But we're not talking about cell death. We're talking about the death of sentient entities.
Define sentient entities
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What exactly do you want them to use a stronger calculator for?
Also, you're wrong about the billions of times faster. Look up the numbers.
Why should students be forced to use such outdated technology?
If we are trying to teach students how to work in the real world, shouldn't we let them use computers that they would be using in the real world as opposed to obsolete computers that were made before they were born?
laotzu commented on Stephen Hawking confirms: The problem is Capitalism, not robots failedevolution.blogspot.... · Posted by u/nomoba
I disagree. The issue is that for production of food and energy, we still need labor. A lot of this labor is low-paid (supermarket workers, truck drivers, fruit pickers, butchers ...). If you make food free, you won't be able to motivate these low-paid workers any more, so noone will work on food production, so food production won't be free any more.
It used to be 90% of the population was working to produce food, now its around 1% and decreasing with increasing efficiency. So it is an increasingly negligible amount of labor needed to provide an already surplus amount of food.
It is cynical and ignorant to assume the dollar is the monotheistic deity of motivation for everyone. There are and have been countless cultures across the world who don't require monetary payment to produce the requisite food for the community.
You are saying it isn't my right to consume what I choose? Like is lynx an ad blocker, because it's text based?
What is the difference between lynx and an ad blocker?
>You are saying it isn't my right to consume what I choose?
That's what the law says actually. Not trying to be snide here but unfortunately the law does not allow for sovereign domain over one's own body (at least in the US -- and elsewhere) in many cases. Though I realize you are asking in regards to advertisements.
> Yet the more I read psychology, the more I am aware of ways advertising can manipulate the thoughts we have towards brands when we're not aware of it. So to protect myself, I try to avoid ads in any circumstances (ublock, minimal usage of ad-supported apps).
How much are you really worried by this? Amazon know my purchasing history for over 5 years and the best they seem to do is show me offers for things similar to what I've already bought which I'm not going to buy again for a long time.
I admit seeing brands and advertising will introduce a bias but I can't see how it would influence me much when for important/expensive purchases I usually do a lot of research first.
I don't love advertising but if it's only unconsciously influencing me a tiny amount in return for many free services it doesn't really bother me.
>if it's only unconsciously influencing me a tiny amount
If it is unconsciously influencing you how would you know if it is only doing so "a tiny amount"?
As a very concrete way to think of it, consider the typical middle class lifestyle in India. Consider all the labor that is regularly outsourced - house cleaning, cooking, laundry, etc. If I want to eat a paan, buy a cigarette, or other snack/consumable, I only need to walk a city block or so before I can find someone willing to sell it to me. Any educated female can easily afford child care so she can work. My office has multiple servants to make life easier for the skilled labor employed therein; if you want maggie, momos or beer, just give them some cash and they'll bring it to you.
At the moment the problem in the US is labor scarcity. Robots haven't replaced these jobs, these jobs just don't get done.
When robots provide the same level of services to the US middle class, that would be a signal that we might need to think about something like a BI. Until then, BI is really solving the complete opposite problem to what we have.
>At the moment the problem in the US is labor scarcity. Robots haven't replaced these jobs, these jobs just don't get done.
Labor scarcity in the sense that there's not enough people who need work, or in the sense that there is not enough people who have the necessary skills? I would have to assume the latter. If that is the case, aren't most of these scarce skills the type which are used to service and maintain the very automation which would be used to implement a UBI?
>When robots provide the same level of services to the US middle class, that would be a signal that we might need to think about something like a BI.
Automation already provides a much higher level of services than human workers in many areas. Do we really want to wait to the very end of this process to begin the transition?
laotzu commented on Bank of Japan, in a Surprise, Adopts Negative Interest Rate nytimes.com/2016/01/30/bu... · Posted by u/timr
A society without growth looks like Mandarin China. You want growth for the sake of people, to provide a rising standard of living.
It's really about being able to match growth with sustainability.
The measurement problem, if by quantitative you mean "relating to, measuring, or measured by the quantity of something".
There is no consistent mathematical standard of measurement by which money is created. Instead, the monetary value of some good or service used as capital for a loan is largely up to the arbitrary appraisal of the bank.
The most popular stack with IDE lacks most modern programming tools. I am of course talking about Excel. Where are my unit tests, version control, and so on?
A good start would be a readable and round-trippable format that Excel documents can be saved as
In my university finance classes we were forced to use calculators that were invented in 1976[1] to run calculations on formulas we had to memorize that could easily have been automated in Excel. Since then I've been prejudiced that "the invisible hand" ;) was deliberately keeping electric technology out of finance in order to maintain a legacy business model. Like that of the MPAA towards VCRs and DVDs etc.
[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_Business_A...