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How about just universal healthcare, housing, and education?
See, now you’re just being ridiculous.
They might end up shooting the dolphin up with acid and jerking it off until it commits suicide.
We can all hope to go out in such glorious fashion.
Speak for yourself.
Prude
Sounds pretty fucking sweet to me!
I can all hope to go out in such glorious fashion.
If anyone is curious about the actual experiment
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/08/the-dolphin-who-loved-me
I have a grey diving suit around somewhere
Or feeding the poor
I was going to say, something like ‘actual’ UBI given to the most indigent and homeless, and you would see some measurable change.
Pfff, come on — impossible. Who will I beat with my cane if they aren’t begging for scraps?
I support actually doing this.
As in literally taking the money straight out of the billionaire funding pockets. But not in parity with the amounts used for AI funding, I just mean all of it. And not simply “all of it”, but actually all of it, to the point where they’re in soup kitchen lines and panhandling, hoping to get enough to pay for dinner.
Take all that money and put it in science research, charities, etc.
If they can’t get enough from the charities back to keep breathing, then oh well. Sorry people that deserve it got it instead, oh well, we’ll make a note that we’re all doing great on the money that was yours.
Maybe they should have spent the money on fusion research first. They could have had nearly free power, and make a fortune selling off the rest, all while saving the climate.
The cruelty is the point
Give dolphins, octopus, and cuddlefish psychedelics
Cuddlefish ʘ‿ʘ
aka Blahaj
You almost made me not loathe them. Almost. Fucking terrifying.
What’s the total amount given to AI in a year? I’m curious how many decades we could solve world hunger, provide free healthcare for the planet, AND make advancements in renewable energy.
But like honestly though, I’ve seen on YouTube people funded almost entirely through commissions and patrons manage metallurgical feats previously considered impossible like the forge welding of titanium to steel. Imagine what they could do with even a fraction of Nvidia’s or OpenAI’s budget?
NileRed might make an actual Philosopher’s Stone (out of Code Red Mountain Dew and Silly Putty or something).
This time, I’m going to make a diamond out of a pile of dirty socks!
(Not being mean, I like his content, but the guy has a verbal tick right? He starts every vowel starting sentence with this strange descending squeak. Or is it just an accent?
“II’m here to show…”
I think he’s forcing through a stutter. Specifically I think he’s forcing through a stutter on hard vowels which begin without a preceding consonant. I have a similar specific impediment and while I’ve mostly worked through it sometimes when I’m nervous (like when recording) my voice will crack/squeak like that. Words that trigger it: I, Egg, international, Apple, Ypsilanti…
I also have triggers with words with too many consonant sounds at the start, like jump, which because of the shape of my mouth I form as DJhomp, the dj part shifting into a nearly unspoken H is tough for me.
I spent years in specific therapy, Nigel from NileRed talks like he has too.
Ah that makes sense. I had a noticeable stutter myself until I was about 25, and then I joined a gym and it magically went away
Confidence helps. For me it was changing schools at 14, being near people who didn’t know my shortcomings gave me the confidence to succeed at talking that 6 years of speech therapy couldn’t.
Nowadays when I’m mega nervous I still get tripped up by preglottal plosives like the Hard C in cat. I learned to speak alliteratively in those times because it makes me feel like I’m singing and I never stutter while I sing.
The ice bucket challenge paid off in real medical breakthroughs within 2 years by raising 115 million. Komen had a HUGE impact on breast cancer research that lead to real medical improvements that saved lives.
If we dumped AI money broadly into almost any field of research we’d see more people shift toward that field to get funding. We’d see struggling projects get the funding they need to continue. We’d see stuff that wasn’t pursued because it’s a long shot get the funding it needs. Better staffed and equipped labs where work is already being done.
You’d see an explosion in progress over the coming years.
The last time I ever saw our current dipshit of a president (who wasn’t president at the time) do anything remotely altruistic was when he had ice water dumped on him for ALS.
If we could communicate with dolphins or primates I’m sure we’ll use the tech for military use, breeding millions of primates in captivity to be sent to the frontline
‘breeding millions of primates in captivity to be sent to the frontline’
Isn’t this what Texas/Arkansas is already purposed for?
CIA tried it with dolphins already.
I have this thought often, what if instead of football and baseball we got around to watch a team if engineers do cool science shit for the season.
Jet pack cyber dogs can play capture the flag, recreation of midway w drones replacing fighter planes, pizza deliver drones that fly so high entry warms your pie.
Just saying paying men to move ball ain’t for me…so I wanna see your money and support go to something I think cool.
This is basically FIRST robotics. It should extend beyond high school though imo
Imagine if we just awarded it every year to the farmer who can grow the largest yield per acre or the manufacturer who built the best car.
none of these things are one man operations though, the farmer needed farmhands to spray the pesticides and collect the produce, and the car manufacturer needed several different engineers, many who would not be motivated to work if they didn’t drink or beat their kids to ease the pain of their daily mistreatment at work
Sure. I’m just saying we should be getting some kind of real tangible benefit rather than some kind of bifurcated ponzi scheme.
New AInvil, coming soon
Its just a normal anvil but it tells you you did a perfect hammer blow every time.
I’ll take some of that blacksmith funding. My plan is to take two laminated Damascus swords and then forge weld them together so you get twice the sword for your money.
Instead of welding them directly, can you please connect them with a nunchucks chain?
I’d take a Gordian Knot, and then fuse the ends together and then, I dunno, throw it at Alexander the Great’s grave.
We should join forces and become a Venturesmith duo. Forging our way across the land, raiding lost tombs.
After Alexander The Great we can hunt down that rascal Genghis Khan.
Yeah! We’ll develop CRISPR weapons to hunt down all traces of him in the genealogy of the general populace, and knockout/knockdown his DNA out of existence!
Or put it in a tube and fling it into space… …oh wait.
