FYI, this sentence doesn't make sense to me Doubling the length of jail sentences will substantially reduce the rate of criminal of theft.
-Is there one too many "of"'s in there?Given that we can only understand most subjects obliquely and incompletely, it shouldn’t be at all surprising that few of us have exactly the same beliefs. Each of us has a different set of incomplete and problematic data from which to wrest his or her tenuous conclusions. Watch any economics talk show on television and you will see any number of “experts” with any number of substantially different views. All that they make clear, collectively, is the chronically tentative state of their field. The same is true for politicians, psychologists, or anyone else who deals in the murky territory of human interaction.
-Let's say we get to a point as a species that we are fully integrated with one another in some sort of post singularity grid. We have access to all information and data at all times. Do you think this eliminates a sense of self? Will we all have the same conclusions? Eventually, will there be no more anomalies of thought because we are all sharing the same data with which to draw our conclusions? What do you think theadvancedapes?