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What are your thoughts on documentaries?

"Off the cliff with you"

This is my thought: once true AI is achieved, everything we know can be automated, because true AI will be able to do all things humans can do. I believe true AI will be achieved this century. These claims are my personal thoughts and due to the unpredictable nature inventions occurn these thoughts are not based on any research.

The very basis on which the EU is founded is cooperation, It's becoming and hopefully staying a trait that seems normal to europeans. I'd prefer cooperation over isolationist worldpowers any day.

Won't those, once complete automation is achieved, be automated?

"Even if you win money through dumb luck, you have lost time and energy, which means you have lost."

Winning money while losing time and energy is what happens to most when working a job, should we just give up on working as well then?

The story about the cancerpill also isn't comparable to cryptocurrencies.

"You could make the same argument about my fingernail clippings: they may have no intrinsic value, but they’re in limited supply so let’s use them as the new world currency."

If everybody can agree on this then you have a new currency, no? Isn't that the same as our current currency? We just agree on pieces of paper to represent a monetary value.

> It's nothing like the internet or hotmail. Bitcoin is hot air. There is no "there" in cryptocurrency. It is inefficient, slow and solves no real world problem. Our existing infrastructure works just fine for 99% of all users.

That doesn't matter does it, I remember seeing a TV show interviewing random people on the street 20 years ago asking what they thought about cell-phones. Everyone said they don't see a future for this new gadget, they have a phone at home and can call anyone whenever they want, they don't want to be disturbed at anytime and everywhere. Cell phones were perceived as more of a nuissance than solving a real world problem, the existing infrastructure worked fine for 99% of all users.

Stuff like this blows my mind from a european perspective, here in Belgium you certainly make individual deals that are better, here unions are to support you when you are in the weaker position of negotiation.

And what would you like to see produced that doesn't have to compete with products produced more cost effective due to low workers wages abroad? Besides cost this also has to be stuff that needs a lot of workers, or it won't benefit the US in terms of jobs.

I know I would (letting the 10 tons pass)

I honestly doubt the use of certain words are going to limit your search results more than the way google is 'personalizing' search results by looking at your history/interests and basing it's results around that, do you have any sources for your claim?

You can't really compare Belgium and the US though, with Belgium being in the top of egalitarian countries[1], far ahead of the USA. Talks about income should be be held between your country and your neighbouring country to have any relevancy.

[1] http://hdr.undp.org/en/indicators/101706

Wow, 60k USD for a home, incredible. That's an older home then probably? Here in Belgium the absolute minimum would be double that, those would be the smallest, oldest buildings with nothing of insulation or modern comforts.

Here a building-stop has been announced for 2040 as all available land in flanders will be used up for homes!

The incomes need to rise but can the business owners be forced? The basic income would make sure everyone gets the extra income.

An incredible article, it seems so clear the way it is stated.

If demand is the problem, as stated in the article, would a basic-income, providing extra income and arguably more free time for consumers usher in a new "Golden Age" of growth as we have seen post-WWII?

> I realize that you're not the first person I replied to, nor the last, but I wish you would say why you think I'm wrong, because otherwise what's the point of saying so?

The quote I used to have an example of what I think was not correct.

The problem is your reasoning is based on these 'wisdoms' that aren't actually real facts or which are simply misunderstood, for example:

> toward either anarchy or communism

Communists and anarchists have the same end goal, these two 'groupings' are one and the same in the end.

> which is part of human nature

Is there such a thing as a fixed human nature? Our strength is that we adapt.

>It depends on how you define "capitalist." Some industries in China are state-controlled--is that capitalist? Is "capitalist" 0% state control, or < 100% state control?

There is no state in communism so that would not be a good measure.

Then you seem to imply that communism is full on state control while the opposite is true and communism (and anarchism) stands for a stateless and classless society. A country that is full authoritarian is just that, authoritarian, regardless of what mix of state-ownership of the economy is involved. Your whole post is more of an argument against authoritarianism than anything else in my opinion.

It still is not correct

>Communism means more state control of people, capitalism means less.

In comparison to what? Eachother? Because western-europe has more control than the US, china has more control than western-europe (and let's not pretend china isn't capitalist). These are economic systems and are seperate from political systems.

I think they only served the Byzantines opposed to the Ottomans.

What makes this illegal?

And this spot in time is where history will end? SSD is at this time more expensive, storage expansion will go slower until the next breakthrough.

i'd thought Bol would've been the biggest competitor, no?

Especially since the liberal meaning differs only in the USA

Wait, you guys don't use card readers for online payments? Edit: My bad, just realized you use credit cards instead of debit cards we use in europe. CC here also don't use ccard readers for online payment.

I doubt feudalism has been the norm for most of human history. It was the system preceding the current one yes but not some sort of "default" or "natural" system though.

Incredible, your post and the one you responded to describe perfectly how I feel. I also noticed a new environment gives me an overall boost of motivation. Changing jobs makes me super exited the first few months but after that the enthousiasm start to die off.

A result of all this is that now after 5 years of being web developer I'm already bored of the job because the small mundane tasks outnumber the challenging projects by a lot. Already switched of employer twice... Looking to do freelance work now hoping the constant switching helps keeping my motivation up.

Belgian here, as a resident of one of the bottom 3 countries I have to say I thought about this question myself a few times in the past. Even though I would never join the army to fight wars, should an occupation come I would do everything in my power to resist and sabotage. So to this question I would have to answer 'no' even though that doesn't mean I'd give up on my country.

So if I get this correctly, the 'renaissance' here is merely drilling smaller holes for the pipes to go in, so the cost of hauling the dug up debris is lowered. Anyone here know what the cost savings are as I can't image these are big to begin with.

One could say it would hang itself by its own rope.

for anyone wondering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second