There was at least the pax romanus

I travel a bit with extended family and we stay in multi-room serviced apartments when we go to cities

They’re almost universally old buildings

The main thing I hear from friends and family looking for a home is “I couldn’t live in a flat, we need three bedrooms”. That stuff isn’t being built by the builders who are looking for maximum number of residences for minimum cost

And all the new apartments are 99% studio/bedsits.

You need something from a hundred years ago if you want to raise a family in a high density area

And all the new apartments are 99% studio/bedsits.

You need something from a hundred years ago if you want to raise a family in a high density area

They fear that their single family home served by miles of taxpayer funded road might be shaded by my quadplex were I to build one

Of course they’re happy if I were to build a similar sized single family home

I wonder what degree of crabbiness you need to be upset by a child with a whistle.

I don’t consider myself especially crabby, but I have been annoyed by a kid with a whistle

I used to really like an apple turnover. Warm, with cream

Given the now known precision of Russian high tech missiles, your chances should be good against WW2 high tech weapons

I feel like they’d be fighting with swords in that case

That area has been a warzone forever

That’s it. I don’t put copyright notices at the bottom of my comments, I write them to be read, I’m finished with them shortly after I hit the post button

If any person learns to write in Australian English from my stuff, great. If a machine does, also great

So you make an AGI, what gives it the power to do any damage? We have loads of biological intelligences, even pretty damn clever ones like Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber)

They rarely got significant power. Those that did were super charismatic. Do you expect charisma to be easily accessible to an AGI?

The usually proposed path to paperclip maximiser is that the AGI is put in charge of a factory that can make nano machines and follows orders strictly. We don’t have such factories.

I can’t imagine anyone handing over nukes to AGI as human leaders like being in charge of them

What makes the machine brain so much more effective than Ted Kaczynski?

Unfortunately it only is useful in proving title when normal processes have failed, and in the places with title proven by a line of titles stretching arbitrarily far back, it’s only as good as the proof that got it in the block chain

It’s better in places like Australia where title is a record on a government database and block chain would protect against destruction of government records (eg from war or revolution), but there it would probably only be useful if something like the old government regained power (the Nazis had no intention of returning stuff to Jews)

But in places like Australia you wouldn’t want to add another step to the users, perhaps it could be a land titles department job

In places with title via history of title I don’t think it could defeat a result from a title search, so maybe it’d be next to useless unless it was backed by a court order or some other authoritative full stop

Should’ve been hurricane Lorena after Ms Bobbitt

I don’t think they can fire you for it, they can fire you for no reason though

As a hobby fisherman I see that there is no longer snow when I go after trout in the mountain lakes, no longer as much water in those snow fed lakes.

I notice I’m wearing summer clothes for more of the year and seriously considering getting air-con at home in a city where only commercial spaces had them in the past

Life would be like the northern extremes, just with much more land and less sea ice

Yeah. I’m good at spelling, but I still read over my errors and don’t see them until after pressing send

I edit so many of my own comments right after tapping submit, I have set up a five minute delay on outgoing email for the same purpose

You can also just shoot down your ideas as you speak them “but I would first need to clean that workspace, and that’s impossible”

On the good side your family and friends start just not believing you when you say you’re going to do this thing

On the bad side sometimes (so far exactly once for me) a friend will implement the idea you sketched that time and haven’t done yourself, and they do it wrong

That’s a fault of them telling you you’re doing it wrong, not telling you how they want it done. I wonder what they actually wanted

It really is bad when people expect you to intuit what they want from you