Dec 10 2011: If there is a mafia extorting money from someone, you cant extort money from someone else to pay extortion's victims what mafia promised to them, or you will become mafia's man yourself - its robbery.
Privatization, light VAT tax, deleting unneeded goverment offices and functions of state is enough to pay off those who paid mafia for SS, and you wont need to force anyone to pay SS. Minarchism is the way to go.
After paying them off, you could lower VAT tax even more to cover only infrastructure, police, military and courts.
Add to that drugs legalisation which would point so much money from drug mafias' hands to state's pocket. With no SS and "free" medical care, we would not have to worry about fools drugging themselfs - they would not cost us anything. Every man have freedom to choose - if someone want to hurt himself, no harm happens to him - "Volenti non fit injuria".
Dec 10 2011: Im sorry, i got a bit driven. But i can answer your question aswell:
"If time travel depended on this question being free of mispelled words, could I never come back and fix it?"
1. Answer to your question is "Yes". Lets assume that soon you would edit your question and get rid of any misspelled words and then time travel becomes possible, and then there is no obstacle to come back to even earlier moment (moment where you first posted original, misspelled word) and fix it sooner, making the time travel possible earlier in the reality to which you woudl travel (of course it coudlnt be this one, becouse it still didnt happen).
2. You could of course ask otherwise: "(...)depended on this question in this moment of time being free of mispelled words". - Then the answer still would be "Yes" - Becouse for example other "You", from other reality where it would not be dependant on similiar condition, could come back and fix it in some different reality.
3. You could of course ask yet otherwise: "If time travel in all realities depended on this question in this moment of time, in this reality being free of mispelled words". - Then answer would be "No". If time travel would be dependant on that question and you misspelled word "mispelled" in this point of time in this reality, then you could never time travel, so you could never come back and fix it.
Dec 10 2011: One of our purposes is for sure to preserve life, like any other living organism. Life started and trough evolution done whatever was needed to preserve itself.
Dec 10 2011: It could choose between chocolate ice cream and vanilla ice cream by asking virtual organism simulation for it needs (which is analogy to our likes / desires). If you would add hormones' mechanics, organism's mechanics (that influence our human thoughts) then you could get to somethign no different than human intelligence.
Are we not just AI influenced by organism's needs / desires?
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Privatization, light VAT tax, deleting unneeded goverment offices and functions of state is enough to pay off those who paid mafia for SS, and you wont need to force anyone to pay SS. Minarchism is the way to go.
After paying them off, you could lower VAT tax even more to cover only infrastructure, police, military and courts.
Add to that drugs legalisation which would point so much money from drug mafias' hands to state's pocket. With no SS and "free" medical care, we would not have to worry about fools drugging themselfs - they would not cost us anything. Every man have freedom to choose - if someone want to hurt himself, no harm happens to him - "Volenti non fit injuria".
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"If time travel depended on this question being free of mispelled words, could I never come back and fix it?"
1. Answer to your question is "Yes". Lets assume that soon you would edit your question and get rid of any misspelled words and then time travel becomes possible, and then there is no obstacle to come back to even earlier moment (moment where you first posted original, misspelled word) and fix it sooner, making the time travel possible earlier in the reality to which you woudl travel (of course it coudlnt be this one, becouse it still didnt happen).
2. You could of course ask otherwise: "(...)depended on this question in this moment of time being free of mispelled words". - Then the answer still would be "Yes" - Becouse for example other "You", from other reality where it would not be dependant on similiar condition, could come back and fix it in some different reality.
3. You could of course ask yet otherwise: "If time travel in all realities depended on this question in this moment of time, in this reality being free of mispelled words". - Then answer would be "No". If time travel would be dependant on that question and you misspelled word "mispelled" in this point of time in this reality, then you could never time travel, so you could never come back and fix it.
A reply on Conversation: In ten words or less, what is a question no one (yet) knows the answer to?
A reply on Conversation: In ten words or less, what is a question no one (yet) knows the answer to?
A reply on Conversation: In ten words or less, what is a question no one (yet) knows the answer to?
Are we not just AI influenced by organism's needs / desires?