maintaining poverty

On that face recognition thing, I read an article a year or two ago about people who had super powers of face recognition, maybe not super but they were really good at it.  As Oliver Sachs has written there are some people who can't recognize faces at all.  If the wife changes her clothes he thinks he is about to have an affair.  Beyond that people have varying abilities at face recognition, and in the article police departments used the people with strong abilities people to um, fight crime.  Doesn't seem like there is anything wrong with that. 

But there does seem to be something sinister in the way the Chinese government deploys it, but a lot of the sinister in that is the nature of the Chinese government. 

I wonder how the facial recognition software works.  Does it take a variety of measurements, distance from nostrils to eyes, tilt of the nose, width of the mouth, etc and put them all together, crunch them all together and then come up with a high possibility that this is the guy in the database, or is there some more sophisticated program.  Well I guess it is mostly AI which is disheartening because then we will never know how it works.

YouTube food channels?  I'm not one to judge my fellow men, let alone fellow men of The Institute, but I really do believe Old Dog should get out more (like to seminars), and gear up that 3d printer and that other thing, the one that works opposite of the printer, taking away rather than adding to, or some other gentleman scientist activity. 


I think the idea of income redistribution comes from the bible before the Canadians.  In the current American situation if you tried that social credit thing, don't you know the rich would insist that they should get bigger credits because, well because they are richer, and they will get them too.  Oh wait they already have in the form of the latest republican tax cut. 

Reading about the early church it appears that it was well,socialistic, share and share alike, help out the poor, all men are equal.  But by the time it took over the Roman Empire it had changed quite a bit.  They still had a thing about giving to the poor, but rather then helping out the poor the emphasis was more on how it would benefit the rich by squeezing that camel through the eye of the needle.  There was no thought of helping out the poor so that they could climb out of poverty, they had to stay there so that the rich could be blessed by giving them money.  That seems to align with Beagles' plan of maintaining the poor in poverty. 

I can't find the draft of my post that got aborted.  I wonder if that's because it's my draft.  If Beagles could describe where it is I will delete it.