Greater men than me have failed to answer that question but I'm arrogant enough to give it a try anyway.
In ancient Rome slaves provided for Roman citizens such that there was a large group of people who didn't have to work at all. Everything they wanted was given to them. They spent their time at theaters, bath houses, and feeding each other. Some turned to philosophy, some to learning, many to simply wasting their lives away in whatever they liked to do.
In today's UK there are many people living on the public welfare system. Their standard of living is significantly lower than that of Rome but their pursuits are about the same. It's not fair to say they aren't as intellectual: you would be comparing the average of today's time wasters with the progress of a thousand years of Roman philosophers.
In America there are many people in the inner cities existing with a very low standard of living (by today's ideas of a proper standard of living), most of that wealth given to them by the government. They have very poor lives and a high crime rate. It has been alleged that government handouts are causing this low standard living but another way to look at is that insufficient knowledge, improper allocation of handouts, and not enough handouts are causing the problems. If enough time and energy could be spent on those neighborhoods (especially in solving the social problems) they WOULD improve.
So what I'm saying is that given high enough productivity per person you would have the same social structures that have been seen where wealth is concentrated: look at Dubai's hotels and massive public works projects, the activities of today's ultra rich (often composed of wealth wasting contests like seeing who can get the most and best horses and proving who had enough time to spend learning just the right set of mannerisms) and the activities of the Roman wasters.
It may also by beneficial to compare lifestyles across times when wealth was plentiful and not so plentiful.It is not whether someone is working or not that determines their standard of living but only how much wealth they have. Below a certain point you have ghettos and severe social malignancy; above that level you have the desire to be warm, comfortable, well fed, and able to move about; and above that there is an increasing amount of conspicuous consumption where anything goes as long as it obviously cost enough.
As an unemployed person I tell you that nothing is wrong with me. If giving a society free labor is doing it an injury then something is wrong.
Don't bring up anticompetitive dumping, that's only harmful because the agent doing the dumping will raise prices in time. And don't bring up cheap food in Africa, that's only harmful because Africa should be creating its own food and the gifts are not sustainable.
If people are unemployed because of robots that means robots are producing all that hose people need -- and to a large extent that's already happening!
Right now the government is taking wealth away from highly efficient industries and giving it to people who are producing nothing substantial. And it's happening by the tens of millions of people and by the billions of dollars. they call it "government handouts", "welfare", "social security", "disability relief", and "food stamps"
Now there are two ways this can go. Destroy the technology, make our industries less efficient, don't build robots. Then you'll have millions of people doing unnecessary work. Or you can keep building more robots, raise productivity as much as possible, and have those same millions NOT doing unnecessary work.
Unless you think that not working is inherently wrong, bad for a person, bad for society (if you do I strongly disagree) it can be said that RIGHT NOW society is moving into the utopia we have dreamed of, wherein robots work and people don't have to.
I know researchers are doing their best but am I the only one who's really impatient for robots to begin integrating into society on a large scale? All we have so far outside of more progressive factories is a few tens of lab robots, floor cleaners, and lawn mowers. where's my robot maid dammit? why aren't robots fully integrated into the McDonald's supply chain reducing the price of my burger to 50 cents? Where are the road laying robots? where's my robochauffeur?
For fish? The fact that they lost interest after 30 minutes is interesting; it implies that something that takes as long as 30 minutes to get into their little fishy skulls told them that this wasn't the leader they sought. was it doing the follow me dance too many times? Was it not putting the "follow me" chemical into the water? What is the success rate of the robot fish versus a real fish in a study that covers several recruitment attempts by a real fish?
70000 dollars? 80? I can hardly get a job for 35000.
I'm certified and experienced, have good references and a well written resume. am I the only one who thinks these numbers are artificially inflated?
You're sure there are abuses? well so am I. In fact I have no doubt personally that the abuses far outweigh any possible good that can come of the classification system. Time after time throughout history the US government has classified information for the sole reason that it's embarrassing to those currently in power. Until we require a judge to review every classification for legality (and I mean every one from presidential orgies to black ops) the abuses will continue. The government's record on this is absolutely unacceptable.
