Comment by bbor
3 years ago
This is the most blatantly false, badly reasoned, insane article I’ve ever seen upvoted on here. Sorry for the strong language but Jesus. “AI isn’t likely because Alexa sucks and Emus evaded hunters”? “AI isn’t likely because it would lead to trans humanism and I don’t like transhumanism”??
The fact that this author said, with a straight face, “California has the highest poverty rate in the nation” should be a clue that we should take none of this remotely seriously.
Please tell me I’m wrong, I’d love to be! Otherwise this just seems like, in the language of the grass-deprived zoomers, like hardcore cope
California does in fact have the highest poverty rate of any state when you factor in the cost of housing (which why wouldn't you?). The census bureau calls this the "supplemental poverty measure" and you can read about it here.
https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...
That’s very interesting, thanks for sharing - didn’t consider it. But I’d say that’s a subjective analytical choice that I don’t agree with.
Cost of living is an important factor but thinking it’s so absolute that the authors original unqualified statement is fair seems a bit much. Would you honestly say that California has worse problems with poverty than Mississippi and Puerto Rico?
Your comment was rude and baselessly accused me of making stuff up; I'm not in a mood to sit down with you now, pipe in hand, for a chat about the meaning of poverty.
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