I watched the "Project Turntable" video, and that is unbelievably cool.

To work, the AI has to recognize what the drawing represents, figure out how to reverse-transform the 2D representation into a 3D object, and work out what the hidden parts should look like. It's amazing.

It's only a short step between this and working out walk cycles, matching mouth movements to dialogue, adding facial expressions, etc.

This will revolutionize 2D animation.

But was it really $115k each or was it $115k total i.e. $57,500 each? The wording is really weird: "That was on top of the $115,000 in salaries he paid in total each year to both employees"

In total each year, not to each employee. "115k total to both" sounds like the latter. (If someone is selling you concert tickets, "I'll sell them at $200 for both" is different from "I'll sell them at $200 for each")

I realize it's kinda splitting hairs & doesn't really change your point, but I'd be really surprised if fast food managers in the middle of Missouri were making $115k/yr each.

You have a hardware-based cursor?? If you make it blink more slowly can you use those idle cycles to mine bitcoin?

The house pays for itself many times over! They should have made it bigger...

I see it that we have evolved to the point where we can recognize the same flawed argument used to oppose one form of moral harm to when trotted out to oppose a different form of moral harm.

There is no need to try and force an equivalency on different types of moral harm; that's just another form of "whataboutism".

UBI makes a huge dent in the problems of homelessness and hunger - it does a lot more than that too, but just those two problems alone are major moral harms that deserve being addressed, if not solved outright. And while it is a comparison between apples and locomotives, I'll put "hunger" and "homelessness" on the same side of the moral scale as "slavery".

> you also need to talk mechanisms to keep it from snowballing out of control.

What's to snowball? UBI is fixed to population size - it is *universal* basic income, so everybody gets it. The US population is growing by 0.5% annually, so unless there is a dramatic increase in birth rate coupled to a dramatic decrease in death rate, this is a fixed cost.

That comes out to roughly $164 billion, or roughly 25% of the annual defense budget. Not only is that not "out of control", it is relatively cheap for what it buys you.

> The alternative to UBI isn't necessarily working, it could also be living in a homeless shelter.

That is an excellent point.

> You still get UBI while working

I thought this was more generally understood... but fair point that bears repeating.

My confidence in your ability to correctly identify "socialism" is not high.

When did Slashdot become the home of alt-right Nazi types?

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!

Seems to me a similar argument was put forward vis a vis slavery - as in "we need slavery or the economy would collapse"

What the pearl-clutchers seem to not quite get is that the guy staying home and playing video games is still contributing to the economy. His UBI is buying food, rent , power, and video games. He almost certainly isn't *saving* any money, so 100% of that UBI goes back into the economy.

What he *isn't* doing is being a lazy, inefficient worker. He's not phoning it in on a manufacturing job, or a clerical job. He isn't making mistakes and lowering productivity. There is *value* in having that guy out of the workforce.

They should be using open-source drivers anyway, then it wouldn't matter if their details are exposed.

You seem to be confused about what exactly generics are. They are not abstract types, and they are checked/closed at compile time, not runtime.

For anyone who remembers the 70s British series The Tomorrow People (that played in reruns on Nickelodeon in the 80s), David Prowse played a small role as an android painted in silver body paint on that series. I didn't make the connection until I was watching an episode on YouTube and saw his name flash by during the credits.

Here he is hitting his head on a cage during one of his scenes:
https://whatculture.com/film/9...

Very fitting addition to the dumpster fire that is 2020: the Year of the Linux Desktop was finally brought about by... Microsoft.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-ch...

Aren't you supposed to be on Reddit?