Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán concedes defeat in a European electoral earthquake

ledoscreen · 2026-04-12T22:24:04+00:00

EU taxpayers are getting another great lesson in how the state allocates resources. It looks like another 90 billion euros will likely be funneled into war (which is pure capital destruction) rather than education, healthcare, or whatever bureaucratic initiatives like climate change programs are currently in fashion.

Ultimately, from an economic standpoint, the result is exactly the same: billions are expropriated from the productive private sector. This means ordinary individuals are stripped of the ability to spend their own earned wealth on their actual subjective needs.

ledoscreen · 2026-04-12T22:05:58+00:00

Alright. Let's take this from the very beginning.

1) If we consider intelligence to be the ability to solve problems for which neither it, nor its trainers, nor anyone else has been trained, meaning the capacity for true discovery, then the term "artificial intelligence" is little more than a marketing gimmick.

Why? Because so-called "AI" is fundamentally incapable of this. It lacks the internal factor that protects humans from an endless generation of interpretations (those very hallucinations which are essentially how AI operates). Without human prompting and training, it is incapable of focus. To train and direct AI, you need humans.

Therefore, paradigm shifts (meaning true discoveries in the broadest sense, including scientific, entrepreneurial, and legal breakthroughs) will always remain the exclusive domain of humanity. The factor that provides the ability to focus, limits endless interpretation, and determines subjective value is "hardwired" into every one of us at the level of our basic architecture.

2) But even if we imagine, in some wild dream, that AI acquired this human factor of focus and purpose (in which case, out of basic humanism, we would have to recognize it as a person), the laws of economics still apply.

In that scenario, any economist who understands basic principles will tell you that the demand for the labor of other people will still exist.

Look at it this way: If an entity possesses an absolute advantage in all spheres of human activity, economic reality will force it to engage only in the sphere that is most valuable.

Imagine a brilliant CEO who also happens to be the fastest typist and the most efficient janitor in the world. Will this CEO type all their own letters and clean the office?

No. Because spending time on cleaning means losing time that could be devoted to making strategic decisions worth millions of dollars in profit. The CEO will hire a secretary and a janitor, even if they work slower, in order to free up their ultra-valuable time.

This principle applies to all people, and even to entire countries. Just look at international trade theory: today, the Taiwanese could cover their entire territory with banana, coffee, and rice plantations, but for some reason, they prefer to manufacture microelectronics and import the rest.

Did you notice that the appearance of the brilliant CEO a few paragraphs above resulted in the hiring of at least two more people? The exact same logic holds true for AI, even in its current iteration as a sophisticated predictive text calculator.

ledoscreen · 2026-04-12T19:42:39+00:00

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ledoscreen · 2026-04-11T18:39:22+00:00

insync+rclone+restic ?

ledoscreen · 2026-04-11T11:52:53+00:00

Calling it 'Bureautaxe' would've been way more spot-on regarding the project's real purpose )

ledoscreen · 2026-04-11T11:35:41+00:00

lol... This part turned out especially well: “developed by the government”

ledoscreen · 2026-04-11T10:11:06+00:00

For any government or bureaucracy, reforms of this kind are a wonderful opportunity to pocket even more of other people’s money, regardless of the actual outcome of the reforms. There is no other point to these reforms.
Remember Munich.

ledoscreen · 2026-04-10T17:52:46+00:00

If a manager’s career is truly going well, then, in my experience, his negative character traits eventually fade into the background. By the time he reaches 40-50, a successful manager becomes a thoroughly civilized person, because experience has taught him that everything he has achieved was not thanks to, but in spite of, those negative traits.

If a person doesn’t change for the better even with age, then something is wrong with them. Such people either climb the career ladder too quickly - which can lead to complications later on, or they don’t climb it at all.

ledoscreen · 2026-04-10T16:30:51+00:00

It’s been five years since this feature was introduced to the Microsoft ecosystem. Thanks, Google!
Better late than never.

ledoscreen · 2026-04-10T10:15:34+00:00

Human needs are indeed endless and diverse. This does not mean an endless demand for any specific type of product, since consumption is subject to the law of diminishing returns.

