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I think a key challenge is to organize solidarity in a borderless world: pension funds, affordable healthcare, benefits for the sick and unemployed, education funding etc. A world where all this is arranged individually is a dystopia for me, and I think for most Europeans. But that also means we can...

It's good you brought that up. As an American, I also don't think we're culturally equipped to handle the transition to mass technological unemployment smoothly, so we'll probably have events like the Canadian trucker protest in the future to haltingly bring about government reforms. What puzzles m...

I guess automated production with robots is like the O-ring problem: you have to get it completely right, otherwise it's even worse than the old-fashioned way. Even Tesla suffered a protracted production hell before getting it right. Developing countries are bad at O-ring problems, they can make inc...

In the Netherlands in the 1980s we took a (tiny) step towards Keynes' vision: during a long economic recession, many employers could not afford to offer payrises and offered shorter working weeks for the same income instead. For example I work on a standard 36 hour contract, with enough holidays to ...

Yea I also have a kind of double feeling about it. Sometimes they can really surprise me, but generally they still feel very clunky and limited. And I wonder to what extent they learn from talking to me, is the learning mechanism always on? In that case it does feel meaningful to help train them. I...

Yea I also have a kind of double feeling about it. Sometimes they can really surprise me, but generally they still feel very clunky and limited. And I wonder to what extent they learn from talking to me, is the learning mechanism always on? In that case it does feel meaningful to help train them. I ...

Just had some fun trying out Kuki (Mitsuki), by Pandorabots: https://chat.kuki.ai/chat

What is the most advanced or most fun AI chatbot you know?

I like this one from the Das twins, well-known futurists from the Netherlands. Mostly 1980s/early 1990s:


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If your logic is that - because of a demographic reshuffling towards a higher median age slated to occur over the next two decades - China will be unable to participate in global power play and politik, despite the fact that, over the same time span, China will maintain a youthful portion of its po...

Eh, China will still win. You all are putting too much stock into this notion that there's this huge economic crisis coming up for China. What you're not understanding is that even if the elderly population does rise as expected, there will still be 700 MILLLION young people in China in 2040. They'...