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[quote]Would this not count as real property under this line of thinking?[/quote] No, it would count as property of a sort, since it doesn't conflict with prior property as IP does. These don't restrict others' use of their own property, and don't require vast enforcement regimes. Nothing like IP.
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[quote]Demonstrators said each $1 invested in the tax collection agency brings in a $7 return[/quote] See, this is what your common burglar needs to do to improve his image. Put it in terms of how much he pays to rob a house (gasoline, mask, gloves) versus his return.
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I don't think you can predict what happens with the modern systems in place. For any problem, the constantly do crazy things to try to fix it. These often suppress the original problem, but create new problems later (which are then suppressed with more "fixes"). It's hard to predict the short-term outcome because the responses are
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[quote]I tried to quote Blargg in post 223 here, but something technical failed.[/quote] Haha, this forum software is made of fail.
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I see science as a particular approach to better determining what's "out there". It is a tool that we use to overcome our natural tendency to form beliefs and seek only to confirm them, similar to how mathematical proofs give confidence beyond what we could do through thinking alone. Science gives us a ratchet effect, solidly falsifying
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I'm still trying to get over how OpTiMuS shrunk the audio from 276MB down to 47MB. My mind is blown.
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[quote]Gold has a value even when it is not used as money by anyone. Bitcoin hasn't. Right? But neither has USD or EUR![/quote] Fiat currencies are all backed. No, they really are: they will always buy one temporary relief from the thugs that issue it.
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And this assumes that we're just isolated computers walking around. What if there is a "cloud" that we tap into as well, where isolated we'd be like a modern cell phone without cell/data service? As for the manifestation of the cloud, there's an enormous of entropy in the positions and velocities of matter all around us, constantly
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[quote]But you agree that it will eventually come a day where a machine will perform exactly the same things a human being can, only faster and better? I mean, the day they can create a computer powerful enough to emulate the human brain.[/quote] No, I was just going along with their scenario where we automate everything humans currently do. I don't
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I found it an interesting approach to measuring it. Though I have to say, I didn't really get much from the results. I guess I am aware and have no problem with having preferences and biases at the low level they measure.