Hehe. It's actually called the "M2, which is short for meeeeeeee tooooooooooooooo."

A world where government runs roughshod over corporate centers of wealth (alternate power centers in memespeak) will continue to grow at the behest of The People until they do away with these alternate centers completely.

Then you get dictatorship or communism, neither of which can hold a candle to freedom with capitalism-as-corollary of freedom.

You happily take the product of our astounding invention rates, while shitting all over the process.

You, and Europe, and the rest of the world should be more like us, not the other way around.

7 billion people churning out inventions at the same rate as the 320 million in the US would be magnificent for increasing the quality and length of life.

Anything else is literally mass-murderous.

It's about politics. With one swift cut, you can save billions and stop your predecessor from getting credit for a new moon shot.

Obama killed off one such endeavor of Bush's.

he ideas consist of sending autonomous robots to various locations in space to create infrastructure using local resources with advanced manufacturing technology, such as 3D printing. The new aspect is that someone in the White House is publicly discussing these concepts.

Well, it's about time. I've been saying for years we should launch robots and what-not up to Mars and construct a functional base with food and the ability to grow more, and only then launch humans up there.

This "giant moonshot" standard plan is idiotic and prone to failure.

I am unconcerned if facebook computers are trying to determine if I want to buy Pampers or Depends so computers can sell electrons to other computers to shove electrons in front of my face.

But claiming you have privacy from...just what now? Government, when you are feeding it back to government because government demands it?

What. The. Fuck.

That is the historical abuser of privacy we should be afraid of. Even privacy apps collapse immediately with just a wink from the onrushing government computerized panopticon juggernaut?

It's time for some kind of constitutional amendment to extend and require warrants to virtual property and locations online, to get around the loophole that it's "on some company's server somewhere, so you 'have no expectation of privacy.' "

And keep an eye on the weasel politicians who would water it down.

Ummmm.

We pay a "freedom tax" on property every year. You must pay money to the government or it will take your land away.

It's wrapped in memes of fire department, police, roads, but that's what happens at the end of the day.

At least a "privacy tax" to be exempt would give you the option of paying or not.

TPP would even allow pharmaceutical companies to sue the U.S. whenever changes to regulatory standards or judicial decisions affected their profits.

It sounds more like it would allow them to sue over costly regulations and force them to justify them in court.

I am fine with that.

> Aquaman. Lego. Harry Potter

Jesus, that Justice League movie is gonna be a mess.

Science understands when life begins quite well -- they just don't includexthe purely religious concept of "ensoulment", nor the equally religious concept that there's a god out there getting mad about it.

Even if there were, the logic still holds -- God has no more right to force his will on you than any dictator (or socialist, for that matter.)

You ALL are part of the problem.

You should have seen the opening of the first draft -- "Washington DC: You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy."

Pattern recognition, decision theory, game theory, and partitioning are AI subjects. AI isn't just the mysterious general-purpose thinking machine always on the horizon.

Some pattern recognition uses neural networks for training.

Overpopulation is not a problem (in free countries, including economic freedom). People solve shortages and other problems faster than they become seriously impactful (pardon that word.)

This has been measured again and again and again and is a real effect. Julian Simon got famous making loud public bets with gloom and doomers. His minimum granularity was 10 years, and even that was really a little short for comfort to overcome multi-year cycles as well as buffer time for markets to respond to disturbances.

"I don't need it; therefore nobody else does."

People reserve unto themselves the right to purchase things anonymously. It's a check on government power, a kind of spying.

How disturbed I am at the surity with which people view modern government as nearly perfected, and worthy of such spy powers, when nothing in all human history should give you confidence in that.

Also, TFA is significantly longer than the tweet length you're used to thinking in.

> "but the spirit of the law is good."

This is where I have to disagree. "Well-meaning" is the memetic addition to justify the same ol' same ol' corruption, but in a democracy.

The system is designed to be twisted and perverted, running undercover of "hey, they mean well!"

I do not extend to them the benefit of the doubt, and the remediation to fix the law (often created not by legislators but by regulatory agencies even more slow to respond, and sufferin regulatory capture) is completely inadequate and overwhelmed by the rent seeking.