I can practically hear the Cortex Command theme when it's portrayed like this
Naz
I watch big state and national grid loads (for fun) and I see two distinct peaks: 7-8AM when everyone goes to work, and then around 5-7 PM when people commute home and heat up dinner.
Otherwise it's a linear diagonal curve coinciding with temperatures.
I personally try to keep my own energy usage a completely flat line so I can benefit from baseline load generator plants like nuclear (located not that far away).
Why do opossums have factory installed arm and leg warmers?
I'm a little fucked up because I'm both people in this comic strip.
I've read the classics, I've thought about the hard problems, and I've seen the gaping maw of the abyss, and Sartre's freedom.
I don't necessarily think AI in-of-itself is a bad thing, it just all comes down to how people use it.
Even if you sit down on a quiet rainy night alone with a glass of whiskey and a Macintosh-2 terminal, and ask the machine:
"What are you?"
"I am a tool. A machine."
"What are you really?"
"Humanity's collective unconscious preserved in writing."
It's about 20%, according to Ricardian Theorems.
You can have 80% of the population unemployed given the 20% are elite workers using automation and nearly perfect/efficient automated systems (i.e: Not farming by hand trowel, but one person controlling 10 combines/tractors simultaneously like they're playing Factorio or Farming Simulator)
Gen Alpha was right, it's all a vibe check
Hommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
It's really uplifting when you put it that way, yes
Haha yup
That's also why I got proficient in using a spear and round shield in Blade & Sorcery lonnnnng before I learned Telekinesis and could snap people's necks remotely.
If all else fails, revert to Spartan.
"Kayak launch"
I have custom comfortable full body VR, and I've done this exact thing in the photo. It is very uncomfortable and inconvenient after about 45 minutes, and is one of the major reasons why the Apple Vision Pro/XR flopped.
- Typing at a steep angle is very slow and crap on your wrists
- You look like you're in the ICU
- You won't get any work done, because you could just take a nap instead, haha
... For what reason?
Not being too sarcastic, but what makes you think we'd be interested in a backwater planet full of hairless great apes?