You can have a UBI and capitalism. In fact, the time will come soon that it's completely necessary to have a UBI to support capitalism. After all, if there is no demand (money) out there to buy things, all the supply in the world won't matter.
Who cares if people can be successful artists. The point is that they have the freedom to choose if that's what they want to do with their lives. Being good at it is irrelevant.
The UBI solves the problem of where people are supposed to get money to buy the things that are produced when there aren't enough jobs for humans to do to support the economy.
I couldn't read at all when I went into the first grade. By the end of second grade, I was reading 5 books per week. Forcing little kids into academics in kindergarten serves no purpose.
> Too bad the computers will NEVER be able to reliably make the kinds of judgment calls that humans can and the entire AI borg system is going to come crashing down sooner or later, so we really won't have to worry about the anti-humanist ilk ever really doing much of anything to worry about.
This may be the dumbest comment I've ever read on Slashdot, and I've been here for a while. The whole point of self driving cars is that they will have *better* judgement than us slow, panicky humans. There are something like 33,000 deaths per year in the US alone caused by traffic accidents. If letting our cars drive themselves can even half that, we've made a huge score.
My guess is that life will be fairly common in the universe, but almost all of that life will be of the single celled variety. Just look at the history of life on Earth - for 2.9 billion of the 3.5 billion years that life has existed, that's what it was. Getting over the hump of becoming multicellular is a huge barrier. For most of the remaining 600 million years, life was of the non-intelligent sort. There is no reason to think that it's inevitable. Civilizations are probably extremely rare in the universe, let alone civilizations that don't destroy themselves soon after becoming intelligent.
"For the first time ever, the number of people living in extreme poverty is set to fall to below 10% of the global population in 2015, the World Bank said."
Things are better than they've ever been for the most people, ever.
>Homeopathy basis: a substance administered that causes the symptoms of a disease in healthy people will cure similar symptoms in sick people.
Yes, and that is just completely wrong to begin with. Taking a small dose of something that gives you a headache won't cure your headache, not to mention it's such a small dose that there isn't actually any of it left...
There are programming jobs that pay better than that and don't require the ridiculous crunch times, you know. I honestly have no idea why anyone would take a job like that.
Salary is based on 40 hours per week. Anything over that is overtime, and if you're not being paid for it, you shouldn't be working it. Otherwise, you are simply donating your free time to your company.
There isn't much controversy in the actual sciences about whether or not IQ tests are relevant. They are. Whatever they measure is highly correlated with positive life outcomes.
>Everyone is exactly as intelligent as a human, unless they're brain damaged by disease or defect. Any child, any adult, properly motivated, with proper practice and effort, can be a genius. It is just that simple.
This is false on its face. It does not matter how much some people try, or study, or work hard - they will never be a genius in anything and it's not because they have brain damage. There are variations in how our brains work, just as with how the rest of our bodies work, that are heritable and that limit how much we can achieve. I think it's a disservice to tell people that the reason that they aren't succeeding at something is because they aren't trying hard enough, when in reality they are literally incapable of that kind of performance.
>There's nothing in this research that shows equal opportunity or head start programs don't help, much less that they are a "waste."
Well, not in *this* research. The government's own research does shows that head start is a massive waste of money:
"In sum, this report finds that providing access to Head Start has benefits for both 3-year-olds and 4-year-olds in the cognitive, health, and parenting domains, and for 3-year-olds in the social-emotional domain. However, the benefits of access to Head Start at age four are largely absent by 1st grade for the program population as a whole."
>He parsed is words in such a way that he was deliberately misleading while telling the absolute truth.
Are you insane? Read the quote that Uberbah posted below and tell me how it can be parsed in any way that makes it less than a lie. There was no wiggle room in his statement, he flat out answered 'no'. And it's not just our phones that data is being collected about, it is the content of all of our emails and text messages, which he also knew about. He belongs in prison with Oliver North - oops! yet another example of how the laws in the US only apply to us little people.
It doesn't matter what Tenet insists, the US has prosecuted people for waterboarding in the past, both in world war 2 and domestically. It doesn't magically become legal just because some bureaucrat insists that it is.
Lol! Really? So when is James Clapper going to be charged with contempt of congress for telling them that the NSA isn't spying on millions of Americans? When are the people in the previous administration going to be held responsible for ordering torture - also a felony? We ceased being a nation of laws a while ago.
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You can have a UBI and capitalism. In fact, the time will come soon that it's completely necessary to have a UBI to support capitalism. After all, if there is no demand (money) out there to buy things, all the supply in the world won't matter.
Who cares if people can be successful artists. The point is that they have the freedom to choose if that's what they want to do with their lives. Being good at it is irrelevant.
The UBI solves the problem of where people are supposed to get money to buy the things that are produced when there aren't enough jobs for humans to do to support the economy.
