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I thin this is mostly for games like Elden Ring and Cyberpunk 2077, which are too big to actually fit on a cartridge.

We cut them out of the SWIFT payment system. All our economists were saying they wouldn't last more than a few months. That was four years ago.

have you really not seen all those thinkpeices that go, "Lets dump our resources into develping AI rather than conservation and renewables, because the AI will magic up a solution for us better than anything actual researchers suggest"?

Billionaires are only free so long as they do nothing that compromises greater returns year after year. Their money is tied up in financial institutions, beholden to the demands of their fellow investors, their overall class. What you call "freedom" is just ultimate privilege. And, like any privilege, it is conditional.

Musk is the perfect example that very concept, yet you choose to dismiss it as some bizarre outlier rather than a demonstration of the rule.

I agree there are conscious people exercising power, but I'm arguing that the system they're enmeshed within constrains the actions they're able to make. Rather than choosing maximal extraction as a means to the goal of survivalist bunkers, they're locked into maximal extraction. The more thoughtful may not like it, may try to break out of it, but the logic of capital will only select for someone else who has no qualms keeping the machine at full tilt.

Survival bunkers are just one way of resolving that internal contradiction; "I'm supposed to have all this power, all this agency; yet I can't overcome the momentum of this system without jeopardizing my place at the top of it". So they invent a goal to fit the means they're pre-committed to. A way of rationalizing it.

The "general super-intelligent AI" investor hype is just another way of rationalizing the same contradiction. "Yes, we're destroying the ecosystem, but it's alright, 'cus digital God is gonna end our dependence on human labor and provide us magic solutions to all the problems before we're completely fucked."

when was the last time a bug hit your windsheild? we're destroying the ecological foundation we're living in, and we know we're doing it, yet it still continues at pace. the sum decides what the parts do, what other conclusion can I draw?

do you actually think people are in control of this system? even the most powerful capitalist is still just exercising a privilege, to be stripped away and replaced should they ever push against the profit motive

CO2 carbon dioxide im talking about climate change not republicans, we're all drowning

general anesthetics are so neat

like, you can just switch me off with a drug, and after a while I come back? weird, bizzar, and yet also practical. and (as far as I understand) it's universal. Works on every living thing. They've anesthetized plants

I think (though i'm not certain) it was hyperbole. Emphasizing that the median resume would look unemployable to, like, a high paying consulting firm, like the sort that does work in DC.

well it was put together at the end of the 1700s, by the kind of guys rich enough to take a summer off to go argue with their peers over the details. The whole thing was designed take democratic input without actually having to be beholden to public sentiment. They were pretty open about that fact, it's all over their correspondences and publications.

Obviously all these years latter it's not quite the same beast they bred, but it still has the same basic shape and function.

nearly unemployable like the rest of us

i think they meant she was just another interchangeable employee "like the rest of us" rather than that she's particularly unemployable for whatever reason

Mon cherie, protegonist of reality, but of course