I don’t agree. The company will still be owned by humans and AI will always be controlled by humans in some way. It will have the assignment to put (short-term) profit above everything else and it will do so in ways a human couldn’t have imagined, which will be the horrible stuff that is happening today and on top of that everything the AI will think of.

It will also be easier for the owner to detach themselves from the heinous actions of the company, since it is the AI making the decisions. This will cause any decision that is made with the last shred of humanity from these CEO’s to fall in the direction of maximising profits instead.

This will surely pave the way for the dystopian society that we all fear is coming.

There are definitely not more real people who actually give enough of a fuck to continuously put an effort in to deny every bot’s claim than there are right wing bots.

Please take me back to the real world. I don’t like this fever dream anymore

Yeah that one is way bigger, but you can probably drive it on the highway

A micro EV? They’re everywhere over here and are often parked sideways into parallel parking spaces.

I don’t think there will be much difference, since an Italian teacher would already pronounce volt as volt-a.

Ah, yeah that sounds pretty bad

Why is it so bad? I don’t know about the exact situation, but 10.4% average yearly gain seems exactly like what a pension fund should do. Trying to hit the jackpot with people’s pensions is not a secure or sustainable way to deal with people’s pensions.

The rule is quite simple: if Elon has something to do with it it is grossly overvalued. Europe’s pension funds are not stupid and have a long history of making stable gains on their investments, as they should.

Yes, but good luck convincing the red-baseball-cap-wearing masses that they made a mistake by voting for him.

Pride, hate and sunk-cost fallacy are a hell of a thing.

Why not?

The headline is misleading. They just want to change the Italian word for volt to Volta, since that was the man’s actual name in his native Italian

I reacted mostly to this part:

it doesn’t work like “this organism learned something, and **that** knowledge or instinct gets passed down”. It tends to be more like, this organism’s body was under some specific pressure, or lived in some specific environment for an extended period, and the resulting effect is mostly unrelated and mostly unpredictable.

Where it seemed like you meant specific “learned” traits in one generation are not passed down to offspring, which is contradictory to what is commonly believed by experts. In some occasions it works like you described, but not always. I’m not an expert on epigenetics or even genetics though. And like I mentioned, a lot is still unknown, so we can’t say anything with so much certainty.

Those are just the examples we have found in humans, but epigenetics is certainly studied as a way organisms pass specific traits on to their offspring, for example:

Epigenetic inheritance has emerged as a new research discipline that aims to study the mechanisms underlying the transmission of acquired traits across generations.[1]

That’s why it was a joke, but we still don’t know everything about epigenetics, so in theory it could be possible.

It was a joke, but releasing mosquitoes that can bypass deet into the wild? They might procreate and pass that information on and create a race of superbugs, although I doubt that will happen.

Let’s hope these bugs don’t escape from the lab

Ahhh, so they sailed through international waters huh?

Does it involve beating people and then giving them a choice of either more beatings or emigration?

Must be a face-melting experience