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Comment Re:Forever (Score 1) 78

Without oil, we lack lubrication for mechanical things, plastic for wire covers, and many other things besides energy. Why, Red Dye 5 is petroleum based, and I don't see that getting banned anytime soo... oh. There may be (more recent) plant-based options for the dye, but plastics and lubricants made from petroleum usually have a much longer lifespan.

Comment Re:Lottery Is Theft (Score 1) 74

Government sponsored lotteries are worse than a tax. There are whole departments set up using most of the lottery income to pay staff and advertising budgets. How much of the lottery profit goes to pay for things the community needs, like say... help for gambling addiction?
You could add a line on your state's tax form saying "donate a dollar to X fund" and net more money, even if only 5% checked the box, but i suppose someone's friend would lose their job in the lottery commission.

Comment Instead, hire ethicist, epistemologist, and others (Score 4, Interesting) 61

Instead, hire a post-AGI ethicist, post-AGI epistemologist, and other philosophers. What is a research scientist going to do without empirical data except spew forth untestable hypotheses? And once you can test the societal effects of post-AGI, the cat's out of the bag. Science isn't always the peak of useful discourse. Sometimes philosophy gets to rear its ugly head (even the best physicists are doctors of philosophy).

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