WealthVsSurvive

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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
I have one sentence that could change that for you and correct US trajectory: all software is prior art.
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
I am about to do exactly the same after I move: get a landline and ditch my smartphone. I think of what it costs in time, money, resources, and freedom, and I've come to the conclusion that I'd be a more satisfied human being with
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
Thank you for stating what should be obvious: most of the psuedo-green beliefs are the result of direct misinformation from the producers of human-harming pollution. It should make people more rabid to tear them apart, not less.
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
Clean coal, clean diesel, now clean incinerated plastic: I don't doubt that it's manageable or maybe even fully solved, I just don't have much faith in it being employed. The track record of such things is not great.
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
You don't even need to say it like that: you have zero faith in humanity. You should have some faith, we've performed reasonably okay over time. The problem is thus: over a long enough time period, given any individual's iner
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
This is patently and simply false; if you view home ownership data worldwide, you'll see distinct patters of more home ownership in countries and localities in which the building, sale, and ownership of homes is encouraged by the gover
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
Yes, the government absolutely controls the Federal reserve, but likes to keep it out of "politics," which is code for "please don't talk about what we're doing here, it could be used to spook the cattle."
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
Haven't looked @ v3, but I have a question: why would the Proxy object be available to destructure? Why not use a revocable proxy that is only a proxy when it's being modified through accessors? Why would any state management libr
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
It is on-record at this point that US federal and local agents infiltrate these organizations and run a divide-and-conquer playbook. When you fight against the monetized weight of these efforts, they write articles like this one, attempting
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
It might've been a check when the executive did little aside from protecting from foreign invaders. The terms-of-service for what the executive are has changed. It's not only anti-democratic, it's anti-republic as well.
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
But to emulate the body, you must emulate the environment that shaped it, so now we're talking microverse creation. You could at best emulate the full set of current functions, but without the environment that model would be subject to
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
I think there is a fundamental paradox at the root of consciousness and thought: once we succeed in alleviating suffering by discarding the body, we are already in hell. What is the purpose of a mind without a body? To witness? To what ends
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
You've just described the problem of all technical products that are designed under the auspice of producing a profit for its investors. I simply call it babel-tower building, as it's the earliest and simplest metaphorical example
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
Don't you know anything about "justice"? Whatever that means any more. It's time to dust off an old phrase: "no taxation without representation."
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
Oh, the worst part is that our system doesn't even require that people be convinced to give the wealthy more wealth. The relationship of State governance & powerful trade unions with the "world banks" functions like an in
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
You sound like all the people whom grew up in New Orleans that I spoke with when I lived there; I moved when Katrina hit. They heard the same thing. Turns out it was true, and the fact that it hadn't happened was in fact: just luck.
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
Partying like it's 1929.
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
It's because software design is guided by individualized, balkanized, competitive, hierarchical human incentive, rather than public incentive. The extraneous branching and churning of what amounts to the formal, ever-evolving definitio
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
I think the wealth tax and the wealth ceiling should be a function of population, water & groundwater health and safety, food price, real estate price, transportation cost, communications cost, and air quality. I think we should heavily
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
In ancient Judaism there was the concept of "jubilee" in which all debts were forgiven. Zakat seems like a better version, as jubilee seems like it could be easily gamed and would dis-incentivize borrowing around the time of its a
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
She's called the Oracle, and I really did not give enough credit to The Matrix films, and yes, I mean the 2nd and 3rd. The proof of a successful human-directing AI is that the humans don't know they're being directed, and the
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
Yeah, he's actively betting on people making poor choices in times of panic, not on Gold. Gold is merely the medium. It's not hypocritical at all.
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
Has this been observed, or is it more: here's some math that makes entropy even possible because the alternatives sound unlikely? I'm betting on the weird, things like the universe being generative on a macro scale and entropic in
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
Forgetting how to build is a nice euphemism for sabotaging your own civilization by moving its own manufacturing overseas to slave labor in the 70s because you irrationally feared entitled hungry masses. What's that? Bootstraps or some
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
Remind me of the US law that stops AWS from copying the business models of their customers? They didn't seem to have much difficulty getting around copying physical products from their seller customers.
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
You'll find this has a history of occurring in the US; it's visible in foreign drugs whose patents have ended up not finding their way here.
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
I see this and bitcoin as attempts at Balkanization, due to the failures of US conservative & neo-liberal economic policy since the early 70's onward. I see bitcoin as a Chinese state scam, a structured, self-funding via hardware m
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
Yes, but only because the landlords would sell or default, which would drive the homes back into the bank's hands. The banks would then let most of the homes rot rather than sell them, so they can milk the build&mortgage finance&am
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
Let's try a thought experiment. Suppose that human intelligence and consciousness are not ends unto themselves: I think therefore I am is false. Suppose that human intelligence is secondary to the will to power, to life, which is merel
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
It wasn't "getting government out of the way." It was literally government working in tandem with the trade-union interests of finance, insurance, and real-estate to preserve the value of the "asset," real estate. T

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