Recent content by OldM8

Trumps response to climate change was abysmal, going off on a stupid tangent about the California fires and how we can basically ignore climate change if we just scrape the crud off our forest floors. Biden on the other hand at least spelled out a plan to get us off fossil fuels within a...

Public house renting should also be abolished. Most governments that provide public housing actually charge their occupants rent as well, albeit at a lower rate. This is also a travesty because the lower/working class should not be charged to use infrastructure that we ourselves built and paid...

That's not plausible because we've known for a long time that's not how the brain works. The brain does not compute on continuous inputs or data, it computes on discrete events called action potentials (spikes). All inputs to the brain from light, sound, etc are converted into spike trains by...

A turing machine is a theoretical construct. The human brain from a computational standpoint is actually less powerful than a turing machine because human brains only have a finite memory, whereas a turing machine has an infinite one. The human brain implements algorithms which we currently do...

Police certainly aren't what are stopping anyone from doing those things to you right now. Indeed, America has the highest murder rate in the developed world, despite having the most police per capita and being by far the most heavily funded and militarized. That making police more numerous and...

Most of Trumps policies are vague and give him way too much room to screw people over while still delivering on them. What kind of jobs? Crappy, insecure, low-paying ones that will be gone again in a years time? Cut taxes for who? The working and middle class, or the rich again in hopes that...

I'm all for trying to end the duopoly through new parties and independent runners, the main problem is that right now no such viable options actually exist. There are also many barriers in place preventing 3rd parties from gaining relevence, for instance they will always receive much less...

Here's my take on the so-called progressive voter's dilemma. That is, when both parties are bad, should you vote for the least bad or not at all? The only form of systemic power we as working class individuals have is our ability to vote. Whether you like it or not, one of two parties is going...

The point isn't whether the brain is a turing machine or not, it's whether it can be simulated by one. For example, push-down automata and finite state machines are examples of machines which aren't turing machines, but they can be simulated by one. Since the anatomy of the brain and its...

Why do our brains need to be turing machines in order for the singularity to be possible? Our brains have nothing to do with the singularity directly, our only involvement with the singularity is to initiate it by creating an intelligent machine which can self-improve and create more intelligent...

Under a conservative, right-wing government, it sure as hell isn't. They are diametrically opposed to the well being of workers and this is put on display every time they hold office. They invariably push for tax cuts (which always benefits the wealthy and indirectly hurts everyone else)...

Actually, you're completely wrong about this. For starters, 78% of all US workers are living paycheck-to-paycheck, 58% of all Americans have less than $1000 in savings and the average US household is in $137,063 of debt. Most people know first-hand that things are pretty damn bad right now. The...

The most fundamental issue of sexism males face is the double standard towards sexism itself. Wherever they face sexism, it never receives any publicity and society always either tries to tell us it's not "real sexism" or simply ignores it entirely. Those issues I outlined are all instances of...

You're conflating education with academia. Education is absolutely important, but you don't neccessarily have to drop $50K+ and 3+ years of your life to get one; there are many other avenues that people need to be encouraged to consider before just blindly enrolling in college. It's a decision...

If so many women are indeed getting paid less than men for doing the same job, why aren't women everywhere sueing their employers for lost income? Why aren't they demanding to be backpaid for all the money that's rightfully theirs? Womens groups have many powerful figures in government, media...