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Comment Re:avoid infighting (Score 3, Insightful) 39

The problem with that "infighting" is not simply that it happens and all sides would be equally part of it. It happens and continues to do so because large parts of the populations see no problem in right-leaning policies, in lack of gender and ethnicity equality and awareness, and are actively opposing all attempts of improving things there, they don't want it to happen. Trying to formulate questions about "AI education" does not change this, and neither does asking research about how it is "going to fix this inequality / problem", when large parts of the populations either don't accept that the inequality or problem exists or doesn't want to see it solved or both. Unless and until that is successfully fought, progress will not happen, and governments will continue to be elected that will try to achieve the exact opposite.

Comment I'm going to read this... (Score 1) 76

... but I don't believe an effective and sustainable solution can even be possible in a world under a global operating system the kernel of which is running on the principle of the maximization of exploitation of potentially everyone and everything to create monetary profit, the principle of all against all. A world in which only the richest are getting richer who are also the only ones with the means to further shape the world to their advantage, which tends to be hardly anyone else's advantage.

Comment Re:CHENGDU, China (Score 1) 207

Again, maybe true, but also again, what's that got to do with either NYC or Chengdu? You don't care about the subject of this thread, you just want to bash China. As much as it may deserve at least some of it, that and your presentation of it screams nationalism and jingoism very similar to the thread starters', just not quite as cheaply packaged.

Comment Re:CHENGDU, China (Score 1) 207

LOL! I should have expected that one of the racist-fascist self-appointed super-Americans would immediately freak out and expose himself.

And of course, someone who disagrees with you has to be paid by the evil Chinese to do that... HAHAHA!

By the way, nothing you say has anything remotely to do with what was written in this thread. Perhaps learn your own great language before you post something publicly...

Comment Re:CHENGDU, China (Score 5, Informative) 207

Some of you US Americans are so full of yourselves with so little knowledge about the rest of the world, i.e. by far most of the world, and the hole that lack of knowledge leaves filled up with prejudice and dumb, unwarranted national pride. Which is why a least those of you who fall under that description also really deserve your current imbecile government. Chengdu has been one of the cultural centers of western and southwestern China for over 2,000 years, and not only has Chengdu developed into the economic center of western China alongside Chongqing, but in 2006, in China Daily, the city ranked fourth among China's most livable cities. Authoritarian/totalitarian socialism destroyed much, but cannot destroy everything.

Comment You don't understand lottery (Score 1) 54

That's naive. Many if not most people know quite well how dim their chances are to win. In Europe, they're told before they can play what the probability for a class 1 win is, like 1:160,000,000 for the Eurojackpot lottery. But they also know that most lotteries spend a substantial amount of their earnings for good causes, so the money is not just lost (in Eurojackpot, I think it depends on which country someone's in, but it's things like sports, culture, humanitarian projects). And most of all, beside the actual playing fun like when teaming up with colleagues, it's the difference between a however dim chance and no chance at all to escape the reality of having to work a shit job until old age for too little money.

Comment Re:How to end housing crisis. (Score 3, Insightful) 138

No idea why this gets downvoted. In many parts of Europe, cities are becoming or have become uninhabitable for normal people because rents and real estate prices are absurdly high. In some places, rental housing is either so scarce or so expensive or both that someone who wants to move there would be better off buying a flat or a house, which again is impossible for normal earners. That's why more and more people are demanding to illegalize vacant rental apartments and banning Air BNB and similar businesses altogether in areas with a housing shortage. Treating Air BNB rentals like any other business, on the other hand, with regard to taxes and everything else seems to me a rather mild means of counteracting housing shortages.

Comment "Originality of our ideas and lives" (Score 2) 261

"AI needs us: living beings, producing constantly, feeding the machine. It needs the originality of our ideas and our lives" â" I somehow agree with the bottom line, and as of now, it seems AI feeding only on output of AI does degenerate, but don't we all need that, too, to develop our intelligence? The originality of the ideas and lives of those around us, starting with parents and siblings?

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