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I have been looking at returning to vietnam next year and a friend told be about the 10/10 sales.

But when I search many routes from my city and other cities over many different times of the year I see no difference from normal pricing.

Occasionally I have seen crossed out pricing and a slightly cheaper price (like $7 cheaper).

I also found a list of last minute flight deals on a page and often if I click on them the price shown is not the discount.

What is going on here?

Or does their booking site only show the discount as you are paying? If so they need to state this.

Vietjet has their 10/10 sale on now.

https://www.vietjetair.com/en/flight-tickets/double-day-super-sale-lets-vietjet-tickets-price-from-just-1-october-8-10-2026

I am interested in flights from australia to ho chi minh but all the selections I check have the old pricing.

I can't see any lower prices at all and none close to the $199AUD inclusive of all taxes etc.

Some person online said it's probably a glitch but it is the same the next day.

How do these sales work?

Or does the price only update at the end of the booking process?

AI and Robotics are advancing very quickly. Many people are saying most white-collar jobs will be gone within the next 4 or 5 years. Plus, the jobs that are first to go are the entry-level jobs traditionally filled by graduates.

Most jobs will not completely disappear for some time. But, if we only need 2 people where we needed 10 before that is going to mean a major disruption to jobs.

If you are not in the top 10% of people in a degree it is going to be very hard to find employment in the field you studied.

Given that a degree can take 3 to 4 years you are coming out of university at a time when people are predicting that most of the jobs you will be looking for will be gone or the openings will be dropping quickly.

Even if the 4 to 5 year prediction is agressive (which I think it is), you still have a very short time horizon before jobs do disapear.

I work in the software development field and AI has changed the way we work completely, I am 10x more productive. There is no point in writing code as a human any more. My field is one of the first predicted to be replaced by AI.

Some people are saying all white collar jobs can be replaced by 2030 to 31.

The reality of this will be less. But if a profession needs 30%, 50% or more less people that is devastating to any job market.

And it is the entry level jobs that are taken first which are traditionally graduate roles.

I don't think university enrollments are declining. So unless you are at the top of your class it may be very hard to find a job in your field.

How are you feeling about the future and do you think I am wrong?

Surely commercial level AI can't be the best there is. AI is becoming like a weapon nowasdays.

I have not heard anyone talk about Government AI. It is all OpenAI and Anthropic or what the chinese models are doing.

Do you think the US and Chinese governments have secret AI's that are more capable than even the latest frontier models?

I may be irrational but looking at the way the world works I can't get away from this conclusion.

I am not talking about AI doing something, but that is also a very real possibility with superintelligence.

I am not talking now, maybe 10,20,50 years out.

AI may take away the majority of jobs and robotics improving will also do the same. Combine the 2 and most jobs could be replaced in the next 20 years. Not all, but most fields will see the numbers drop dramatically.

The economy as we know will collapse. Replaced by something else.

We will get universal income or something similar and maybe some new areas will emerge.

Will the people who run this world continue to pay for millions to billions of useless humans that have little purpose. Especially when the elite have no use for most people any more (automation and robotics will take care of most of their needs).

I think something horrible will happen to reduce the numbers.

War. Pandemics. Sterilisation.

I think humans may live in a utopia in 50 to 100 years time. But I think there will be much fewer humans by then and we are in for some very rough times.

It could be different, AI and robotics advances could make it utopia for all. But, I don't trust human nature.

Where am I completely wrong? I hate having these thoughts.

Verses from the bible are claims made by the book.

They can be called evidence, but when you are making extraordinary claims like your god is real you require extraordinary evidence to persuade a rational mind.

Some of the claims may reference other things like cities, people and events that did happen in history. That doesn't add much value, the authors were from those times and knew about cities and prominent people and major events.

And some of the claims may be backed up through other sources which will add some weight.

But, lots of bible verses are just pure claims.

Do you think bible verses are good enough evidence and should be enough to convince non believers?

If so, why?

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."

How much did god love the world?

His son lived a human life for 30 years or so, died, and returned to heaven for eternity as the son of god. He didn't lose a son, he didn't lose anything.

