Re: [silk] The Need for Guaranteed Basic Income or why Kiran is worried sick

2020-01-27 Thread Kiran K Karthikeyan
On Tue, 22 Mar 2016, 2:02 am Kiran K Karthikeyan, < kiran.karthike...@gmail.com> wrote: > Posting this [1] on the only place I know where there are better minds > than mine who can tell me not to worry so I can sleep better at night. > > Kiran > > [1] > https://medium.com/basic-income/deep-learnin

Re: [silk] The Need for Guaranteed Basic Income or why Kiran is worried sick

2017-03-28 Thread Deepak Shenoy
> > In the absence of a democratized deep learning-driven fund open to consumer > investors, I think low cost, index funds are still the best option in most > parts of the world. I've heard it said that this is not the case in India, > and I don't know enough about the markets in India. We may disa

Re: [silk] The Need for Guaranteed Basic Income or why Kiran is worried sick

2017-03-28 Thread Thaths
On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 6:40 AM Chris Kantarjiev wrote: > I have no doubt that there are folks out there who are developing (or > have developed) machine learning/deep learning models to drive trading - > no "model" or "gut feelings" involved, but "pure AI" applying past > market patterns to curr

Re: [silk] The Need for Guaranteed Basic Income or why Kiran is worried sick

2017-03-28 Thread Chris Kantarjiev
On 3/28/17 10:00 AM, silklist-requ...@lists.hserus.net wrote: I like the last line here: https://aeon.co/essays/what-if-jobs-are-not-the-solution-but-the-problem ​Tying this thread with a previous one on retirement financial planning, by silklister Josey John:​ http://factordaily.com/ai-big-d

Re: [silk] The Need for Guaranteed Basic Income or why Kiran is worried sick

2017-03-28 Thread Deepak Shenoy
> > > ​Tying this thread with a previous one on retirement financial planning, by > silklister Josey John:​ > > http://factordaily.com/ai-big-data-machine-learning-funds-fintech/ > > ​I'd be interested in thoughts from folks like Shyam Sunder and Deepak > Shenoy (and others too, of course)​ > > ​Ud

Re: [silk] The Need for Guaranteed Basic Income or why Kiran is worried sick

2017-03-28 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 11:24 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > https://medium.com/basic-income/deep-learning-is-going- > to-teach-us-all-the-lesson-of-our-lives-jobs-are-for- > machines-7c6442e37a49#.4mn452rn9 > > > I like the last line here: > > https://aeon.co/essays/what-if-jobs-are-not-the-solutio

Re: [silk] The Need for Guaranteed Basic Income or why Kiran is worried sick

2017-01-04 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 2:02 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote: > https://medium.com/basic-income/deep-learning-is-going-to-teach-us-all-the-lesson-of-our-lives-jobs-are-for-machines-7c6442e37a49#.4mn452rn9 I like the last line here: https://aeon.co/essays/what-if-jobs-are-not-the-solution-but-the

Re: [silk] The Need for Guaranteed Basic Income or why Kiran is worried sick

2016-05-03 Thread Dave Long
You're welcome. Mahalo. -Dave (my thanks weren't late; I just "tried wait")

Re: [silk] The Need for Guaranteed Basic Income or why Kiran is worried sick

2016-05-02 Thread Charles Haynes
You misspelled makaʻāinana (ʻokina not ` backtick, and you missed a kahakō) You're welcome. -- Charles (haole not makaʻāinana) On Mon, 2 May 2016 at 23:22 Dave Long wrote: > > http://theappendix.net/issues/2014/4/the-history-of-mana-how-an- > > austronesian-concept-became-a-video-game-mechanic

Re: [silk] The Need for Guaranteed Basic Income or why Kiran is worried sick

2016-05-02 Thread Dave Long
http://theappendix.net/issues/2014/4/the-history-of-mana-how-an- austronesian-concept-became-a-video-game-mechanic Nice. I must admit my knowledge is also based more on Michener (and travel) than much research, but... Mana: we can't point to it, or measure it, or count it[0], but believe

Re: [silk] The Need for Guaranteed Basic Income or why Kiran is worried sick

2016-04-29 Thread ckelty ckelty
The anthropologist cringes. see here for a great article on this very issue: http://theappendix.net/issues/2014/4/the-history-of-mana-how-an-austronesian-concept-became-a-video-game-mechanic ck > On Apr 28, 2016, at 11:28 PM, Kiran K Karthikeyan > wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 12:33 P

Re: [silk] The Need for Guaranteed Basic Income or why Kiran is worried sick

2016-04-29 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 4:00 PM, Thaths wrote: > "Software services major Infosys has launched an artificial intelligence > platform 'Mana' that will help clients drive automation and innovation." > > WTF does that even mean?! Tovarisch, please report for reeducation.

