Look, I think this research is dangerous. Anyone knows that unless we actively decide to think about someone else's pain we have a mechanism that helps shield us from that. This is a dark road to labelling almost anyone a psychopath. Hooray for drug comapnies!
But outside cities this sort of thing is even more perfect. Brings small towns back together and helps people get around more easily. Need a lift across town? Maybe Jimbo is headed in for groceries and can give you a lift. This sort of thing is what the internet is SUPPOSED to be for: Communication and connecting people to make more efficient use of resources. Instead, it's being hobbled by unions and legal bullshit. I mean, come on... one death every 18 MONTHS in ALL of Los Angeles for cab drivers? That's an incredibly safe track record if you ask me, and that was back when crime was much higher in LA!
I say, get the F out of the way Mr Government so we can actually see some more efficiency.
Oddly, this is what the German people said consistently during WWII. "I didn't see anything" (but in german) was very common. People turn a blind eye because they need a job. When that desperation is so acute that people can be turned to do something terrifying collectively then there's a problem.
Also, those people KNOW what they are doing, piece by piece, little by little. Actual people allow those decisions, and must be stopped.
IMO It's because people are overworked and want a turnkey solution for the law, just like governance and cooking and many other things. Put enough gears and cogs in place and, cross fingers, everything will run smoothly. I see it in finance: We have a TON of procedures in place for the tiniest details. It helps clients generically, but we could do better by attending each case separately and adhering to the spirit of things more. Why don't we? It would be REALLY tough to make money that way, or we'd have to charge such high fees that almost no one would pay. We want it all: Low prices. Low amount of time/attention spent on tasks. Least hassle possible. It's a recipe for bureaucracy.
It would help explain why the paleo diet is supposed to cut caner risk drastically: Without all the etra carbs there is less inflammation in the body. Food for thought:)
Who are these people working at the FBI? What is their mentality that they are doing all this and think they're actually defending our country and not enslaving it? I would like to hear another few sides to these stories. I've heard a couple, I've met at least one FBI agent (scary guy, I am terrified this man is helping defend our country), can we get some more points of view?
Worked with games... why not democracy: Kickstart it. Raise the biggest stinking godamned wad of money ever publicly beheld, then buy enough of the fuckers to make something happen. It's supposed to be how PACs work. Let's put our $5 where our mouths are.
You're right: the populace isn't stupid, but they need an easy conduit for change.
So if we make a day equal to a full work day, 8 hours, and there are 240 work days per year (48 weeks) then that would be 6 minutes of boot time per computer. How did they come up with their statistic?
What terror is rising from the depths? What atrocity will this beget? Not that it isn't already bad, but a shrill and tiny voice inside me worries that something awful is going to happen with all these ticking time bombs: Rights, jail population, infrastructure, economy, corporate greed, political corruption...
I guess Russia is still on its feet (barely) Or will the rest of my life be a long slow slide into a wasteland I once used to be proud to call My Country?
I was at the BIL conference (at the same time as TED. Yes. And just down the street in Long Beach too) and the young man heading this spoke about the project. It sounds absolutely fascinating. The entire idea is to scale this up and eventually just launch raw materials into space or get them from asteroids or lunar regolith and print tools, structures, or anything else needed.
No, they're probably worried more about keeping their job and healthcare from day to day than about some dumbass policy at school that they know they can't change anyway since they have no time to go to the board meetings and don't want to get involved in crazy school board politics (yes, of course they exist). Some even say they don't want to rankle the neighbors with politics. This is the reason that the person who did the final draft of the 1st Amendment, Fischer Ames, was a HUGE critic of democracy: People are busy. Really busy. they would not have time to help run the government! That is what is happening here.
This We're Smart and Everyone Else Is Stupid mentality you're fostering is part of the destruction of our country, a subtly vicious meritocracy, and it HAS to frickin stop if we want any progress. Parents are NOT dumb, they're over-frickin-worked and exhausted! They have little or no time to worry about rights. They just want their kids to get a good education (yes, I know the argument here...) They trust in the school system because it's the only thing available to them, and a host of other reasons.
New technology isn't always better technology. Processed foods turned out to be pretty bad. What about printed foods? Just because we pack a bunch of powders into something doesn't make it nutritious, in fact (no reference, sorry) I recall hearing that one needs whole foods to be healthy. We don't know how the body processes all these things, and simply putting them together in something doesn't make it healthy. Granted, printed food is probably better than nothing, but I'll keep my fresh veggies and meat for now, thanks. Also, the hitch seems to be that we won't waste food. I've heard stats in the U.S. that we waste a ton of food. I certainly don't, does that stat count restaurants? Would this tech end up there?
