I fear regulations because, they can be altered by judges, bureaucrats, and politicians.Technology, let us say solar, as an example, either works or its doesn't. A better example is, "the toilets flush or they don't" either way, you will know," Regulations without technology often has drastically, bad, results. Witness Mao's Great Leap Forward, from 1958-62. Horrible and huge in its loss of life and preventable.
-----Original Message----- From: 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List <[email protected]> To: everything-list <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, Dec 13, 2014 2:46 pm Subject: RE: real A.I. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2014 3:05 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: real A.I. Its taking a problem, like global warming, and exaggerating that problem, so as to impose regulation. Its regulation, as the power to control. You want to fight global warming, then invent and distribute better energy systems. This is not being done in a truly, sincere, way, otherwise we'd have seen tens of billions of dollars, per year, funding alternate energy, rather than a few billion. Paltry. What has been demanded is regulation. Doing things this way doesn't indicate rushing to fix a problem, but rushing to regulate the US. Sometimes regulation is good. We have laws and regulations, often for some pretty sound reasons. Of course it is abused and the regulators need to themselves remain regulated. And I agree that onerous petty regulations are awful and often serve nefarious occult purposes, such as restricting access to markets etc. that have nothing to do with the stated purpose of these regulations However we need a framework of regulation and Law in order to operate in complex societies; they serve a purpose and I, for one am glad that we do have some of the laws and regulations we do have in place… others not so much. Our main problem is not regulation, but corruption (which often uses regulation as a useful tool in order to obtain its ends) – in our system we have a revolving door between the regulators and the special interests they allegedly are intended to regulate. This incestuous relationship has led us to a system of government where the special interests seem to essentially write the Bills that – often almost verbatim – become passed into law by our corrupt political (and judicial) bodies. What we are lacking – IMO – is regulation of the regulators. The system has become corrupt. Corrupt regulation is really better lumped in with corruption rather than regulation, to recognize it for what its end run purpose is! It is corruption using regulation as a tool for achieving corrupt outcomes. Regulations and Laws are tools societies use in order to promote goals and proscribe certain behaviors and practices. Sometimes they are good; other times they are bad. Like any tool it depends how they are used. One can employ a hammer to drive in nails to construct a house… or to smash somebodies skull during a violent robbery. Hammers are not bad or good per se… they are tools. -Chris My prediction is that in the US,with the handing of the power to regulate to the UN, you'd see a back-reaction, against the political elites, that champion regulations, and not funding research sufficiently. The oil and coal companies that are despised, would then win, handily. -----Original Message----- From: meekerdb <[email protected]> To: everything-list <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, Dec 12, 2014 4:47 pm Subject: Re: real A.I. On 12/12/2014 12:02 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote: Alberto... you sound like someone who is convinced that the black helicopters are coming for you. Since you seem to thrive on paranoia and fear, let me give you some more fodder to fuel the mental fires of the paranoia squirming around inside your mind. Here is another scary fear your godless UN elites can enslave the masses with. Gamma-Ray Burst Caused Mass Extinction? Gamma-Ray Burst Caused Mass Extinction? A stream of gamma rays aimed at Earth may have caused a mass die-off 440 million years ago, according to a new paper that says a similar celestial catastrophe could... View on news.nationalgeograph... Preview by Yahoo Mass extinction...Alberto would be all for that. He'd just be against doing anything to stop it. Anybody who'd propose that is a pinko atheist commy set on world domination. Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. 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