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[Kinser79]

(05-08-2019, 06:00 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(05-08-2019, 10:15 AM)Kinser79 Wrote: Transhumanism is a bugbear that will never come to fruition.  As AI advances, it is far more likely to see us as in the way than to merge with us, or us with it.

Long before technology becomes sentient, we humans will add enhancements to ourselves.  There is already preliminary work being done on that today, and some of it already works.

Kinser79 Wrote:If what you say is true then NASA should have no reason to manipulate their own figures on a regular basis.  BTW the hotest and dryest years on record occurred in the 1930s.  But what do we do know bout what the Sun is doing?  We do know that it has been releasing an increased amount of radiated heat and light. 

Now I could be a fool...but considering that 98% of the matter in the solar system are in the sun, I think it might, just might have more to do with the weather on earth than if I burn a log or burn a lump of coal today.

No, the hottest years on record have all been recent.  Yes, the Dust Bowl years were hot and dry here, but not worldwide.  No, the sun is not getting brighter either, though the 11 year solar cycle still applies.  

There are many climate drivers, and CO2 is a weak one.  That's why it is only now becoming important.  Unlike most drivers, though, CO2 is still growing in quantity.

Kinser79 Wrote:I've been in a Union.  I've been a scab.  I've also been the owner of my own business.  Unions provide nothing to the working class.  The goal of every worker should be at some point to become the owner of their own business.  One doesn't become rich, or even well off working and creating wealth for others.

That being said, as a business owner, I'm looking to install new order taking kiosks.  Automation is coming for everyone's job.

So you're done with the proletariat now that you are no longer one of them yourself.  

I've seen little in the way of these "enhancements" you speak of.  Mostly work is being done on building better hearing aids and maybe restoring sight to those who have lost it.  That isn't so much attempting to make something beyond human as restoring normal functionality to dysfunctional systems a individual human may have.

On Climate Data:

https://principia-scientific.org/nasa-ex...ata-fraud/

CO2 is incredibly weak as a driver of the climate.  The Sun is far far stronger and solar output is increasing.

https://www.space.com/2942-sun-activity-...firms.html

Since PBR commented on plants, the numbskull obviously doesn't understand that the lungs of the planet are not the forest (yeah they make oxygen too and are pretty) but rather the Oceans or rather the phyto-plankton in the oceans.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news...le-credit/

The Left has even stopped calling it "global warming" because quite frankly the planet isn't warming enough.  One should always be wary of those who are attempting to sell doom and gloom.  They are as dangerous, in fact probably more so than those who are claiming everything is fine.

My class interest is to maximize my profits as much as possible.  Having superfluous staff does not do that and is thus not in my interest.  But even when I was a communist I had little use for unions in the American Context.