They would claim to own all the air and charge you for breathing if they could get away with it.

It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it. Sounds a bit like feline gathering...

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What do you have to say to people who will lose jobs to automation? Also, great ideas... but these aren't new ideas. Why aren't people already doing these things? How do you plan to make this all happen?

There is already a version of captcha, recaptcha v3, that uses your history instead of those scribbled letters. It's not used much sadly.

Hey buddy, it seems we're starting to get a little heated, I just want to let you know I'm not attacking your intellect or character here. For all intents and purposes, the President can try to make them do whatever he wants.

That said, Congress can literally cancel them.

This is akin to your boss being the chief of police so it's okay for you to ignore the city council and mayor telling you to quit selling Crack to kids or they'll cut your department's funding and have you fired.

Let me know if there's anything I missed in my analogy, or if I need to clarify anything alright? I'm all for clear communication.

Everyone has to be on board with this in order to succeed. Try convincing the millions of people who watch Fox this is a good idea. Noble cause but won’t even gain traction until people are freaking out because they don’t have food, at which point would be too late I’m afraid.

I was born in the 80's I knew exactly what the ipod meant. It meant I can finally get rid of my skipping portable cd player!

Captcha already died. Google recaptcha v3 doesnt use captchas anymore. It uses ai to figure out if you are a bot or not.

Providing reports and reporting to your "boss" is not the same thing.... the bmv gives me a driving report does that mean they report to me? You can't be this dense can you?

I could not find it in the article but in the news yesterday it sounded like germany is far from it so I assumed it is regarding total energy consumption, so including heating and transportation, not only power. Does anyone know what the 42% are referring to?

Congress can literally shut them down. They control their budget, they have the final say in where the money goes.

I don't think you understand exactly what this means.

If I control your income and I say "show me a report of where this money is going, it better not be to selling land for oil drilling" are you going ro say "fuck you I don't care if I have any income" or are you going to do what's required to stay alive?

That's not really how it works though. Natural selection necessarily occurs whenever reproduction happens, it's just the evolutionary pressures and the traits that we end up selecting for that change.

They give congress reports. They "report" to the president.

The president is their boss. Congress is not. Do you really not understand this?

Sorry but this is fucking hilarious: OP posted the very opening paragraph of the article, verbatim. Very clearly, you did not read the article at all, since you are claiming OP is making sweeping judgements himself.

My dude. They literally do report directly to congress.

The Bureau of Land Management is a federal agency within the United States Department of the Interior that manages public lands and resources. The forms used by the BLM to report to Congress can vary depending on the specific information or data being reported. However, some common forms used by the BLM to report to Congress include:

The Annual Report of Lands and Minerals - This report provides an overview of the BLM's management of public lands and resources, including information on the status of grazing permits, mining claims, and oil and gas leases.

The Report on the Status of Oil and Gas Resources on Federal Lands - This report provides an assessment of the status of oil and gas resources on federal lands, including information on production, reserves, and exploration activities.

The Report on the Management of Wild Horses and Burros - This report provides information on the BLM's management of wild horses and burros on public lands, including population estimates, adoption rates, and range conditions.

The Budget Justifications - These documents provide detailed information on the BLM's budget requests and priorities, including funding levels for specific programs and initiatives.

The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) documents - These documents are prepared by the BLM to analyze the environmental impacts of proposed actions on public lands, and are often required by Congress as part of the agency's decision-making process.

It's important to note that these are just a few examples of the forms and reports that the BLM may use to report to Congress, and that the specific forms used can vary depending on the type of information being reported and the requirements of Congress.

No, it was 90th percentile.

I wrote several articles about this subject including:

- Vertical farming, the fourth agricultural revolution, and the future of food

- Automation of labour, particularly in the context of tech like ChatGPT likely to inherit many white-collar jobs within our lifetimes. We must foster this.

Think about the practical aspects of AI "taking all jobs", assuming that happens before society is prepared to regulate UBI or other mitigating post-scarcity policies. People will still need to eat, wear clothes, be housed, etc.

People provided those things for themselves before any form of automation, and they can always go back to doing it again.

Unless AI is going to prevent farming the land and refining its resources, society will carry on at least with these fundamental economics.

At minimum, people will work to provide the essentials for people at the price point they can both afford the essentials and afford the time to participate themselves in the production of those essentials.

So don't worry so much about it because it's not going to benefit you in the short term, nor in the long term if your fears turn out to be reality(which I doubt, personally).

Thank Gawd you got off your ass and finally did something.

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Some of y'all are downvoting. What are your thoughts?

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They don't report to congress. They report to the president. Congress is a check on the executive branch, and congress sets the budget.

This doesn't mean the executive branch answers to congress. They're checks on each other.