1: Widely advertise how it is helping users by letting data gracefully degrade. 2: Set the age it starts to degrade long after the time they're presently deleting the information (and only for information they're already deleting) 3: Pretend they're doing the users a favor while actually keeping more data, longer. 4: Apply this principal to any data they want to keep. 5: Profit!
Gliders and spaceships "replicate" themselves in somewhat the same way that salt crystals or wildfires do -- that's just the way the universe works, you might say. But the Gemini pattern keeps itself going by continuously reconstructing itself, in *spite* of the way the universe normally works.
how so? will this pattern repair itself if anything happens to it? will it protect itself from outside influences? like a cell wall protects the inside of a cell? so how is it reconstructing itself in spite of the things around it? how is this anything but a different kind of glider?
24 hours != indefinite. I didn't RTFA but I would bet my left testicle that it will start the flight with full batteries and end with nearly depleted ones. The REAL test will be when energy levels and consumables like lubricant are about the same before and after 24 hours in flight.
No, he's saying you would be an intelligent, well educated individual if you didn't make broad generalizations like "they" want to take away your freedoms.
In years past as many as 7 out of 10 officially listed computers were for security research. Now, contrary to the article, that's down to 2.
Jaguar -- general research (http://www.nccs.gov/computing-resources/jaguar/) Roadrunner -- security research (http://www.lanl.gov/) Kraken XT5 -- general research (National Institute for Computational Sciences/University of Tennessee) Tianhe-1 -- unstated Pleiades -- security research (nukes)
"Recently expanded to accommodate growing demand for high-performance systems able to run the most complex nuclear weapons science calculations, BGL now has a peak speed of 596 teraFLOPS. In partnership with IBM, the machine was scaled up from 65,536 to 106,496 nodes in five rows of racks; the 40,960 new nodes have double the memory of those installed in the original machine"
Intrepid -- General research Ranger -- General research Red Sky -- General research
It makese me wonder whether the machines for nuclear research went underground or maybe it just doesn't take a top ranking supercomputer to calculate a nuclear explosion anymore.
It is trivial to make ten different ebay accounts with ten different pseudoidentities and keep the total for each under $20,000 a year. It is trivial to then transfer the money to one's real account.
It certainly does improve the UI. Tabbing covers up the Windows UI problem of not being able to tell the documents you have open if you have enough of them. It does this by using extra screen real estate. If I open 50 Opera windows I'll see "Opera" in each button in my taskbar but unless I want to change my taskbar size dynamically not the site name or that little icon for the site. If I open 50 Opera tabs than at the top of my screen I'll see all those little icons, which lets me click on the right tab.
For a propulsion system to transport large payloads with short transit times between different planetary orbits: a deuterium fusion bomb propulsion system is proposed where a thermonuclear detonation wave is ignited in a small cylindrical assembly of deuterium with a gigavolt-multimegampere proton beam, drawn from the magnetically insulated spacecraft acting in the ultrahigh ultrahigh
adj.
Exceedingly high: an ultrahigh vacuum. vacuum of space as a gigavolt capacitor.
other linky. This could be science fiction for all I know but it sure sounds like a blast;-)
I would encourage you to look at Japan to see where the degree slippery slope leads. Japan has a great focus on technical skills, from high schools that focus on trade schools to technical colleges and yet it's all but impossible to get a job in Japan unless you have a college degree. College has entirely replaced high school as the minimum acceptable level of education in society. Once one could get a job having only completed elementary school. Then one needed to be a high school graduate. Now one needs a two to four year degree. And this is for a job as a waiter or dish washer.
The reason is simple: colleges are absorbing the unemployed and underemployed. And it is a system that can successfully absorb as many as can borrow money. Individuals who can't get work go back to school in hopes that a degree will help them. This takes them out of the work force for that time.
I would argue that if there is any hope for the current economic paradigm this is a good thing. Here's what I mean: Either technological unemployment (i.e. the jobless recoveries of the 90s and today) cannot be resolved at all or it will be resolved by having almost every person in society being educated enough to innovate their company's way out a la Google.
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um. yeah. whoosh.
And that's why a bank has the right to stop me from building on my land as long as it hold the mortgage.
Greater men than me have failed to answer that question but I'm arrogant enough to give it a try anyway.
