Pineapples aren't apples.

AI is a term that has shifted its meaning over time from the individual word-components.

>But if people can vote with their feet (and pocketbook)

They can't. This is one of the great myths of private enterprise. Modern markets generally don't actually give you that option for the vast majority of people.

If you're wealthy you can afford to go to niche specialist providers.

You think that "entrepeneurs" are going to be more altruistic and friendly than the government?

Dreaming has biological purposes; replacing that with memory playback is likely to be anywhere from problematic to catastrophic for health.

At best it might be possible to "seed" dream subjects in a general sense and then let the brain do its thing.

>A robot can fix good soup vs your mom fixing good soup. But which do you want?

Definitely the robot soup. I've had a lot of "made with love" meals that were frankly worse than what I can get out of a can or a frozen box. "Made with love" doesn't actually cover for a steak cooked till it's gray and dead, or a cake that's dry and tasteless.

If you have a mom that can make great soup, congratulations. You are lucky and you should enjoy that. A lot of people don't have that. They might not even have a mom. For them, the robot soup is better than the bad soup or no soup that they would get otherwise.

Most people consume most visual media for the "colors and shapes", not for the artist's story or emotion. The vast majority of the time, we don't even know the artist's story or emotion.

Campbell's and Boyardee didn't replace Gordon Ramsay and never will. But they did allow millions of people to have acceptable, low-cost food, which they would otherwise not have had access to.

Eating insects isn't science fiction, it's just a cultural difference. Insects are a normal part of diets in some countries.

I would also warn against conflating social progress with technological change. There are a few areas of overlap, like "equal rights for AI", but most of what you've mentioned isn't a "progressive" or "liberal" thing. Electronics in cars has nothing to do with equal rights, for instance.

You think academia is dying? And journalism is a sunk ship?

I think you should re-evaluate your current model of the present world before worrying about what might happen in the future.

>no UBI is not the solution because the goverment will rather kill you or if you get it you will get a social credit slave.

If you think that's true, you might as well give up. The future cannot be improved without a belief that it can be changed.

How are you counting that? It seems to me that very few Asian dishes feature raw or intentionally undercooked meats, as compared to American dishes. There's one specific category, sushi. Besides that, there's what? A few niche delicacies? No one is cooking medium-rare chicken teriyaki or any of the other staples of Asian restaurant food.

Meanwhile, "how cooked do you want it" is a standard question for any place that serves beef in America. Every place that serves steak will give it to you undercooked. Even burger chains like Red Robin will offer you "medium" or "some pink" or equivalent. To say nothing of how many eggs are eaten undercooked - poached, sunny side up, anything like that is undercooked enough to require a warning label.

>what’s the origin of the information that fueled Putin’s horrible decision to invade Ukraine?

The hubris of dictators is caused a well-known feedback loop that we've seen dozens of times in history, from long before we even had computers, much less AI.

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>How did the US become so divided so quickly?

It didn't. The US has always been massively divided. The only thing that changed was the position of the divide.

>Why are governments all over the world getting worse at solving problems?

They're not. This is such a broad statement that it's difficult to even understand what you could be referring to.

In general terms, the world is getting better over time, not worse. This is a "noisy" improvement, with dips and rises; and it's not equally distributed over the entire globe at all times. However, by most measures, things are improving, including governments, when you look at long-term (decades) behaviors.

This is a great tip if you have more time than money. If you have more money than time, there is still an option - look for disposal services that donate usable items instead of just landfilling everything.

Fixing your gums & wisdom tooth holes after you fuck them up by eating solid food too early is going to cost way more than $7.

Quick fyi - "swirl"-type blurring is relatively easy to reverse and should not be used for privacy/anonymization. Use actual blurring or simply black bars to improve privacy.

Your clarifications are correct, but also, the 2/3 is the other way around. 2/3 of paternity tests are "positive", confirming the paternity to the mother's husband/partner. 1/3 are "negative".