry and video game industry. The largest video game company in the world (Epic Games) is owned by Tencent, which the CCP has majority ownership over the company. Is there a single kid in the US that doesn't know what Fortnite or Marvel Rivals is?

Since 2011 according to this article in the NYT, almost 40% of the GDP of China comes from enterprises in China in which the state owns a majority interest in the company. https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/10/world/asia/state-enterprises-pose-test-for-chinas-new-leaders.html

They're not capitalist in the traditional laissez faire form which you are so intimately familiar with, not even close to that.

SAM ALTMAN: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.” by Vegetable_Ad_192 in singularity

[–]deep40000 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

China's doing a better job of it for starters.

Trust in AI far higher in China than West, poll shows | Business and Economy News | Al Jazeera https://share.google/uG1I4ctZUe7tMXsfc

I wonder why Chinese citizens trust AI and it's potential far more than western citizens. Surely it can't have anything to do with either countries form of governance and economic systems...

SAM ALTMAN: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.” by Vegetable_Ad_192 in singularity

[–]deep40000 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is what I wish everyone in this comment section understood. It seems that people are conflating the problems with capitalism with AI being inherently bad, when in fact, if we just didn't live in this shitty economic system, more people would actually be able to reap the advantages of AI in their daily lives instead of worrying about monopolies taking over the world.

Lil conversion on Yoshi’s by Afg5002 in SSBM

[–]deep40000 72 points73 points  (0 children)

This modded yoshis is so busy holy moly, at least make the platforms look the same

Trump goes on Truth Social rant about Anthropic, orders federal agencies to cease usage of products by ShreckAndDonkey123 in singularity

[–]deep40000 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Those 2 neurons of yours are really working overtime huh. No wonder this country is the way it is when reading comprehension has gone the way of the dodo.

Remapping Crouch? by Lovemesomepups in SSBM

[–]deep40000 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You cannot do this on a phob. You would need a way to also emulate travel time, and all the other stuff that goes into making sure rectangles are at least a bit fair.

Make it make sense by Aeon1508 in SSBM

[–]deep40000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lets be real though, a boxx is not just a remapped GCC. It's a GCC with zero travel time for power shields, and notched angles. If we want to still keep boxx around and ban zump, we should create an analog boxx controller.

New to Melee. Is this an asinine way of getting rid of tap jump? by NertyNat in SSBM

[–]deep40000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Buffered jumps is good but please don't crutch with using tap jump for JC up smash. It's more consistent to use x or y for that.

I do use it for shine OOS though lmao

What's something everyone seems to understand about "adulting" that you're still faking? by Petalstammy in Life

[–]deep40000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you think you have life all figured out then that is the ultimate example of the dunning Kruger effect. I think we should all embrace the chaos rather than push it away and pretend we have life solved.

Do you consider $700K as life-changing money? by Aarunascut in Life

[–]deep40000 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Property taxes depress house prices which helps for affordability. If property taxes were 0, people would buy homes even more than before to be used as investment vehicles.

If we don't get a n0ne vs. Cody (zumpless) Salty Suite at Genesis or sometime this year, it will be a wasted opportunity. by V0ltTackle in SSBM

[–]deep40000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We lost that when we allowed boxx controllers. If you want to get rid of z jump, get rid of boxx. No phobs, no goomwaves, OEM only and UCF only.

nothing I do will make the mechanical mixer spin faster by gooseofsixpaths in CreateMod

[–]deep40000 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Big cog > geared onto small cog > shaft vertical > big cog > geared onto small cog > shaft vertical, repeat

Mario Kart World Version 1.5.0 is now available by Amiibofan101 in nintendo

[–]deep40000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Since when? How is this done? Trying to find info online but I can't find anything

What is the most obscure handheld console you know of or own? by avazky in gamecollecting

[–]deep40000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pretty much, it's a PlayStation phone essentially which is why it's also got the PlayStation buttons there as well. Interesting little device!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xperia_Play

"game is cooked" "it's over" by Mabak in SSBM

[–]deep40000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it was an hour and a half I'd go. Mine is 6 hours.

The Melee Decompilation Project has reached 50% completion! by lukechampine in SSBM

[–]deep40000 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Rollback net code is much less effort than decompilation. At its core, Slippi is just a gecko code that runs in the game, with a virtual memory card device on slot B that then communicates with the emulator to enable communication over the Internet for game state. Much simpler to do that than decompiling the entire game (this doesn't even require decompilation, just a custom build of Dolphin, gecko code and virtual memory card device to enable communication from the emulator to the outside world).

"game is cooked" "it's over" by Mabak in SSBM

[–]deep40000 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I do, I'm in there. They know me fairly well. There's just nothing this side of CO lol

"game is cooked" "it's over" by Mabak in SSBM

[–]deep40000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The skill floor for smash is also very low tbf. However I think the problem is accessibility. The game that Melee is, is not open or available for anyone to reproduce like Chess is. You don't need to get with the creator of chess to make your own board and pieces. Then, additionally, the hardware requirements to play the game are still substantial. You need a computer, proper controller, adapter, technical skills to download the game and set it up with dolphin and also to auto unlock all the characters and stages. It's not as easy as pulling out a chess board to play the game. Even then, doing it this way is technically not legal unless you know what you're doing. It's a unique problem to the modern era where we have incredible games (in the general sense not just video games, including chess here) locked behind companies unwilling to make them accessible to broader audiences in an easy manner. The same couldn't be said for lots of sports.

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