In ancient Rome slaves provided for Roman citizens such that there was a large group of people who didn't have to work at all. Everything they wanted was given to them. They spent their time at theaters, bath houses, and feeding each other. Some turned to philosophy, some to learning, many to simply wasting their lives away in whatever they liked to do.
In today's UK there are many people living on the public welfare system. Their standard of living is significantly lower than that of Rome but their pursuits are about the same. It's not fair to say they aren't as intellectual: you would be comparing the average of today's time wasters with the progress of a thousand years of Roman philosophers.
In America there are many people in the inner cities existing with a very low standard of living (by today's ideas of a proper standard of living), most of that wealth given to them by the government. They have very poor lives and a high crime rate. It has been alleged that government handouts are causing this low standard living but another way to look at is that insufficient knowledge, improper allocation of handouts, and not enough handouts are causing the problems. If enough time and energy could be spent on those neighborhoods (especially in solving the social problems) they WOULD improve.
So what I'm saying is that given high enough productivity per person you would have the same social structures that have been seen where wealth is concentrated: look at Dubai's hotels and massive public works projects, the activities of today's ultra rich (often composed of wealth wasting contests like seeing who can get the most and best horses and proving who had enough time to spend learning just the right set of mannerisms) and the activities of the Roman wasters.
It may also by beneficial to compare lifestyles across times when wealth was plentiful and not so plentiful.It is not whether someone is working or not that determines their standard of living but only how much wealth they have. Below a certain point you have ghettos and severe social malignancy; above that level you have the desire to be warm, comfortable, well fed, and able to move about; and above that there is an increasing amount of conspicuous consumption where anything goes as long as it obviously cost enough.
As an unemployed person I tell you that nothing is wrong with me. If giving a society free labor is doing it an injury then something is wrong. Don't bring up anticompetitive dumping, that's only harmful because the agent doing the dumping will raise prices in time. And don't bring up cheap food in Africa, that's only harmful because Africa should be creating its own food and the gifts are not sustainable. If people are unemployed because of robots that means robots are producing all that hose people need -- and to a large extent that's already happening! Right now the government is taking wealth away from highly efficient industries and giving it to people who are producing nothing substantial. And it's happening by the tens of millions of people and by the billions of dollars. they call it "government handouts", "welfare", "social security", "disability relief", and "food stamps" Now there are two ways this can go. Destroy the technology, make our industries less efficient, don't build robots. Then you'll have millions of people doing unnecessary work. Or you can keep building more robots, raise productivity as much as possible, and have those same millions NOT doing unnecessary work. Unless you think that not working is inherently wrong, bad for a person, bad for society (if you do I strongly disagree) it can be said that RIGHT NOW society is moving into the utopia we have dreamed of, wherein robots work and people don't have to.
I know researchers are doing their best but am I the only one who's really impatient for robots to begin integrating into society on a large scale? All we have so far outside of more progressive factories is a few tens of lab robots, floor cleaners, and lawn mowers. where's my robot maid dammit? why aren't robots fully integrated into the McDonald's supply chain reducing the price of my burger to 50 cents? Where are the road laying robots? where's my robochauffeur?
For fish? The fact that they lost interest after 30 minutes is interesting; it implies that something that takes as long as 30 minutes to get into their little fishy skulls told them that this wasn't the leader they sought. was it doing the follow me dance too many times? Was it not putting the "follow me" chemical into the water? What is the success rate of the robot fish versus a real fish in a study that covers several recruitment attempts by a real fish?
70000 dollars? 80? I can hardly get a job for 35000. I'm certified and experienced, have good references and a well written resume. am I the only one who thinks these numbers are artificially inflated?
In case anyone is interested in their own hearing ability, this site has up to 24KHz. test yourself! have fun.
Oxygen can't ignite.
You're sure there are abuses? well so am I. In fact I have no doubt personally that the abuses far outweigh any possible good that can come of the classification system. Time after time throughout history the US government has classified information for the sole reason that it's embarrassing to those currently in power. Until we require a judge to review every classification for legality (and I mean every one from presidential orgies to black ops) the abuses will continue. The government's record on this is absolutely unacceptable.
Yes! Google can benefit form this. Here's how:
1: Widely advertise how it is helping users by letting data gracefully degrade.
2: Set the age it starts to degrade long after the time they're presently deleting the information (and only for information they're already deleting)
3: Pretend they're doing the users a favor while actually keeping more data, longer.
