I'd have to see some data to be convinced. There is nothing more problematic to health than aging. If we make all "fatties" thin we'll eventually get a bunch of geriatric cancer or dementia patients, or some other expensive age-related health problem (e.g. what is the lifetime healthcare cost-burden of obese people who live on average to 65 vs. thin people who live on average to 85 - just making up numbers here)
I agree. Fat people dropping dead in their 50s and 60s are way cheaper than the folks who hang on into their 90s getting steadily more infirm with chronic disease.
I still expect that the cost will reach a point where insurance companies opt to 100% subsidize so everyone who wants it will get it.
Yeah, right now the cost of the drug itself is high, but as that comes down and/or once the patents expire, it's a no brainer for insurance companies to fund it, in the same way that even the worst health insurance plans usually allow for cheap office visits and free flu vaccinations.
I agree if the cost becomes negligible or whenever it becomes cost effective (I'm sure the insurance companies will be tracking the data closely) - until then though?
Mill and factory owners took to shooting protesters and eventually the movement was suppressed by legal and military force, which included execution and penal transportation of accused and convicted Luddites.[5]
The outcome of the times. Likewise it is far more likely harmless AI (like adding dumb AI stuff to a family video) will have stronger suppression by current power systems than society suppressing critics of generative AI. Mostly because the latter boils down to cultural preferences and protectionism, not the real sort of harm that would build collective mass to threaten progress. And the former because people are heavily motivated these days by outrage and abstract future threats, well before the tangible evidence exists of widespread harm.
In Olden Days (but recently enough it was retro) we borrowed a receipt printer from the front desk and printed the motd and jira tickets and fortune statements at random times
I would not consider Stripe to be a small business, an enterprise not considering going public (but still providing liquidity to those seeking it) [1]. Do you want to be beholden to public shareholders and potential activist investors if your money printer works without need for them? Perhaps it is more optimal to remain in control vs cashing out and have your control potentially diminished. It is okay to leave money on the table (by not going public in an attempt to maximize gains on shares held through potential public market exuberance) depending on what you are optimizing for.
the question is, are the precepts baked into the equations around traffic flow, urban design, etc, truly a reflection of reality. In SC3K, my low density residential housing was never as happy as high density, is that based on reality? My enactment of endless (in sc3k, check all boxes) series of ordinances produced the best result. Was the neighborhood around the casino really crime ridden or was that a trope?
Are the models based on real life or are we using a game to pretend real life - like making a game about the wonders of say, collectivization, rather than maybe creating a simulator for how market trade reaallly works.
We've also tweaked many of the assumptions (traffic flow, citizen lifecycles etc) https://github.com/team-watchdog/colombo-skylines/wiki/mod-c... to get "somewhere in the vicinity" of how people actually behave - nursery school at 6 years old, high school after, then a job, maybe college, then employment and retirement at 65.
We're certainly not that accurate, as the broader you go with simulation, the less deep you can get to. But as a teaching tool to help people think about the instersection of complex systems, it's decent.
If I had more time I'd spent it making a new asset pack so those houses look more Sri Lankan.
I wouldn't make any serious policy decisions based on City Skylines, it's a resource management game not a serious simulation if that's what you're asking.
In the case of Australia (my home), the casino itself is crime ridden (mainly the corporation behind the casino, and its behind-closed-doors relationships with organised crime and with government - but money laundering and other crimes also occur on the casino floor), while the neighbourhood around the casino is quite safe, peaceful, and upmarket.
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