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Re:Google DeepMind Founder Demis Hassabis: Three Truths abou... by puranjay on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @05:36AM (#18120046)
> Confronted to a world that has been irremediably changed by humans' use of technology (for worst, they say)

Your perceptions seem to be colored by your experience in the first world.

Statistically, technology-fueled development has helped lift literally billions of people out of acute poverty.

When I was young in the 90s, my mom would ask me to give any spare food we had left to the homeless beggars we saw on the streets (in India).

Today, when I try to do the same, they ask for money because they have plenty of food.

How can eradicating hunger not be a good thing?

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Re:Google DeepMind Founder Demis Hassabis: Three Truths abou... by pranau on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @06:52AM (#18120365)
In my experience (as an Indian), they ask money primarily for alcohol, cigarettes or drugs and buy food from whatever's left over. They are still not what one would call "nourished" and are pretty malnourished in most instances.
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Re:Google DeepMind Founder Demis Hassabis: Three Truths abou... by gdubs on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @11:04AM (#18122341)
Which is why policy should be based on data and not anecdotes.
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