If extremely rich people are buying politicians or something then I would suggest the problem again lies with your political system and a lack of serious consequences for corruption. Although I do agree that inheritances should be heavily taxed, in fact I think they already are in many places.
No, you're making the same mistake as the OP, treating all places as if they were the same. The bottom line is that even the poorest in developed countries have a standard of living far beyond most of the rest of the world mostly due to open and clear political systems and more importantly taxation.
There are two sentiments at work here, a kind of moralising piety that tut tuts at Bill sitting on his pile of cash as people in poor countries starve, and an attitude that really wants to see the lot of poor people get better and understands how to do so. Yours and the OPs are the former.
Who gets to decide how much is too much? The problem isn't that some people are too rich, the problem is that way too many people are incredibly poor, which is most people outside of developed countries. This isn't a problem that can be fixed by arbitrarily picking a number and confiscating any wealth above that, it's a problem that gets fixed by people in those countries getting rid of their corrupt politicians and levying taxes on their own wealthy. Not to say each country is a discrete unit of course, we can help them in many ways, but ultimately the decisions need to be made domestically.
Feel free to post your algorithm to replicate imagination here and collect your Nobel later. No? I can put together a fairly reasonable roadmap for excavating asteroids but I wouldn't have one clue where to even begin on the imagination, so eh not all problems have the same complexity.
Luxury! We had to swallow poison before welding girders into a functioning CPU and if we didn't we 'ad to weld them into the antidote too! Uphill both ways!
If it's getting cheaper for companies to run robot factories in the US than to employ Chinese labourers, I get the feeling the idea is a lot closer to reality than in the 1930s. I find the idea that robots wil be able to replicate imagination or creativity utterly laughable though, in any field.
Really? The IT sector is booming in Ireland, along with numerous other sectors like pharma and agriculture. Most of the unemployment is in the construction and related sectors, like furniture shops, and they should never have been allowed to balloon to the prominence they reached, the banking regulator authorising mortgages was imo deliberately asleep at the wheel. And even with all that mess the country would still be in great shape right now if the minister for finance at the time (now dead) hadn't issue a blanket guarantee to the banks making private debts public.
Meh, this affair doesn't hold a candle to the billions they save and make through Ireland, it wouldn't make financial sense. And even if they did I'm fairly sure the order would hold throughout the entire EU, at least if it went to the European courts, and it most assuredly would.
I wish that were the case, I went looking for a blog I used to enjoy last week and it was nowhere to be found. It went tits up in 2011 it seems and even the usual archives haven't got more than a few pages of it.
Also a testament to the stupidity of mob justice. Before it emerged that this guy had been wrongly identified, you had people posting his home address on busily trafficked sites, his phone number, metaphorically throwing nooses over lamp posts, the works. Afterwards, the same people were still trying to pin something on him somehow because he had the temerity to make them look like trigger happy vigilante clowns without a clue, which is what they are.
I don't blame him for trying to strike back through the legal system but since the video doesn't in fact identify him I'm not sure why he wants it pulled down. Renamed maybe might be a better option.
He is attempting to model a brain and hopefully as a result achieve results similar to or exactly the same as a real brain.
So he's attempting to achieve intelligence then?
I do get what you're trying to say but this is cargo cult stuff, it's like trying to randomly arrange bricks in the hopes that you eventually end up with a house.
If you don't have a good definition of what you're trying to replicate, you can't replicate it. A better analogy would be someone that was unable to correctly draw a letter trying to copy a passage in German.
Brilliant, what's his definition of intelligence again?
That unelected officials are prone to spending vast sums of other peoples money on boondoggles is practically a cliche at this point, that they are undoubtedly ignorant of the subject they are speding public funds on is just icing on the cake.
Still, time will tell. I would bet good money that his initiative falls flat on its face, and he sails off into the sunset digitus impudicus rampant.
Not to mention that we have no clear definition for bare intelligence as it stands. And this braggart thinks we can just hook up enough xboxes and away we go? Hah! Neuroscience isn't following his lead because he's uneducated.
I think a lot of the better educated in the US are starting to look with interest at Europe's social protections. My sister and her family moved to the land of opportunity a month ago, and are already working out exit options since there's no way in hell they can afford university or health fees for the kids. Yes it's not perfect but you'd be surprised how financially advantageous paying your taxes into social systems can be.
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I live in Europe.
If extremely rich people are buying politicians or something then I would suggest the problem again lies with your political system and a lack of serious consequences for corruption. Although I do agree that inheritances should be heavily taxed, in fact I think they already are in many places.
