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Jeffrey Phillips Freeman
Innovator & Entrepreneur in Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computing & Big Data. Avid SCUBA diver, Open-source developer, HAM radio operator, astrophotographer, and anything nerdy.
Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, USA, currently living in Utrecht, Netherlands, USA, and Thailand. Was also living in Israel, but left.
Pronouns: Sir / Mister
(Above pronouns are not intended to mock, i will respect any persons pronouns and only wish pronouns to show respect be used with me as well. These are called neopronouns, see an example of the word "frog" used as a neopronoun here: http://tinyurl.com/44hhej89 )
A proud member of the Penobscot Native American tribe, as well as a Mayflower passenger descendant. I sometimes post about my genealogical history.
My stance on various issues:
Education: Free to PhD, tax paid
Abortion: Protected, tax paid, limited time-frame
Welfare: Yes, no one should starve
UBI: No, use welfare
Racism: is real
Guns: Shall not be infringed
LGBT+/minorities: Support
Pronouns: Will respect
Trump: Moron, evil
Biden: Senile, racist
Police: ACAB
Drugs: Fully legal, no prescriptions needed
GPG/PGP Fingerprint: 8B23 64CD 2403 6DCB 7531 01D0 052D DA8E 0506 CBCE
Joined Jul 2018
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> Uhm... if you actually meant that people studying whatever they decide to study to any degree should earn a decent income that make them independent, then I agree that this is a better alternative to #UBI.
No not exactly, but not too far off. People should be able to study whatever **marketable** skill they want, but it should be totally up to them which skill it is. Do i think someone should be able to go to school to become a the best bubblegum chewer in the world, no, but they should be able to pick and choose their career between any of the choices that will allow them to provide enough utility to society that they can sustain themselves without welfare in the future.
> But note: the income should be granted to anyone studying whatever they are interested into, not to people studying "what the market need".
No that is non-sensical and literally doesn't solve the problem. The goal is produce people who have something to offer society that is of value to its fellow members. That can represent art, music, and plenty of fields that are all marketable skills. It doesnt mean you can learn how to become the best weed smoker in the world and expect people to pay for it or whatever other silly nonsense you might come up with.
> Or maybe I misunderstood your words: did you mean that anyone pursuing higher education in any possible field should be financially supported by the collectivity?
Almost, all **marketable** subjects (read: subjects with utility where the skill has use to others) should be free and tax payer paid to any level.
> Yet the "who pays?" issue persist: you know that such "Universal Culture & Income" would have a huge economical cost: how do you think it could be payed through taxation?
The same people who pay for everything else, the tax payers. Which is exactly who should be paying to improve society (tax payers being both corporations, and individuals since both pay taxes).
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As someone who is strongly against UBI, and strongly supportive of welfare I can earnestly say people simply not working is not at all the reason I (or most people against UBI in my opinion) are against it.
The reason i am against it is because it causes people more harm than good. People who are in a position where they need assistance need to be given the tools to get out of their situation, and the help to get there needs to be conditional on this (and we should be spending the money that goes with that). Financial assistance should be conditional with mandatory job training or mental health therapy needed to help someone succeed, not just money.
In fact when there are underlying bad habits, as can often be the case, it is possible money can even make a persons condition worse and cause them to sleep farther into poverty.
Them: Says something stupid
me: gives opinion
Them: Citation needed
Me: agreed, you need to cite your claim, since you are the one making it the onus is on you.
Them: How dare you demand a citation, blocked.
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> I think you’re saying the same thing, that if people are given money without any strings attached then they will not start working but use that money for nefarious purposes.
No I wouldnt go that far at all. I think most people who are poor have very poor financial hygene. It is not nefarious, or even intentional. They probably spend the money on things they feel really are the important and right things to spend money on, when in fact it isnt
It also depends ont he amount, at minimal levels and among the poor it may be spent on food, which is a good purchase, but doesnt help get the person out of poverty, so in those cases its less about spending hygiene and more about needing more resources (like education/training) and not about the money.
