Saw a documentary on the construction technique a while back. It’s not as hard as it seams, but it is a shit ton of work. I’m not sure who worked harder, the guy chiseling on a rock all day every day, or the people feeding that guy that just chisels on a rock all damn day.

Immortality, I’ll get around to whatever I need to eventually.

There tends to be a political backlash after presidential turn over, all the added backlash on this mid term is going to be epic before even taking the economy into account.

Nope, the populace is under stupid strain, but the economy is just slow, not contracting.

Given everything that is going with AI and Trump though, it probably would be a good idea to be prepared for one hell of a recession next year.

It’s also important to remember U-3 is a rate, not a count. Labor force participation is closer to a count, but has to use calculated values over longer periods, making it more of a rough estimate.

Once you’re in power you can rationalize/justify their loss against the greater good that your leadership has brought to the people. There are concrete examples of human progress to defend. If there are significant counter examples, then it’s you that’s the problem to be dealt with, just like any other.

I could make the hard choices if needed, once there. Because at that point it’s about what is the greater good. Even if you really can’t say for certain, someone making a bad call is most often better than no one making a decision.

The problem is that in order to become a benevolent dictator, you have to chose to hurt people that don’t matter to the greater good, or very likely are important to the well being of the population. With the only justification being that maybe by consolidating power you can make the world a better place. And there is just no way to square that circle other than violent narcissism.

I could BE a benevolent dictator, I could never BECOME a benevolent dictator. The process of getting there would exclude me, because I would reject the power structure needed to form the dictatorship in the first place.

No, for rubbing up against.

Because other humans will pay for the feel of genuine humans.

Just think what a company could do with a full motor control interface to their workers. The worker themselves could be asleep or in a virtual world and not have to worry about all that pesky work.

Same situation with cybernetic implants. The rich would have infinite eidetic memory and computation power built into their skull. The poor would be forced to have muscle implants if they wanted a job, or worse, much much worse.

I grab my go bag and step outside to wait for the fire trucks. Lived on a boat for years, so i always keep a waterproof go bag handy.

I’d bet the reason it took them a year to get engaged is half because it took all the lawyers that long to negotiate the terms.

The expense of a delivering the nuke is negligible in comparison to the cost and effort of building a nuke. So much so, that large rocks are more economical than building a nuke at this point.

Use a bigger rock. I might change the cost by hundreds of millions, and still be less than the billions in development and production for a nuke.

Yes, but at this point it would be cheaper and quicker to have spacex fly to orbit, capture a 5 ton rock and drop it on a city.

There’s a reason Iran has been ‘weeks’ from making a bomb for decades now.

They’ll use ai to do pattern matches on available data to assassinate leaders of dissent or those capable of organizing resistance. Knowledge of encryption is uncommon enough of a population to be an acceptable cost.

The rule is to do what you’re both comfortable with, and see if those things match up. If you’re not up for drinking, then don’t. And recognize that social drinking might be more important to the person you’re interested in.

Eh, kind of intentional. If you’re gonna fuck around, you’re gonna find out.