"Full employment can be had with the stoke of a pen. Simply institute a six hour workday. That will easily create enough new jobs to bring back full employment."
Would this mean that government employees would have to productively work 2 hours extra per day? On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 6:38 AM Steve Richfield <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 2:17 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > >> "So, for example, if someone lies in wait to rob someone, but no one >> passes by, they are STILL guilty of robbery - pretty much because in some >> OTHER reality they actually did rob someone." >> >> Actually a brain may think about murdering, but unless it has a good >> probability to activate motors to do it for real, it is not worth >> eliminating that stupid murderer machine that could harm people. It's like >> a toy robot, what is in its brain, is it going to harm more than the good >> it produces? >> > > Just thinking about murdering someone doesn't rise to Criminal Attempt. > Talking about murdering someone doesn't quite rise to Criminal Attempt. > However, asking someone to help you murder someone is "solicitation" which > is pretty much the same as Criminal Attempt, and buying some rat poison > when you don't have any rats along with some other evidence that you plan > on murdering someone DOES rise to Criminal Attempt. > > Regarding: > > Imagine if the statute of limitations were retroactively applied to > social-media posts by quantum-enabled AGI, and penalties (monetary fines) > sent to the transgressors via SMS notifications? Governments would become > rich overnight! > > > WAY back in the 1960s I quickly rose to the top of the computer business > by working with two other people over the course of several months breaking > into selected places and copying their guarded confidential information. > Then, it was just trespassing. Now, it would be a long list of crimes > starting with high-value theft. We were VERY careful not to get caught. > Knowing how various tech companies like IBM were doing seemingly impossible > things, all three of us could easily ace interviews, so we all enjoyed > successful careers at the top of the computer business. If I were > imprisoned under current laws for the things I did WAY back in the 1960s, I > would probably STILL be in prison. All in all, this turned out to probably > be the BEST decision of my life. > > *Steve Richfield* > > > -- > Full employment can be had with the stoke of a pen. Simply institute a six > hour workday. That will easily create enough new jobs to bring back full > employment. > > *Artificial General Intelligence List <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* > / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + > participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + > delivery options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> > Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T50e86f61cc07a7b3-M0dbc21db9bd8165c0c375821> > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T50e86f61cc07a7b3-M3e49ecda4f17b918a7a21f75 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
