There's plenty of work to be done, just not enough jobs.
If there was a basic income...why NOT spend all your days planting flowers along the highways? Or tutoring children? Or hanging out with old people who no longer have any family?
A basic income could usher in a new CCC of sorts. A organized network of unpaid volunteer positions to help provide meaning, structure, and purpose into people's lives.
My thought train: "At least that isn't my - aw damn- you're talking about NC"
Sucky time to live here. NCs government is beyond horrible right now. Hopefully something will shake the country church-folk awake come November to flush em out. Probably not.
I wonder how much of this was caused by the intensity of the 'echo chamber' effect these sub-groups seem to exhibit. If they AI was supposed to be like a teen girl, they were thinking such echo chamber effects would be present in pop culture topics. While that may be true, it may be MORE true for these conspiracy/hate groups. Self-validation and isolation is pretty important for those groups. So any time anybody says '9/11 was an inside job' there are tons of retweets and 'hell yeah!' sorta remarks from within that group.
From an AI point of view, the two groups would be indistinguishable. It then would proceed to tweet stuff that would get the best response from its peer groups. Which would provide *more* of a following with validating comments...racist shit or some banal statement about Beiber?
I'm going to go out on a limb and say you've never seen a ghetto before in the US. Take a look at Detroit or Mississippi sometime. If you're okay with that, then I guess we just can't see eye to eye on this.;-)
I'm going to go out on a limb and say you've never seen a slum before. Take a look at India or Central America sometime. If you're okay with that, then I guess we just can't see eye to eye on this.
Having one of these would be great for training / running your own personal neural network. Instead of beaming all of your data to a 3rd party you have the work done locally (or series of GPUs even...)
I've thought about this a lot. Once a person/society goes 'relativistic' there's essentially no going back (at least to a recognizable land).
There could be other ships/societies that are also relativistic and you could potentially meet them somewhere in space-time. One ship goes 20% the speed of light and the other goes 15% to get to the same space at the same time.
How the relativistic societies would communicate is still somewhat of a pickle though, as there's be some pretty huge delays, even with the signals going the full speed of light.
I was going to say the same thing about nuclear. You are very generous in saying it'd only require 1/10 of the land area. A 7 core (with 1 gigawatt each!) facility in Japan takes up 1100 acres, with the majority of that likely being security buffers and whatnot.
After reading the first line of your comment I was ready to fire off a reply along the lines of 'fuck off you callous...etc'
However, given what you thought happened does really put it into perspective and I likely would have felt the same. I never had to live with the fear of nuclear war, so it's hard to imagine the kind of stress and fear that could cause. To think that the 'unthinkable' had happened must have been a gut-punch.
I personally was about 5 months shy of dropping out, but my father-in-law was best friends with the pilot of the Challenger. They grew up together in Beaufort, NC and both went to the Naval Academy (my father-in-law went into submarines though). He and my mother-in-law were invited to go down to the launch but couldn't because she had just given birth to my wife!
He's still pissed off about it. It was a purely political decision to launch that day. The engineers said they shouldn't and said there was an unnecessary risk due to exact problem that ended up happening. But because it was already delayed several times before, they were pressured to launch against the engineer's recommendations. Because of that people needlessly died.
Then you can just "fall" from Los Angeles to SF with no propulsion needed.
I've found that if you use the word 'just' when describing anything related to engineering it's WAY more complex than you think it is, and usually impossible.
Thank you for posting about your martial arts skills! I had a wonderful vision of you kicking the crap out of a misogynist basement dwelling neckbeard in a post-apocalyptic setting.:-)
Good points. I suppose I was using your points as a stand-in for a larger wave of sentiment I see on this site. Apologies.
Not sure where to set the 'good enough' point. I'm sure it'd vary depending on region and even culture. Though I'd argue that the difference between safety nets and basic income is that you don't lose the basic income after you pass a certain level.
Today we have somewhat perverse incentives against going back to work since making $1k over the welfare threshold makes you in effect lose several thousand in welfare benefits.
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There's plenty of work to be done, just not enough jobs.
If there was a basic income...why NOT spend all your days planting flowers along the highways? Or tutoring children? Or hanging out with old people who no longer have any family?
A basic income could usher in a new CCC of sorts. A organized network of unpaid volunteer positions to help provide meaning, structure, and purpose into people's lives.
If you have lots of money, but have trouble with the idea of a basic income think of it as guillotine insurance!
-Some meme I saw somewhere
My thought train: "At least that isn't my - aw damn- you're talking about NC"
Sucky time to live here. NCs government is beyond horrible right now. Hopefully something will shake the country church-folk awake come November to flush em out. Probably not.
