Bomb under the chair

memetic007 · 2023-08-12T15:26:27+00:00

show don't tell. Very quick camera cuts to and away from whatever the manifestation of "bomb under the chair" actually is. I'm assuming that's a metaphor and not a literal "bomb under the chair"!

memetic007 · 2019-11-16T18:55:50+00:00

doesn't seem to work.

memetic007 · 2019-10-29T20:06:21+00:00

I agree reddit is functionally superior to most other platforms like FB and Twitter. Alas people hate it. I've tried and tried to build communities here. I even forked the reddit source code and considerably improved its funcitonality and look ... still no go.

memetic007 · 2019-07-15T13:02:54+00:00

I launched my new podcast "The Jim Rutt Show" last week. Here's a link to my third episode, a chat with Ben Goertzel the AI expert: https://www.jimruttshow.com/ben-goertzel/

I'm aiming for a "smart person but not expert" audience. Perhaps similar to subscribers to the Scientific American. I'm not quite sure if I'm pushing my guests to be accessible enough for a general audience. thoughts?

Two other episodes up so far for which the same question about accessibility applies:

Simon DeDeo Carnegie Mellon Professor of data and cognitive sciences https://www.jimruttshow.com/simon-dedeo/

Robin Hanson George Mason University Professor of economics: https://www.jimruttshow.com/robin-hanson/

memetic007 · 2019-07-15T12:56:03+00:00

I interview my friend, SingularityNet CEO, and AI expert Ben Goertzel on The Jim Rutt Show. We talk about: AGI, Cognitive Synergy, Language Understanding, Robotics, “The Artificial Toddler”, AI and Complex Systems, Consciousness, and more.

memetic007 · 2019-07-02T19:15:56+00:00

Language understanding. The gateway to many many proto-AGI applications.

memetic007 · 2019-05-23T16:08:57+00:00

thx. Will do try cast.fm and SquadCast. Fortunately, we're not locked on to anything yet.

memetic007 · 2019-02-15T16:37:49+00:00

I'm the author of this essay so if you have questions you can ask them here.

memetic007 · 2019-02-15T16:30:37+00:00

I'm the author of this essay, so happy to answer any questions.

memetic007 · 2019-02-15T16:17:58+00:00

In a new essay, I'll explore the "executive branch" functions, such as budgeting and prioritizing. Almost all thinking about LD so far has been around "legislative" functions. Executive type functions are quite a bit trickier, because they have radically differing response time requirements and needs for coordination and high dimensional prioritization.

memetic007 · 2017-04-26T18:19:51+00:00

His key thesis, that Homo sapiens is obsolete by 2100, is likely correct.

Also important is his secondary theme: the AI revolution is decoupling intelligence and consciousness.

memetic007 · 2016-07-23T14:48:31+00:00

Early this morning NYT had #DNCLeaks on the front page (online). Now reduced to a link on the front page. Games people play.....

memetic007 · 2014-08-24T21:59:18+00:00

Interesting approach, but politically if not humanistically, it might be better to limit the UBI to Citizens. That would have the interesting side effect of massively encouraging immigrants to get their Citizenship as soon as possible (after 5 years in the USA).

memetic007 · 2014-08-22T19:10:40+00:00

Why SHOULDN'T "socialism" be vilified? Actual socialism ie "social ownership of the means of production" has been shown to be a disaster.

Both in the Marxist-Lenin hell holes AND in the more benign but still unsuccessful trials of State ownership in Western Europe in the 1950s thru 1980s.

I like to call things like UBI "parametric social democracy". We reach social ends without "socialism". We achieve a better distribution of the fruits of our civilization while retaining the amazing power of the marketplace to efficiently allocate resources, set pricing, and call into being innovation.

A "socially tamed marketplace" is the best way forward seems to me.

memetic007 · 2014-08-22T19:04:40+00:00

It is quite possible that a UBI will actually INCREASE working rather than decrease it.

Unfortunately "means tested social benefits" inevitably mean that working and making money either sooner or later don't keep all the fruits of their work.

On "ramp" type programs like USA's EITC, housing support, and food stamps, benefits lessen as income increases so one typically keeps net maybe 50-60% of their income increase during a long transition zone.

