Bilbuss ⏹️

Bilbuss ⏹️

@bilbuss.bsky.social

I think AI will kill us all and I am desperately looking for someone intelligent to tell me why I'm wrong!

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Populism sets up the population to look for an enemy that it can band together against. But the true enemy of the people is populism itself, so how do we defeat populism without creating another enemy and becoming populist?

"According to the philosopher Ly Tin Wheedle, chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organised."-Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times.

It is possible that science is on the verge of curing the ageing problem in humans and thus making it possible for us to become functionally immortal. To all the scientists out there working on longevity: Please stop! Is this really the generation we want to live forever?

The people have spoken and through their mighty voice we have seen that all the promises and platitudes are broken Ignorance is only blissful for the ignorant And those that see can only scream #poerty

What you have we want But what we have you don't want There's a deficit. Charge our people more For the things of yours we want and we will make things And people suffer all of their costs will increase Will they get paid more? Do you have a plan? The cost of living goes up Life's value goes down

Without freedom of speech and freedom of expression, there is no liberty. Without the rule of law, there is no freedom of speech/expression! Without due process, there is no rule of law. Every right espoused in any democracy is the same. The backbone of every great nation is due process!

This truly is the best of times and the worst of times! I can find out anything I want to know, listen to any song ever recorded and watch any film ever made, not to mention food from around the world delivered to my door. At the same time, I am watching mindless idiocy destroying the world! How?

Apparently apologetic people applauding plausibly parasitic petulant purveyors of pestilence and paramours of pea-brained nincompoops, postulate profound predictions and praise their pretence, preferring that to the imperfect principles that underpin present party positions and promote peace.

I have seen so much reporting on the trump debacle with Zelensky. But I have not seen anybody mention that all the way through that press conference, Trump was calling "rare earth minerals" "raw earth"! Why are we not shaming him constantly for being very stupid?