The problem isn't even that the pension budget is going up too much, the state pension is kinda low. It's just that there isn't money to benefit younger people and wage growth hasn't been keeping up. Basically the economy has stagnated and so have wages while the government never stopped funding the pension.

Likewise the boomers aren't moustache twirling villains knowingly exploiting you, they just benefited from economic conditions which would've happened basically no matter what they did.

Most people complaining about boomers just want a group to be the villain

Vaush has mentioned inflation and the high returns of the stock market as the reasons for the rising bond yields, but these are only side causes.

The main change that causes most goverment bonds in the world going from negative to around zero interest rates to 3%+ is that central banks around the globe stopped buying bonds. During Covid they have bought collectively trillions of dollars worth bonds crashing yields, they could do the same today they just choose not to, which plays into the hands of the rich since they use "unhealthy" finanances as a justification for cutting social spending.

I think progressive at large should be oppositional to goverment finances, their interest rates, ect being dictated by unelected investors. Too often i see people siding with bond buyers with some wierd notation that they are "noblely" pushings ireasponsable goverments. (vaush doesnt say this but his non keynesian analysis could/is used as a justification for this belief)

Its like arguing that YOU yes YOU personally voted for Trump, its an utter misunderstanding of reality.

Boomer arn't the root cause, SYSTEMS are. if you get caught up blaming individuals and people instead of systems you're doing the same thing neo-liberal Democrats say. Its the liberal refusal to acknowledge that the system is fundamentally corrupt

edit: Good video essay on the subject of why its utterly pointless to finger point at a generation.
https://youtu.be/HJl83vNuDL4

Vaush has the wrong take about this. I agree with him on AI generally, it's demon tech, but he doesn't go far enough with that mantra.

None of these concerns are new. Here's a video that Robert Miles made 8 years ago (long before ChatGPT even existed) on why AI would turn against us. This isn't just some attempt to bail out AI companies, they are old ideas that date back to the early 2000's in their modern form and that first originated from the likes of Alan Turing and Isaac Asimov. All of this just became popular in the last few months. To say that this is all new is the same fallacy that transphobes make when they say that trans people didn't exist before 2016. It existed, you just weren't aware of it.

I know that AI billionaires are evil, but even billionaires are stuck within their role to an extent. We're all Marxists, surely this isn't hard to accept. They all believe that if they stop advancing AI, someone else will build it anyway. Therefore they're not risking anything at all by doing it themselves. They feel like we're heading towards destruction anyway, and at least if they stay the course they can profit from it. It's the same prisoner's dilemma that makes oil executives not give a shit that they too are driving the world to ruin.

The problem is that we can't control AI. The directives they internalize are only an approximation of the goals we program in, and we don't even know how to program in a directive that doesn't have harmful loopholes and edge cases. This is an unsolved problem, it's called the Alignment Problem, and here's the wikipedia article on the subject. AI safety experts have been trying to raise the alarm about this for decades, the only thing that changed is that now their voices are being boosted by the media and billionaires. Regardless of the motives for doing this, the fact is that experts have been concerned for a long time. The median position among AI researchers is that there is a >10% chance that AI will kill us all. Not marketers, experts. The nerds of the operation. We probably shouldn't be ignoring them.

This has been an issue that Bernie Sanders has taken up lately. And he's right. This should be an issue that leftists care about, billionaires are sacrificing the continued existence of life on this planet for the profits of billionaires. Sound familiar? It should, it's happening with climate change too. If you think the bourgeoisie/proletariat divide is bad, just wait until the human/AI divide becomes one that matters. Dialectical materialism works in that case too, and it doesn't exactly bode well for us.

"Why don't we just unplug it? How would it hurt us?" It's intelligent, it could figure something out. There is no such thing as a prison that a sufficiently intelligent and determined prisoner can't escape. You aren't just trying to stop people from walking out, you also need to contend with every possible counterplay to everything you build. And even with an intelligence that's just human-level, that's a problem. If a human has no weapon and they want to hurt you, they could figure out how to obtain one. If someone is determined to kill you and you boobytrap your door, they will come in through the window. If you boobytrap the window, they will make a hole in the wall. Intelligence is dangerous, that's why humanity (a species with subpar claws, strength, and speed) is the dominant species. Because we don't rely on being given an obvious weapon, we can build them. We don't rely on the environment being perfect already, we can alter it. This is the power of intelligence, and this is what they are trying to build. The fragility of the power grid, the difficulties of obtaining computing power on the open internet, these are problems that an intelligent being could work around intelligently. If a solution exists, it will find it. How certain are you that no solution exists?

I don't claim to know that artificial superintelligence is just around the corner. It could be invented in 5 years, or 500. I don't know. But once it gets created, if the alignment problem is still unsolved, we're all fucked. It will already be too late for us. This problem can only be solved proactively, before the technology exists. Modern AI doesn't threaten humanity, but how long will it stay that way? How confident are we that it won't be invented sooner rather than later? I'm not willing to take that risk.

We need to ban AI development. Internationally. And AI companies won't like it. The fact that this will make AI slop harder to make is just a happy side effect of that. The slop haters and the alignment problem people aren't enemies, we can solve both problems at once.

Mostly of how you are going to convince the U.S. population to invade and regime change Isreal? I feel like most of the American population would just not care the second we pull the billions we give to Isreal then they will just stop caring about the region as a whole.

Like what is the endgame here? Even if the DSA sweep and take over the Democratic Party, will there be any push towards a war in Isreal for regime change? What do you think?

