Flumpkin

joined 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Wow thanks that is awesome, gotta remember that site. For rice I already found the 50lbs pack that also beats my local discount grocer (which is rare).

What pisses me off that amazon has made it's "sort by cheapest" completely unusable. You find 100 pages of the exact same ultra-trashy product or something related or a replacement part or something.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

And here I am buying flour and eating pancakes all day long. Or potatoes. If only I could afford corn flakes!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

On the bright side, once AI actually CAN answer things like this we'd have "Artificial Ethics". A way to judge questions objectively or at least without emotional tempering for each specific case. This could solve some fundamental problems like "who watches the watchers" - we simply build the perfect watcher.

Of course we're far away from that yet. And then we'd just ignore our perfect watcher anyway 🤣

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I've recently read a comment saying the great Chinese firewall somehow "learns" that you are using a VPN. So people doing quick tests "yep VPN works" but then a little later it doesn't work anymore. No clue if that is true though.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

Yes, the Genocide Convention.

I believe even without signing it, other signatories still have to everything they can to prevent genocide.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

“This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.”
-- Aaron Bushnell

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Vouchers for babies lol

How are the social laws in Korea for this? Like parental leave, healthcare, government support for kindergarten and schools, housing?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Don't do it... since God is infallible any contradiction would negate all of existence!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

This assumes rewritable media, of course… because we need feature parity.

I'd be fine without, if you can just append records to overwrite or delete previous files. For backup or long term storage RW doesn't matter that much. Or at least, I'd much rather have a cheaper non rewritable disc with a capacity like this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah in some fields like food production or medicine you want less efficiency and more surplus and reserves in times of crisis especially with climate or possible wars coming.

I don't really know much about all this but I'd think ideally we should have at least 50% of the needed calories for a year in reserve. Presumably there should also be incentives to leave fields fallow but be able to quickly start planting food crops if there is a crisis. And less intensive agriculture should also mean less intensive fossil fuel usage. Of course we also should drastically reduce meat consumption.

Local efforts like FarmLink are awesome but maybe we should do more under something like the UN World Food Program. And you'd want food distribution to be run non-profit or more like a public utility. We are now in the time of AI where we should be able to create an objective semi-planned economy that optimizes quality, sustainability and fairness. Basically a piece of software that can plan globally in real time and offers farmers multiple options for contracts to grow stuff, or contracts to build food storage, and can manage or help to plan food distribution. You want less market volatility and some kind of monetary and food reserve to buffer fluctuations.

We should also have a push for open source robotics in farming so you can build and repair and maintain your own farm robots. This doesn't have to be so complicated compared to e.g. 3D printers. I'm not sure how if and how soon solar powered agri-bots can become truly useful and replace big and energy intensive farming equipment and reduce fertilizer, pesticide and herbicide use, but the sooner the better. I imagine patents and IP will severely hinder adaption too just like with 3D printers.

Instead it seems farmers are being neglected by governments or bought out by big agricultural corporations. Or they are co-opted by Russian propaganda to destabilize democracy.

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