You can't fix Darwinism, it's a part of evolution, the strong survive the weak don't;
Actually, we humans have already fixed Darwinism through cultural evolution which allows our phenotypes - currently mostly behavioral, but increasingly also our bodies - to be updated while we live.
Is someone holding a gun to your head? Go negotiate passage with every owner of every property on your path. It's how things work in your preferred world anyway, so go ahead, live the dream.
Democracy is voting by majority to provide themselves with entitlements paid for by a minority.
I vote to provide myself and others with entitlements which I pay for by taxes earned through my own work. Meanwhile, the minority funds their lavish lifestyle also through my work, hides their ill-gotten gains in Panama to avoid even nominal participation in the upkeep of the very society which keeps them alive, and resent those who don't die quietly when their use is up.
Your precious 1% are the parasites, not the victims.
Either you believe in property rights or you don't.
Or you don't "believe in" property rights but think a limited form of them might be a good idea.
If you believe in property rights you have the right do decide what to do with your own property, like, for example, giving it to your designed heirs.
If you believe in property rights you have the exact same rights as if you didn't, nothing less, nothing more. What those are depends on the nature of reality. You personal convictions are irrelevant to the issue.
I don't really care if my overlord is flesh and blood or legal fiction. Why should I? I'm a serf either way.
It usually tries to defend itself by appropriating the NAME of capitalism, which is eroding capitalism's credibility,
What's eroding capitalism's credibility is its increasingly apparent inability to provide economic security to people as automation continues to replace them. Making excuses and trying to deflect the blame only underlines the seriousness of the problem.
Why does it have to be either "left wing" or "right wing" books that win?
Science fiction is a vision of how the world could be. Or visions, which is a huge problem if you happen to be an authoritarian with political agenda.
Is the Lord of the Rings left-wing or right-wing?
Idealized feudal past and its Divine Right of Kings vs. vilified Industrial Revolution and its robber barons. Or, if you prefer, how right wing wants to see themselves vs. how they actually are.
The base mechanisms of Communism have been failing for the past 100 years, but I'm sure it proves nothing, right?
The thing about communism is, it's born from the misery generated by the excesses of capitalism. As long as capitalism exists and people are greedy, the cycle of excesses, unrest, violent revolution or political adjustments and a period of calm will continue. It will end when one revolution gets it right through sheer dumb luck or when political adjustments have accumulated to build a society free from economic strife.
That's what "historical inevitability" means: any particular revolution or reform might fail, but as long as their cause remains, new ones will occur. Or, if you prefer an analogy to physics, less stable societies tend to spontaneously decay into more stable ones. It's just a matter of time.
Whatever the 'basic income' level is set at, rent at the cheapest, crappiest, bug-infested dump will go to 90-95% of this number.
Why would it? Unless you have an epic homelessness problem right now, UBI isn't going to affect the demand for housing. If anything, the housing market is going to be more efficient, since people can actually afford to risk unemployment and thus move away from the expensive growth centers.
Of course, it could be that you don't have an efficient housing market to begin with, but that's a failure of capitalism and has nothing to do with UBI.
That's a ridiculous claim. The simulation argument is based on some very reasonable assumptions and simple math that no one disputes. Comparable proofs of a deity's existence are nowhere near as convincing.
Given that simulating an universe is one way to create it - to make it existant to us simulated people - that begs the question of what, exactly speaking, counts as a deity?
You can't test for something literally outside of the confines of our reality, especially not presuming that thing is omnipotent as a god or creator of a simulation would be since even if you worked out a test they could change the results, change the parameters, etc.
They could, but why would they? The AI is mature when it can figure out it's an AI.
That's the obvious purpose of the simulation, should we live in one: to get the parallel-processing, distributed, self-organizing AI known as Humanity - or possibly Life - bootstrapped.
Welcome to the future. I wanted flying cars, got this.
I want a redo.
You get a redo every 4 years or so. You always waste it and elect the biggest douchebags, and they seem to be evolving into ever more extreme forms in response.
but whic would unfortunately not work in space where you are electrically isolated and would eventually build up a counter charge and cause the thrust to reduce to zero over time
Shouldn't the solar wind effectively ground you? If you work up a charge, you'll attract particles of with opposite charge.
They already have little or no power to influence these decisions. The EU does whatever it wants without considering if the people will like it or not.
Voters in the EU member countries elect both their national governments and European Parliament directly. So I have to ask: who wields the power of the tyrant within the EU, and how do they bypass democratic control?
If a customer doesn't want to meet the criteria for using the website, then the website should be perfectly within its rights to refuse service.
If a company doesn't want to meet the criteria for doing business in the EU, then the EU should be perfectly within its rights to stop it from operating within the EU. Companies, business and economy exist to serve human needs, not the other way around.
If the EU do move in this direction, then I will be voting to leave.
I'm laughing because Trump only supports Trump, and you think he gives a shit about anyone else.
I think the idea is that Trump doesn't give a shit about other rich people, either. Which means that he just might screw them over to be more popular, or at least not care about their desires.
The US has backed many jihadist and terrorist groups in the past, e.g. the Taliban or Mujahideen as they were known back then (same people).
From what I've understood, Taliban was fighting against Soviet occupation forces back when the US backed them. So would, say, the French Resistance qualify as terrorists?
Can't really blame SA for doing the same, I mean it's clear that the US would if your positions were reversed.
