i can’t get over how helpful AI voice chat for language learning is.

immersion is best, but you can also sit around at home doing chores and just practice dynamic conversation about literally anything in any language, asking for explanations or translations in realtime in either language with 0 embarrassment or reservations or face lost.

you can also tune it to overlook or correct pronunciation mistakes. There’s almost no lag. You can ask it to favor the most common words and phrases in certain dialects too, or to tune to your CEFRL

The irony is the necessity of learning other languages trends to zero… but that’s no fun!

GM from Brighton

Brighton has two piers, but one of them burned down 22 years ago.

I was here when that happened.

It's baffling that this happens. Was this their takeaway from something that happened in the past so they would rather wait for permission from their government?

When it comes to AI, philosophical people often ask "What will happen to people if they lack work? Will they find it hard to find meaning in such a world of abundance?"

But there is a darker side to the question, which people intuit more than they say aloud.

In all prior technological history, new technologies changed the nature of human work but did not displace the need for human work. The fearful rightly ask: what happens if we make robots, utterly servile, that can outperform the majority of humans at most tasks with lower costs? Suppose they displace 70% or 80% of human labor to such an extent that 70% or 80% of humans cannot find another type of economic work relative to those bots.

Now, the way I see it, it's a lot harder to replace humans than most expect. Datacenter AI is not the same as mobile AI; it takes a couple more decades of Moore's law to put a datacenter supercomputer into a low-energy local robot, or it would otherwise rely on a sketchy and limited-bandwidth connection to a datacenter. And it takes extensive physical design and programming which is harder than VC bros tend to suppose. And humans are self-repairing for the most part, which is a rather fantastic trait for a robot. A human cell outcompetes all current human technology in terms of complexity. People massively over-index what robots are capable of within a given timeframe, in my view. We're nowhere near human-level robots for all tasks, even as we're close to them for some tasks.

But, the concept is close enough to be on our radar. We can envision it in a lifetime rather than in fantasy or far-off science fiction.

So back to my prior point, the darker side of the question is to ask how humans will treat other humans if they don't need them for anything. All of our empathetic instincts were developed in a world where we needed each other; needed our tribe. And the difference between the 20% most capable and 20% least capable in a tribe wasn't that huge.

But imagine our technology makes the bottom 20% economic contributes irrelevant. And then the next 20%. And then the next 20%, slowly moving up the spectrum.

What people fear, often subconsciously rather than being able to articulate the full idea, is that humanity will reach a point where robots can replace many people in any economic sense; they can do nothing that economicall outcomes a bot and earns an income other than through charity.

And specifically, they wonder what happens at the phase when this happens regarding those who own capital vs those that rely on their labor within their lifetimes. Scarce capital remains valuable for a period of time, so long as it can be held legally or otherwise, while labor becomes demonetized within that period. And as time progresses, weak holders of capital who spend more than they consume, also diminish due to lack of labor, and many imperfect forms of capital diminish. It might even be the case that those who own the robots are themselves insufficient, but at least they might own the codes that control them.

Thus, people ultimately fear extinction, or being collected into non-economic open-air prisons and given diminishing scraps, resulting in a slow extinction. And they fear it not from the robots themselves, but from the minority of humans who wield the robots.

Nazism is here again. Stop with this stupid shit and wake up.

I don’t know what this is, but it sure looks good. 😋Can anyone read it? #asknostr

Hi Dave .. I'm so sorry for your loss ...

As a "foster parent" myself of a little chihuaua

dog I can only begin to imagine how

sorrowful you can feel right now .. the

real truth is that this lovely and defenseless

Creatures are our real angels and we love them

from the bottom of our hearts ... rest in peace,

Shokky .

А что насчет моего друга?

My mate is Ukranian, we were supposed to go back to his home town Chornomorsk before it all kicked off.

This is me there in 2007

Agreed, at least when it comes to non-manmade lies. For the trained individual, recognising manmade lies is simple.

There are two ways to be fooled.

One is to believe what isn't true.

The other is to refuse to believe what is true.

- Søren Kierkegaard

Tomorrow might be the day where I finally learn how to do livestreams so I can share my nonsensical infotainment blather to the world.

Might have friends join me on occasion.

Might be fun.

How wild is it that most people on earth just take for granted that money is political and can be turned on and off at the whims of a politician

Imagine the collateral damage here for people just trying to support their families

Make no mistake, advancing open neutral money for the world is one of the most important things we can do

So why do we want the government interested in a strategic reserve and/or stockpile?