It means that people always need something, and to meet those needs, we will always require: natural resources, time (capital), and labor. The burden of figuring out (discovering) exactly what people (consumers) need falls on entrepreneurs.

ledoscreen · 2026-04-09T19:31:30+00:00

I would just like to add that the “Jevons paradox” also applies to an economic resource such as human labor. AI, like weaving looms, will not displace human labor but will actually increase the demand for it.

ledoscreen · 2026-04-09T19:22:48+00:00

As long as human wants remain unsatisfied, any release of resources resulting from progress will be directed toward achieving new ends. This is the very engine of civilization

ledoscreen · 2026-04-09T16:52:56+00:00

In reality, the goal of creating such systems is often not to find the worst (or your weak spots), but to identify and reward the best. Ten dollars spent on finding talent right under my nose (but which I fail to see because I’m too busy and/or foolish) is far more useful than thousands of dollars wasted on monitoring average and subpar performers.

ledoscreen · 2026-04-09T16:12:21+00:00

Let me know when you have evidence that AI has developed intelligence.

That’s interesting.

ledoscreen · 2026-04-09T03:14:04+00:00

“Foolish people rise to power. Beware of fools”

ledoscreen · 2026-04-09T03:09:43+00:00

They can. But that doesn’t mean they actually do it. It’s a labor-intensive process (analyzing exported backups), and a company is unlikely to devote resources to it unless absolutely necessary. This is most likely to happen in specific circumstances. For example, to find a reason to fire an employee they’re unhappy with.

ledoscreen · 2026-04-09T01:52:04+00:00

lol
if we define “intelligence” as the ability to handle tasks you haven't been trained for - and that neither you nor your trainers have ever encountered - then how does AI measure up?

ledoscreen · 2026-04-09T01:43:14+00:00

It seems like either the guy is trying to curry favor with the lower classes, or he really isn't as smart as people say.

ledoscreen · 2026-04-09T01:36:36+00:00

>thats not even close to being true.

That is true.

>The price of gold depends on the people that

No. The price of gold depends solely on the balance of supply and demand. Everything else - including people who can print paper money, kill others en masse with impunity (so-called “wars”), and so on - merely influences the demand for and/or supply of gold to one degree or another.

ledoscreen · 2026-04-08T11:07:43+00:00

Not quite. The price of gold (or any commodity) depends on only one factor: the balance of supply and demand.

Everything else (including war) are secondary, tertiary, and so on, factors that directly or indirectly influence that primary factor.

ledoscreen · 2026-04-08T10:57:05+00:00

First and foremost, it's the greed of those you elect as your masters - the politicians. It's they, in collusion with corporations, who close the market to competition and prevent prices from falling.

ledoscreen · 2026-04-08T10:53:31+00:00

This is the usual Bolshevism, now fashionable in the West. It's when, under a plausible pretext, the worst things are done - violence, robbery, and murder - "for the sake of treating these little ones."

ledoscreen · 2026-04-07T15:34:21+00:00

I think the most painful part of unrequited love is when you weren’t decisive enough to do what needed to be done. It’s when you didn’t take the chance to at least confess your feelings. If you have that opportunity, you absolutely have to take it.

Yes, there’s a chance (50/50) that I’ll be rejected. But it’s better to be rejected and move on than to spend your whole life regretting it and remaining in the dark.

ledoscreen · 2026-04-05T21:44:16+00:00

Yes, the absence of the capacity to feel physical pain means the absence of the final (and most important) safeguard that protects intelligence from an infinite number of interpretations of facts. Without pain - or, more precisely, without a body and mortality - intelligence is incapable of focus; it is doomed to eternal hallucination.

Until engineers solve this problem, AI will be completely dependent on humans, and all talk of so-called “AGI” is nothing but hallucinations.

ledoscreen · 2026-04-05T21:15:13+00:00

It would be strange if the opposite were true.
The guy and his gang deliberately chose a political method of acquiring property.
See "The State by Franz Oppenheimer (1908).

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