Recent content by Aldarion

Love it just from the description!

Idea is perfect! I mean, what's not to like about having a civil war every 15 minutes?

Great! That game was my introduction to Warhammer, in fact.

If robots basically do everything, how is your "governmental employment" in any way different from UBI? Hell, full employment by the government basically was used as UBI by socialist countries.

OK, the only two theoretically functional options.

Good enough AI would make UBI basically unavoidable, however. Either that, or let 99% of people starve to death.

Human brain and human thought are also mathematical processes. The only things AI cannot entirely simulate is art and emotions, because it doesn't have hormones. Unfortunately, I am not old enough that 20 years from now is science fiction for me. And while you are correct about the current AI...

But farmers DID get outcompeted by tractors. It is just that industry required manual labor instead. Again: - when agriculture got more efficient, workforce shifted to industry - when industry got more efficient, workforce shifted to intellectual work - when intelllectual work gets "more...

If anybody wants to see a stop motion Jurassic Park animation with the types of dinosaurs Chrichton had imagined in the novel... look no further:

Avoiding sharks and piranhas in a swimming pool:

https://crimesofcommunism.net/en/commissioner-of-ozna-a-frenzied-murderer-she-killed-prisoners-with-blows-to-the-head-with-a-metal-mallet/ The first source of knowledge in researching the suffering of people in the area of Višnjica was the local priest Josip Pavlek, who presented the testimony...

Yep, and that is the issue. Agreed, although even the "attention economy" can actually be replaced by the AI.