TheEncogitationer
@theencogitationer
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic
Sunday School May 28th 2023 in the forum Sunday School 19 hours, 12 minutes ago
Reg,
Speaking of astronomical hoaxes, I noticed from archives from 1938 newspapers that apparently no one in my locality in NC reacted hysterically to Orson Welles notorious broadcast. For that matter, there was no advertisement for the broadcast as far as I could see.
We do have a station in my area WBT 1110 AM who famously advertised that…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic This is the alt-news thread in the forum Small Talk 19 hours, 58 minutes ago
Unseen,
The point being made wasnāt that businesses raised prices because market forces forced them to but that some businesses raised prices behind a false claim or false impression that they had to. The operative descriptor being āfalse.ā
Business A watches business B raise prices because their supplier is experiencing problems acquiring inven…
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic This is the alt-news thread in the forum Small Talk 1 day, 17 hours ago
Unseen and onyangomakagutu,
Kyle Kulinski has it all wrong. Not only was there stimulus paid for by inflating the currency via The Federal Reserve, but the Federal Government also subsidized companies payrolls and added massive new benefits of food and Over-The-Counter drugs to existing Medicare/Medicaid benefits. Also, the Biden Administration…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Can AI be contained? When has containing technology ever happened? in the forum Science 3 days, 17 hours ago
Unseen,
Thanks for admitting what I was about to point out: Your concept of work seems to be involved in being a cog in the wheels of business and industry. One has to wonder how many worthwhile things are NOT being created or are NOT happening because someone is tied down 40+ hours a week to some form of mind-numbing drudgery.
Care to…
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Can AI be contained? When has containing technology ever happened? in the forum Science 4 days, 18 hours ago
Jake,
Enco there is clearly value or meaning that is attached to work. Work work work. Wok like dis. Talk like dat. How we derive meaning as we go around the merry go round will redound to the ground as those with a cornucopia astound.
Work is how we all get a piece in the cornucopia. It provides the worker with a paycheck, the customer or…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Can AI be contained? When has containing technology ever happened? in the forum Science 4 days, 18 hours ago
Unseen,
Who are these hordes of people who wonāt work if they get a check?
FDR and LBJ created multiple generations of these.
How do you define āworkā? Does it only include a traditional ājob,ā or managing oneās investment portfolio?
Does work not include gardening, babysitting, caregiving, cooking, gardening, shopping, housekeepin…
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Can AI be contained? When has containing technology ever happened? in the forum Science 5 days, 19 hours ago
Jake,
All right. I’m sorry for the case of mistaken identity, though I still contend that a human life of good things devoid of work is it’s own variety of delusion. Even retirees who can afford to not work still sweat over their investments and like exerting themselves on hobby farms or cleaning the boat at the local slip.
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Can AI be contained? When has containing technology ever happened? in the forum Science 6 days, 8 hours ago
Jake,
Guy in that vid is slightly unhinged. Donāt ya think?
Yes, and on this thread, you said you produced this video. :
We can safely say that this is the modern version of Memorex and not live, but is that you or are you just “friendly Charles M…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Target. Canary in the coal mine for the Dems? in the forum Politics 6 days, 8 hours ago
Unseen,
Even without threats like this, mega-size retail stores and malls need a precinct of armed security with arrest powers just to deal with non-work-a-day riff-raff who loot and trash the places and try making the places into sets for the latest Karen or WorldStar video.
Target should put out notice in all media that if customers don’t…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Can AI be contained? When has containing technology ever happened? in the forum Science 6 days, 8 hours ago
Unseen,
I’ve addressed the bulk of the purposes for U.B.I. above and showed how U.B.I. doesn’t achieve them. As for the first and the last, U.B.I. wouldn’t relieve poverty if it raises the costs of goods and services through taxation and inflation of the currency. It just raises the bar for what the poverty level would be after prices have…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Can AI be contained? When has containing technology ever happened? in the forum Science 6 days, 9 hours ago
Jake,
I thought you said were G-time Johnny:
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Meet the next President of the United States in the forum Politics 1 week ago
Unseen,
This handsome, attractive, articulate black man could be the GOPās Obama.
You do know how this sounds, right? You know, like that drooling, mumbling, doddering fool thatās our current President? 😁
My reply to Tim Scott is that, yes, it’s wonderful that you came out of poverty and more Citizens can do the same if Government keeps it’…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Can AI be contained? When has containing technology ever happened? in the forum Science 1 week ago
Jake,
Enco you are producing a lot of text and very little to no substance.
You are wonderful at avoiding issues.
The subject in part has been work along with the possible effects AI would have on it. I’ve worked til I’m blue in the breasts talking about it without even doing a purple nurple.🟣🟣
And what is up with this?
Look, Iām not the o…
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic
Sunday School 21st May 2023 in the forum Sunday School 1 week, 1 day ago
Reg,
World of Woo: On endangering public morals!
Great story from The American Council on Science and Health!
An added absurdity to the drug laws: If a drug is classified under Schedule 1 and thus has “no approved human use,” no one is allowed to do medical research on the drug to find ways to eliminate the harmful effects of the drug and thus…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Can AI be contained? When has containing technology ever happened? in the forum Science 1 week, 1 day ago
Unseen,
As I said, objections are irrelevant without a specific proposal to object to. Once a specific proposal is made, specific objections would follow and perhaps adjustments and accommodations made to meet them.
The mere and whole premise of government taxing or inflating the currency to pay people to merely exist is objectionable. No…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Can AI be contained? When has containing technology ever happened? in the forum Science 1 week, 2 days ago
Jake,
The analogy to our forbears or primitive or subsistence humans is inapposite. Of course they had to work! But there was a division of labor that was more equitable. There was a more communal ethos. The individual was beholden to the group and vice versa. Equating work then with work now is misleading.
🎶”Can it be that it was all so simple…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Can AI be contained? When has containing technology ever happened? in the forum Science 1 week, 2 days ago
Unseen,
Universal basic income (UBI) is a government program where every adult citizen receives a set amount of money regularly to alleviate poverty and replace other need-based social programs that require greater bureaucratic involvement. (from a Google search)
So, while it would generally alleviate the most destitute sort of poverty, its…
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Can AI be contained? When has containing technology ever happened? in the forum Science 1 week, 2 days ago
Unseen,
Unless you mean something like living involves work (counting eating, breathing, shitting, shouting out orders to servants, for example), OF COURSE people can avoid work by having others do work for them.
This is not evading the necessity for work in producing life’s necessities. This is just delegating the work to someone else via…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Can AI be contained? When has containing technology ever happened? in the forum Science 1 week, 3 days ago
Unseen,
Donāt confuse the Covid shutdowns with what UBI would be like. Conservatives seem to think that without a kick in the butt, the default human condition is sitting on oneās butt watching TV while eating bonbons or Doritos while smoking pot.
People doing great things in their evenings and weekends would be free to do it all day long and…
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Can AI be contained? When has containing technology ever happened? in the forum Science 1 week, 3 days ago
Jake,
Ackshuyally, Lenin didn’t first say that, but Paul in 2 Thessalonians 3:10, and was a variation on a Jewish proverb. Trotsky, however, did say about Soviet Communism: “The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced with a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.”
Either way, work is unavoidable. The only question…[Read more]
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