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Understanding ChatGpt Retirement

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cwmooreon Humanity has the debate about AI consciousness backwards

Usually when I encounter "money never works" it's because (a) it has never been tried and (b) because of simple greed and envy. Reproductive collapse seems like a pet peeve of yours, and while I can offer about 8 billion examples to the contrary, it wasn't the discussion I thought I was participating in.

cwmooreon Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study

No, he mentioned it. Here’s a link:

https://www.cms.gov/data-research/statistics-trends-and-repo...

cwmooreon Humanity has the debate about AI consciousness backwards

Try this then:

> that never works

Citation needed.

cwmooreon Humanity has the debate about AI consciousness backwards

s/“That never works.”/“mine,mine,mine,mine,mine”/g

cwmooreon Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study

Thomas is not hallucinating.

cwmooreon Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs

It is not less difficult to save the orangutans while people are being killed too.

cwmooreon Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe

Not this data, but from nearby 3D star map with rotations:

https://www.ouruboroi.com/moire3

cwmooreon And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway

How does that make a difference?

cwmooreon And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway

The question was "unconditional help", and one answer is "yes, if you can afford to, and want to".

cwmooreon And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway

So an enterprising drug-dealer can buy the house for a little baggie, hire the junkie to shovel the sidewalk, and rent it out, now everyone is employed, housed, and the free market actually absorbed the cost. The dealer will pay property taxes, to keep eyes off of the other business, the junkie will be safe and motivated to contribute, what else? Oh, social services jobs don't get to practice measured goodness to Skinner Box Volunteers, and it might hurt the cause to see photographs of the yard.

cwmooreon Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study

It is run by self-motivated humans and it often doesn't work.

cwmooreon And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway

Sounds like they trust the game’s anonymity and privacy policies.

cwmooreon And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway

Or, live as a solitary hermit and the average person you encounter is almost exactly like you. But how do you know you can trust them after they’ve isolated you from society?

cwmooreon And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway

Actually, no, you have to commit a crime to get in. The ride in handcuffs is free-as-in-compulsory.

cwmooreon And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway

Programs are watched carefully for embezzlement, not really accountable for positive outcomes.

cwmooreon And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway

And then there are people who aren't families, without the knack for conveying a moving story, or exceptionally good in every way but unfair circumstances.

Many of these people, and not just the really, really bad nuisance ones people use as excuses to superiority, are literally slaves, performing the scarecrow work of deterrence as living examples, for "society", for no pay.

I think this is an injustice, subverted by its own cruelty, and one of the more compelling arguments for UBI.

cwmooreon And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway

Or the exact opposite of what you said.

cwmooreon Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study

Fair enough, but it is a political topic, and there are different and more confusing slices of the healthcare system exposed to patients than org spending breakdowns. Not sure how many of this thread's comments could hold water if falsification were universally applied.

cwmooreon Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study

Stop asking so many questions and buy the aspirin.

cwmooreon And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway

I don't understand your question or your comments. I have not considered the relevance of execution to this discussion, but I do not see fines and imprisonment as the same categories of punishment/correction at all.

cwmooreon And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway

I said it is - I'm not saying it should be.

cwmooreon And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway

No, not really. I’m just questioning the axiomatic statement.

cwmooreon Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study

Nice comment, and true enough, but $37 aspirin and similar is a criminal fraud, and so are the laws not treating it for the coercive robbery it is.

cwmooreon Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study

Close to the same percent that doesn’t have employer coverage, they’re saying, those too old or ill to work fulltime.

I say convert SSA to UBI, set a floor, and let the price of things find a new level with more people in the marketplace:

cwmooreon Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study

“We have numbers” is always refreshing, especially in a shell game. Cost of all licensed medical practitioners? Or overweighting incomes of outlier CEO physicians? 25% is a steep tax on health in any case.

cwmooreon And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway

Sounds very binary, I don’t see the continuum. More like a steep cliff of shocking betrayal.

cwmooreon And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway

I’d guess the downvotes are an aberration of today’s politics, because your account of the history is factually and legally valid. (keyword “restorative”)

To me, the idea that incarceration and police use of force is wrong because it is racist is backwards. It’s racist because it is wrong.