Kinksters used this stuff as a topical prep for needles/hooks/scalpels (not common hand soap, the real deal). More prevalently I believe it was a surgical prep, and a damn good one. I heard from a medical professional that it may even have been able to get inside a wound without any badness. Great stuff, worked really well to get rid of almost everything (long story short: no anti-microbial/bacterial gets rid of everything, triclosan is one of the best from what I understand). So yeah, it vanished off shelves a couple years ago.
Yes. It's called "living in a small town" where most people hold similar views, or keep their bad views to themselves..
In a larger society isn't necessarily possible to check everyone anymore, but this kind of thinking exists because it's the way people live: in groups that hold similar views. We want to fund those views we feel will help us and not fund those that might hurt us somehow.
Read up on Fisher Ames. He is surprisingly absent from the history books even though he is the one who penned the final draft of the first amendment. He pointed out that while democracy is a nice idea, not enough people would ever take enough interest to make it work (that's the short version. he called Thomas Jefferson "Jeffs" and thought him a deluded and naive individual).
What we have happening is the practicality of the system completely overturning the applecart of the spirit of the system.
Yes, it was kind of a handout to big pharma. Again. It's also propagating a VERY broken medical system in this country, one that advocates lots and lots of tests, partly because "school told me so" and partly because they have expensive malpractice insurance and huge medical school debt to cover. It's a whole culture of unanticipated side effects that worked for a while and is not making sense anymore. THAT is what people do not want to give money to, I suspect, but they would like to make sure everyone has a basic level of coverage. People want some real solutions, not just a bunch of money thrown at corporations and a system that has so many problems.
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Well I guess that makes me a psychopath?
Look, I think this research is dangerous. Anyone knows that unless we actively decide to think about someone else's pain we have a mechanism that helps shield us from that. This is a dark road to labelling almost anyone a psychopath. Hooray for drug comapnies!
Are you kidding? With all the pork going into those enormous data centers I wouldn't bet on it.
But outside cities this sort of thing is even more perfect. Brings small towns back together and helps people get around more easily. Need a lift across town? Maybe Jimbo is headed in for groceries and can give you a lift. This sort of thing is what the internet is SUPPOSED to be for: Communication and connecting people to make more efficient use of resources. Instead, it's being hobbled by unions and legal bullshit. I mean, come on... one death every 18 MONTHS in ALL of Los Angeles for cab drivers? That's an incredibly safe track record if you ask me, and that was back when crime was much higher in LA!
I say, get the F out of the way Mr Government so we can actually see some more efficiency.
Yes, I live in Los Angeles.
Don't give us this "just doing my job" nonsense.
Oddly, this is what the German people said consistently during WWII. "I didn't see anything" (but in german) was very common. People turn a blind eye because they need a job. When that desperation is so acute that people can be turned to do something terrifying collectively then there's a problem.
Also, those people KNOW what they are doing, piece by piece, little by little. Actual people allow those decisions, and must be stopped.
I prefer hamster wheels myself.
IMO It's because people are overworked and want a turnkey solution for the law, just like governance and cooking and many other things. Put enough gears and cogs in place and, cross fingers, everything will run smoothly.
I see it in finance: We have a TON of procedures in place for the tiniest details. It helps clients generically, but we could do better by attending each case separately and adhering to the spirit of things more. Why don't we? It would be REALLY tough to make money that way, or we'd have to charge such high fees that almost no one would pay.
We want it all: Low prices. Low amount of time/attention spent on tasks. Least hassle possible. It's a recipe for bureaucracy.
It would help explain why the paleo diet is supposed to cut caner risk drastically: Without all the etra carbs there is less inflammation in the body. Food for thought :)
Who are these people working at the FBI?
What is their mentality that they are doing all this and think they're actually defending our country and not enslaving it?
I would like to hear another few sides to these stories. I've heard a couple, I've met at least one FBI agent (scary guy, I am terrified this man is helping defend our country), can we get some more points of view?
Hear that loud whooshing sound overhead?
Worked with games... why not democracy: Kickstart it. Raise the biggest stinking godamned wad of money ever publicly beheld, then buy enough of the fuckers to make something happen. It's supposed to be how PACs work. Let's put our $5 where our mouths are.
