Some time after that, civil unrest is likely

Followed by mass slaughter of the "losers". You can appeal to the better nature of a human soldier - not so with a robot soldier.

Another one would be:
Epistemological Intelligence: "the ability to know what you don't know, and formulate a plan to remedy that deficiency". This is what research is all about.

Reading this, I can't help wondering how old you are. This is exactly the kind of baseless certitude that has given AI such a bad name over the last 50 years.
"I think we're pretty close to being there" is an article of faith. It has nothing to do with science.

What I don't get is why is hacking so damn easy?
Why would any computer with sensitive information on it be connected to the internet?

I talked to a guy in India. He asked me a couple of simple questions, dictated an access code to me, and that was it. His English was excellent.

And the rest will do what they need to do to get by.
And there is no reason to think that it will be legal. For example, sell drugs to your kids or take your cheap beachfront property at gunpoint.

And when there is no work to be done, what do you propose all those people should do ?

Starve, commit crimes, revolt.
Unless the rest of us provide a way for them to make a reasonable living without being employed.
This will happen. It doesn't matter whether you like it.

Every "fair tax" that I've seen would raise my taxes by a considerable amount, and I'm certainly not in the target zone for the hated wealthy

No, but you are in the zone for the hated stupid.
And by the way, Obfuscant, no one has every chosen a more appropriate user name.

Investing in your own country's businesses is fine. Investing in foreign tax shelters isn't.

Trouble is, those statistics that you quote are based on reported income, not actual income. The two are very different, which is the whole fucking point of this article.

And yes, many of the tricks used to hide wealth are legal. The point is, they shouldn't be.

Perhaps you should try applying that alleged critical thinking to JREF.

Well, if you have a specific criticism of Ranki's methods, let's hear it. Otherwise STFU.

Fools gotta be fooled.

I've personally seen and done things which require explanation as the rational explanation doesn't work, but I've got no interest in going to him to see what's going on. I'm not interested in it.

Terrified of him bursting your fantasy bubble, aren't you?

Does it have electrolytes?

Yeah, I'm amused when educators and politicians proclaim that current schooling is out of step with the 20th century.

I hope they would be. That was 13 years ago.

Fuck you.