people adjust to the conditions they are born into
So why compare different times?
social interactions, not material wealth provide the largest part of happiness
And the less we work the more opportunity there is for social interaction.
you vastly overestimate how well somebody "fully unemployed" (i.e. living on the street, no health-care, etc.) is living today.
Your reference to health care suggests that this is a US centric response. I don't live in the US, few people do, so it isn't really relevant. Health care now is vastly better than 1000 years ago and in most of the civilised world, poor people have access to good health care.
Literally every tool ever invented has cut out menial jobs and increased worker productivity. And we are better for it.
We are, after two world wars and communist and fascist revolutions. The people replaced by the machines and killed by the resulting social collapse weren't. Whatever good results from AI will happen long after our society, in which employment is the main source of income for most people and thus can't function with high unemployment, has crumbled and been replaced.
So what do we choose? A better future, or the status quo? I don't want to be living in the 1930s.
A totally unemployed person in a western country today would still be better off than a fully employed person 1000 years ago. You need to compare like with like. There will definitely be more unemployed people in our future, but that may not be a bad thing.
Hand tools put some people out of business. Domesticated farm animals put people out of business. Steam powered machinery, calculating machines. Literally every tool ever invented has cut out menial jobs and increased worker productivity. And we are better for it.
But also, wind generators and PV cells can be made anywhere you can do mechanical engineering. Even if it was possible to build fission plants in the back blocks of Chad or Pakistan, would we really want people to do that?
I assumed that doped CH4 was being released, but if it is from a well, it doesn't make sense that it would be doped. Probably a good thing it smells though.
Linux seems to be going this way. There is a simple trick you can do with syslogd on NetBSD: put an executable behind a pipe in the configuration file and it will pipe all the log data through that executable. Yesterday I spent several hours wading through the documentation for rsyslogd on debian and had to conclude that it just doesn't do that.
We seem to be moving to an architecture which does less with more.
US bound airlines submit lists of passengers to US authorities before departure. Anybody the US won't accept is not allowed to board though the strange thing here is that these people had all applied for visas in advance, and had them approved.
rsync synchronises files. ZFS synchronises a file system. Of course it is better to work that way because you can transfer just the changed components of a file. Moving a file just changes a pointer, so send the pointer. That sort of thing.
My wife has a 2011 VW Jetta (Mexican made) It had its water pump replaced after six months and the replacement pump has just failed now. The car has gone 62000 km. This is crap. Water pumps were a solved problem 200 years ago. Any Japanese engine will go 300000km before serious problems set in.
Maybe musk should just buy VW shells and put his drive lines inside.
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people adjust to the conditions they are born into
So why compare different times?
social interactions, not material wealth provide the largest part of happiness
And the less we work the more opportunity there is for social interaction.
you vastly overestimate how well somebody "fully unemployed" (i.e. living on the street, no health-care, etc.) is living today.
Your reference to health care suggests that this is a US centric response. I don't live in the US, few people do, so it isn't really relevant. Health care now is vastly better than 1000 years ago and in most of the civilised world, poor people have access to good health care.
We are, after two world wars and communist and fascist revolutions. The people replaced by the machines and killed by the resulting social collapse weren't. Whatever good results from AI will happen long after our society, in which employment is the main source of income for most people and thus can't function with high unemployment, has crumbled and been replaced.
So what do we choose? A better future, or the status quo? I don't want to be living in the 1930s.
A totally unemployed person in a western country today would still be better off than a fully employed person 1000 years ago. You need to compare like with like. There will definitely be more unemployed people in our future, but that may not be a bad thing.
Hand tools put some people out of business. Domesticated farm animals put people out of business. Steam powered machinery, calculating machines. Literally every tool ever invented has cut out menial jobs and increased worker productivity. And we are better for it.
My sister.
I think he will disappear into a black hole of some sort
Not sure thats possible with the story all over the Internet.
Well at least we are going to hear the answer to the US extradition theory. Maybe he is hoping to be pardoned by Obama.
Just look at Bahasa Malaysia.
Not defending him. I wouldn't vote for a candidate who just said whatever would get support on the day.
He is not actually going to build that wall on the Mexican border, and whatnot.
I for one am glad we are not running HURD.
Everything which reflects photons works as a sail.
But also, wind generators and PV cells can be made anywhere you can do mechanical engineering. Even if it was possible to build fission plants in the back blocks of Chad or Pakistan, would we really want people to do that?
The Chinese have an orbiting habitat. Not quite a space station, but it might be routable for phone conversations.
Ah thanks. That makes more sense.
I assumed that doped CH4 was being released, but if it is from a well, it doesn't make sense that it would be doped. Probably a good thing it smells though.
Linux seems to be going this way. There is a simple trick you can do with syslogd on NetBSD: put an executable behind a pipe in the configuration file and it will pipe all the log data through that executable. Yesterday I spent several hours wading through the documentation for rsyslogd on debian and had to conclude that it just doesn't do that.
We seem to be moving to an architecture which does less with more.
You can cure any disease by killing the host.
US bound airlines submit lists of passengers to US authorities before departure. Anybody the US won't accept is not allowed to board though the strange thing here is that these people had all applied for visas in advance, and had them approved.
rsync synchronises files. ZFS synchronises a file system. Of course it is better to work that way because you can transfer just the changed components of a file. Moving a file just changes a pointer, so send the pointer. That sort of thing.
VW defrauded the people who breathe the emissions from their vehicles. I am sure their customers are fine with that.
Musk knows he can't dominate the world car market by selling complete vehicles but he could do it by selling power trains, technology and maintenance.
He would better invent a quick way to fix electric grid from reliance on dispatchable power sources like natural gas from fracking and coal
Isn't that his powerwall system? Energy storage close to the consumer actually makes it easier to rely on wind and solar power.
My wife has a 2011 VW Jetta (Mexican made) It had its water pump replaced after six months and the replacement pump has just failed now. The car has gone 62000 km. This is crap. Water pumps were a solved problem 200 years ago. Any Japanese engine will go 300000km before serious problems set in.
Maybe musk should just buy VW shells and put his drive lines inside.
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