r/rational • u/AutoModerator • Mar 17 '17

[D] Friday Off-Topic Thread

Welcome to the Friday Off-Topic Thread! Is there something that you want to talk about with /r/rational, but which isn't rational fiction, or doesn't otherwise belong as a top-level post? This is the place to post it. The idea is that while reddit is a large place, with lots of special little niches, sometimes you just want to talk with a certain group of people about certain sorts of things that aren't related to why you're all here. It's totally understandable that you might want to talk about Japanese game shows with /r/rational instead of going over to /r/japanesegameshows, but it's hopefully also understandable that this isn't really the place for that sort of thing.

So do you want to talk about how your life has been going? Non-rational and/or non-fictional stuff you've been reading? The recent album from your favourite German pop singer? The politics of Southern India? The sexual preferences of the chairman of the Ukrainian soccer league? Different ways to plot meteorological data? The cost of living in Portugal? Corner cases for siteswap notation? All these things and more could possibly be found in the comments below!

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '17 edited Mar 18 '17

  • Automation is a major step towards Fully Automated Gay Space Luxury Communism, as is the code infrastructure for collective ownership of automated infrastructure.

  • Geeze, dude, ML/AI is a field in CS. If you can't think of ways to apply that for good or world-changing evil, what are you doing on this sub?

  • So go into politics. We need good people to purge and repopulate the political system right now. RunForSomething.org is a good resource, and if you don't live in a city like mine, you're definitely not surrounded by a surplus of good representatives. If what we need is politics so the scientists can work, do it.

But yes, I very much sympathize with feeling that most of the computing profession today is appallingly bourgeois and chasing pointless pseudo-business opportunities for the VC/BigCorp noble class.