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  • The movie glorified him and his death. It isn’t portrayed as needless or reckless. His death in the movie is framed as being a spiritual awakening, him finally leaving the material world behind and achieving enlightenment and that dying that way is something to aspire to. It was a dumb movie with hot people in places with exceptional natural beauty with a sloppy message which itself undercuts for mass appeal.


  • In long term they do have to bring some profit, otherwise they’re net negative to society.

    You did, pretty succinctly. Profit is financial profit, that’s it’s definition. I think you mean a benefit which may or may not be profitable. Social services are beneficial to society, not always profitable.


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    9 days ago

    Not everything in society needs to be profitable. Elder care is extremely unprofitable to society, they’ve already provided all the profit they can, now they’re just an expense on society. So why don’t we just drop them off in the middle of nowhere and let the animals eat them like a dying farm cat? It actually works out better because their kids can inherit the parents wealth without the parents using all that money to live through their retirement. The kids can take it the moment their parents are retired and immediately invest it. It’s way better for the economy because you won’t have a retirement investment that slowly dwindles until it’s gone. It’s a sudden infusion of cash that will pay way more dividends over time.







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    16 days ago

    You differentiate yourself by being first. That’s partly why OpenAI and Sam Altmann are so fixated on bringing general AI to light. They know that if AGI is possible that the first one to reach it will see all the benefits. Second place gets nothing. Unfortunately it’s becoming more and more obvious that AGI is a dream and not actually possible.



  • “Owned” as the definition we use no, but there definitely was a sense of ‘this is not yours, don’t use this’. I think the point that the speaker was trying to get across is that between people they considered the same as them there was no ownership. It wasn’t all peace and free love but it wasn’t being okay with watching a community member starve to death because they’re poor and therefore deserve it.