Medicaid counselor encouraged teen to get pregnant for dental coverage

Government agencies are corrupted all across US not only in Texas.

I agree but this story came fromTexas

Yes and Texas is admitting this problem exists.

I was outreach worker to help welfare applicants and the fear,mistrust ,guilt and humility they have upon themselves should not be called weakness or laziness by the social worker or government official
we have enough outsiders that quote generalize condemnation that only spill over into hatred and grief I take offense to those people who say so much while knowing so little about what they condemned ,

...And feeding the corruption.

Wish there where more people with strong morals like yourself.

Well good morals and respect for myself and any potential child I might produce/adopt.

The irony is that with automation there will not be a labor shortage, there wil be a huge surplus of unemployed. This just highlights how F*cked up our system has become.

This is going to sound strange but here goes anyway!

I disagree with you despite the fact your right.... ummmm... yeah! --wink wink--

Conventional economic theory states the increased productivity lowers price which increases demand and then increases production and the need for labor. This hold true as long as only one or two segments are hit, there are other areas of the economy that grow and pick up the slack.

The theory cannot account for the radical acceleration in technology, or the fact that new advances coming on line soon will have such a dramatic effect it's hard to even fathom, and that they will be hitting most segments of employment at the same time. Think for a minute about the impact of 3D printers on manufacturing, intelligent agents on administrative, secretarial, customer service and call center staff, Strong AI on professional trades; lawyers, managers, programmers, writers, even medical staff. Not many people will be left to buy those cheap goods. Something has got to give.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/07/17/the-threat-of-automation-robots...

I would refuse to do business with any company that uses preprogramed AI for customer service. I also do not see anyone trusting a legal system run by AI lawyers... thats just bad juju from the start. Same idea on the "management" ploy, no matter how powerful or advanced an AI it will never be capable of running as many equations as the human counterpart.

I agree that I still disagree with you on this.

A yes answer on "Are you a victim of domestic abuse" also opens every door to abuse of system. Seemingly simple and harmless lie gets a lot of financial benefits. Due to such gross abuse of system, the people who really need the support can not get it.

In fact, conventional theory fails because increased productivity does not lower price; it is taken as increased profitability. Reduced price in consumer products is last resort in dire circumstance. Steady and relentless rewriting of financial and tax law has resulted in capital expendure, marketing and advertising, and investment (diversification) providing vastly greater ROI than economics of scale. There's no advantage in monopoly so major corps don't compete on price. It's far better to establish product recognition and obfuscate price. (Every tried to figure out which paper towels are cheaper in the grocery store without a scientific calculator? You're more likey to decide on habit, feel, perforation spacing, or how much you want to spend on them at the moment.)
There's lots more to this but that's enough for now.

You are using linear thinking. Super computers already equal the human brain in computations per second. In 10 years your desk top machine will. Within 10 years after that the software for human level intelligence will be here. We are talking 2030 time frame when $1,000 of computing power will be as smart and able to reason like a person. After that all bets are off. They double every year and start designing their own improvements.

Very good points rerushg. If the automation does not lower price then the traditional argument that automation does not hurt unemployment becomes invalid even quicker.

Sorry but I disagree with you on the supercomputer comment. You have a good grasp of technology but seems you may be a little lacking on the human capacity. There is an old baseball related analogy regarding our brains. We have the capacity to follow a struck ball into the air, calculate it's trajectory, move our legs to get into place to catch while retaining our balance, getting our glove into the right spot to make the catch, knocking our hat out of the way to unobstruct our view, glance at the runners on the base path, decide how to play the ball once caught, reacquire visual of the ball, think about our breakfast and the cute girl in that skirt all at the same time, and that doesn't even come close to tapping the full 10% of our brain that we regularly use. I am highly suspect of the notion that techo-brains will come anywhere close to what we are capable of, and I certainly have no faith that they are capable of the type of calculations that we are capable of let alone the quantity.

I know I know, you don't see things the way I do, but I think you are putting a little too much "faith" in technology. All things have their limits, and those that are not constructed over millenia by the great technologist Nature have far more imposing limitations. Tech is great, tech helps and changes things all the time but even technology has it's limits. The is every possibility that the technological advances that are supposed to bring about this human equivalent AI runs into a roadblock, and unconquerable obstacle. A limitation of materials to function under such demanding tasks or such.

Additionally all of the calculations done by computers are mathematical in nature, our are not. Lust+Attraction=Love? Does father+son equal "family" or "fishing trip"? Just because everyone's new iPhones can talk to them doesn't bring that piece of plastic anywhere closer to comprehending or mimicing human thought. You should be familiar with "Eliza" an early nineties ineractive "AI" program that responded to basic words typed into the interface. This program proved two basic things, computers are capable of equation based thought, but they are not capable of commonsense or what ever term you want to equate to the human ability to adapt to new things based off previous experience.

blue can win most chess games ind with a little tweaks they can out think most high school grads but its problem is it can't out thank a fifth grader

where is the commonsense ?
it take a special person with commonsense and they are few and far between
and a majority of the population have never played baseball and the challenge of a computer came that is too smart will not sell

I'm not sure if you are saying ours are based on metaphisical spiritual source? If so that would answer your reluctance to beleive a computer able to mimic a human mind in complexity, and will be the end of our discussion because I will not argue science against mythology or faith based reasoning.

If you trying to say the brain is just too complex, we'll never understand it, well a few years before the write brothers flew for the first time some fairly well respected scientists were saying it was phsically impossible to fly.

If your saying that because a 20 year old program was not very smart therefore computers can never be smart, well then I would have to question your claim that you stay up on this stuff. 20 years ago is like a billion computer years in terms of evolution.

The brain is estimated to to be capable of 100 million million or 100 million MIPS calculations per second. If we use 10% of that capacity at any one time, we would need 10 million MIPS to repicate the brains power. In 1997 The Blue Gene super computer was capable of 1 million MIPS or 10% of what is needed. This year IBM will complete Sequuoia which will be able to do 20 million MIPS, twice what is needed. By 2018 it's estimated that they will be at 100 MIPS and able to replicate the entire brain nueral structure, and the 1000 MIPS in 2019.

In 2011 the Intel Core i7 Extreme processor is the top of the line for desktops. It is capable of 177,730 MIPS. If it doubles every 2 years it will be at 1 million MIPS by 2020 and reach 100 million MIPS by 2032. So, a desktop processor will be able to replicate the entire brain in 20 years. By 2052 it will be equal to the power of 1,000 human brains.

These machines are highly parallel (multi core) like our brain which is usefull for doing things like pattern recognition. After all, thats what our brain is, it's a huge pattern processor.

If there has been one claim in science that has been proved wrong time and time again, it's to claim something is impossible.

It isn't fraud, it is just working within the rules that were set in this man made system. The law of unintended consequences is a more accurate explaination. If you don't like the results produced by the system, change the laws that govern the system.

They are bending the rules not breaking them.

you are so right

Not that it is any better but it is legal.