If I spray bullets into a crowd do I get excused for any bystanders I hit just because the guy I was trying to get really deserves it, or is this logic reserved only for states?
Perhaps enough people are now tired of this situation and want to change it, but will inevitably take much more effort and cost everybody much more than they imagine.
In a democracy, getting decent administration requires people to be political - to actually devote time and energy into political research, rather than just treat elections like a wrestling match. They don't, and thus what gets elected is con artists, actors and the occasional genuinely insane maniac.
I'm not sure the problem is solvable this side of letting AI handle governing.
Mod the box spring coils to harvest energy. Get a tax credit from the gov't. Wife thinks she's getting away with something by having lovers over. Laugh quietly to myself as I get paid.
I feel a new fetish being born. But how do you represent it visually in porn? Do you have to put quick shots of electric meter running backwards between money shots?
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Actually, we humans have already fixed Darwinism through cultural evolution which allows our phenotypes - currently mostly behavioral, but increasingly also our bodies - to be updated while we live.
It did: they got +2 Insightful.
Kinda explains a lot of things.
Is someone holding a gun to your head? Go negotiate passage with every owner of every property on your path. It's how things work in your preferred world anyway, so go ahead, live the dream.
I vote to provide myself and others with entitlements which I pay for by taxes earned through my own work. Meanwhile, the minority funds their lavish lifestyle also through my work, hides their ill-gotten gains in Panama to avoid even nominal participation in the upkeep of the very society which keeps them alive, and resent those who don't die quietly when their use is up.
Your precious 1% are the parasites, not the victims.
Or you don't "believe in" property rights but think a limited form of them might be a good idea.
If you believe in property rights you have the exact same rights as if you didn't, nothing less, nothing more. What those are depends on the nature of reality. You personal convictions are irrelevant to the issue.
I don't really care if my overlord is flesh and blood or legal fiction. Why should I? I'm a serf either way.
What's eroding capitalism's credibility is its increasingly apparent inability to provide economic security to people as automation continues to replace them. Making excuses and trying to deflect the blame only underlines the seriousness of the problem.
Science fiction is a vision of how the world could be. Or visions, which is a huge problem if you happen to be an authoritarian with political agenda.
Idealized feudal past and its Divine Right of Kings vs. vilified Industrial Revolution and its robber barons. Or, if you prefer, how right wing wants to see themselves vs. how they actually are.
The thing about communism is, it's born from the misery generated by the excesses of capitalism. As long as capitalism exists and people are greedy, the cycle of excesses, unrest, violent revolution or political adjustments and a period of calm will continue. It will end when one revolution gets it right through sheer dumb luck or when political adjustments have accumulated to build a society free from economic strife.
That's what "historical inevitability" means: any particular revolution or reform might fail, but as long as their cause remains, new ones will occur. Or, if you prefer an analogy to physics, less stable societies tend to spontaneously decay into more stable ones. It's just a matter of time.
Why would it? Unless you have an epic homelessness problem right now, UBI isn't going to affect the demand for housing. If anything, the housing market is going to be more efficient, since people can actually afford to risk unemployment and thus move away from the expensive growth centers.
Of course, it could be that you don't have an efficient housing market to begin with, but that's a failure of capitalism and has nothing to do with UBI.
But that makes us Politically Correct Social Justice Warriors, which is terrible.
Given that simulating an universe is one way to create it - to make it existant to us simulated people - that begs the question of what, exactly speaking, counts as a deity?
They could, but why would they? The AI is mature when it can figure out it's an AI.
That's the obvious purpose of the simulation, should we live in one: to get the parallel-processing, distributed, self-organizing AI known as Humanity - or possibly Life - bootstrapped.
He's assuming a timeline which extends infinitely to the past. Why would it?
Do you actually need those? Use a dumb bluetooth earpiece and do the processing on your phone.
You get a redo every 4 years or so. You always waste it and elect the biggest douchebags, and they seem to be evolving into ever more extreme forms in response.
Shouldn't the solar wind effectively ground you? If you work up a charge, you'll attract particles of with opposite charge.
Voters in the EU member countries elect both their national governments and European Parliament directly. So I have to ask: who wields the power of the tyrant within the EU, and how do they bypass democratic control?
If a company doesn't want to meet the criteria for doing business in the EU, then the EU should be perfectly within its rights to stop it from operating within the EU. Companies, business and economy exist to serve human needs, not the other way around.
Enjoy your corporate overlords, then.
Make a Slashdot account and post comments designed to be modded +5 Funny.
I think the idea is that Trump doesn't give a shit about other rich people, either. Which means that he just might screw them over to be more popular, or at least not care about their desires.
So how's that any different from any other time in history?
From what I've understood, Taliban was fighting against Soviet occupation forces back when the US backed them. So would, say, the French Resistance qualify as terrorists?
If I spray bullets into a crowd do I get excused for any bystanders I hit just because the guy I was trying to get really deserves it, or is this logic reserved only for states?
In a democracy, getting decent administration requires people to be political - to actually devote time and energy into political research, rather than just treat elections like a wrestling match. They don't, and thus what gets elected is con artists, actors and the occasional genuinely insane maniac.
I'm not sure the problem is solvable this side of letting AI handle governing.
I feel a new fetish being born. But how do you represent it visually in porn? Do you have to put quick shots of electric meter running backwards between money shots?
By government I presume you mean the Japanese occupation forces?
What laws do you think the United States of America should pass in reaction to Syrian Civil War, and why?