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So you're arguing the first one, never implement technology to save labor because people deserve the dignity of work. How far should we take this? Should we burn the tractors? We could create lots of new jobs for agricultural laborers. Or perhaps the government, instead of handing out welfare, could pay people to dig holes and fill them in again.

If it's necessary during COVID times, it could still be beneficial during non COVID times. Even if COVID goes away, there are plenty of other viruses lurking around that kill lots of people each year.

Is your point that there should never be a job displacing technology or that retail workers are a special class that should be protected from automation?

They have Amazon stores in the US. There's one I know of in downtown Chicago. I don't know if it did particularly well but it wasn't robbed bare every day.

Not to mention they're just fucking annoying to listen to all day in the summer.

I think it depends on what the Scrum/Agile process looks like and what it is replacing. For example, I think its pretty useful to have an iterative forecast of achievable work rather than a huge BRD and a solid deadline.

So, in other words, they became multi-millionaires. I think your reading too much into it, just take the words as written.

IDK I think it's quite cowardly if ebay is not willing to be consistent in what they are willing to sell. For example, if they can find a few people that are offended by violent video games, then all violent video games should be taken down from eBay. If I'm offended by the Communist Manifesto then it's time to take all copies of it off the site.

In fact they could even automate this. They already have a report item button. Whenever someone clicks that and marks the item offensive they could remove that whole class of items.

Charles Manson In His Own Words is a-OK though!

No. Actually, technically yes but very indirectly. The fossil fuels would be taxed which are agricultural inputs for the food which we eat and then exhale.

Thank God I have ebay to protect me from reading Doctor Seuss! Now please excuse me while I go bid on a vintage copy of "Charles Manson In His Own Words".

Ideally through a carbon tax which, unfortunately, current politicians seem too cowardly to even propose.

IMO it should be the place where you live and use the roads and schools and police and firefighters.

You're right, social media is worse because it extends to all aspects of life, not just health.

Most of the money isn't even going to teachers, it goes to an increasingly bloated administrative staff. Really what we need to do is fire 50%+ of the non-teaching staff at schools. Use that money to give the teachers a raise and lower property taxes at the same time.

https://www.independent.org/news/article.asp?id=10527

They get it out of their system on Twitter

A carbon tax would help. We don't necessarily have to eliminate meat production, just make it expensive enough to reduce its use by a factor of 10 or so.

Animal agriculture accounts for 14.5% of global anthropogenic emissions, over half of which comes from cows.

http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/197623/icode/#:~:text=....

I can't really discuss the directly perceived experience of anything other than myself since I have no way of accessing it. I have no way of knowing if you have directly perceived experiences, but I would assume you do since I can see certain characteristics in you.

For what it's worth, I actually do think that a collection of people (such as the United States) has directly perceived experiences. That's something that would be quite difficult to prove, and I believe those experiences would be very different from ours. Similarly, I think the directly perceived experiences of a housefly or an amoeba would be very different from my own as well.

A lot of animals (such as insects) aren't self aware. I still think they have some form of consciousness.

Emergent behaviors by themselves aren't goal-oriented.

You appear bounded when examined at a macroscopic level but you aren't really. You constantly have skin cells sloughing off into the air (is that you?) and you're filled with bacterial cells that are not genetically related to you (are they you?). Not to mention half-digested food.

I think groups of people are conscious in a sense. When I say conscious I'll use a definition where consciousness is the behavior of a physical system that is:

* directional/goal oriented

* exhibits higher order patterns / behaviors which are greater than the sum of its parts.

A riot would probably be the easiest example to start with. You get a group of mildly angry people together and they can become enraged and do things they wouldn't normally do. Not only that, the anger of the group can rise and fall together. It's like people synchronize with each other and the riot becomes this living agent of chaos. Basically a human is a higher order pattern on top of cells and biochemistry while a group of people can exhibit higher order patterns like a riot.

When you get to the nation state level you can see higher order patterns as well. For example the BLM protests. A single even triggered this burst of goal -oriented activity among millions of disparate individuals like a wildfire. Or it's like the country, not just the people in the country but the country itself, became enraged.

And I'm not just talking about protests and riots that's just an example. If you look at history, there are lots of other examples of collective, higher-order, goal-oriented activity at the nation state level. Groups building cities or opening up areas to farming or setting up trade networks or going to war. Sometimes these actions are based on the will of one person like a king but other times they are the result of thousands of individuals coordinating autonomously.

And if you have a way to get people, on a mass scale, to stick to a reduced calorie diet long-term then you may have a scientifically proven solution. Until you have that you do not have a scientifically proven solution. You have a method of weight loss which only works as long as people stick to it (which scientific studies show they won't).

We don't have a scientifically proven method to greatly reduce body fat over the long term. (Yes, that includes calorie counting, keto, or whatever other fad diet.) Until we do there isn't much that officials and healthcare providers can to except give out diet and exercise advice that people won't follow.

Should is the wrong word. I think what you mean is it would benefit them financially to immigrate. Some people may not want to leave family in their home country and others may simply not want to live in the US.

I don't really know as I've never worked there but from what I've heard their base pay is relatively average but equity boosts the total compensation a lot.

You don't have to study. I never studied and I passed some whiteboard interviews and have a steady job. Sure, higher paying jobs (such as at Google) might have more difficult interviews which require some study but at less competitive companies you can do fine if you have a decent background in logic and problem solving.

Also, I have to agree with the other commenter here that it could be way worse if professional credentialing starts to be required. Then you have to shell out big money and deal with way more bullshit requirements than just whether you can write code on a whiteboard (e.g. boring classes, standardized tests, diversity quotas, etc.)

Reported figures happened in the past though, it's the future cash flows which affect the price of a company and no one knows what those cash flows will be exactly, not even the company itself.

Yeah I think I would feel differently. I would be much more upset by a guillotine outside my house (that's almost KKK levels of hatred) than people thinking I'm dumb for one reason or another, especially if I was the person who brought good electric cars and reusable rockets into existence.

IDK Elon gets some (deserved in my opinion) love. Jeff seems to be the butt of more of the "kill the rich" rhetoric such as the guillotine outside his house. Personally if I was a billionaire, I would do everything possible to keep my name out of the media and pop culture.