Haha fair, but he cites his sources which you can go confirm yourself. Also investment guys typically like growth and the data says this might be all the growth we get so it lends a tiny bit of credence (not that there aren’t a dozen ways to make money by selling things short)

I think the food production chart Is the least believable of the bunch for just that reason. We already know how technology can improve yields and distribution, and there are many, many places where it’s not yet used. For that matter we globally already produce way more calories than we consume, they just need to be distributed better.

I love it when SMBC seems to manifest thoughts that came directly out of my (ape) brain.

Thanks for the reminder!

@pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org posts fantastic, fediverse-only comics to !unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.org. They can be super weird and will admittedly not be for everyone, but hey isn’t that why we’re all here in the first place?

The thing is, 5 years before that games did look like triangle-boobed-Lara-Croft. There was just an enormous wave of tech progress in the 3D accelerator world from the late 90s to mid aughts

That alt text about making a bunch of AIs that hate each other is basically how antagonistic machine learning works.

The word for “male chicken” is used as slang for penis across many cultures (sorry for link to the r site but it has the most links in one place)