Ask the horses how many jobs internal combustion created for them. So far humans have stayed ahead of automation because there has always been some other job we could shift to we were better at than the machines. That will not always be true. Soon your choices may be show pony or the glue factory.
You're missing the difference between automation and tools. What you describe is a tool that make a worker more productive. Automation is more like a machine becomes available that will be twice as productive as a worker and cost half as much, with no worker needed to operate it. How many workers would you hire to work in your factory when you no longer need any? We're not there yet, but it's coming fast.
I suspect what she meant by "be nice" is that she wanted the shows she likes to have higher ratings so they wouldn't get cancelled. Your wife is probably more cunning than you give her credit for.
Except you're not entering a single code in a vacuum. The cable box sits there receiving codes for as long as you have it plugged in. While an individual signal may be ambiguous, several weeks or even days of interactions, when compared to known usage patterns of electronic devices, make it trivial to determine what the device or devices are. Even if you have a dozen different devices in that room with different remotes, a couple months of data should make it clear to each of those devices what all the others are, if they care to listen.
If people did ONLY what they liked, who would hang drywall or make drywall? Who would pick up garbage? Who would clean and repair sewage pumps at the treatment plant? Who would place and finish concrete? Who would clean toilets? Who would care for rude oldsters with dementia? Who would make or install wiring?
Robots, of course. Haven't you been paying attention?
About time. That herd has been in desperate need of serious culling for centuries now. You want to end pretty much every crisis facing humanity from poverty to ecosystem collapse? End overpopulation.
What kind of sparrows do you have? Ours eat from feeders all the time and are nowhere near dangerously low numbers. Certain feeder designs may foil them, but anything with a perch they will eat out of.
He wasn't an alt-rightist. He self-identified as a "classical liberal" in the document, which I doubt you bothered to read. If you had read it, you might know that he also didn't propose any sexist stereotypes in it, despite what the media has been breathlessly reporting.
Perhaps. I read what he wrote as saying that the differences between men and women are purely cultural, not genetic. I replied with details on the genetic difference. If that wasn't what he meant, then it's on him to clarify.
Again, I wasn't saying anything about aptitude for engineering, which, incidentally, neither did the memo in question. The memo spoke about the differing interest in pursuing it as a career between men and women and speculated on why that might be. The aptitude for engineering aspect was your own, apparently misconstrued, addition to the discussion.
Actually, I was responding specifically to i_ate_god who said "Women and men are culturally different, but that's culture, not genetics." I wasn't attempting to prove that that difference applies to career selection, though many other people here have already presented information to that end. But thanks for deliberately misconstruing what I said.
Who, of course, makes that determination in a completely fair and equitable manner without any influence from the company's diversity policy or the peer pressure that accompanies it.
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perfume sometimes uses urine as an ingredient so whether that is a good or bad smell very much depends on what other gases are present.
It really doesn't. People are just very good at convincing themselves that if they paid a lot of money for something it must not reek.
Ask the horses how many jobs internal combustion created for them. So far humans have stayed ahead of automation because there has always been some other job we could shift to we were better at than the machines. That will not always be true. Soon your choices may be show pony or the glue factory.
You're missing the difference between automation and tools. What you describe is a tool that make a worker more productive. Automation is more like a machine becomes available that will be twice as productive as a worker and cost half as much, with no worker needed to operate it. How many workers would you hire to work in your factory when you no longer need any? We're not there yet, but it's coming fast.
Not worth it. Find a better species.
If that is true, who taught them to humans?
I suspect what she meant by "be nice" is that she wanted the shows she likes to have higher ratings so they wouldn't get cancelled. Your wife is probably more cunning than you give her credit for.
Except you're not entering a single code in a vacuum. The cable box sits there receiving codes for as long as you have it plugged in. While an individual signal may be ambiguous, several weeks or even days of interactions, when compared to known usage patterns of electronic devices, make it trivial to determine what the device or devices are. Even if you have a dozen different devices in that room with different remotes, a couple months of data should make it clear to each of those devices what all the others are, if they care to listen.
I'm talking intelligence not instinct. Your hand waving did not address the argument core.
And what makes you think they are two different things?
The only people sanctioned to commit violence are police. Everyone else gets punished
This is exactly right. And it is exactly what is wrong with the current system.
Laws and police protect the less predatory from the predatory so that there is not anarchy.
Almost. Laws and police protect the predatory from the prey.
Or just ditch the fleshy friends. Your plastic pals are more fun to be with.
I for one welcome our new robot girlfriend overlords.
Robots, of course. Haven't you been paying attention?
Hopefully not! You can stay and be a robot's pet if you like.
About time. That herd has been in desperate need of serious culling for centuries now. You want to end pretty much every crisis facing humanity from poverty to ecosystem collapse? End overpopulation.
What kind of sparrows do you have? Ours eat from feeders all the time and are nowhere near dangerously low numbers. Certain feeder designs may foil them, but anything with a perch they will eat out of.
CEO-bot 9000 says you're fired. Have fun driving for Uber.
Seriously, though, you're not the first to suggest that CEO positions are ripe for automation.
Marketplace collusion/monopoly, likely enforced with legislation. The same forces that prevent price-competition in today's markets.
The really sad thing is that both Parent and GP are correct. Who has time for original thought when everyone is so busy repeating the party lines?
Good luck with that. We already know how the bees are dying and the people responsible have enough money that it won't stop any time soon.
What's your favorite food? Stop eating it and never eat it again. What? You don't want to? Must be because you're addicted.
Local grass-fed 85% lean ground beef is not the same product as pre-packaged "ALL NATURAL*" 85% lean ground beef.
He wasn't an alt-rightist. He self-identified as a "classical liberal" in the document, which I doubt you bothered to read. If you had read it, you might know that he also didn't propose any sexist stereotypes in it, despite what the media has been breathlessly reporting.
Perhaps. I read what he wrote as saying that the differences between men and women are purely cultural, not genetic. I replied with details on the genetic difference. If that wasn't what he meant, then it's on him to clarify.
Again, I wasn't saying anything about aptitude for engineering, which, incidentally, neither did the memo in question. The memo spoke about the differing interest in pursuing it as a career between men and women and speculated on why that might be. The aptitude for engineering aspect was your own, apparently misconstrued, addition to the discussion.
Free-market capitalism slew my father in cold blood. I swore I would not rest until I had my revenge.
Actually, I was responding specifically to i_ate_god who said "Women and men are culturally different, but that's culture, not genetics." I wasn't attempting to prove that that difference applies to career selection, though many other people here have already presented information to that end. But thanks for deliberately misconstruing what I said.
Who, of course, makes that determination in a completely fair and equitable manner without any influence from the company's diversity policy or the peer pressure that accompanies it.