Re: [silk] The Need for Guaranteed Basic Income or why Kiran is worried sick

2016-04-29 Thread Mohit
> On 29-Apr-2016, at 16:00, Thaths wrote: > > "Software services major Infosys has launched an artificial intelligence > platform 'Mana' that will help clients drive automation and innovation." > > WTF does that even mean?! Don't you know? Everything a software services major does helps client

Re: [silk] The Need for Guaranteed Basic Income or why Kiran is worried sick

2016-04-29 Thread Thaths
On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 4:28 PM Kiran K Karthikeyan < kiran.karthike...@gmail.com> wrote: > Any silklister in Infosys top management who can confirm if the article > shared by Vinay is the inspiration for the name Infosys picked? > > > http://tech.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/corporate/infosy

Re: [silk] The Need for Guaranteed Basic Income or why Kiran is worried sick

2016-04-28 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
mana IS polynesian / hawaiian for just what they described - and the only way I know is by reading James Michener’s “Hawaii” so I could well be wrong > On 29-Apr-2016, at 11:58 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan > wrote: > > Any silklister in Infosys top management who can confirm if the article > shared

Re: [silk] The Need for Guaranteed Basic Income or why Kiran is worried sick

2016-04-28 Thread Kiran K Karthikeyan
On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 12:33 PM Vinay Rao wrote: > > > The concept of a Universal Comfortable Life (as an inference from Universal > Basic Income) is interesting. I'm reminded after long, of this - now old - > initially dystopian, and then hopeful story from Marshall Brain. > http://marshallbrai

Re: [silk] The Need for Guaranteed Basic Income or why Kiran is worried sick

2016-03-29 Thread Salil61
Ford paid his workers well to prevent attrition and buy loyalty and increase turnover. The attrition rates were very high and it was costly to train new workers. http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/TefmTO8qxRHryL23mBhiHI/The-perils-of-Fordism-in-India.html Salil Sent from my iPhone > On 21 Ma

Re: [silk] The Need for Guaranteed Basic Income or why Kiran is worried sick

2016-03-29 Thread Thaths
Just came across this: http://philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com.au/2015/09/technological-unemployment-and-value-of.html Haven't read them yet, but seems like a lot of interesting things to read and ponder. S. On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 7:33 AM Kiran K Karthikeyan < kiran.karthike...@gmail.co

Re: [silk] The Need for Guaranteed Basic Income or why Kiran is worried sick

2016-03-26 Thread Kiran K Karthikeyan
On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 12:33 PM Vinay Rao wrote: > Few of many 'Future of Work' articles that is centred around creating a > universal basic income. Considering that 70% [Unsure of source, but I have > read this somewhere] of 'workforce' anywhere are 'disengaged' (bored, for > one. Tired, for an

Re: [silk] The Need for Guaranteed Basic Income or why Kiran is worried sick

2016-03-23 Thread Vinay Rao
Few of many 'Future of Work' articles that is centred around creating a universal basic income. Considering that 70% [Unsure of source, but I have read this somewhere] of 'workforce' anywhere are 'disengaged' (bored, for one. Tired, for another) or 'actively disengaged' (walk in to a government off

Re: [silk] The Need for Guaranteed Basic Income or why Kiran is worried sick

2016-03-22 Thread Kiran K Karthikeyan
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 2:55 AM Bruce A. Metcalf wrote: > 1. Make UBI work. The burden of ensuring that corporations pay > sufficient tax to keep their nations populace alive will be great, but > it's preferable to option 2. If done carefully, this will cushion the > blow by increasing the cost

Re: [silk] The Need for Guaranteed Basic Income or why Kiran is worried sick

2016-03-22 Thread Kiran K Karthikeyan
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 2:02 AM Kiran K Karthikeyan < kiran.karthike...@gmail.com> wrote: > Posting this [1] on the only place I know where there are better minds > than mine who can tell me not to worry so I can sleep better at night. > > Kiran > > [1] > https://medium.com/basic-income/deep-learn

Re: [silk] The Need for Guaranteed Basic Income or why Kiran is worried sick

2016-03-21 Thread Bruce A. Metcalf
Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote: Posting this [1] on the only place I know where there are better minds than mine who can tell me not to worry so I can sleep better at night. https://medium.com/basic-income/deep-learning-is-going-to-teach-us-all-the-lesson-of-our-lives-jobs-are-for-machines-7c6442e

[silk] The Need for Guaranteed Basic Income or why Kiran is worried sick

2016-03-21 Thread Kiran K Karthikeyan
Posting this [1] on the only place I know where there are better minds than mine who can tell me not to worry so I can sleep better at night. Kiran [1] https://medium.com/basic-income/deep-learning-is-going-to-teach-us-all-the-lesson-of-our-lives-jobs-are-for-machines-7c6442e37a49#.4mn452rn9 --