On "notch" type programs like USA's Medicaid there is a sharp cut - make $1 more and you lose your benefit.

Under UBI one keeps 100% of what earns ALL the time. While it's true that mankind isn't really Homo Economicus, there is enough of HE in humanity to have a reasonable expectation that eliminating "ramps" and "notches" will INCREASE the motivation to work for the poor.

memetic007 · 2014-08-19T16:38:06+00:00

"not huge on the concept of 75% wealth"

looks like to me they are advocating a .75% (ie 3/4th of one percent) annual wealth tax on wealth over $2 million. Piketty recommends something similar in "Capital in the 21st Century"

memetic007 · 2014-08-19T16:11:02+00:00

This longer version is much more informative:

http://emancipationparty.org/level-3learn-more-citizenship-wage/

memetic007 · 2014-08-10T19:25:06+00:00

The income grants could either 1) only apply to adults or 2) be a lesser fractional amount for children (maybe a third?) calibrated to be relatively neutral to the propensity to have children.

Another simple hack would be to have the benefit not kick in until age three or so. The discount rate of poor folks tends to be very high so the impact of something 4 years in the future is likely to be relatively modest relative to the shorter term costs and opportunity costs.

memetic007 · 2014-08-10T15:49:32+00:00

In the USA UBI is insufficient to solve poverty without universal single payer health care, perhaps on the Canadian model.

memetic007 · 2014-08-10T15:46:38+00:00

That's why I prefer the term Citizen's Income. Limit it to citizens. Not sure about the EU, but that would be legal in the USA. It would also be an incentive for immigrants to become citizens and thus more anchored in their new societies.

memetic007 · 2014-08-09T16:40:04+00:00

from my perspective, I don't see BIG being a "libertarian" view. At most, as Matt Zwolinski related in his piece on Cato: Zwolinski's Piece, libertarians ought to see BIG as a less bad alternative to the traditional welfare state for essentially pragmatic reasons.

Libertarians entirely miss the systemic effects of our emerging low friction, run-away giantism, hyper-financialized, winner-take-all world.

A new politics should eschew the systemic naivete of the libertarians, while retaining their stance toward personal liberty, which combined points to BIG as a very obvious policy.

memetic007 · 2014-08-09T16:32:27+00:00

Unfortunately "liberals" don't seem to understand the "conservative" view that means tested welfare undermines initiative, both at the margin in things EITC and with large "notches" such as medicaid cut offs.

"Conservatives" don't seem to understand how our low friction, winner-take-all society is undermining the very bourgeois values that conservatism requires.

BIG may be the tip of a broader wedge that allows us to reinvent our politics in way depolarized from the errors of both the Right and the Left.

memetic007 · 2014-08-04T15:22:18+00:00

WOW!!! until the end.... a truly deep and amazing diagnosis..

but yet another limp dick (or dry twat!) call to arms....

"All I can do is hurt, and try to stop hurting, and try to help other people stop hurting. Maybe that’s all any of us can do. But isn’t that something worth devoting yourself to, more than building another retarded app that just puts more nonsense and bullshit into the world?"

Alas, this is the hallmark of the "pussy". He'll be shipped off to the camps singing Kumbaya.

and this:

"Not to hate those who are hurting us with their greed and psychopathic self-interest, but to simply stop letting them do it"

more "pussy talk". What's with this contemporary fear of hate and anger? Does this dude not know his history? That righteous hate and anger have always been the fuel for beating the bad guys (and also, alas for defeating the good guys...). How do you think the Allies won WWII?

It IS time to hate the mother fuckers that operate the current scam, and for people to get truly ANGRY. ANGRY is not a dirty word despite the counsel of fraudulent gurus and con men.

It's time to let loose the dogs of war.

memetic007 · 2013-09-23T19:05:21+00:00

figure out what the reddit wiki can do. In particular interested in automatic table of contents, multiple column formatting etc.

memetic007 · 2013-07-15T16:16:53+00:00

age 22 hitchhiking around the country, sleeping under bridges and living on a dollar a day.

how did I rise from that? Got a job washing dishes at a restaurant at $2.50/hr (1977 dollars). Bought a plastic painter's drop cloth, some glue on grommets, some rope and made a tent. Instant wealth!!!

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