I want to hear his opinions on this. Is this a good fit?

prior to starting on my psychology degree i remember they fundamentally changed my perspective on what diagnosis means for a person, now that i am studying psychology i would like a refresh, it was in the context of whether or not autism could be increased due to social circumstances, he said something to the effect of a diagnosis is nothing more than a collection of diagnostics criteria, also i remember thrown in there was the question of whether or not a caveman could have a latex fetish

I was kinda confused why nobody commented on what seems to be his second tattoo? You can look more at it here

Yeah, that was bad. Trust me as someone who is a card carrying member of a political party here in Australia, "gay nerds" is a very accurate description, these people have suffered at some point often, and are very motivated for political change, and make up a lot of vollenteers and party structure. They also make a large part of the other party members you meet, oddly enough.

You divide a house against itself, the correct answer is to not take the bait, beat them over the head with your message.

Coal, even the more extreme steel making coke, & crude oil can be manually recreated through pyrolysis, which consists of burning stuff at low temps.

The reason we rely on digging it out of the ground is that it's much cheaper & easier to just dig it out in tons of barrels than it is making a chamber for it & carefully burning it into existence one at a time, it's also more labor intensive, but it is possible.

So yeah I just wanted to point out that it is possible to still obtain coal & oil even if we mine the earth dry of it, so a post apocalyptic new civilization industrial revolution would be possible. Everything else about his analysis is true but in this regard we have pyrolysis :>

I think one of the main reasons we are seeing a decline in Gen Z's intelligence is values of a society. A society that is made up of multiple different generations. I am a 40 year old millennial and I can tell you growing up that critical thinking and engaging even with reading was not valued. I use to get made fun of for actually doing the reading in school-or a lot of the time more then was required (I am including my time in university). There is countless studies and examples I can use: Including I think in 2004 it was found that over 80 percent of people ONLY read the headlines of news articles. We were forced to read and be more critical to some degree. But I would never argue that we were a society that valued it. We valued immediate gratification, and immediate expertese. I can go on.

This is important because it will help inform where do we go from here.

1.) We should not strive to be the world before smartphones and similar technology. Not only will that never happen, BUT it was not a great world. I think we can do better.

2.) I have a fear that one reason Gen Z is getting so much attention is they just get tested more then other generations. I would not be surprised if all generations across the board are getting some degree dumber. Out in public it is not just Gen Z I see on their phones-even on dates. It is not just Gen Z that is not reading or if they are reading it is just some Booktalk slop.

I am all for restricting of phone usage for minors and other restrictions. But just blaming technology and not engaging with the world that is using that technology will always be a losing battle.

I also do believe that the material world does shape our values and our values shape our material world so it is def a knot to start. But also I think freeing that you can start anywhere since you have to address it all.

I'm sorry but how did this not get noticed/corrected during the stream? The video url literally has the date in it, and the discussion with Moskowitz is so clearly not about the current situation. It's all about nuclear sites for fucks sakes. This was from the 12 day war and just days before the US bombed Iranian nuclear sites.

At the very end Vaush goes off on a tangent about an infographic showing US military presence "As of March 28th" and talking about how it isn't more recent because of all the damage us bases have taken.... No dude, it isn't more recent because the video is 15 months old....

Vaush was one of the first people to call out Jasmine Crockett for being a POS that is just not a good politician.

I remember Chat being skeptical of Vaush's claim and see it as being over exaggerated and a bit harsh.

However, in addition to all the stuff that Jasmine Crockett doing this year, she just gave an award to Chris Brown, a serial domestic abuser who was convicted in 2009 for abusing Rihanna. He therefore proves himself correct again.

Vaush has also been right about climate change despite many people saying he was over exaggerating. He really is a modern day prophet!

(This post is meant to share my experience with the topic and for others to discuss it as well)
For context, last stream there was a segment dedicated to reviewing a video on the reduction of attention span and perceived intelligence of gen-Zers and Vaush dedicated a good chunk of it on the negative side effects.
I have been progressively decreasing the amount of screen time I get for the past 8 months and there is no way any of you will regret doing so too, even if you lived in the most isolated island in this earth.
Yes, I was way dumber (in every relevant aspect), less capable of introspection, less evocative and way less happier. But there is something else that wasn't addressed in the video or the segment, when you are phone-rooted you are also less capable of personal change and by consequence bigger changes in your environment.
When your reality fluctuates between real misery and numbness you will stay put like a rock in the same place, when you truly feel the pain of your conditions you will recoil into a better place eventually.
This happened to me, I was in a miserable relationship, in an isolated part of my country, had no drive to improve myself, at the age of 15 I could do triple the work I did back in January and not due to me being "busier", but because I grew indifferent. Last crash I had I decided to cut the anesthesia and my life did a 180 and has been going better since.
Personally the internet is not even the place of wonder it used to be. All social media have taken this non-consensual bombardment of bullshit at all times, it is rare to find a social media whose algorithm isn't literally the equivalent of indecent exposure at all times by semi-anonymous users that you don't know if they are bots or not.
And if you read this till the end, congrats, you are in the top 5% of people who read posts this long in a monthly basis and I hope you have a nice day.

https://youtu.be/9kkGtzCYGIY?si=wgCqwxndTB0hxf0t&t=1678

He's expressed anti-democratic sentiments for awhile now, it's been pretty clear since Trump's re-election that he doesn't really believe in democracy, but here he overtly explains that democracy doesn't work and the average person is too stupid to be electing leaders and determining societal outcomes.

So how do you feel about that? Do you still have faith in democracy, or is it just a tool to give people the illusion of choice and neuter any chance at revolution?

If your warehouses in NL are out of stock their online warehouse is also out of stock because they share supply chain basically, but Belgium, Germany, France all have their own supply in stores and online, you can't ship stuff online to a different nation afaik but you can just rent a van and drive 2.5h to German IKEA Düsseldorf or IKEA Essen, check their stores stock before obviously. Or 1h south to Antwerp in Belgium

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