Easy answer: which one gives you cheap EVs? And which one is just single handedly responsible for your contry's gas prices to have gone up by 30% mere weeks ago for no good reason?

There. Now you know which is more likely to stand in the way of your pursuit for happiness.

Not "ever", but 2010-ish.

Name one of the democratic / western countries.

Punishment goes beyond removal.

That isn't true of all the world, juat of the USA. How about the rest

But we don't pay workers more. We actually pay them less. Been paying them less since the 1970s.

Respectfully, but neuroscientist know jack shit about how thought, consciousness, and the notion of self work.

They know some (probably pretty advanced) chemistry, but that's about it.

If the brain is determiniatic, thej whybdo we punish crime? It's not their fault then, is it?

What if there's a soul?

Think: cargo cult. Even if the pacific folks ever figured out how a real raduo worked, and how a real runway is built, and a real.flight tower... even if they had built all that -- there still wouldn't be any planes landing, simply because the the US army didn't send any.

What if imitating the brain is like cargo cult? Something still missing?

Well, let's start with the realization that there's no indication whatsoever that the human brain is limited to deterministic bebavior, while Turing machines are.

You could introduce random elements. But then you'd have something that cargo-cult-like imitates a human brain, not that is (truly like) a human brain.

Which is why nobody's being trained specifically to overthrow despots, they're being trained to follow orders.

Much simpler that way.

We don't need more productivity. As there was still some of the globe left to go and colonize we could use the extra productivity to occupy new markets, but now?... that everything is occupied? What need is there for the extra productivity?

But what we can do is the same productivity with fewer humans.

Questions remains: now that survival is tied to having an 40 h/week job, what do we do with with all those we don't need.

Portugal is the new America.

Yes! Someone FINALLY said it! :-)

I always entertained the opinion that if AI can do it well, it's not a job for a human. I really like Star Trek's vision of AI, where the comouter does all the boring stuff, and the human gets to have the vision.

It was allowed, it just didn't seem necessary. More like a senseless duplication of effort.

That's changed now.