So Jesus experienced a human life and a human death (that we all experience) and then resumed his role in heaven as a god. He experienced what all humans experience.

Where is the sacrifice? What did god actually give?

Compared to eternity, a 30 year human life is nothing. So his son left for a nano second (compared to a human life span) and returned.

So how much did god love the world? I can only infer not much if he wasn't willing to actually sacrifice something for it.

I assume you will say yes, you do think critically. But, for me, quite often I will read or hear something from christianity and immediately think of issues or many issues.

Do you often find issues or problems when you think about topics raised in the bible or christianity? If you do, how do you reconcile them.

Or do you never find issues or problems?

Note: I know this is not possible and I personally would not like something like this to happen. I don't want to debate how bad this would be but purely the affect on the size of the religion.

The point is that the main reason christianity (and other religions) remains alive in the modern world is childhood indoctrination.

Before the modern age it may not have been so as religions made more sense due to our lack of knowledge, very high community belief and no access to alternative information.

If a child today had to be 13 before choosing a religion (their parents or otherwise) they would have more critical thinking skills and access to more information and can choose a religion based on what makes sense to them. Or no religion. Many will still choose their parents religion.

My thesis is that a much smaller percentage would choose christianity (or other religions) and the religion would be reduced to a fringe religion in a few generations.

How do you think it would affect numbers?

I believe it is now experimentally proven that reality is not locally real and Bell's theorem is an experimentally verified fact.

Space and time are an illusion. Reality is only real when observed\measured. There is no distance.

We "are" in some type of simulation or consciousness is pure illusion.

Given that we now know this is probably a real thing at this point (it may changed in the future).

Is anyone working on how to hack our reality?

Get access to the dev console?

Enter some cheat commands?

Alter the variables?

Change the rendering engine?

Maybe if everyone in the simulation stands on one leg and says 42 at the same time it appears :-)

We have a huge amount of alien related material from the last 80 years and even historical reports going further back.

What would be interesting is to be able to feed all of these reports, images, drawings, alien contact channelers (eg. Law of Ra) etc into a cutting edge AI model and then have it correlate all that information to determine the most likely prediction of what is true.

Not just ufo reports but all those 1000's of people claiming to be in contact with an alien races telepathically and delivering a message or claiming something will happen.

Which aliens are mentioned the most and how many independent sources for each. Which abduction\visitation stories have the highest consensus. Which predictions are most correlated across experiencers.

Surely the stories and images that are most true will stand out across multiple reports and larger timeframes.

I'm sure someone has done this and results are available?

Would be willing to help fund something like this if it hasn't been done at scale.

Surely the truth is hidden in there and AI would be perfect to sift it out.

Apologies if this has been discussed. I did a search and didn't see anything.

In a very short span of time, AI has been able to produce:

* images of people who don't exist

* photorealistic images of people and places that don't exist

* videos of people and places that don't exist

* photorealistic people and places who never existed to the point you can't tell it's AI in most cases

* AI's that people chat with and form strong relationships

* Game characters that have access to AI and can talk to you about events in the real world or you can have discussions with

The next stage can't be far off:

* Completely AI generated online worlds that you can explore (probably already exists)

* Completely AI generated VR virtual worlds that you can live in.

This has all happened in the blink of an eye on a civilisation scale.

All we need is better interfacing directly to the brain to remove the need for goggles etc.

Considering we are in our infancy with this technology, we have gone so far. Creating AI generated simulations should be trivial for civilisations only 100's or 1000's of years more advanced than us.

Has this progression made you more convinced the Simulation Theory is True?

A possible solution to the Fermi Paradox through simulation theory:

What if advanced civilizations don't disappear, go extinct, or expand across the galaxy?

All conscious beings already experience reality through a kind of simulation. Our senses provide inputs, and our brains construct our experience of the world.

As technology advances, civilizations may eventually learn to create artificial realities that are indistinguishable from physical reality. Over time, these simulations could become even better than reality itself by offering enhanced senses, new forms of perception, richer experiences, and potentially expanded intelligence.

Once the experience in the simulation far exceeds the experience outside the simulation many would choose to remain in the simulation all the time or could no longer exist outside the simulation as it would be too jarring.

