What if you can keep your citizens alive by given them varying amounts of money, depending on each individual's circumstances ? It doesn't automatically mean that you can take the same amount of resources, and spread them equally, and expect everybody to stay alive.
Or the whole concept of "pick someone that looks like someone else you know is good" is flawed, because it discriminates against people that are different but still good, no matter what training set you use.
I know. My point is that it's not going to work without a currency. If there's no money to be made, why would you dedicate your computer power to maintaining the blockchain ?
$2T is less than we spend on SSA/Medicare/Medicaid. Which we should, theoretically, be able to dispense with if we have a UBI. So the money is already there.
Except that in the current social programs, there are all kinds of mechanisms to distribute the appropriate amount of money to a person. Someone with high medical costs gets more money than someone who's completely healthy.
Taking the same money, and spreading it all equally, means that the healthy person gets more, while the chronically ill gets much less.
You can use blockchain to track physical asset ownership - things like mining for cryptocurrency have nothing to do with it.
Indeed, you don't need a cryptocurrency to make a blockchain. The problem is that without a reward from a coupled cryptocurrency, there's no incentive for anybody to dedicate resources to maintaining and verifying the blockchain. This means that it becomes easy for an attacker to rewrite parts of it.
Blockchain can help. Blockchain technology could offer a way to divide publicly-owned infrastructure so it's genuinely publicly-owned
Bullshit. First of all, blockchains only work when the tokens have sufficient value, otherwise there's no incentive for miners. Secondly, even in the case of the most successful blockchain, Bitcoin, we have 99% of the miner capacity in the hands of a few big players, not the general public.
We know the speed of simulating 100,000 neurons in 2014 and we know the speed of simulating 100 neurons in 1985, therefore we can fit the appropriate family of curves
If you had calculated graphics performance, starting in 1985, using Moore's law, you'd be way far behind the curve right now, because you would have missed the development of specialized graphics processors starting in the '90s.
Similar improvements are being done on neural network performance using dedicated hardware.
The human cerebral cortex is only an order of magnitude bigger than a donkey's. If we manage to get that donkey's brain in 45 years instead, we could have a human brain in 50 years.
If you just make the claim that genetics may have an impact on how brains work without bringing up pseudoscience to "prove" that certain races are inferior
So, two groups of people can have differences in their brains, but they will always be equally good at performing arbitrary mental tasks ?
for how much longer after arriving at that conclusion will they continue getting those salaries?
Most of climate research is overlapping with other research that we want to continue, such as historic climate reconstruction, weather modelling, and earth observation.
And if you are right, why is the current Trump administration not telling these scientists to produce the results they want ?
Bob then has 400 a month left over for food, games etc.... It's not a lot, but he's not in danger of going out on the street. Joe on the other hand, has 1200 each month after bills,
And who pays the 4800 dollars worth of UBI that those two clowns are getting ?
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What if you can keep your citizens alive by given them varying amounts of money, depending on each individual's circumstances ? It doesn't automatically mean that you can take the same amount of resources, and spread them equally, and expect everybody to stay alive.
Or the whole concept of "pick someone that looks like someone else you know is good" is flawed, because it discriminates against people that are different but still good, no matter what training set you use.
I know. My point is that it's not going to work without a currency. If there's no money to be made, why would you dedicate your computer power to maintaining the blockchain ?
$2T is less than we spend on SSA/Medicare/Medicaid. Which we should, theoretically, be able to dispense with if we have a UBI. So the money is already there.
Except that in the current social programs, there are all kinds of mechanisms to distribute the appropriate amount of money to a person. Someone with high medical costs gets more money than someone who's completely healthy.
Taking the same money, and spreading it all equally, means that the healthy person gets more, while the chronically ill gets much less.
You can use blockchain to track physical asset ownership - things like mining for cryptocurrency have nothing to do with it.
Indeed, you don't need a cryptocurrency to make a blockchain. The problem is that without a reward from a coupled cryptocurrency, there's no incentive for anybody to dedicate resources to maintaining and verifying the blockchain. This means that it becomes easy for an attacker to rewrite parts of it.
and there is also blokchain with no mining, just the ledger itself of some asset controlled by it (in this case oil or radio spectrum)
That's just a database.
Blockchain can help. Blockchain technology could offer a way to divide publicly-owned infrastructure so it's genuinely publicly-owned
Bullshit. First of all, blockchains only work when the tokens have sufficient value, otherwise there's no incentive for miners. Secondly, even in the case of the most successful blockchain, Bitcoin, we have 99% of the miner capacity in the hands of a few big players, not the general public.
You can create money out of thin air, but you can't create its value.
Create twice the money, and it will be worth half as much.
You're ignoring many, many other characteristics which constitute the true level of difference.
Why don't you name a few of them ?
We know the speed of simulating 100,000 neurons in 2014 and we know the speed of simulating 100 neurons in 1985, therefore we can fit the appropriate family of curves
If you had calculated graphics performance, starting in 1985, using Moore's law, you'd be way far behind the curve right now, because you would have missed the development of specialized graphics processors starting in the '90s.
Similar improvements are being done on neural network performance using dedicated hardware.
The human cerebral cortex is only an order of magnitude bigger than a donkey's. If we manage to get that donkey's brain in 45 years instead, we could have a human brain in 50 years.
No good reason why the people in power would grant a useful income to the peons.
Come on, editors. Wtf? How is that relevant or helpful to the conversation?
The goal is to get more pageviews and responses. Seems to work.
Did you miss the memo that the wave function collapses [wikipedia.org] when you measure them?
Wave function collapse is a feature in some interpretations of quantum mechanics. There are also interpretations that don't require a collapse.
If you just make the claim that genetics may have an impact on how brains work without bringing up pseudoscience to "prove" that certain races are inferior
So, two groups of people can have differences in their brains, but they will always be equally good at performing arbitrary mental tasks ?
Yeah, it's not even a special expression, just plain old regular.
for how much longer after arriving at that conclusion will they continue getting those salaries?
Most of climate research is overlapping with other research that we want to continue, such as historic climate reconstruction, weather modelling, and earth observation.
And if you are right, why is the current Trump administration not telling these scientists to produce the results they want ?
Nearly all of the "climate scientists" draw their salaries from government institutions.
Except that their salaries do not depend on getting certain results. The salaries of Big Pasta do.
And another one:
> High blood glucose, also called blood sugar, can damage the blood vessels in your kidneys.
https://www.niddk.nih.gov/heal...
My claim is not a big secret: https://www.kidney.org/atoz/co...
Bob then has 400 a month left over for food, games etc.... It's not a lot, but he's not in danger of going out on the street. Joe on the other hand, has 1200 each month after bills,
And who pays the 4800 dollars worth of UBI that those two clowns are getting ?
Well, if you don't like it..change the laws.
You can't change the laws, if you don't have the money.
citation required.
In the mean time, most kidney failure in the US is caused by eating too much carbs.
Pasta in moderation, except if you're insulin resistant (like half the US population), and then it's better to not eat it at all.
I already do that. I look at streetview, and then I tell myself to make a right turn as soon as I see the white cat sitting on the garbage can.