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Comment Untrue (Score 1) 134

> If AI displaces human labor entirely and no mechanism of redistribution is created, then there is no broad income base to sustain demand

I don't think this is true necessarily. Companies can invest in other companies. And those other companies can invest in other companies. And the government can provide loans to these companies to create new money and keep the cash flows moving along.

There isn't any actual need for raw labour or any sort of "redistribution" to move capital around.

Comment Re:Fucking. Stupid. Shit. (Score 1) 41

What do you mean it didn't translate anything? The Rosetta Stone was a tablet with the identical passage carved into multiple languages. A direct translation of the same set of 'words'. Sure as heck fits my definition of a translation.

So tech that translates quantum oscillations (which digital computers can't do anything with) to "clean digital-like discrete states" (which digital computers are all over) sounds like a pretty close analogy to me.

Comment Re:Not unexpected (Score 1) 37

Mr Wombat, you forgot to add "*across the ENTIRETY of the federal government of 1 million+ workers*"

Proof positive that any and all outlandish claims of waste and fraud in the federal government are utterly false.

When one of the most ruthless and successful businessmen in history (regardless of how you may feel about him personally, you got to give him that) can't make more than a 0.1% dent in the federal government expenditures [and not from lack of trying, that's for sure!] then the only conclusion a rational person can make is that the federal budget is screwed down pretty damn well.

Comment Re:Options are the Problem, Not the Goal (Score 1) 222

Absolutely! "Feed Stock" is an important part of our multi-layered insurance vs. famine. That we have food that has a "plan B" helps make sure that, no matter what, we can feed all the people. If things go bad, or worse, livestock may suffer, or may be culled sooner than before, but it helps make sure we have enough for people to eat (here AND abroad). So I heartily approve of "cattle feed" grain. As should you.

Comment Re:I remember what I was relieved... (Score 1) 290

I don't see that at all - it was an iron-clad guarantee that the US would step in.... by bringing motions to the UN Security Council. I have not doubt whatsoever that the US ambassador to the UN made a vigorous resolution to aid Ukraine when it was invaded. Exactly what we said we would do! And nothing more.

And, since it was Russia that invaded, they Vetoed any and all resolutions brought before the UN. After the Korean war Russia will NEVER boycott or not attend a UN Security Council meeting again.

Comment Re:Yep, suuure... (Score 1) 38

Predicting the stock market will never be a thing, because the stock market is not a natural process. It is a summation of thousands upon thousands of plans, plots, manipulations, bets, etc. - all from individuals. In war, no plan survives contact with the enemy. And there you just have one to worry about, not thousands. Any patterns discovered will be found out, then incorporated into new thinking, on a never ending cycle.

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