SidewalkDawg
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| Registered on: | 11/20/2012 |
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re: Religious Leaders Told to 'Prepare Now' for UFO Disclosure and 'Bible-Changing' Revelation
Posted by SidewalkDawg on 5/13/26 at 11:37 am to moneyg
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If a random person from the Middle East claimed to be a "savior of God" (your term) and "born to a virgin named Mary", it would not impact my Christianity at all. I doubt it would have any real impact on Christianity.
Well at least you and the Pharisee's agree on one thing.
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re: Historic Palmetto cemetery vandalized with graffiti
Posted by SidewalkDawg on 5/13/26 at 9:57 am to Bernie Bierman
Seems to me like a threat to Trump and Desantis. Why else spray paint their names on graves?
re: 518,428 children have died preventable deaths in the year since Musk dismantled USAID
Posted by SidewalkDawg on 4/24/26 at 1:06 pm to stout
that's an interesting pro-choice argument...
re: Could you kill an adult Timber Wolf if given a chokehold “head start”?
Posted by SidewalkDawg on 4/23/26 at 8:18 pm to HogBalls
This seems relevant:
re: Official US/Israel vs Iran war thread
Posted by SidewalkDawg on 4/23/26 at 2:32 pm to Spaceman Spiff
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And the Germans won't do a thing about it
The fact that this occurred in Berlin is the only reason i'm not perusing past posts to see if someone already posted about this.
re: Official US/Israel vs Iran war thread
Posted by SidewalkDawg on 4/23/26 at 2:27 pm to hawgfaninc
Reza Pahlavi just had red substance thrown on him in public.
re: Redistricting Solution: Randomized Districts every 2 years
Posted by SidewalkDawg on 4/23/26 at 8:02 am to Mickey Goldmill
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I asked ChatGPT to do one for Louisiana based just on population and geography (the parish outlines are a little wonky).
What would the result of this redistrict be? Blue Louisiana or Red?
re: Redistricting Solution: Randomized Districts every 2 years
Posted by SidewalkDawg on 4/23/26 at 7:55 am to SlowFlowPro
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Everyone has been bitching about both lately, but I reckon they still prefer the crutch of the known to the unknown.
I think whatever system is designed has to be simple enough that most people understand it. If you start having crazy technical solutions to this, the average person will immediately distrust it because they don't understand it.
re: Redistricting Solution: Randomized Districts every 2 years
Posted by SidewalkDawg on 4/23/26 at 7:46 am to SlowFlowPro
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If it's randomized, this doesn't matter.
What exactly are you saying here? Someone has to design, implement, and maintain a system that Randomizes the districts. I'm asking who is creating the system you want?
You didn't say anything about randomizing the companies that develop these programs unless you are trying to suggest that some lottery will exist to randomly select a new company every 2 years to create a program which randomly selects districts. But even then, how do you prevent bias in the programming? Tech companies aren't known for their large conservative workforce.
re: Redistricting Solution: Randomized Districts every 2 years
Posted by SidewalkDawg on 4/23/26 at 7:38 am to SlowFlowPro
Just a couple of computer programs would be needed.
Who designs, implements, and maintains said programs?
Who designs, implements, and maintains said programs?
re: Will Universal, High Income Work?
Posted by SidewalkDawg on 4/17/26 at 10:32 am to statman34
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There is zero chance anyone with power lets that happen and that is why this is doomed to cause mass chaos. If everyone had everything they needed they absolutely would need less people to even remotely make it work and even then they wouldnt allow everyone to live this way. It's impossible with our way of thinking.
AI will cure needing, it will never cure wanting. Luckily, the elites won't need to mass exterminate us. Once the necessities are covered and those without the will to seek purpose on their own begin to fall into hedonistic pleasure cycles, that problem takes care of itself rapidly.
Humanity can't be saved this way.
re: Will Universal, High Income Work?
Posted by SidewalkDawg on 4/17/26 at 10:10 am to NIH
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How naive are you, son?
1. I'm not saying this is going to happen.
2. There are literally thousands of reasons it could fail such as AI alignment issues, flawed execution, etc.
3. I'm simply pointing out that Musk isn't painting a picture where we simply print money and redistribute it.
re: Will Universal, High Income Work?
Posted by SidewalkDawg on 4/17/26 at 10:01 am to BigPerm30
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Why are they trying to remarket welfare as HIGH Universal Income? Just pay everyone $1million a month. That’ll pull everyone out of poverty…
That's not what Musk is saying or suggesting. Think of it this way.