You're right: the populace isn't stupid, but they need an easy conduit for change.
https://www.unpac.org/
or
http://anticorruptionact.org/
perhaps?
Yeah, I think we know who the tool is.
So if we make a day equal to a full work day, 8 hours, and there are 240 work days per year (48 weeks) then that would be 6 minutes of boot time per computer.
How did they come up with their statistic?
What terror is rising from the depths? What atrocity will this beget?
Not that it isn't already bad, but a shrill and tiny voice inside me worries that something awful is going to happen with all these ticking time bombs: Rights, jail population, infrastructure, economy, corporate greed, political corruption...
I guess Russia is still on its feet (barely)
Or will the rest of my life be a long slow slide into a wasteland I once used to be proud to call My Country?
the correct anwser, everyone say it with me now:
"Don't know, got no opinion." ...
"Don't know, got no opinion."
probably just for them to test out how they can handle the data load and searching it.
And first post no less!
I was at the BIL conference (at the same time as TED. Yes. And just down the street in Long Beach too) and the young man heading this spoke about the project. It sounds absolutely fascinating. The entire idea is to scale this up and eventually just launch raw materials into space or get them from asteroids or lunar regolith and print tools, structures, or anything else needed.
No, they're probably worried more about keeping their job and healthcare from day to day than about some dumbass policy at school that they know they can't change anyway since they have no time to go to the board meetings and don't want to get involved in crazy school board politics (yes, of course they exist). Some even say they don't want to rankle the neighbors with politics.
This is the reason that the person who did the final draft of the 1st Amendment, Fischer Ames, was a HUGE critic of democracy: People are busy. Really busy. they would not have time to help run the government! That is what is happening here.
This We're Smart and Everyone Else Is Stupid mentality you're fostering is part of the destruction of our country, a subtly vicious meritocracy, and it HAS to frickin stop if we want any progress. Parents are NOT dumb, they're over-frickin-worked and exhausted! They have little or no time to worry about rights. They just want their kids to get a good education (yes, I know the argument here...) They trust in the school system because it's the only thing available to them, and a host of other reasons.
New technology isn't always better technology. Processed foods turned out to be pretty bad. What about printed foods? Just because we pack a bunch of powders into something doesn't make it nutritious, in fact (no reference, sorry) I recall hearing that one needs whole foods to be healthy. We don't know how the body processes all these things, and simply putting them together in something doesn't make it healthy. Granted, printed food is probably better than nothing, but I'll keep my fresh veggies and meat for now, thanks.
Also, the hitch seems to be that we won't waste food. I've heard stats in the U.S. that we waste a ton of food. I certainly don't, does that stat count restaurants? Would this tech end up there?
Kinksters used this stuff as a topical prep for needles/hooks/scalpels (not common hand soap, the real deal). More prevalently I believe it was a surgical prep, and a damn good one. I heard from a medical professional that it may even have been able to get inside a wound without any badness. Great stuff, worked really well to get rid of almost everything (long story short: no anti-microbial/bacterial gets rid of everything, triclosan is one of the best from what I understand).
So yeah, it vanished off shelves a couple years ago.
Uh, UC Berkeley is actually about 30K in-state now, all total. Just a heads up.
Yes. It's called "living in a small town" where most people hold similar views, or keep their bad views to themselves..
In a larger society isn't necessarily possible to check everyone anymore, but this kind of thinking exists because it's the way people live: in groups that hold similar views. We want to fund those views we feel will help us and not fund those that might hurt us somehow.
The time warp? Again?
Read up on Fisher Ames. He is surprisingly absent from the history books even though he is the one who penned the final draft of the first amendment. He pointed out that while democracy is a nice idea, not enough people would ever take enough interest to make it work (that's the short version. he called Thomas Jefferson "Jeffs" and thought him a deluded and naive individual).
What we have happening is the practicality of the system completely overturning the applecart of the spirit of the system.
Yes, it was kind of a handout to big pharma. Again.
It's also propagating a VERY broken medical system in this country, one that advocates lots and lots of tests, partly because "school told me so" and partly because they have expensive malpractice insurance and huge medical school debt to cover. It's a whole culture of unanticipated side effects that worked for a while and is not making sense anymore. THAT is what people do not want to give money to, I suspect, but they would like to make sure everyone has a basic level of coverage.
People want some real solutions, not just a bunch of money thrown at corporations and a system that has so many problems.