http://discovery.economist.com/features/the-link-between-video-games-and-unemployment-2859140
Couldnt help but post such a controversial article here.
Couldnt help but post such a controversial article here.
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http://discovery.economist.com/features/the-link-between-video-games-and-unemployment-2859140
Couldnt help but post such a controversial article here.
What the article doesn't not address is how a full timer gamer life style is funded. Benefits certainly doesn't cover it.
Obviously making and selling video games is a economic activity which it doesn't address. It also give people some reason to get up in the morning. What about watching endless box sets it doesn't mention.
The Economist is full of articles that convey 0 information.
What about the people who spend all day in the pub? Or chain smoke? It also focuses on an activity associated with men a common trend reported in a negative light.
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What's wrong with spending all day in the pub?
When we could be cruising through the ice rings of a gas giant, watching 2 suns rise and refract their rays through the blackest velvet of the void?
I certainly used to... Well, more wine bars than pubs...
But that was before computer games were a thing.
I never spent all day in pubs ... Just nighttime on holiday when they were open till breakfast..
Obviously the journo who the article does..
KIds todays have 24 hr gyms and tree hugging sessions
Obviously the journo who the article does..
KIds todays have 24 hr gyms and tree hugging sessions
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Without trying to steer the discussion any way, I do feel like pointing at the conclusion of the article, which seems to answer those comments.
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The old freelancer game cost me my job at the time from skiving off so many days to play. All worked out in the end though, after my first wife kicked me out, I got all motivated and built up a 100k a year between 2 guys window cleaning buisness in less than 12 months...
Then I found eve and life went into the toilet again...followed by a life changing event that meant several years not gaming at all on any platform...
I have a very addictive personality and games are my weakness...after women...and men...alfa romeo cars...and other stuff ^
Then I found eve and life went into the toilet again...followed by a life changing event that meant several years not gaming at all on any platform...
I have a very addictive personality and games are my weakness...after women...and men...alfa romeo cars...and other stuff ^
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The work does not deserve the importance that we give him at present. The life and the leisure activities are much more important. Life is so short and our death so close
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More people should probably feel this way.
Work is for robots. Let's hurry up and make them.
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Alors!
I take it back. Bad idea.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170705123229.htm
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I don't think the powers that be would let the ex wage slaves live once robots are doing all the manual labour.
I was taught to think for myself
Thats a lot of noise about nothing. Ofcourse you can program a car to drive over dogs rather than humans when a choice has to be made. Calling that 'human moral deciscion making' is just typical academic buzzword-drivel to get uninteresting stuff published.
After the robots, you won't be allowed to hide in VR, they will be coming for you.
And what happens when we put it in weaponized drones?
What happens when the next ISIS gets automation to help?
What happens in racist regimes, totalitarian ones, when the public tries to dissent?
What happens when Blackwater gets hired in 2040?
Or when existing automation gets the values switched by hacks?
It's not about cars. It's about autonomous automation making life and death decisions. How would you feel if your ventilator numerically values your life by your gender, age and race?
I am unsure if I am following you. The US has been researching autonomous combat drones for years. Nothing in the paper is new, either conceptually or technically. Life and death decisions are made on a heuristic basis all the time, and I fail to see why having a computer follow a flowchart is worse than a human following the same flowchart, to activate the same process with the same result. No, I wouldnt like that hypothetical ventilator. I wouldnt appreciate it any more if the ventilator were turned off by a human, numerically valuing my life based on gender, age and race either*. I dont like hypothetical ventilators killing me in general, I guess.
*Although being a young white male I am not too worried.
You have to go home at some point???
we tend to see our human nature in either the worst or the best light, heroes and villains, but either way as an apex of evolution ... and that's just another of our animal responses. humans get decisions wrong all the time, even in life and death situations, so robots don't need to be perfect, just better/faster/cheaper/more available than humans. as far as driving goes that seems to be fairly easy. statistically they already outperform humans. the reason they still don't rule our roads is that too many humans still think we're sort of godlike, and our judgement irreplaceable. we aren't, it isn't. robot drivers could be saving lives just now.
the only problem i would have with a robot government in principle would be it's vulnerability to being hacked, but that's just a matter of vigilance, and our governments are all rigged to the core and stuffed with ignorant bigots i wouldn't trust with my lunch anyway, so why not give it a try ...
... i welcome our new robot overlords!
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http://discovery.economist.com/features/the-link-between-video-games-and-unemployment-2859140
Couldnt help but post such a controversial article here.
Aside from those poor souls who are battling addiction, the problem of the unemployed youths is two fold in my opinion.
First, most managers I've met since I started my first job over 35 years ago are just plain horrible at their jobs.
Instead of training and coaching, they dump and hide, many times because their bosses are asking them to do things that have nothing to do with managing people.
Second, many of today's young are not "self starters," but need to be guided or hand held, and seem to need an over abundance of feedback.
In many cases it is a direct result of their upbringing, and this is often how millennials are described.
In the end, society reaps what it sows, and voters get the laws passed by the people they elect.
So unless people change how they raise their kids, and who they vote for, not much will change :-(
But no worries here, it is what it is.
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Playing Elite teachers you some important life skills that could halp you find employment. Certainly the first one did.
"First, most managers I've met since I started my first job over 35 years ago are just plain horrible at their jobs. " so why not tell them..
[video=youtube;VpUeQV8sdOc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpUeQV8sdOc[/video]
"First, most managers I've met since I started my first job over 35 years ago are just plain horrible at their jobs. " so why not tell them..
[video=youtube;VpUeQV8sdOc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpUeQV8sdOc[/video]
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