If the currency collapses they still have robots to do everything for them, including the elimination of people who would like to take and repurpose the robots for themselves.
In a world where robots with AI can do just about every blue collar and almost all white collar work better, faster, and cheaper -- what do you propose?
Mind uploading. Then we unemployed humans can become the robots.
Why not both? You vote electronically, it prints your ballot, you verify it, put it in the ballot box. You get the best of both worlds, you get fast results, and you can go back and check the paper ballots later to make sure the electronic results were accurate.
Your faith that ingenuity will solve all problems before they happen is a little ridiculous. And frankly, a panicking electorate is probably the best way to mobilize government to hedge our bets against a potential disaster. If the government doesn't do something, who do you think will? You think the market will miraculously self correct? BS. The market brings us unstable bubbles with violent and sudden collapses. The government mitigates or prevents these disasters.
And don't kid yourself that your OS of choice is intrinsically more secure simply because it's not Windows.
If you don't see a problem with letting the common user have administrative permissions, then perhaps you're not the best judge of security. Windows has made some big improvements here, but it's still got some issues. Don't kid yourself into believing that rarity is the only reason why Linux is safer.
The point is they are dying out due to human activity. Activity which only grows as the population grows. Following this trend, we'll destroy the ecosystem before long and probably ourselves along with it. We can't prosper without a healthy ecosystem. There's no sense in unregulated growth.
I have no idea. I assumed so since Fox leans right. I'm simply pointing out that a company officially or unofficially favoring a political candidate isn't especially new or noteworthy.
Netflix doesn't want to cut off VPNs, big media companies want that. Netflix seems to try their best to resist the pressure from these guys because what Netflix customers want is the opposite of what the big studios want. Netflix is cheap, they still have things I want to watch, and their service is good and fast. I will financially support them even if there's nothing new that I want to watch for a few months...even if I'm only watching the occasional Star Trek rerun.
It'd be a lot easier to just stop messing up this planet so much.
How do you propose we convince 7 billion people and thousands of individual countries and corporations to agree with your vision of "not messing up the planet so much". No, I'm pretty sure it's far easier to colonize Mars.
I don't see the point. The chances of earth life out competing Mars life is unlikely for obviously evolutionary reasons. We're going to contaminate it eventually anyway if we haven't already. And this is assuming it hasn't been contaminated already by natural collisions and ejecta.
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I'm hoping that will be considered taboo.
Instead, they will want nothing more than to satisfy THE 1%'s values.
FTFY.
If the currency collapses they still have robots to do everything for them, including the elimination of people who would like to take and repurpose the robots for themselves.
Because why? Are only people who majored in political science aloud to have political opinions now?
Hawking knows political hyperbole, not economics.
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And what makes a code monkey's opinion on the matter any better or worse than a famous theoretical physicist?
In a world where robots with AI can do just about every blue collar and almost all white collar work better, faster, and cheaper -- what do you propose?
Mind uploading. Then we unemployed humans can become the robots.
Since when is slightly higher than lower income "middle" income?
Why not both? You vote electronically, it prints your ballot, you verify it, put it in the ballot box. You get the best of both worlds, you get fast results, and you can go back and check the paper ballots later to make sure the electronic results were accurate.
Yes, but when the market isn't moderated by the government, the corrections are calamitous.
Your faith that ingenuity will solve all problems before they happen is a little ridiculous. And frankly, a panicking electorate is probably the best way to mobilize government to hedge our bets against a potential disaster. If the government doesn't do something, who do you think will? You think the market will miraculously self correct? BS. The market brings us unstable bubbles with violent and sudden collapses. The government mitigates or prevents these disasters.
And don't kid yourself that your OS of choice is intrinsically more secure simply because it's not Windows.
If you don't see a problem with letting the common user have administrative permissions, then perhaps you're not the best judge of security. Windows has made some big improvements here, but it's still got some issues. Don't kid yourself into believing that rarity is the only reason why Linux is safer.
I care. I would prefer not to have to use Windows 10 on my desktop.
$5 says this investigation disappears after the election (regardless of who wins) and nobody will care.
The point is they are dying out due to human activity. Activity which only grows as the population grows. Following this trend, we'll destroy the ecosystem before long and probably ourselves along with it. We can't prosper without a healthy ecosystem. There's no sense in unregulated growth.
I have no idea. I assumed so since Fox leans right. I'm simply pointing out that a company officially or unofficially favoring a political candidate isn't especially new or noteworthy.
Netflix doesn't want to cut off VPNs, big media companies want that. Netflix seems to try their best to resist the pressure from these guys because what Netflix customers want is the opposite of what the big studios want. Netflix is cheap, they still have things I want to watch, and their service is good and fast. I will financially support them even if there's nothing new that I want to watch for a few months...even if I'm only watching the occasional Star Trek rerun.
In other news, Fox seems to favor Trump. Scandalous!
It'd be a lot easier to just stop messing up this planet so much.
How do you propose we convince 7 billion people and thousands of individual countries and corporations to agree with your vision of "not messing up the planet so much". No, I'm pretty sure it's far easier to colonize Mars.
I don't see the point. The chances of earth life out competing Mars life is unlikely for obviously evolutionary reasons. We're going to contaminate it eventually anyway if we haven't already. And this is assuming it hasn't been contaminated already by natural collisions and ejecta.
We've always been a petty and small-minded people, thank you very much.
Maybe they just realize that there's more to life than breaking your back for rich cunt who will throw you to the wolves when you hit 40.
Americans not only work more, but more of their money is redistributed to the .01% by the government.
The machines can finally interpret our speech. Next step: launch all the missiles.
This isn't a rich thing. Nobody, not the rich nor the poor, want the homeless around.
Successor. And I agree. This is meaningless. If he really meant any of that he would have said it in 2009.