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Tool use/mcp can do an awful lot already, not everything but it’s hard to come up with stuff it just plain can't do.

Agi is poorly defined, without a clear definition of exactly what it is there will never be a time we actually achieve it because the goalposts will move.

We all probably remember the time that the turing test was the ultimate test of an ai, but that's pretty well cooked and it no longer matters at all.

I get that this is the collapse community, so the article is appropriate here, but there are so many fallacies and half baked conclusions here that it's just silly.

While I counted at least 5 logical fallacies, I'm instead addressing a single point:

Surges in societal complexity (the number of non-productive roles and people employed outside the production of food and other necessities), however, is the ultimate sign of a society in absolute overshoot.

Society is made up of individuals who have roles that don't make things, that's okay. People govern, people perform services, people help other's mental health, people make art, life is about more than making food and dying.

This kind of rhetoric is actually somewhat damaging, consider people with disabilities. Our anger and energy need to be directed appropriately.

There are some valid points here, but they are mixed in with pseudoscience and illogical conclusions, we have plenty of actual science showing avenues of societal collapse with actual numbers we don't need to make stuff up.

• The Limits to Growth (1972, updated) – MIT / Club of Rome
• The MEDEAS and GEM-E3 Models (EU-funded)
• Tainter’s Theory of Diminishing Returns on Complexity

It's not working economically for any wondering. It was a mildly concerning headline without a smidge more context

Paywalls make for useless articles

Life is often not about how hard you work or how good you are, it's often just about how lucky you have been. Were you born fortunate, were you lucky enough to get the job you needed, lucky to have been taught and understand financial literacy, lucky enough to avoid major health complications, lucky enough to be "smart" etc.

Frankly it's incredible that we live as long as we do with the utter lack of compassion and community in the world.

I'm not going to financially contribute to your cause, which makes me complicit in your suffering, I'm sorry for that. I hope that your suffering is reduced and that your "luck" improves.

Finding community in the modern age requires you to get interested and participate in something specific. Specific communities are often on Discord or equivalent, for example I'm super into some very specific video games with thriving communities, into specific genres of books and have found like minded people, love chatting about specific computing topics, etc. Specialize your interests and find others who have done the same

The moment I stand up for more than 2 seconds my cat hops up and immediately falls asleep, she yearns for the butt warmth

The 90s was really out here making us hungry for dang leaf. I'm not too proud to say I tried it, it was gross.

How does the whole vampire thing work anyways? Like if there's a hole in the wall breaking the integrity of the house are they still barred? How much of the house can be removed before it's no longer considered a house? A whole wall? In that case could the police vampire just drill a hole or remove a wall?

I've made apps in tons of different ways, kotlin with jetpack compose, react native, cordova, old school java activities.

Imo cross platform is the way to go, react native has been the easiest to maintain for me, I have 4 production react native apps that have been fairly successful and easy to maintain. My two biggest complaints are the difficulty of running on desktop, and the pain of upgrading react native versions. Expo sucks but it's the best we have and does help with upgrading.

Flutter is fine, dart is not my favorite but it's definitely worth looking into.

I looked into the tiktok platform, didn't really speak to me tbh

Sorry for your loss