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  1. Re:I'm a Democrat and I don't totally agree with h on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Labor Shouldn't Have To Fear Automation (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    One of those "investments" could simply be to buy into a non-inflationary currency (foreign or possibly crypto). Andrew Yang has suggested paying for it with VAT, which sounds like a good idea..

  2. Re: Actually, Beau, no we are NOT on Prominent New Yorkers Are Trying To Get Amazon To Bring Back HQ2 (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Have you never heard of an opportunity cost?

  3. Re: You still are missing it on Net Neutrality Bill 38 Votes Short In Congress, and Time Has Almost Run Out (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Stop shifting the argument. NN is about the physical transport layer. The layer that ends up being a natural Monopoly, and gets government subsidization to implement. End of story. What's going on with content creators is a discussion worth having, but a completely different one.

  4. Re:And this is an election year... on Bill To Save Net Neutrality Is 46 Votes Short In US House (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. The general populace overwhelmingly supports Net Neutrality -- it has tremendous bipartisan support. What we don't want is them pushing it back.

  5. Re:Gold and Silver on Bitcoin Dives After SEC Says Crypto Platforms Must Be Registered (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Bad analogy, you don't have to register your bitcoin either. The exchanges just have to register. So it's the same as if you were buying GLD through Fidelity or whatever.

  6. Because it's not possible for all of us to live in a cabin in the woods and hunt game for food anymore. We're living in a world-wide economy, like it or not, and everything is increasingly interconnected. Letting your fellow Americans starve in the streets because AIs took their jobs is neither humane nor economical in the long run.

  7. Re:Might bee bipartisan... on Mark Zuckerberg Doubles Down On Universal Basic Income, Calls It a 'Bipartisan Issue' (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, so then what's the alternative?

  8. Re:The problem is depth perception on Grand Theft Auto V Is Being Used To Help Teach Self-Driving Cars (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Do you have any sources on light frequencies being used for depth perception? I've never heard of this before. 3d movies and vr headsets work just fine even though the displays are limited by bitdepth.

  9. Re:Amber Rudd is dim on London Terrorist Used WhatsApp, UK Calls For Backdoors (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    You can explain why ideas like this (adding backdoors into software, etc) over and over again, but the people willing to see this as a good idea just won't get it, because they don't want to.

  10. Re:it's all over, anyway on GOP Senators' New Bill Would Let ISPs Sell Your Web Browsing Data (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    On timewarner this only happens with http, not https.

  11. Re:propaganda headline on Nearly 56,000 Bridges Called Structurally Deficient (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure they both lost in that situation....

  12. Can't they be upset precisely because CBP did not show authorization to access that level of secrecy?

  13. You're misinterpreting the result there. NN stands for "nearest neighbor". It's just the closest match in the DB (I guess the one they used to train?), not what their algorithm produced.

  14. Re:The FUTURE! on Are Gates, Musk Being 'Too Aggressive' With AI Concerns? (xconomy.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but the rest of my comment addresses why this will likely not be the case in the future.

  15. Re:The FUTURE! on Are Gates, Musk Being 'Too Aggressive' With AI Concerns? (xconomy.com) · · Score: 1

    Automating is great for repetitive tasks. Where location is static. ie things like manufacturing. What it's not good at is anything highly mobile, complex or something that requires creative reasoning.

    This is line of thinking is becoming outdated. Deep and reinforcement learning is rapidly enabling robots to adapt to more and more dynamic situations.

    Creative reasoning will take a while longer, but it will happen eventually as well.

  16. Re:The FUTURE! on Are Gates, Musk Being 'Too Aggressive' With AI Concerns? (xconomy.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There will be new jobs, but there won't be nearly enough of them to replace the ones that are going away. The thing is we're not just replacing people's bodies with better tools and technology, allowing them to be productive in different ways -- we're replacing their minds. The niche where humans will continue excel vs an expert system that could take only a few days to train is going to keep getting smaller and smaller.