better to try and fail than not try at all

uhm idk who’s not familiar with Thiel but the blueprint of his “utopia” - “The Sovereign Individual” was literally co-written by no other than William Rees-Mogg a conservative house of lords cross-bencher who’s also the father of two other conservative MPs that have served in the UK Parliament.

the 2014 reprint of the book has a foreword by Thiel, where he says that it’s “the most influential book he had read”

so as usual the theoretical frameworks have been drafted in the heart of empire and implemented in the “land of the free”

She’s also less likely to be disappeared than others.

Honestly I feel this is her playing to her advantages - Israel can (and does) sink ships carrying aid - and while I have utmost respect for the crews and aid volunteers on those ships - Israel doesn’t - and having a high profile person on board that Israel knows is bad PR if they kill provides some safety for the whole crew.

as someone in close proximity with ai doomers and with a reasonable knowledge of computer science - I don’t think AGI is as silly as this meme presents it - however climate change is a much more pressing and encompassing issue that I feel takes precedent over any super intelligence fears.

like the “best” argument I’ve heard is that climate change isn’t as big a deal since super intelligence will solve it but then we’ll get subjugated by it - ok but how about it solves our most existential problem first and then we worry about the aftermath?

they all seem to just throw up their hands and say we shouldn’t let it save us (if it even could) and just live out the rest of lives since there’s nothing we can do about either… weird tho how this argument only ever seems to come from comfortable westerners… if they were really serious they’d be out there destroying chip fabs in Taiwan…

idk I just think it’s the new climate inaction narrative but in a tech doomerist clothing.

They’re saying that

For student and hobbyist developers

We’re committed to keeping Android an open platform for you to learn, experiment, and build for fun. We recognize that your needs are different from commercial developers, so we’re working on a separate type of Android Developer Console account for you.

but I wonder how is the device going to tell between these different types of APKs? Like it already says it’s an untrusted source will it just say “hobbyist or student package” when you install? and is basically just changing the text really gonna improve security?