not just societal bias... but luck and fate in general.

you have NOT earned ANYTHING you have fair and square. you owe EVERYTHING to a fate and destiny that you had NOTHING to do with:

- health (mental, physical, deformities, etc)
- race
- intelligence
- height
- beauty
- constitution and the very ability to work hard
- place of birth

only the delusional think they'd be in the same place they are now if they were retarded, with no limbs, cancer ridden and born in botswana.

your very ability to pursue your own good are byproducts from essential factors that you are blessed with.

it's not insulting because nothing you have is rightfully "earned" in the way you mean it.

people aren't that complex. you can study them and their behaviors like you could study monkeys or whales.

people who are tall and/or good looking get TREMENDOUS advantages and opportunities that people who are not don't enjoy.

sure, weasel over there may be rainman great at accurately counting toothpicks but that doesn't account for much in the social world we live in.

when all is said and done, we have "earned" nothing on our own merit. every single thing that we have is due to advantage that we did not control.

- health (mental, physical, deformities, etc)
- race
- intelligence
- height
- beauty
- constitution and the very ability to work hard
- place of birth

all of these things are crap shoots that we did not earn. few people who are beneficiaries of good luck admit it as such. glad that this professor guo has the ability to do it. but the people who are the bad side of it can see it as clear as they can see their misshapen hand in front of their face and its veracity is unequivocal.

to admit that the race is not fair is simply to be rational.

"but you really can't get very far on IQ alone, any more than you can on natural good looks or physical strength."

this may not actually be true. and the amount of ADVANTAGE that you get from it may far override any semblance of effort.

manufactured in the soviet union?

exactly!

who ever took it as exact or proportional?

but are they saying that the illustrative power of the analogy is completely bogus? that hardly seems correct either....

questions.

"why did snowden go to hong kong (as noted, a chinese protectorate) and then to russia?"

seriously? moron... because they have no extradition with the u.s.! christ, what a dummy.

not about crowdfunding as we know it AT ALL.

it's about different kind of crowd funding where you're participating in shares.

that's what she said?

"for entertainment purposes only" seems to be the necessary language. right?

ugh... who DIDN'T recognize that that was what verhoeven was going for?

but it's all so FACILE and obvious and redundant. his satire had the depth of insight attained by lampooning the fact that the sun is hot. :P

yes, it's satirical... but so on the nose and idiotically shallow that it gains no mileage from it. it could only be admired for "insight" (for fuck's sake) by children or imbecile.

i should sue the guy for my eye injury sustained when his film forced me to attempt eyerolling at speeds beyond which is possible for average human beings.

the critique of the movie back then was that it was stupid. and that's still goddamn right.

robocop - brilliant
total recall - awesome

but starship troopers is fucking garbage.

it's so poetic in its justice. america finds that it cannot, by fiat, defy world wide laws and it doesn't suit them... so they violate the law they disagree with (SHOCK)... and so, as judgment, the plaintiff, in turn, gets to violate laws that the U.S. would very much like not to be violated... because... THESE are laws they like.

oh WTO... i'd kiss you if you weren't swimming with disease....

the entirety of it is just nonsense.

the premise is ludicrous. i don't know exactly how the pins in a bowling alley will land before i throw the ball but that does not mitigate the fact that what happens to the pins is deterministic. same thing with billiard balls.

the article is simply hiding behind complexity.

*I* may not know how the billiard balls or bowling pins will go because i don't have access to all the information.

but that is the EXACT same issue with the brain. just more complex. difference is merely in scope, not in kind.

and several times, he uses the term "appears to have free will"... which is completely besides the point. NOBODY will contest that people APPEAR to have free will. what is at issue is whether human beings ACTUALLY have free will. and this article brings us not one iota closer.

gah.

being outside of government laws also puts you outside of government protection. the problem with libertarian/anarchist societies is that they are ripe to be taken over and subjugated by all the societies that are not like it.

should any of these really take off and become prosperous, it will be targeted by every OTHER government under the sun... and with the less scrupulous ones, it will come in the form of military might.

you either cracked the encryption key or you didn't.

and as with factoring large primes for cryptography, you can start a lot of problems with the answers and so can verify whether the q computer's results are correct or not. verify in this way for a wide variety of tests (where the answers are known), then you can have reasonably good confidence on the functionality of your device.

and there are a lot of tasks that have already been computed classically, just over weeks, months and years. and these are on record. ideally, the q computers will produce the same results... just much much faster. so there's yet another pre-existing answer key to check against.

completely agree. nobody wants a crippled windows machine. just go with that which is fully compatible.

they're insane NOT to go with their strongest asset - a gigantic world of programs.