Sure. It is well known that itinerant Jewish preachers were common in Palestine two thousand years ago, and "Yeshua" wasn't an especially unusual name.
Scientists (real ones with physics degrees from prestigious universities, not the Christian science kind) are pretty close to proving that the universe is a simulation.
Wrong. What cosmologists are investigating is to what extent the mathematics of holography is consistent with the established principals of physics.
Certainty is based on probability, and there is no way to assign a probability to anything supernatural.
Thus, the statement "there is almost certainly no God" is just as much irrational bullshit as "there almost certainly is a God".
And what about the pirates who aren't initially on board, and decide to take everything at gunpoint after it's fully developed? Is Thiel planning to have a navy as well?
Well bullies exist. And who is going to protect you from them, especially the ones who can afford more and better weapons than you can? Let's see, has 10 letters, starts with "g", end with "t",...
Exactly.
QM is a solid, reliable and well-tested theory of subatomic interactions, but only when expressed mathematically.
As soon as someone tries to translate the math into words, everything falls apart because words are always vague and have multiple meanings.
Wrong. The employees have no influence on the political activities of the corporation. Only the majority stockholders (who are commonly fewer than 20 people) determine how the company's "campaign contributions" (i.e. bribes) will be spent.
And it's the control of that very government that is at issue.
A public company is not a democracy: all of its economic power is in the hands of the majority stockholders. Why should they have millions of times the influence on who the government is and what is does than I do?
So who is blaming the AI's? Nobody here.
The fear is that the 1%ers who own the AI's will use them to gain every greater power and wealth, and screw the rest of us.
the wealthy don't read history books and forget that the unwashed masses have way more power than they do, then the wealthy are killed en mass and everything resets
That was when the wealthy didn't have access to unlimited robot labor, and unlimited robot soldiers.
The supply of labor available to the global economy has gone up a lot. Meanwhile, the highest priced portion of that labor, rather than implementing ways to make themselves more attractive to employers and hence, increasing demand for their labor, has instead punished employers
"Punished employers"? What the fuck is that supposed to mean?
Jobs are still created in the usual ways. The pattern hasn't changed. They just aren't being created in the developed world.
Well, the vast majority of the people who read/. live in the "developed world" and are concerned about their bleak future here.
Yes, like where college-educated people with good grades are being employed to do something else, and where "something else" involves the phrase "Want fries with that?
I actually think he meant kings, queens, dukes, etc. In other words, people who live a good life not because of what they do, buy because of who they are.
Or if there is a safety net, it will be the bare minimum needed to prevent riots in the street. In other words: poor nutrition, a leaky and filthy place to live, and poor if any health care.
I'm a little bit fat (BMI 27, but with lots of muscle) and most people I know are between a bit thin and a bit fat. On the other hand, there are millions of people (especially in the southern U.S.) who weigh more than double their ideal weight.
Those people will never get down to a healthy weight, and keep it that way, unless they force themselves to eat fewer calories and expend more calories.
One-way implication:
scarf junk food -> gain weight
but gain weight !-> scarf junk food
However, the fact remains that this "obesity epidemic" is only happening in societies where people do consume huge quantities of sugar, saturated fat etc. while getting little if any exercise.
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Sure.
It is well known that itinerant Jewish preachers were common in Palestine two thousand years ago, and "Yeshua" wasn't an especially unusual name.
Scientists (real ones with physics degrees from prestigious universities, not the Christian science kind) are pretty close to proving that the universe is a simulation.
Wrong.
What cosmologists are investigating is to what extent the mathematics of holography is consistent with the established principals of physics.
points to himself
Certainty is based on probability, and there is no way to assign a probability to anything supernatural.
Thus, the statement "there is almost certainly no God" is just as much irrational bullshit as "there almost certainly is a God".
many people prefer to stay religious even though they are not really convinced, because they fear the wrath of supernatural beings
And because they (quite rightly) fear being shunned by the religious community that they grew up in.
And what about the pirates who aren't initially on board, and decide to take everything at gunpoint after it's fully developed?
Is Thiel planning to have a navy as well?
Or maybe Santa Claus rescues him, or the Great Pumpkin, ...
Well bullies exist.
And who is going to protect you from them, especially the ones who can afford more and better weapons than you can?
Let's see, has 10 letters, starts with "g", end with "t",...
As soon as I saw that the author is a professor of philosophy, I knew the outcome would be bullshit.
Very well said.
That's because people are updating Teslas. We have no way of knowing what will happen when we give Teslas the ability to upgrade themselves.
Exactly.
QM is a solid, reliable and well-tested theory of subatomic interactions, but only when expressed mathematically.
As soon as someone tries to translate the math into words, everything falls apart because words are always vague and have multiple meanings.
Yet all the observable data we have is in favor of our free will.
Despite the fact that you can't quote a single item of the so-called "observable data".
That's why they call it terrorism.
Wrong.
The employees have no influence on the political activities of the corporation.
Only the majority stockholders (who are commonly fewer than 20 people) determine
how the company's "campaign contributions" (i.e. bribes) will be spent.
And it's the control of that very government that is at issue.
A public company is not a democracy: all of its economic power is in the hands of the majority stockholders.
Why should they have millions of times the influence on who the government is and what is does than I do?
So this is all a Republican plot against Hollywood?
That explains a lot.
So who is blaming the AI's? Nobody here.
The fear is that the 1%ers who own the AI's will use them to gain every greater power and wealth, and screw the rest of us.
the wealthy don't read history books and forget that the unwashed masses have way more power than they do, then the wealthy are killed en mass and everything resets
That was when the wealthy didn't have access to unlimited robot labor, and unlimited robot soldiers.
The supply of labor available to the global economy has gone up a lot. Meanwhile, the highest priced portion of that labor, rather than implementing ways to make themselves more attractive to employers and hence, increasing demand for their labor, has instead punished employers
"Punished employers"? What the fuck is that supposed to mean?
Jobs are still created in the usual ways. The pattern hasn't changed. They just aren't being created in the developed world.
Well, the vast majority of the people who read /. live in the "developed world" and are concerned about their bleak future here.
Yes, like where college-educated people with good grades are being employed to do something else,
and where "something else" involves the phrase "Want fries with that?
I actually think he meant kings, queens, dukes, etc. In other words, people who live a good life not because of what they do, buy because of who they are.
Or if there is a safety net, it will be the bare minimum needed to prevent riots in the street.
In other words: poor nutrition, a leaky and filthy place to live, and poor if any health care.
Everyone is not fat.
I'm a little bit fat (BMI 27, but with lots of muscle) and most people I know are between a bit thin and a bit fat.
On the other hand, there are millions of people (especially in the southern U.S.) who weigh more than double their ideal weight.
Those people will never get down to a healthy weight, and keep it that way,
unless they force themselves to eat fewer calories and expend more calories.
One-way implication:
scarf junk food -> gain weight
but gain weight !-> scarf junk food
However, the fact remains that this "obesity epidemic" is only happening in societies where people
do consume huge quantities of sugar, saturated fat etc. while getting little if any exercise.