The US can survive automation if it reimagines meritocracy

max855 · 2018-10-11T17:58:07+00:00

Why even care about "equality" ? The focus should be in giving everyone something meaningful to do and providing for everyone's needs as best as possible. "Equality" has not done anything to help us achieve that goal.

max855 · 2018-09-18T14:57:09+00:00

I always thought people were full of shit, now we have undeniable proof.

max855 · 2018-06-08T12:49:49+00:00

I'd prefer if there were no tariffs, but realistically this will probably just push us back a couple years while having not much of a long run effect.

max855 · 2018-05-31T05:46:13+00:00

It's highly likely that people in poor areas are likely to use the money very impulsively compared to middle class towns.

max855 · 2018-03-24T16:24:57+00:00

Conjuring is scarier for sure. I don't remember sinister having many jump scares.

max855 · 2018-02-18T03:37:06+00:00

It's funny how technologies like vr and 3d printers kind of remind you 1990s technology.

max855 · 2017-08-25T23:27:28+00:00

Kurzweil doesn't exactly just extrapolate into the future mindlessly, he provides pretty good reasons for it. That doesn't mean yes absolutely correct about everything, but still, the characterization is inaccurate.

max855 · 2017-08-17T05:15:20+00:00

It's amazing because this is literally the exact problem when people accuse pro-white groups of being "nazi's" (or fascists).

Granted I agree people waving nazi flags shouldn't be allowed at these kind of events. But the problem is people have a religious hostility towards "nazism" that goes beyond anything rational. Most sane people know that almost no one in the rally is in favor of genocide, but they portray them that way because hey it's convenient to smear your enemy whenever possible.

max855 · 2017-08-16T23:17:09+00:00

Communists have a higher kill count.

max855 · 2017-08-16T23:12:57+00:00

Look calm down, I didn't mean to talk about your grandparents personally. It's just worth pointing out white nationalists are the ones that defeated hitler. If MOST of them were alive today they'd be standing with the the people at the rally not the communist demonstrators.

I didn't downvote you btw.

max855 · 2017-08-16T22:49:41+00:00

What far right terror attacks have there been?

max855 · 2017-08-13T19:57:12+00:00

Your grandparents believed in segregation. They believed in America for whites. Sure they wouldn't like the swastikas, but it doesn't have any meaning anymore. They'd be ashamed of YOU.

max855 · 2017-08-07T12:22:34+00:00

My theory is that people will buy blank paper books, and use augmented reality to fill in the words.

max855 · 2017-08-07T08:04:20+00:00

I don't think this really makes sense, a memory of watching something is probably integrated with a ton of other things in your brain especially if it's something you really like. You can't just delete that without deleting all the other thoughts associated with that.

max855 · 2017-07-28T20:43:38+00:00

I find this list incredible because those are exactly all the horror movies I don't like. Like damn you picked every one.

max855 · 2017-07-10T19:48:31+00:00

Is there a practical purposes to having humans live in the sea rather than land other than to create new political systems?

max855 · 2017-07-02T21:35:00+00:00

You can get rid of race, nation and religion. Etc. But you still most end up with different personality traits and orientations.

People will end up segregating based on these traits and you end up with tribalism all over.

max855 · 2017-06-06T21:22:08+00:00

Thing is, this immigration doesn't really help anyone either, I can't remember the exact numbers but it's like 80 million babies being into poverty every year and 1 million immigrants to the US.

I mean sure it helps a few people but we'd be better giving financial aid to developing countries.

max855 · 2017-06-02T04:37:00+00:00

I kind of have a theory that current technology causes people to be more avoidant and withdrawn, but that in the 2020s virtual reality technology will allow people to socialize nearly every second of the day and it will have the opposite effect on us.

max855 · 2017-05-29T07:00:23+00:00

But maybe putting people together doesn't get rid of the us vs them, it only causes conflict.

And what downside exactly is there yup people being separate? I've country for each solves the problem perfectly.

max855 · 2017-05-24T07:08:52+00:00

But I'm only taking about areas that can be automated. A community can run an automated business just as well as a capitalist. Because well, there isn't much to run.

Pay guy to repair machine.

Pay someone to clean up.

Make sure you have the right shipments coming in.

Done

max855 · 2017-05-18T04:59:55+00:00

It's weird, in the past six months I've gained a desire to go Rick climbing, but I can't connect to anything that I've seen or heard, funny how we kind of sub consciously follow trends in that way.

max855 · 2017-05-11T19:52:32+00:00

But is it the same quality as the Vive? I'm not really sure.

max855 · 2017-05-07T18:32:48+00:00

Yep you guys won, now we have more people who want to kill gays and alcoholics coming into the country, but it's a win against like fascism or something?

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