I think the billionaire folks are pathological or opportunists, nothing really more. As for your landlord, I doubt that will be a problem either. You cannot make 40% - 80% of the country structurally unemployable with…
lol, there aren’t going to be people giving money to other people in the long run. “Money is the sign of a poor civilization” or something similar that a Culture GCU would say.
well, so, you wouldn't want to do that because a lot of people have opposing views, and if they're just shut out of the economy, you couldn't use their labor. A truly efficient and nefarious robot overlord would be fine…
yeah, from everything I've read this appears to be the case? But like, if you had some hyper intelligent robot that was getting John Q Revolution a raise and a corner office whenever he started to get dissatisfied maybe…
I'm wildly optimistic about the direction this is going to go, but my one dystopia idea that crops up occasionally is a "smart social credit system" that lives kind of under the hood of society. Once everything is more…
Look up negativity bias and get back to me. People so ascribe “doooooom” to things that actually aren’t doom but instead are “bad” - but everything is hyperbolic now
I can answer this, because it assumes that we're too stupid, too greedy, too cruel, to change our behavior and do the "right thing" for people when the chips are down. It assumes the outcome is "doooom!!!" from the…
The cynicism and misanthropy is nonsense and a direct result of the internet/social media landscape. It's BS. In the current media ecosystem, what gets you "social cache" or whatever? Let's call them "cool points."…
I mean, it’s actually not that bad of a play at least here in AK. There’s billions of dollars in monitoring and maintaining remote sites / handling remote connectivity, doing bespoke SaaS tools, etc. Like, literally…
Here in Alaska it’s literally better than the cable internet (except apparently for gaming but I don’t really game), and $10/mo cheaper for a starlink roam. At where we are building our cabin, it’s infinitely cheaper…
Middle aged geezer answer: I don’t think my university experience when I went to grad school several years ago was a “upscale lifestyle resort.” But maybe things are different on the east coast or whatever? But I’d say,…
Maybe make them sealed? Or you’re only allowed to see your grade during the clads? Regardless, I never found grades all that useful in college because I had so many classes where either there were like 3 tests and that…
No I'm not, you're the one who said, "unproductive stuff shouldn't get funded" - not me. I think we should fund all of it because well educated people should make better decisions in a democracy and I want the cross…
Meh, I don't think this is the right incentives we want to be pushing. Hire-ability shouldn't be what education is about...
Man, I'm not a redhat guy, but that's pretty cool? I know I couldn't do that without the docs and a lot of time, but that's a good model. A practical demo is legit. Maybe I'm a weirdo, but part of me wishes I could be…
who defines "unproductive?" You? That's the thing, like, there's not a whole hell of a lot I learned in Phil 201 that is directly applicable to my job, but, you know the class is valuable. I took art history in college.…
It really isn't though, grade inflation is decidedly a thing.
Doesn't this just kind of become kind of allow companies to direct the research towards their ends and the education be damned though? I wouldn't be opposed to this sort of thing intrinsically, but I worry about the…
Then you're missing the point of higher education.
I doubt that would matter. There are so many firearms in America even if there was bipartisan support for a gun ban it wouldn’t happen. You literally couldn’t get rid of them if you tried.
You should have more faith in humanity, otherwise the fascists have already won.
Or, maybe we get rid of them. Like maybe the idea of having grades is kind of silly in the first place?
I get that doom sense, but... I can't really see it happening because... well, people that have never truly been hungry are already frantically clacking at their keyboards with the slogan of "eat the rich!" I don't know…
Maybe? But I cannot see that as a stable end state. I think we'll get some sort of weird managed capitalism for exactly that reason. I actually don't really want that sort of outcome, I'd like to see some sort of…
Over my (and many other's) dead body. Don't be so cynical.
I think the billionaire folks are pathological or opportunists, nothing really more. As for your landlord, I doubt that will be a problem either. You cannot make 40% - 80% of the country structurally unemployable with…
lol, there aren’t going to be people giving money to other people in the long run. “Money is the sign of a poor civilization” or something similar that a Culture GCU would say.
well, so, you wouldn't want to do that because a lot of people have opposing views, and if they're just shut out of the economy, you couldn't use their labor. A truly efficient and nefarious robot overlord would be fine…
yeah, from everything I've read this appears to be the case? But like, if you had some hyper intelligent robot that was getting John Q Revolution a raise and a corner office whenever he started to get dissatisfied maybe…
I'm wildly optimistic about the direction this is going to go, but my one dystopia idea that crops up occasionally is a "smart social credit system" that lives kind of under the hood of society. Once everything is more…
Look up negativity bias and get back to me. People so ascribe “doooooom” to things that actually aren’t doom but instead are “bad” - but everything is hyperbolic now
I can answer this, because it assumes that we're too stupid, too greedy, too cruel, to change our behavior and do the "right thing" for people when the chips are down. It assumes the outcome is "doooom!!!" from the…
The cynicism and misanthropy is nonsense and a direct result of the internet/social media landscape. It's BS. In the current media ecosystem, what gets you "social cache" or whatever? Let's call them "cool points."…
I mean, it’s actually not that bad of a play at least here in AK. There’s billions of dollars in monitoring and maintaining remote sites / handling remote connectivity, doing bespoke SaaS tools, etc. Like, literally…
Here in Alaska it’s literally better than the cable internet (except apparently for gaming but I don’t really game), and $10/mo cheaper for a starlink roam. At where we are building our cabin, it’s infinitely cheaper…
Middle aged geezer answer: I don’t think my university experience when I went to grad school several years ago was a “upscale lifestyle resort.” But maybe things are different on the east coast or whatever? But I’d say,…
Maybe make them sealed? Or you’re only allowed to see your grade during the clads? Regardless, I never found grades all that useful in college because I had so many classes where either there were like 3 tests and that…
No I'm not, you're the one who said, "unproductive stuff shouldn't get funded" - not me. I think we should fund all of it because well educated people should make better decisions in a democracy and I want the cross…
Meh, I don't think this is the right incentives we want to be pushing. Hire-ability shouldn't be what education is about...
Man, I'm not a redhat guy, but that's pretty cool? I know I couldn't do that without the docs and a lot of time, but that's a good model. A practical demo is legit. Maybe I'm a weirdo, but part of me wishes I could be…
who defines "unproductive?" You? That's the thing, like, there's not a whole hell of a lot I learned in Phil 201 that is directly applicable to my job, but, you know the class is valuable. I took art history in college.…
It really isn't though, grade inflation is decidedly a thing.
Doesn't this just kind of become kind of allow companies to direct the research towards their ends and the education be damned though? I wouldn't be opposed to this sort of thing intrinsically, but I worry about the…
Then you're missing the point of higher education.
I doubt that would matter. There are so many firearms in America even if there was bipartisan support for a gun ban it wouldn’t happen. You literally couldn’t get rid of them if you tried.
You should have more faith in humanity, otherwise the fascists have already won.
Or, maybe we get rid of them. Like maybe the idea of having grades is kind of silly in the first place?
I get that doom sense, but... I can't really see it happening because... well, people that have never truly been hungry are already frantically clacking at their keyboards with the slogan of "eat the rich!" I don't know…
Maybe? But I cannot see that as a stable end state. I think we'll get some sort of weird managed capitalism for exactly that reason. I actually don't really want that sort of outcome, I'd like to see some sort of…
Over my (and many other's) dead body. Don't be so cynical.