I wonder how much of this was caused by the intensity of the 'echo chamber' effect these sub-groups seem to exhibit. If they AI was supposed to be like a teen girl, they were thinking such echo chamber effects would be present in pop culture topics. While that may be true, it may be MORE true for these conspiracy/hate groups. Self-validation and isolation is pretty important for those groups. So any time anybody says '9/11 was an inside job' there are tons of retweets and 'hell yeah!' sorta remarks from within that group.
From an AI point of view, the two groups would be indistinguishable. It then would proceed to tweet stuff that would get the best response from its peer groups. Which would provide *more* of a following with validating comments...racist shit or some banal statement about Beiber?
who was fired?
I'm going to go out on a limb and say you've never seen a ghetto before in the US. Take a look at Detroit or Mississippi sometime. If you're okay with that, then I guess we just can't see eye to eye on this. ;-)
I'm going to go out on a limb and say you've never seen a slum before. Take a look at India or Central America sometime. If you're okay with that, then I guess we just can't see eye to eye on this.
I can't wait for the throngs of homeless in your scenario!
But fuck 'em right? Lazy bums.
Having one of these would be great for training / running your own personal neural network. Instead of beaming all of your data to a 3rd party you have the work done locally (or series of GPUs even...)
I've thought about this a lot. Once a person/society goes 'relativistic' there's essentially no going back (at least to a recognizable land).
There could be other ships/societies that are also relativistic and you could potentially meet them somewhere in space-time. One ship goes 20% the speed of light and the other goes 15% to get to the same space at the same time.
How the relativistic societies would communicate is still somewhat of a pickle though, as there's be some pretty huge delays, even with the signals going the full speed of light.
Not much else I can do really.
Except maybe eat as much sushi / seafood I can before it all goes tits up.
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I was going to say the same thing about nuclear. You are very generous in saying it'd only require 1/10 of the land area. A 7 core (with 1 gigawatt each!) facility in Japan takes up 1100 acres, with the majority of that likely being security buffers and whatnot.
Sander's isn't shy about saying that his movement doesn't end with him being elected. We'd pretty much need a full flush of congress.
I'm pretty sure most can agree with that regardless of their opinion of Sanders.
I think you're onto something....
After reading the first line of your comment I was ready to fire off a reply along the lines of 'fuck off you callous...etc'
However, given what you thought happened does really put it into perspective and I likely would have felt the same. I never had to live with the fear of nuclear war, so it's hard to imagine the kind of stress and fear that could cause. To think that the 'unthinkable' had happened must have been a gut-punch.
I personally was about 5 months shy of dropping out, but my father-in-law was best friends with the pilot of the Challenger. They grew up together in Beaufort, NC and both went to the Naval Academy (my father-in-law went into submarines though). He and my mother-in-law were invited to go down to the launch but couldn't because she had just given birth to my wife!
He's still pissed off about it. It was a purely political decision to launch that day. The engineers said they shouldn't and said there was an unnecessary risk due to exact problem that ended up happening. But because it was already delayed several times before, they were pressured to launch against the engineer's recommendations. Because of that people needlessly died.
The SEC is a corrupt organization that is completely full of shit.
Seconded.
Holy crap! Yahoo released something actually useful and arguably innovative? I'm genuinely surprised.
This could be an interesting direction for Yahoo.
ML is the bee's knees.
PS-I just looked up the etymology on 'the bee's knees' and it's moderately interesting:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki...
Then you can just "fall" from Los Angeles to SF with no propulsion needed.
I've found that if you use the word 'just' when describing anything related to engineering it's WAY more complex than you think it is, and usually impossible.
I was going to post essentially the same thing.
As SO ages, some of the offered solutions are no longer valid.
Are there currently plans to automate some way of validating old answers automatically?
This problem seems to be a larger problem with forums in general. Do you have any musings regarding aging forums?
I don't think these teeth would kill off all the bacteria in the mouth. It would just prevent them from adhering to the tooth itself to cause trouble.
Thank you for posting about your martial arts skills! I had a wonderful vision of you kicking the crap out of a misogynist basement dwelling neckbeard in a post-apocalyptic setting. :-)
Good points. I suppose I was using your points as a stand-in for a larger wave of sentiment I see on this site. Apologies.
Not sure where to set the 'good enough' point. I'm sure it'd vary depending on region and even culture. Though I'd argue that the difference between safety nets and basic income is that you don't lose the basic income after you pass a certain level.
Today we have somewhat perverse incentives against going back to work since making $1k over the welfare threshold makes you in effect lose several thousand in welfare benefits.