Socialism and Communism always fail because they attack the problem by trying to redistribute wealth, but fail to increase the production of goods and services (due to various human nature pitfalls, greed, sloth, etc.). Musk is saying the inverse, that we will increase the production of goods and services and as a result, wealth will increase. Wealth multiplies for all, your savings buy more, not less because production outruns money supply.
re: Will Universal, High Income Work?
Posted by SidewalkDawg on 4/17/26 at 9:48 am to Bjorn Cyborg
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Poverty is unsolvable because it is categorized as the lowest economic rung based on certain percentages. There will always be a bottom percentage group no matter what.
This is characterized by Tocqueville in Democracy in America. As long as some have what others do not, there will be "Poverty". AI won't fix that anytime soon. AI could solve the issue of Labor and Production of goods could skyrocket. But the Elites would pivot to things that are truly finite like Land, Rare experiences, Preferential/Premium treatments. In the future, Front row seats at a concert could be viewed with the same level of disgust as Slavery due to the perceived injustice that results from Tocqueville's observations.
re: Will Universal, High Income Work?
Posted by SidewalkDawg on 4/17/26 at 9:35 am to TheHarahanian
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Call it inflation or whatever you like, but when money is freely distributed, money will become value-less.
So if you want to devalue your life’s savings, go right ahead.
Money is a substitute for finite resources, namely Labor and Materials. You're assuming that money freely given will continue to chase finite things. The future suggested by Musk is that those Finite things will be extremely abundant.
re: Will Universal, High Income Work?
Posted by SidewalkDawg on 4/17/26 at 7:41 am to NIH
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It’s simpler than that. People need purpose. The summer of love is what happens when people sit around bored.
I think we overestimate how much purpose people get from their jobs. Most people sit at their job and collect a paycheck because they have to. They aren't deriving any grand purpose from it. It's a means to live the life they want.
There are genuinely people that do get purpose from their job though. From my experience those people worry little about the pay, it's about something bigger than that for them.
No hope for the future is what causes revolutions.
re: Will Universal, High Income Work?
Posted by SidewalkDawg on 4/17/26 at 6:48 am to olgoi khorkhoi
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Plenty of pieces remain
You are right, i'm oversimplifying to assess the point the OP is making and assuming things like AI alignment are solved. But that risk of AI doing it's own thing in the future still exists. I'm only asking the question "If all other conditions are met, could humanity cope with a UBI and the automation of all production?"
re: Will Universal, High Income Work?
Posted by SidewalkDawg on 4/17/26 at 6:07 am to AlterEd
I've thought about this a lot. We are essentially about to fully implement a socialist system. But im still not sure that it will result in the dystopian outcomes of the past. Human nature is always the reason socialism and communism fail. There is no incentive to produce in a system where most benefit without contributing. But that's the rub... If AI and robotics will do the producing for us, the incentive problem of production is solved. The only piece that remains is the question of meaning. Can humans find purpose and meaning in a world that suddenly doesnt require your labor? I think most can if enough traversible hierarchies exist and allow social status gains.
re: Underrated movie quotes
Posted by SidewalkDawg on 4/9/26 at 1:34 pm to Hennigan
Okay. You people sit tight, hold the fort and keep the home fires burning. And if we’re not back by dawn… call the president.
re: Is Trump leaving Iran too early? Is leaving the current leadership in place a good idea?
Posted by SidewalkDawg on 4/8/26 at 9:15 am to TDsngumbo
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They'll be hellbent on attacking America going forward, more than they ever were before. Gotta kill off all of them before leaving.
Nothing changes regarding their intent. Before the strikes they lacked only the technology to inflict mass death, not the will. After the strikes we've set them back from having that technology even further. Their will to destroy the West remains unchanged.
re: Reza Pahlavi calls upon Iran's Military to "Defend with Honor" Iran from the evil IRGC!!
Posted by SidewalkDawg on 4/8/26 at 9:08 am to SlowFlowPro
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This guy's family led a brutal dictatorship that led to the 1979 revolution.
Why would we ever think using him as a figurehead is smart?
SAVAK was pretty brutal by western standards. But keep in mind that the Shah was trying to keep a very fragmented country together. He was king of a large religiously diverse population which had weak democratic instiatuions. SAVAK did bad things, but pale in comparison to the islamic regime currently in power.
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