I thought of that, but it didn't really sound right Probably because the "deep" in deep fake is short for deep learning.

We can bridge the gap with fakereals, videos that look fake but are actually real.

The problem with the theory behind ideocracy is that it assumes human variation in intelligence is largely genetic, which is unlikely.

I guess it depends on if we are setting up Lunar colonies or just sending robots over.

I think 56 microseconds a day, or 1 second every 489 years, is not really going to be an appreciable difference to really constitute a challenge.

A few years ago, I had a doctor appointment and meant to leave work a half hour before to get there on time but instead left an hour and a half early. I was too embarrassed to go back. If that was my 1% genius test, I would have failed.

>It seems a very odd view that making a simple error is an indicator of lack of intelligence.

I was joking, but since you're getting defensive, I might point out that stating 800 million was 1% of 8 billion was merely the most obvious of the errors, sloppy writing, and spurious logic in your comment. I mean, just look at this gem:

>by the time those fuckers had finished with all of the ADHD, lunatic, self obsessed murdering lunatics, we’d be down to about a few million or so.

If you really can't see all the problems in just this sentence alone, then this is perhaps a real-life example of the Dunning-Kruger effect. And I'm not sure if I even want to touch on the intolerant inferences you were making about neurodivergence.

Perhaps you really are a genius belonging to the top 1% of the populace, a place I wouldn't even put myself. If so, you have done a masterful job of covering it up.

I see you've corrected your mathematical error.

That sounds like a terrible experience. Wise of you to disqualify yourself.

I wouldn't be surprised if, with automation, you could shrink down to a population of less than 100 million. There would need to be a higher percentage of the population in STEM fields to get appreciable levels of scientific advancement, but it could be doable.

Really? A human organ growing outside of a rat and then transplanted into a person? Maybe you're a little squeamish. We're saving lives here.

That's fair. Unless it's grown on the outside.

One problem I see is that "artificial" can mean fake or contrived. Synthetic or digital could work as less biased terminology.

Spoken like someone who doesn't desperately need a kidney.

Or mice, per the article.

Will this help with xenotransplantation? Get you a mouse with enough of your genome that it can grow you some kidneys that your body won't reject.

Please don't take this the wrong way, but I made no actual personal attack (you do realize that's what ad hominem means, right?). People get prickly about that sort of thing, so I choose not to do so.

Anyway, it seems like we are in agreement now. Your most recent comment kinda contradicts what you said before, and I can't find anything I disagree with now. So good job!

You do realize that recessions are periods of reduced economic activity, right? Don't you think it might follow that this reduced economic activity would lead to a concomitant reduced need in a corporation's number of employees? Like, maybe that's why there are mass firings in those times.

Corporate CEOs have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize profits. Just last month we saw the US government step in to prevent rail workers from striking over a few sick days. You think they're going to have so much trimmable fat in their workforce that it's tantamount to UBI? That's..well, that is a take.

1. Become massive corporation with billions in capital.
2. Put hundreds of thousands on your payroll.
3. Don't have them work.
4. ??
5. Profit.

Would you like to know what the U in UBI stands for?

There seem to be a few unaddressed assumptions here. Who is Mars industrializing for? What resources would Mars ever have to justify battling through two gravity wells to acquire?

There's nothing about Mars or early colonies that make inequality any more or less palatable than on Earth. Without severe intervention, inequality would be reinforced by the powerful elites hoping to exploit Mars and Martians.

There's really nothing inherent to democracy that would make a colony more or less successful. In the face of a harsh planet, having an individual leader or at least a small cadre of elites making on the fly decisions might be seen as more welcome in comparison to weeks long deliberations that would come about from direct democracy.

Combine that with those headphones that have cat ear speakers and you've got your own theme song that people hear when you walk in the room.

Metaphorically speaking, yes. In actuality, what they would do is snatch up the rights and sue anyone who tried to use anything that resembled "their: intellectual property.