A civilization could create and experience countless worlds from within a simulated reality. The experience would likely be more rewarding, less dangerous, and require far fewer resources than interstellar expansion.

At that point, why explore the physical universe?

As a result, most advanced civilizations may turn inward rather than outward. Instead of building galactic empires, they focus on optimizing consciousness and experience.

It's possible that we are already living in such a simulated reality. Our "human" experience may itself be an enhanced environment created by a more limited form of consciousness in our base reality. For example, maybe we are really creatures with no or limited sight but we have this sense within this simulation. We are dependant on it.

Maybe the reason we don't see aliens is not because they aren't there, but because sufficiently advanced civilizations eventually lose interest in the physical universe altogether.

All that matters is experience, whether it comes from what we would call "physical reality" or a simulation. It makes no difference. It all gets processed by our brain to create our personal simulation that we experience.

Thoughts?

A possible solution to the Fermi Paradox:

What if advanced civilizations don't disappear, go extinct, or expand across the galaxy?

All conscious beings already experience reality through a kind of simulation. Our senses provide inputs, and our brains construct our experience of the world.

As technology advances, civilizations may eventually learn to create artificial realities that are indistinguishable from physical reality. Over time, these simulations could become even better than reality itself by offering enhanced senses, new forms of perception, richer experiences, and potentially expanded intelligence.

Once the experience in the simulation far exceeds the experience outside the simulation many would choose to remain in the simulation all the time or could no longer exist outside the simulation as it would be too jarring.

A civilization could create and experience countless worlds from within a simulated reality. The experience would likely be more rewarding, less dangerous, and require far fewer resources than interstellar expansion.

At that point, why explore the physical universe?

As a result, most advanced civilizations may turn inward rather than outward. Instead of building galactic empires, they focus on optimizing consciousness and experience.

It's possible that we are already living in such a simulated reality. Our "human" experience may itself be an enhanced environment created by a more limited form of consciousness in our base reality. For example, maybe we are really creatures with no or limited sight but we have this sense within this simulation. We are dependant on it.

Maybe the reason we don't see aliens is not because they aren't there, but because sufficiently advanced civilizations eventually lose interest in the physical universe altogether.

All that matters is experience, whether it comes from what we would call "physical reality" or a simulation. It makes no difference. It all gets processed by our brain to create our personal simulation that we experience.

Thoughts?

Saying this with a bit of humour, but I literally see it so often.

I am travelling in Vietnam, so am visiting some beautiful places. Everywhere I go there are vietnamese women posing for photos. Even just randomly walking around a city.

Either a group of girls. Or a girl with husband/boyfriend or a photographer taking photos. Or sitting at a coffee shop with them all taking photos of each other.

They get dressed up and look beautiful and really know how to pose.

Been out with a few, and it's always photos and posing wherever we go.

Haven't seen this as much where I come from.

Is this a vietnamese thing?

I have encountered a few strange billing practices in Vietnam.

One that didn't make sense to me was eating at a high-end buffet in HCMC, which was around 599k I think.

There was expensive food everywhere, people loading their plates with crab and seafood and any food you would want.

However, the napkin on the table wasn't free. It was minimal, I think (5k). And if I wanted to order drinks (including water) I had to pay immediately, each time.

Seemed strange not to even have water available somewhere. Anywhere else in the world (and in many other places in vietnam) there would be water and sometimes refillable soft drinks for free.

Is there a reason for billing for the small things like this? Is this common. Seen it a few times.

Another time, I was checking out of a big hotel. And each day we got 2 waters in the room which were replaced. As I was leaving I took a water from the fridge instead of the 2 that were replaced each day (the free ones were left there).

I checked out, and was getting into my grab to leave when they made a big fuss of stopping me leaving and I waited a few minutes and someone came out saying I owed 10000vnd for a water. A 5 star hotel chasing me down for 50c of water when I also had 2 bottles free that day that I didn't use.

I chalked this down to them just being job oriented. But all that fuss for 50c when I had 2 free bottles anyway left a bad taste. I looked like a criminal as I was leaving.

Love Vietnam though. Great country to visit.