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Comment Liberal arts major's idiocy. (Score 3, Insightful) 351

Cars contribute immeasurably more to CO2 emission. What to really do something? Force govt agencies to buy electric cars only. Yes, it is more costly, it requires an infrastructure, but it will work, and it is beneficial in the long run because it creates jobs and is basically the same as spending on infrastructure projects which all governments love (employment, kickbacks, hype).

Comment Bullshit, bullshit everywhere (Score 1) 497

The "laws" of biological ecosystems and real, not imaginary "calories economy" could not be defeated. The competition for a scarce resources for survival and reproduction is a fundamental and implicit constraint in any ecosystem. The only way the basic income could work is that "the privileged" (the rich) have enough money to give to the rest of us (the poor) for free. It is exactly like having a pet. Lots of them. (Or use a sugar-daddy analogy, if you prefer). This is only way it could be viewed and implemented. Everything else is an utter bullshit.

Comment In theory - yes, why not? (Score 1) 86

Brain has evolved (pre-trained, if you will) machinery (particular structures of neurons, encoded in DNA) which has to be trained (literally) with actual human language. Think of an evolved deep-network which is trained to learn and maintain a deep-network for a language or two. The problem is - no one knows how to encode/represent this yet. Second order deep networks are unexplored.

Comment They got it. (Score 2, Insightful) 653

The allusion to religion - the safe space of those with low IQ - is perfect. The whole SJW movement is a bullshit, an attempt of not so smart to enter so-called intellectual scene with their own bullshit agenda. The bullshit is so obvious when we consider other competitive endeavours, such as sports. According to SJW manifesto we should stop praising the best athletes and give equal honour to underachievers, underrepresented and what not. Similarly, we should admit women in men-only sport teams, even if overall performance against other men-only teams would degrade, because it is socially just. We could go further - let's ensure that older, less prettier (with less refined biological fenotype) women will get the same amount of attention, price, gits and love as young maidens with certain evolutionary refined phenotypes which indicate good genes (beauty is just lack of deformities - youth + health, after all). Let's ignore genetic evolution, biological and social competition, let's sweep it all under the rug and replace it with manifests of praising mediocrity and inferiority (instead of leaving the system to be self-regulated - the best we could do). Attempt to impose stupid regulations on a complex systems no one really fully understand is another sign of stupidity demonstrated by religious moralists and other not so smart people. The intelligence is in seeing things as they are, not as some want them to be, and to quickly adapt accordingly. There are innumerable examples of how really diverse and complex social environments very quickly settle down to an unwritten behavioral patterns without any of self-appointed social justices or any moral authority of idiots. Look no farther that any asian megapolis, places like Kathmandu (they have deep environmental problems but not the social ones) or Tokyo or Shanghai, Singapore, etc, etc. No superimposed written bullshit is required. And, yes, some people have better IQ or fenotypes and bringing them back down to the level of major mediocrity is, ironically, as bad as any other suppression of minorities and underrepresented groups.

Comment Re:So all good news then (Score 1) 120

You already have a few OSS Android-based firmwares. Seems like without Google Services these are, well, not necessarily useless - you still could make calls and browse the web with firefox and what not - but rather nothing special, so nothing that it is silly to compare them with even stock Android One. Google services are not just tracking, it is integration of several specialized the services into an overall experience in the first place.

Comment No. Just fucking no. (Score 1) 629

The meat eating as an evolutionary adaptation was exactly what allowed humans to inhabit colder/northern/semi-desert regions, in other words - everything but subtropics where indeed vegetarian (but not vegan) diet is possible (but, obviously, not reasonable - the poorest families who cannot afford anything but local vegies suffer from malnutrition and other imbalance problems.)

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