Lugh

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A 2024 article talks about their strategy: they believe in a radical 'rebirth' of the U.S. through a major financial crisis—one that would force a debt default, eliminate the Federal Reserve, and replace the system with a libertarian model centered on cryptocurrency.

These ideas may have sounded like conspiracy theories in the past, but in 2025, they seem more plausible. The current administration thrives on chaos as a distraction, yet its policies increasingly align with this vision of engineered collapse. Is this what’s actually happening?

 

Bringing manufacturing jobs home has been in the news lately, but it's not the 1950s or even the 1980s anymore. Today's factories need far less humans. Global car sales were 78,000,000 in 2024 and the global automotive workforce was 2,500,000. However, if the global workforce was as efficient as this Honda factory, it could build those cars with only 20% of that workforce.

If something can be done for 20% of the cost, that is probably the direction of travel. Bear in mind too, factories will get even more automated and efficient than today's 2025 Honda factory.

It's not improbable within a few years we will have 100% robot-staffed factories that need no humans at all. Who'll have the money to buy all the cars they make is another question entirely.

Details of the new Honda factory.

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[–] Lugh 86 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You know why Trump really hates her?

Because as a bishop, she can move diagonally anywhere on the board, but as a Russian pawn, he can only move one square at a time.

[–] Lugh 4 points 5 months ago (6 children)

One little appreciated aspect of the Trump presidency, is that it may include millions of job losses to AI & robotics. I wonder will this be the No 1 issue in the 2028 election ? (if there is one).

[–] Lugh 2 points 5 months ago

I think the easiest way to explain this, is to say they are testing the ability to reason your way to an answer, to a question so unique, that it doesn't exist anywhere on the internet.

[–] Lugh 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I’d put money on humans scoring even less on subjects they’ve never heard of.

They are testing is the ability to reason. The AI, or human, can still use the internet to find out the answer. Here's a sample question that illustrates the distinction.

Hummingbirds within Apodiformes uniquely have a bilaterally paired oval bone, a sesamoid embedded in the caudolateral portion of the expanded, cruciate aponeurosis of insertion of m. depressor caudae. How many paired tendons are supported by this sesamoid bone? Answer with a number.

[–] Lugh 8 points 5 months ago

They say the answer to this issue is they've released public question samples, but the real questions are kept private.

https://agi.safe.ai/

[–] Lugh 25 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

The relevance of this test is that it is that the answers don't already exist on the internet.

With previous tests, where AI scored 90%, how do we know it figured out the right answer, or just copied someone else's from its training data?

This test better measures true independent reasoning.

[–] Lugh 39 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Some people are naively amazed at AI scoring 99% in bar and medical exams, when all it is doing is reproducing correct answers from internet discussions on the exam questions. A new AI benchmark called "Humanity's Last Exam" has stumped top models. It will take independent reasoning to get 100% on this test, when that day comes does it mean AGI will be here?

[–] Lugh 22 points 5 months ago (11 children)

Trumpism will pass, and gasoline cars go the way of the horse and buggy. The US will just take longer to catch up with the rest of the world's progress.

[–] Lugh 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I don't know if its what you are looking for but futurology.today is the fediverse sibling (same Mods) as r/futurology on Reddit.

(Disclaimer I'm a Mod on it & the subreddit)

[–] Lugh 7 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I know the de facto attitude in the fediverse is to slag off Reddit, but I worry that they have a target on their back now. They are one of the last few big places online for Americans where left leaning and progressive thought predominates. It won't surprise me if Ketamine Nazi/Trump and the MAGA crowd make them a public enemy soon.

[–] Lugh 1 points 5 months ago

You jest, but given you how much the accelerationist crowd hate oversight, safety and regulation .......

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