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by marshallp 15y ago
Feeling sympathy for first world poor doesn't mean you can't also feel sympathy for the third world poor.
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This is hit piece by rupert murdoch, who has some kind of insane grudge against google, which is funny when you think about - grandpa telling the kids to get off his lawn.
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There is certain fallacy in that. I've never met a person who has ever thought he would like to mooch off welfare or what have you forever, or even a short amount of time. There are barriers that are difficult to see for many middle class p
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by marshallp 15y ago
The solution to that is to put a lot more ideas out. There really isn't a shortage of ideas, only a shortage of people to implement them. The problem then becomes that some ideas might not turn a profit fast enough. The solution to that is
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by marshallp 15y ago
It's the lesser of two evils. Would you rather facebook (rumored to deal with the CIA/Palantir), or shudder - the government, be the internet's identity provider. In fact, unless Larry and Sergey crash in their planes I don't believe google
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by marshallp 15y ago
"Corporate" or "crony" capitalism is the key word. In real capitalism people would be in charge of their own production and not subject themselves to the above. Their are all sorts of laws on the books to prevent the poor from being charge
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by marshallp 15y ago
Children, old people, disabled people, unemployed people, many politicians, many lawyers, criminals, spammers, many landowners, trust fundies, members of royal families, many librarians, many teachers, many policeman etc. etc. We already ha
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by marshallp 15y ago
But with robots, you can probably get them to be cheaper even when taking into account seasonality. The real problem is that lots of manufacturers/wareshouses only keep a 3 year investment horizon. If they invested with a 10 year payoff, a
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by marshallp 15y ago
Animal tissue grown without a brain is basically a plant, so in principle there should be no problem for a vegan to eat lab meat.
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by marshallp 15y ago
There might be an opportunity for a startup in the too ... we-hate-telecoms.com
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Areas with high speed internet might see their house prices go up. If this happens, it might become profitable for homeowners to band together to finance high speed internet installation. Of course, they will need internet based coordinatio
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Industrial robots are heavy and thus expensive because they lack visual servoing. Heartland robotics plans to bring out a lightweight low cost robot this year. Also, the predator algorithm invented last year can do real time visual servoing
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by marshallp 15y ago
Difficulty in creating an algorithm. There are ways to get it done algorithmically, however, the challenge is in getting enough data. 30,000 images is too low. you would need a few million, then just simple machine learning algorithms would
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by marshallp 15y ago
That sounds like a pretty good idea, walmart crowdsourcing shelf stacking. Startups might be able to offfer that as service smaller stores right now. Also, the possibility for automation is then great as well. Companies could offer assistiv
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You can have statistics figure that out for you. Are turkers good at judging ads based on past data. If not, maybe it's because you weren't presenting the right metrics for the turkers to judge and so you keep reiterating until you do. This
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by marshallp 15y ago
There are counter-arguments to be made. 1. should people be made to flip burgers or stand in cashier booths when society doesn't really need that. You can order off amazon for example, or eat healthier food that you make at home. Those burg
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by marshallp 15y ago
It's not as simple as that. It's not one poor guy looking a video feed or judging ads. It would be sophisticated system that pools together many workers in ways to get quality. So, for example, if the factory robot knocks something over, an
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by marshallp 15y ago
Other platforms built on turk, such as crowdflower, have systems in place to assess accuracy. Another turk worker checks the quality of the work, or 3 workers do a task, and the best, as judged by a different set of workers, is given a bonu
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by marshallp 15y ago
So what you also need is more businesses to use mechanical turk or similar services. There's a huge opportunity in that for startups. The biggest is probably bridging the physical and digital worlds. Controlling robots through mechanical tu
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by marshallp 15y ago
Education increases quality of life. So does have a successful startup - it free's from the tyranny of working for someone else. So the "luxury" is really a matter of degree. Cost of startup schooling is the same as public school or state c
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by marshallp 15y ago
You could make the same argument about education. Life is all about risks, why should I have pay for the risky behaviour of parents of poor children. Abolish public education funding. However, the reason it public school is a good thing (wh
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by marshallp 15y ago
Aubrey de Gray's argument is more like - when would you choose to die. You're sitting there, perfectly happy and healthy, your existence has no negative impact on anyone else's. Will you just get up and say - I'll die now, for no apparent r
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by marshallp 15y ago
We MAY be able to solve, so why not try it? I'd put avoiding death at the top of any list of priorities. To make money you should be solving a problem (stealing and monopolies being exceptions). Web startups exist to coordinate people, that
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by marshallp 15y ago
There can be a safety net for startups - college. If colleges could be refocused from teaching psychology to creating tech businesses, then student loans could be the financing. Anyone, including middle aged or seniors could go to college f
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So, because people would watch too many star trek episodes, we should have them die? Doesn't sound too ethical. There is no moral argument for death. As Aubrey de Gray explains, will you ever come to a point where you are perfectly healthy
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by marshallp 15y ago
We are responsible for death. We as a worldwide society have enough resources to seriously tackle death but because of our inability to coordinate effectively we don't apply those resource. NIH budget $30 billion Defense budget $700 billio
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by marshallp 15y ago
That's a great name for it "economic integration center". There's probably a business idea in there as well. Kind of a franchised system, where a company create a saas app and you local socialpreneurs who stand/park near offices with laptop
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by marshallp 15y ago
Real time teleoperation costs billions? Everyone (almost), even in third countries, has skype running, which probably is more bandwith intensive than teleoperation would be. And with teleoperation, there are parts where automation can make
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Workers are actually pretty expensive, more than $20 dollars per hour plus benefits. Then there is the risk of injury which is quite common in construction and mining. The workers in india wouldn't have those problems. To them it would like

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