> There’s been quite a lot of research showing that unconditional cash donations are very effective at easing extreme poverty
Yes there has, and thats my point, simply easing poverty is treating the symptoms not the problem, and requires and infinite infusion of money to sustain never resolving the problem. We dont want to "ease poverty" we want to break people free of poverty all together, to not **need** the financial help at all in the end. Easing poverty with an endless firehose of cash doesnt accomplish that.
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USA to ban Tik Tok as fears of china copying dances intensifies.
Apparently there is a Gun Free Zone app that warns you when you are about to enter a gun free zone so you can avoid it.
This seems terribly useful for us open-carry people.
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I am currently actively moving away from #Autodesk products, and the main reason is because of their predatory pricing.
Did you know Autodesk wants to monitor your usage and charge you for *each day* that you want to use their products? And they want you to buy their own special currency to do so, just like shitty F2P phone apps. How dystopian is that?
Especially when #Blender exists as a #FOSS option. Fuck Autodesk.
Finding out walmart sells a replica nazi youth knife is disturbing to say the least.
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As someone who almost always open-carries guns I must say, the one thing I dont like is how certain people assume your a republican or pro-trump when they see it. Today I had an experience with a tow truck driver who was overtly racist the whole ride home and I suspect its because he saw my gun and made some assumptions.
Pro-guns is probably the only topic where I align with the right at all really.
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@freemo I have to say I didn't know exactly how it works! Looks like different states have different people on the ballot even for the presidential election.
Page 10-11 of this PDF shows all the people who were on at least one ballot in 2020, it's... surprising. https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/federalelections2020.pdf
Perfect example of why I just cant bring myself to vote for Biden despite hating Trump... I just cant in my right mind be associated with people who act this way.
@freemo @tessarakt @JuliusGoat Off my feed, cultist. Go subjugate women and trans people elsewhere
Day three of dosing ozempic daily instead of weekly... Feeling much better about this so far.
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Lastest data: 🥺
+ Carbon dioxide (*new monthly record*)
+ Methane (*new monthly record*)
+ Nitrous oxide (*new monthly record*)
Observations provided by https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
In the 60s this would have been a starving lion. Scientists are slacking these days!
I just realized in "The Color of Magic" second episode in the scene where rincewind talks to the spells you can see magical writing floating around him. It is all using Enochian Script, a "real" magickal loagaeth. Really cool detail! Also my favorite magickal script!
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@freemo > why have medicine, it will just enable weak and sick people who make poor decisions to live
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@freemo My favourite was when the European Space Agency rolled their own security questions on a new satellite data portal a while back. The questions were a mix of changeable answers ("When did you last water your plants?") and yes/no answers. The minimum field length was three characters.
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Website is Live
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This website has finally been launched.
Please follow this space for future updates.
Read more here:
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#Administration #CleverLibre #ML #MachineLearning #AI #ArtificialGeneralIntelligence #ArtificialIntelligence #EthicsInAI
- UFoI Member
- http://UFoI.org/u/freemo/
- Website
- http://JeffreyFreeman.me
- Gitlab
- https://git.qoto.org/freemo
Admin
Jeffrey Phillips Freeman
Innovator & Entrepreneur in Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computing & Big Data. Avid SCUBA diver, Open-source developer, HAM radio operator, astrophotographer, and anything nerdy.
Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, USA, currently living in Utrecht, Netherlands, USA, and Thailand. Was also living in Israel, but left.
Pronouns: Sir / Mister
(Above pronouns are not intended to mock, i will respect any persons pronouns and only wish pronouns to show respect be used with me as well. These are called neopronouns, see an example of the word "frog" used as a neopronoun here: http://tinyurl.com/44hhej89 )
A proud member of the Penobscot Native American tribe, as well as a Mayflower passenger descendant. I sometimes post about my genealogical history.
My stance on various issues:
Education: Free to PhD, tax paid
Abortion: Protected, tax paid, limited time-frame
Welfare: Yes, no one should starve
UBI: No, use welfare
Racism: is real
Guns: Shall not be infringed
LGBT+/minorities: Support
Pronouns: Will respect
Trump: Moron, evil
Biden: Senile, racist
Police: ACAB
Drugs: Fully legal, no prescriptions needed
GPG/PGP Fingerprint: 8B23 64CD 2403 6DCB 7531 01D0 052D DA8E 0506 CBCE
Joined Jul 2018