The link that you posted doesn't support your assertion at all. In fact, the graph on that page contradicts it.
I couldn't read at all when I went into the first grade. By the end of second grade, I was reading 5 books per week. Forcing little kids into academics in kindergarten serves no purpose.
> Too bad the computers will NEVER be able to reliably make the kinds of judgment calls that humans can and the entire AI borg system is going to come crashing down sooner or later, so we really won't have to worry about the anti-humanist ilk ever really doing much of anything to worry about.
This may be the dumbest comment I've ever read on Slashdot, and I've been here for a while. The whole point of self driving cars is that they will have *better* judgement than us slow, panicky humans. There are something like 33,000 deaths per year in the US alone caused by traffic accidents. If letting our cars drive themselves can even half that, we've made a huge score.
My guess is that life will be fairly common in the universe, but almost all of that life will be of the single celled variety. Just look at the history of life on Earth - for 2.9 billion of the 3.5 billion years that life has existed, that's what it was. Getting over the hump of becoming multicellular is a huge barrier. For most of the remaining 600 million years, life was of the non-intelligent sort. There is no reason to think that it's inevitable. Civilizations are probably extremely rare in the universe, let alone civilizations that don't destroy themselves soon after becoming intelligent.
1% would be wildly optimistic. Even a millionth of that would be. That's still a shitload of planets, though.
Does it trump the "make the code work" rule?
Well, no. Not really.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/0...
"For the first time ever, the number of people living in extreme poverty is set to fall to below 10% of the global population in 2015, the World Bank said."
Things are better than they've ever been for the most people, ever.
It's not like they need to have a physical presence for their app to work there.
>Homeopathy basis: a substance administered that causes the symptoms of a disease in healthy people will cure similar symptoms in sick people.
Yes, and that is just completely wrong to begin with. Taking a small dose of something that gives you a headache won't cure your headache, not to mention it's such a small dose that there isn't actually any of it left...
Bingo! I've been a programmer for almost 20 years and have never done crunch time. It hasn't hurt my career at all.
There are programming jobs that pay better than that and don't require the ridiculous crunch times, you know. I honestly have no idea why anyone would take a job like that.
If you take a job at a place like that without letting them know that you will not be working unpaid overtime, it's your own fault.
Salary is based on 40 hours per week. Anything over that is overtime, and if you're not being paid for it, you shouldn't be working it. Otherwise, you are simply donating your free time to your company.
I wouldn't do it under any circumstances.
There isn't much controversy in the actual sciences about whether or not IQ tests are relevant. They are. Whatever they measure is highly correlated with positive life outcomes.
>Everyone is exactly as intelligent as a human, unless they're brain damaged by disease or defect. Any child, any adult, properly motivated, with proper practice and effort, can be a genius. It is just that simple.
This is false on its face. It does not matter how much some people try, or study, or work hard - they will never be a genius in anything and it's not because they have brain damage. There are variations in how our brains work, just as with how the rest of our bodies work, that are heritable and that limit how much we can achieve. I think it's a disservice to tell people that the reason that they aren't succeeding at something is because they aren't trying hard enough, when in reality they are literally incapable of that kind of performance.
Well, no.
http://www.penguin.com/book/a-troublesome-inheritance-by-nicholas-wade/9781594204463
>There's nothing in this research that shows equal opportunity or head start programs don't help, much less that they are a "waste."
Well, not in *this* research. The government's own research does shows that head start is a massive waste of money:
"In sum, this report finds that providing access to Head Start has benefits for both 3-year-olds and 4-year-olds in the cognitive, health, and parenting domains, and for 3-year-olds in the social-emotional domain. However, the benefits of access to Head Start at age four are largely absent by 1st grade for the program population as a whole."
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/opre/executive_summary_final.pdf
As it should be.
I can also assure you that most people who attend do not buy or sell anything outside of coffee and ice.
>He parsed is words in such a way that he was deliberately misleading while telling the absolute truth.
Are you insane? Read the quote that Uberbah posted below and tell me how it can be parsed in any way that makes it less than a lie. There was no wiggle room in his statement, he flat out answered 'no'. And it's not just our phones that data is being collected about, it is the content of all of our emails and text messages, which he also knew about. He belongs in prison with Oliver North - oops! yet another example of how the laws in the US only apply to us little people.
It doesn't matter what Tenet insists, the US has prosecuted people for waterboarding in the past, both in world war 2 and domestically. It doesn't magically become legal just because some bureaucrat insists that it is.
>We are a nation of laws, not men
Lol! Really? So when is James Clapper going to be charged with contempt of congress for telling them that the NSA isn't spying on millions of Americans? When are the people in the previous administration going to be held responsible for ordering torture - also a felony? We ceased being a nation of laws a while ago.