What about when people vote against their own interests?
They have the right to do so.
What about when the majority suppresses minorities?
That is a bad thing. But talk about a dictatorship?? That’s one person suppressing everybody else.
Dictatorships are not intrinsically bad.
You can have good dictators, even if they are rare.
Hard disagree there.
But it really depends on what you value as good and bad.
For instance, if you think that people have an inherent right to have a say in how they are governed, then a dictatorship can never be good because it infringes on that right in the most serious of ways.
If you think a stable and sustainable system of government that will last beyond the life of a few leaders is important, then dictatorship is not a good system, because one good dictator creates no guarantee that the next dictator will be good, and establishing a system of dictatorship affords a bad dictator that much more power to ruin lives.
There’s no new jobs for horses after the combustion engine was invented to do physical labor
Bingo. And this time we’re the horses.
I doubt that stores will only have one employee
It’s already here, my dude. Not every store, but some are doing this now. It’s just a question of how fast it will spread.
IT guy here, I am not that worried about AI
That’s pretty much because you’re an IT guy. You’re in an industry that AI won’t replace any time soon.
If you were a cashier, or a stock clerk, or a busboy, you should be terrified by AI. The speed at which those jobs are already vanishing is astounding. The other day I was at a restaurant, and I never interacted with a human. The ordering was done by touch panel at my table, the food was delivered to the table by a robot and I paid at an automated terminal. I don’t know how many staff were on duty but it had to be a fraction of what it would have been a decade ago. I bought clothes last week and there was one employee in the store, overseeing the self-checkout lanes (but really just sitting idly by in case anyone had issues). I read an article yesterday about how robots are now being distributed to convenience stores that can clean, stock, and reorder items, so these shops will pretty soon have only one employee in them.
The gimmicky shit that your browser AI and chatbots can do is nothing compared to how this is already revolutionizing the world.
The author wasn’t making a logical argument, so there’s no need to address his “logic.”
He’s a tourist who spent some time in a foreign country, and came to some very sweeping, rash conclusions about an entire country’s culture. It’s shallow, judgmental, and tragically commonplace among self-centered tourists who think they can understand an entire culture after 2 weeks living in a hotel on someone else’s dime. I am so done with the “white dude waxes philosophical about Asian country” trope.
“It is the result of Korea maximizing the bad points of Confucian culture and the shortcomings of capitalism.”
"In Confucian culture, there are no individuals…
"In Confucian culture, we do not try to empathize with mental health problems…
"When you learn Korean culture…
I love when tourists (let’s be real: rich, white, American tourists) visit a country and come back a fucking expert on the culture, filled with all the judgmental wisdom to dish out why that culture is inferior to their own.
Fuck this clown and his “wisdom.”
It’s going to be weird not seeing his face on every police box in the country anymore.
THAC0 is just subtraction instead of addition. I’ll never understand the hate it got.
I have no problem with ascending armor classes and attack bonus. The math is the same. It’s easy and intuitive. But if you’re having issues subtracting whole numbers less than 20, you’ve got a problem bigger than the wrong game system.
Unless theyre scrapping 2077s engine and starting over completely in a different engine for Cyberpunk 2.
They previously (last year or so) said this was their plan.
Gotcha. That makes sense. I know nothing of how food is made.
How long would a can of hand-stuffed fish meat made in such conditions be viable before going bad?
Those were the really fun days of the internet.
When surfing the web was actually an adventure and you’d actually discover things.
Not that I could ever go back to dial up speeds, but damn those days were fun.
“The opposite.” So… China has moved 800 million people into extreme poverty?
“People are entitled taint-lickers because they don’t like something that I like”
You sound like a lot of fun to be around.
Assault is not free speech.
That’s true. It would be cool if we could “subscribe” to a curated block list, sort of like we do with AdBlock plugins.
Liberal use of the block feature has made the Fediverse so much more pleasant. I can’t recommend it enough!
If that’s the understanding of my position that you came to after this several-days-long conversation, then I’m disappointed in your complete lack of attention to everything I’ve said.
I thoroughly read and thought about everything you wrote. You failed to convince me, but I at least listened to your position. It’s really disappointing you didn’t offer the same basic courtesy, and your last comment was the same kind of non-sequitur regurgitated rhetoric that the troll posters in this thread have been using.
Peace out, man. It’s a shame we couldn’t have a productive discussion.
The fuck are you talking about?
You’re replying to things I didn’t say. Are you hearing voices or something?
Try again. Do better.