PolarPerspective

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

That's kind of the point. We live in a system that is supposed to be "innocent until proven guilty". Not because people who commit crimes should get away with them, but because the opposite system would be completely untenable. How exactly is he supposed to prove that he is innocent? I don't care how sure anyone is that he did it. Prove it, or by our legal standard, he must be considered innocent.

If you want to live in a society where accusation is tantamount to fact, you're going to regret it as soon as anyone says anything about you.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Replace "religion" with "opinion".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

AI could lead to the single greatest transference of wealth and power from the people to the elite. It could also lead to SkyNET.

It's an incredibly powerful and dangerous technology. A handful of poor decisions is all it takes to turn the world into something out of a dystopian/post-apocalyptic novel.

The best we can hope for is that AI makes hundreds of millions of jobs obsolete, and we then have to fight the elite to make sure that wealth is appropriately distributed. I think it will be a lot worse than that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (18 children)

All I see is someone who finally wants to shut down the war machine. I have waited since the Bush administration for someone to do that. Obama ran on bringing our troops home, and actually expanded foreign military involvement.

If Trump is the only one who has the balls to put an end to the American World Police, then so be it.

I don't know how or why democrats decided to be pro-war, but they'll have to fight the rest of us to keep it up. That money and those soldiers would be much better utilized locally, and with a much lower chance of dying for someone else's cause.