Comments by "Peter Jacobsen" (@pjacobsen1000) on "ReasonTV"
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Ryan, could you give us an idea of what functions you think government should reasonably have, if any. My suggestions:
-National defence
-Law enforcement and judiciary
-Certain national infrastructure (rail, power grid, roads, sewage, water, communication lines)
-Standards and regulations on safety, units, consumer protection.
-Support for basic scientific research (eg. NASA)
On top of this comes the more 'socialist' functions: Basic education, basic health care, basic social security.
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Generally speaking, most modern innovations have gone towards greater convenience for users: Household electronics, cars, Google search, online music and video, etc. If it helps you save time, helps you relax, you'll want it. That is certainly an argument in favor of electric scooters, AI and drones.
Lab grown meat may well become successful, but it will not replace the meat that is grown on an animal's body. You just can't replicate the flavor of 'real' meat, not least because different cuts of beef taste different, and different breeds of cattle taste different, and different ages of cattle at slaughter make the meat taste different. A can of pineapple slices cannot really replace a real, fresh, ripe pineapple.
Health monitoring tech on your body may become very common, especially if they provide more information. Once they can approximate real diagnoses of a variety of diseases they will probably become ubiquitous.
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@BegissoR What else? Supermarkets are full? That's great, you can buy food. Oil and gas prices up? Also great, but what if your customers won't buy your oil and gas? We're only at the beginning, I think. There is a growing feeling in the west that we can no longer have a reasonable relationship with Russia, in trade, culture, diplomacy, anything. People here want to cut all ties, forever. It's just too much trouble to engage with Russia, so why even try.
Perhaps relations can be improved, someday in the distant future. We'll see.
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