4: Apply this principal to any data they want to keep.
5: Profit!
Gliders and spaceships "replicate" themselves in somewhat the same way that salt crystals or wildfires do -- that's just the way the universe works, you might say. But the Gemini pattern keeps itself going by continuously reconstructing itself, in *spite* of the way the universe normally works.
how so? will this pattern repair itself if anything happens to it? will it protect itself from outside influences? like a cell wall protects the inside of a cell? so how is it reconstructing itself in spite of the things around it? how is this anything but a different kind of glider?
24 hours != indefinite. I didn't RTFA but I would bet my left testicle that it will start the flight with full batteries and end with nearly depleted ones. The REAL test will be when energy levels and consumables like lubricant are about the same before and after 24 hours in flight.
or you're going to see billions of people having to pay more for the more expensive oil. hydrocarbons can be made as long as there is energy.
No, he's saying you would be an intelligent, well educated individual if you didn't make broad generalizations like "they" want to take away your freedoms.
In years past as many as 7 out of 10 officially listed computers were for security research. Now, contrary to the article, that's down to 2.
Jaguar -- general research (http://www.nccs.gov/computing-resources/jaguar/)
Roadrunner -- security research (http://www.lanl.gov/)
Kraken XT5 -- general research (National Institute for Computational Sciences/University of Tennessee)
Tianhe-1 -- unstated
Pleiades -- security research (nukes)
"Recently expanded to accommodate growing demand for high-performance systems able to run the most complex nuclear weapons science calculations, BGL now has a peak speed of 596 teraFLOPS. In partnership with IBM, the machine was scaled up from 65,536 to 106,496 nodes in five rows of racks; the 40,960 new nodes have double the memory of those installed in the original machine"
Intrepid -- General research
Ranger -- General research
Red Sky -- General research
It makese me wonder whether the machines for nuclear research went underground or maybe it just doesn't take a top ranking supercomputer to calculate a nuclear explosion anymore.
It is trivial to make ten different ebay accounts with ten different pseudoidentities and keep the total for each under $20,000 a year. It is trivial to then transfer the money to one's real account.
It certainly does improve the UI. Tabbing covers up the Windows UI problem of not being able to tell the documents you have open if you have enough of them. It does this by using extra screen real estate.
If I open 50 Opera windows I'll see "Opera" in each button in my taskbar but unless I want to change my taskbar size dynamically not the site name or that little icon for the site. If I open 50 Opera tabs than at the top of my screen I'll see all those little icons, which lets me click on the right tab.
it also would have been heavier and more complex, therefore less reliable. I can't imagine anything they should have done differently.
you want people to be executed for a thought crime?
For a propulsion system to transport large payloads with short transit times between different planetary orbits: a deuterium fusion bomb propulsion system is proposed where a thermonuclear detonation wave is ignited in a small cylindrical assembly of deuterium with a gigavolt-multimegampere proton beam, drawn from the magnetically insulated spacecraft acting in the ultrahigh ultrahigh adj. Exceedingly high: an ultrahigh vacuum. vacuum of space as a gigavolt capacitor. other linky. This could be science fiction for all I know but it sure sounds like a blast ;-)
linky
I would encourage you to look at Japan to see where the degree slippery slope leads. Japan has a great focus on technical skills, from high schools that focus on trade schools to technical colleges and yet it's all but impossible to get a job in Japan unless you have a college degree. College has entirely replaced high school as the minimum acceptable level of education in society. Once one could get a job having only completed elementary school. Then one needed to be a high school graduate. Now one needs a two to four year degree. And this is for a job as a waiter or dish washer.
The reason is simple: colleges are absorbing the unemployed and underemployed. And it is a system that can successfully absorb as many as can borrow money. Individuals who can't get work go back to school in hopes that a degree will help them. This takes them out of the work force for that time.
I would argue that if there is any hope for the current economic paradigm this is a good thing. Here's what I mean: Either technological unemployment (i.e. the jobless recoveries of the 90s and today) cannot be resolved at all or it will be resolved by having almost every person in society being educated enough to innovate their company's way out a la Google.
I urge you all to infringe RIAA copyrights in any way possible.
you pray to Dear Leader too?