@thevivafrei@DonDavies The notion that oil and gas are integral to only 5 percent of the economy is laughable. What are the phone and computer casings made from, wire insulation, clothing, building materials. The world economy relies entirely on the byproducts of oil.
@nfergus and the only limit to AIs potentialities is access to that data, and the computational power to process it, both of which can be overcome, we are without doubt, staring down the barrel of a gun, if not as a species, than certainly civizationally.
@michaelpsenger surely it is the western citizenry themselves who shoulder the biggest responsibility. An inheritance of such ought to have kept the common man in a condition where much of happened could not have happened
@michaelpsenger After several hundreds years of educational and public institutions purpoted to centre their knowledge on tetets of the enlightment, the scientific method and philosophies of rationalism, and of ethics and reasoned skepticism... cont.
@JuliaHB1 As is becoming all too evident, and something this polls shows, is the young left leaning segment of the population really are by and large nasty little authoritarians. What does this mean for the future of the country and liberal democracy in general?
@DrProudman If you didn't even finish the first book, how did you come to these conclusions? When you've brought joy and wonder to millions of young children across the world through your own creative endeavours you might have a platform to pontificate on.
@elonmusk Why not cover the parking bays with linear canopies fitted with solar cells? Keep the cars cooler under shade in the Nevada heat and get alot more square meters of solar on the site.
@mcassieP Verging on a game of Russian roulette. Multiple and novel interventions on developing infants in one hit. Is their any data or research into the effects of such a cocktail that the medical establishment can excuse this for?
@No7Sammy Are you aware of the mass cannibalism of the 'bourgiouse' during Mao's Cultural Revolution?T A genuine precedent of socialists eating their opponents. Not from hunger or famine, but from ideological fervour. Check out the Guangxi Massacre.' Eating the rich' - not just a slogan.
@culturaltutor That is to say - the critics were originally bought off to give much of contemporary art legitimacy, whilst talentless 'artists' were chosen and elevated to cultural icons,in order for a steady supply of investment commodities for the purpose of tax avoidance and wealth hoarding.
@culturaltutor The presence of much contemporary 'art', without true artistic merit, in what is little more then a system of investment and wealth storage, must be somewhat related to the simultaneous explosion of wealth, and the decline in art of real merit and artists of outstanding ability.
@jacobin Middle Earth a utopia? Did you guys read the same books as everyone else? The themes are of hope, friendship and courage in a dystopian world, that the darkness may be overcome.