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And a lot more jobs are soon to be automated out of existence.
That's a good thing. For example, the job of swinging a pick at the coal face in the mine has been automated out of existence. Do you really want it back?
Good point. I expressed myself poorly.
A lot of people are soon to be automated out of economic viability as employees.
Something has to be done about this, none of those manufacturing, or managerial jobs are coming back
And a lot more jobs are soon to be automated out of existence.
I was surprised at how popular Basic Income was in the recent survey.
I suspect one reason for that is that while some see it as an alternative to current programs, others see it as an additional program, and I don't believe the question specified which.
In response to
Stupid Questions September 2016
Matrix multiplication
Could somebody explain to me, in a way I'd actually understand, how to (remember how to) go about multiplying a pair of matrixes? I've looked at Wikipedia, I've read linear algebra books up to where they supposedly explain matrixes, and I keep bouncing up against a mental wall where I can't seem to remember how to figure out how to get the answer.
It's a 50-50 arbitrary convention.
I suggest physically tracing through the matrices with one finger from each hand. As you would multiply If you do it the right way enough times, doing it the wrong way will feel weird.
Also, the canonical example is y=Ax, with A a matrix, and x,y as vertical vectors. If you can at least remember that one goes vertically, and one horizontally, Ax will show that it is the one on the right that goes vertically.
Speaking of HPMOR, I wondered about something.
Quirrell often smirks/makes faces to himself while talking to Harry. He's emotionally interacting with himself while talking to others. Does EY do anything of the kind?
I can't think of one, but there should be a blurb from the book that seems appropriate to apply out of context to the book.
Korzybski advocated a "semantic pause" of 30 seconds.
'In poorer countries the consumer goods are targeted to that class of poor people so making difference in inequality in places like Australia is more important than in poor countries because they are deprived of a supply of goods because the consumer culture is targeted towards the wealthier middle class.'
If that's your real reason, perhaps the best way to help poor Australians is to import stuff from Africa so that they get that supply of suitable goods. Or better yet invite some Kenyans to teach them how to make things themselves.
Nope. Won't work.
The cheap goods can't be available to the poor, because then they'd be available to the not poor, and the government enabled rent seeking would no longer work.
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Open Thread, Aug 29. - Sept 5. 2016
My girlfriend and I disagreed about focussing on poor vs richer countries in terms of doing good. She made an argument along the lines of:
'In poorer countries the consumer goods are targeted to that class of poor people so making difference in inequality in places like Australia is more important than in poor countries because they are deprived of a supply of goods because the consumer culture is targeted towards the wealthier middle class.'
What do you make of it?
I think the regulatory targeting of government enabled shake downs toward the wealthier middle class is much more of an issue. The wealthy middle class can afford to put up with more than the poor.
Though they try, it's hard to market segment your shakedowns, so the poor are often just priced out of the market.
Market segmentation by price/quality/status works just fine where there is a free market. If you've got the money to buy it, goods will come.
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No, I think Adams assigns a higher probability to Trump winning than most people do. I think Adams accepted this theory on Trump would cost him money.
Can't remember where I saw it, but I think Adams is trying to transition his career to "trusted expert".
He's willing to take the financial hit to make the transition.