No, you're making the same mistake as the OP, treating all places as if they were the same. The bottom line is that even the poorest in developed countries have a standard of living far beyond most of the rest of the world mostly due to open and clear political systems and more importantly taxation.
There are two sentiments at work here, a kind of moralising piety that tut tuts at Bill sitting on his pile of cash as people in poor countries starve, and an attitude that really wants to see the lot of poor people get better and understands how to do so. Yours and the OPs are the former.
Who gets to decide how much is too much? The problem isn't that some people are too rich, the problem is that way too many people are incredibly poor, which is most people outside of developed countries. This isn't a problem that can be fixed by arbitrarily picking a number and confiscating any wealth above that, it's a problem that gets fixed by people in those countries getting rid of their corrupt politicians and levying taxes on their own wealthy. Not to say each country is a discrete unit of course, we can help them in many ways, but ultimately the decisions need to be made domestically.
Bingo.
Just memorise all these and mix them up as you see fit:
http://www.dack.com/web/bullshit.html
Feel free to post your algorithm to replicate imagination here and collect your Nobel later. No? I can put together a fairly reasonable roadmap for excavating asteroids but I wouldn't have one clue where to even begin on the imagination, so eh not all problems have the same complexity.
Luxury! We had to swallow poison before welding girders into a functioning CPU and if we didn't we 'ad to weld them into the antidote too! Uphill both ways!
If it's getting cheaper for companies to run robot factories in the US than to employ Chinese labourers, I get the feeling the idea is a lot closer to reality than in the 1930s. I find the idea that robots wil be able to replicate imagination or creativity utterly laughable though, in any field.
I'm not a paid shill and I wholeheartedly agree with this video's message.
Really? The IT sector is booming in Ireland, along with numerous other sectors like pharma and agriculture. Most of the unemployment is in the construction and related sectors, like furniture shops, and they should never have been allowed to balloon to the prominence they reached, the banking regulator authorising mortgages was imo deliberately asleep at the wheel. And even with all that mess the country would still be in great shape right now if the minister for finance at the time (now dead) hadn't issue a blanket guarantee to the banks making private debts public.
Meh, this affair doesn't hold a candle to the billions they save and make through Ireland, it wouldn't make financial sense. And even if they did I'm fairly sure the order would hold throughout the entire EU, at least if it went to the European courts, and it most assuredly would.
I wish that were the case, I went looking for a blog I used to enjoy last week and it was nowhere to be found. It went tits up in 2011 it seems and even the usual archives haven't got more than a few pages of it.
Google and them do a lot of business through Ireland, it might not be so easy for them to just ignore an order from an Irish judge.
Also a testament to the stupidity of mob justice. Before it emerged that this guy had been wrongly identified, you had people posting his home address on busily trafficked sites, his phone number, metaphorically throwing nooses over lamp posts, the works. Afterwards, the same people were still trying to pin something on him somehow because he had the temerity to make them look like trigger happy vigilante clowns without a clue, which is what they are.
I don't blame him for trying to strike back through the legal system but since the video doesn't in fact identify him I'm not sure why he wants it pulled down. Renamed maybe might be a better option.
Thanking you!
He is attempting to model a brain and hopefully as a result achieve results similar to or exactly the same as a real brain.
So he's attempting to achieve intelligence then?
I do get what you're trying to say but this is cargo cult stuff, it's like trying to randomly arrange bricks in the hopes that you eventually end up with a house.
If you don't have a good definition of what you're trying to replicate, you can't replicate it. A better analogy would be someone that was unable to correctly draw a letter trying to copy a passage in German.
Brilliant, what's his definition of intelligence again?
That unelected officials are prone to spending vast sums of other peoples money on boondoggles is practically a cliche at this point, that they are undoubtedly ignorant of the subject they are speding public funds on is just icing on the cake.
Still, time will tell. I would bet good money that his initiative falls flat on its face, and he sails off into the sunset digitus impudicus rampant.
Not to mention that we have no clear definition for bare intelligence as it stands. And this braggart thinks we can just hook up enough xboxes and away we go? Hah! Neuroscience isn't following his lead because he's uneducated.
The more business-astute in these countries just open a seperate business and close it when they need to let people go.
Hey, my business plan would work great if only I didn't have to pay people!
I think a lot of the better educated in the US are starting to look with interest at Europe's social protections. My sister and her family moved to the land of opportunity a month ago, and are already working out exit options since there's no way in hell they can afford university or health fees for the kids. Yes it's not perfect but you'd be surprised how financially advantageous paying your taxes into social systems can be.
What is that font the C64 uses and where can I get it?
Heh, the more things change...