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How a leading economist learned to start worrying and fear artificial intelligence


I'm not sure how I ended up on this channel, but I've been watching all his videos - if you ever wanted to live on a farm and build a huge pond and fill it with aggressive bass, I would check out BamaBass on YT: https://www.youtube.com/@BamaBass


> a network is useless without X critical mass of users and Y minimum activity level.

indeed.


Here's some photos of the village: http://www.allgenerationscare.com/amazing-village-designed-j... it's in the small town of Weesp, in Holland. It's a really neat, self-contained world with restaurants, cafes, supermarket and more. Doors are kept unlocked and residents have the freedom to go out within the village whenever they please. Though it does look like an expensive facility, I'm sure there are ways to make it more affordable in other areas of the world to accommodate more of our aging population that suffers from dementia.


I had this issue when using Google Earth to revisit my trips to the Philippines - some of the locations were blurred on Google Earth. I found an alternative using http://www.flashearth.com/ that uses NASA Aqua, NASA Terra, Bing Maps, HERE Maps, Earth at Night, ArcGIS, and MapQuest.


We need more bellingcats' - this was a great find - can we expect a planned airstrike in this location any time soon?


Why would you plan an airstrike and destroy a major highway because ISIS took a picture of themselves there?


If you read the end of the article you saw large amounts of construction around the training camp.


This is what I was thinking, but then I got downvoted to hell. Understandable, there are innocent civilians and children around - most brainwashed by ISIS. But, it looks like these training camps seem to stay close to the river - as seen in the Vice documentary, "The Islamic State" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzCAPJDAnQA#t=160


My apologies everyone - it was a facetious and tasteless remark, and my poor attempt at being funny, while being sarcastic at the same time.


Crowdsourcing military actions? How repulsive.


> can we expect a planned airstrike in this location any time soon?

I hope your not serious


Is that because you think ISIS should not be fought militarily, or because you think tactically a ground strike would be a better approach, or what?


I think it's more the flip tone of the message.


It's the trigger happiness


Because ISIS probably isn't there anymore.


Do you really expect someone with the authority to make a strike is going to post about it on the internet?


Maybe something to do with the location being in the middle of a city full of civilians.


It would indeed be the perfect weapon for a terrorist. Just post a picture of something on the Internet and have foreign military blast it to the ground. Create terror and blame americans, and anyone can do it.


There will be a bright future for our growing aging population.


There will be a bright future for our capital owning population.

There is a weak correlation between old people and capital ownership and easy to mistake the two if inferring from the age axis, e.g. person X owns more capital at 50 than at 25. However, this doesn't generalize well when doing a cross section at a given age, see for example the average savings for a 50 year old, which is a meager $43,797 http://www.statisticbrain.com/retirement-statistics.


Under capitalism, it's good to own capital, naturally. You can start by saving a $100.


No, you can start by investing $100.


That's why we need to move away capitalism before it's too late, if we want to have part in that bright future.


Ah, but that's the hard part. Capitalism does provide some benefits. For example it is magnificent for encouraging economic growth, which for most of the world is essential. There are still large swaths of the global population living in poverty in first world and third world situations.

What I believe will happen is most of the world will look like china. If you were to look at them maybe 10 years ago, what you would see is economic growth fueled by cheap exports. Today, they are starting to see a middle class stable enough to support their own economy. Global trade is still essential, but it is now only a part of the pie, rather than the whole pie. At the same time you'll seeing a middle class grow in china, we're starting to see manufacturing move out of the country searching for cheaper pastures.

I think its a model that will repeat itself across the world. First comes a improved political environment, than a hearty shipping infrastructure is created, and then business and global trade starts. Repeat.

I believe capitalism won't be replaced, it'll fade away.


This part in that future is actually made of shares in the stock market. If you want some, you have to buy it. Fortunately anyone can : it's a free market and you can enter with as little as a few hundreds bucks.


But isn't it easier to do away with capitalism altogether so that we can all be equal, no matter the effort we put in?

This future of no capitalism people want scares the heck out of me, almost makes everything I've worked for pointless.


> This future of no capitalism people want scares the heck out of me, almost makes everything I've worked for pointless.

The future of continued capitalism scares the heck out of me, because it's the future of more and more people living on subsistence level, slaving away all their lives for increasingly smaller group of wealthy people, until the whole thing either collapses or the economic machine optimizes all humanity away for more profit and the Earth will be left with no people.


> slaving away all their lives

Well, the good news is that this won't be possible since they will soon be made useless by automation. You can't enslave someone who has no use for you.


Well, if even quality sex services get automated away in the end, then I guess we'll have no other choice than to say "so long and thanks to all the fish", followed by starving and dying.


Unfortunately people usually riot instead. Hopefully they will get their ass kicked.


> > This part in that future is actually made of shares in the stock market. If you want some, you have to buy it.

> > Fortunately anyone can : it's a free market and you can enter with as little as a few hundreds bucks.

> But isn't it easier to do away with capitalism altogether [...]

Are you suggesting that it's easier to do away with capitalism than it is to buy stock in a company?


I miss Current TV, especially the Vanguard docs. However, Vice makes up for the loss.


>it irreversibly changes the previously professional relationship in a very discomforting way.

This is very true.


I go fishing.


This! Either I go alone or with friends it is the best steam remover for me. Also living near a river or lake helps a lot.


It's very therapeutic. Oceans, rivers, streams or even waterfalls always relaxes me. I've lived near oceans all my life and have island hopped many beautiful places. I can't imagine not being near water.


I don't know what it is about water but I run along the lake Michigan shore. The sound of the water lapping against the wall or crashing onto the shore is a great stress reducer.


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