<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 2:30 AM, Rafal Smigrodzki </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com" target="_blank">rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>Read this:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://anepigone.blogspot.com/2008/11/politics-and-iq-conservative-democrats.html" target="_blank">http://anepigone.blogspot.com/<wbr>2008/11/politics-and-iq-conser<wbr>vative-democrats.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>2.7 IQ points is not within sampling error, as long as our sample is large enough.</div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>If I Google ( liberal conservative IQ ) the first 4 hits bring up studies that say liberals are smarter, but to tell the truth I don't think those studies or the one you mentioned about how being conservative correlates with IQ are worth much because the word "conservative" no longer means anything. At one time "conservative" meant smaller government, but no longer. At one time being conservative meant wanting smaller government and balancing the budget, but that is no longer even close to being true. Just 2 years ago conservatives where people who were pro law enforcement and thought the FBI were the good guys and the Russians the bad guys, but now they think the exact opposite. When I was young and giant reptiles ruled the earth conservatives were for family values, but now they vote a pussy grabber into the presidency and they’re OK with him trying to get a child molester into the senate. And a few years ago conservatives were for state rights and didn't want a lot of government regulation, but now conservatives want the federal government interfere with state laws that gives cancer patients the right to decide for themselves if they want to smoke marijuana to relieve their agony.<br></div>
<p class="gmail-p2">Today if the word "conservative" means anything at all it simply means Trump supporter, and one thing remains unambiguously clear, the group of voters that overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump with the largest margin were white men with little education; without them he wouldn’t be the most powerful man in the world today. It's also true that the more industrial robots there are in a congressional district the more likely it went for Trump, a fact that does not bode well for the future</p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">.</div><p></p><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/opinion/trump-robots-electoral-college.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/opinion/trump-robots-electoral-college.html</a> </div></div><div>
<p class="gmail-p1">They conclude:</p>
<p class="gmail-p1">"<i>one more robot per thousand workers reduces the employment to population ratio by about 0.18-0.34 percentage points and wages by 0.25-0.5 percent</i>. " </p>
<p class="gmail-p1">Unhappy desperate people tend to do stupid things, like vote for Donald Trump. The number of robots is certain to increase in the coming years, so are future presidents likely to be even crazier than Donald Trump? I think the answer is yes unless measures are taken to help people get through the jarring destabilization cause by the transition to a robot economy. One of the first declared candidates for the 2020 presidential election is Silicon Valley executive Andrew Yang , and his primary issue is surviving the robot apocalypse </p></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/10/technology/his-2020-campaign-message-the-robots-are-coming.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbusiness">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/10/technology/his-2020-campaign-message-the-robots-are-coming.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbusiness</a></div></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">
<p class="gmail-p1">Yang thinks the USA needs to </p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">take</div> radical steps or Great Depression-level unemployment and a total societal collapse is certain. <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">He says:</div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"> "<i>All you need is self-driving cars to destabilize society, in just a few years we’re going to have a million truck drivers out of work who are 94 percent male, with an average level of education of high school or one year of college. That one innovation, will be enough to create riots in the street. And we’re about to do the same thing to retail workers, call center workers, fast-food workers, insurance companies, accounting firms.</i>”</p>
<p class="gmail-p1">Yang thinks there should be monthly payments of $1,000 for every American from age 18 to 64. I know a idea like that rubs the libertarians among us the wrong way and until very recently I would have laughed at such a thing too, but AI is advancing faster than I expected so my views can't remain fixed. Yang says:</p>
<p class="gmail-p1">“<i>I’m a capitalist, and I believe that universal basic income is necessary for capitalism to continue</i>.”</p>
<p class="gmail-p1"> </p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>John K Clark <p></p></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div><div><div><br></div></div></div>