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Comment Re:soooo....your answer is to return to... (Score 1) 116

"i ant reading all that. im happy for you tho. or sorry that happened"

hey if you want to keep Prop 13 around go for it, but then let's not claim you or any of those homeowners believe in a "housing market" becuase it's not at that point so all your Prop 13 supports better stop nimby-ing it up over there and blocking housing developments and other works projects becuase, well, fuck you.

Aww your homes value skyrocketed in the past 30 years and now your taxes are twwoooooo high?!?! Well sorry thats how fucking markets work. Take your big fat house payment and move on, it's what someone would have to do in every other state in this country in that situation. Take your million dollars and retire and let the housing go to people who can afford it.

Also any prop 13 people have lived in the state for decades and voted for these things.

I didn't need the history lesson. Doesn't matter how it came to be, some laws go in and the outcomes are unforseen and bad. Bad laws are bad, we should kill bad laws and have good laws. Prop 13 is bad law. Or if you want to keep it I better not hear a peep about blocking public housing or dense development anymore.

Comment Re:I think this is OK? (Score 2) 53

If that excuse isn't given breathing room (it will be)

Yeah that's a problem, the liability still has to be on the officer that those words are their words, however they got on the page. The AI getting it wrong is you getting it wrong.

do officers typically transcribe entire conversations word-for-word

Yeah I am curious about that too. If they do then this is probably good. But that leads to my next question, are police body cam logs not normally transcribed unless they need to be? Maybe if this allows them all to be transcribed, even if not as rigorous as human transcription might that be a good thing?

Comment Re:This isn't actually a lot? (Score 1) 116

Some people would look at this as a way to target Prop 13 again for the umpteenth time, which proves to be political suicide in the state particularly given the high price of housing.

And this is why we can't have nice things, Prop 13 and other laws are definitely share in the reasons it has the housing crisis it does and to me is the plurality of California's problems, economically and politically, but people as you said are going to flip their top while digging themselves in a deeper hole.

Let me rephrase it this then maybe, it "shouldn't be a lot" for a state like California. Hell, they should be able to spend a bit more than that. The thing with spending like this is that it's not just money with no return, having plenty of reliable electricity and full EV infrastructure could very well produce well more than $20B in economic growth over those 10 years. If they can do something about the housing of course...

Comment I think this is OK? (Score 1) 53

This honestly sounds like a good use case for something like a language model? If you are going to be charged in any way it should obviously be the actual audio used as reference and any AI transcription should be labelled as such with a link to said video, if the AI transcription is wrong somehow and used for a charge and the actual audio is exonerating, that's a pretty easy slam dunk.

I'd also be interested to see how the error rate compared to the existing way of doing things which, if it is in fact the officers themselves that have to do it I imagine could be pretty close, we don't have a perfect system already I imagine.

At the same time shouldn't this be an easy task to tune an "AI" towards with a focus on accuracy and erring on the side of noting where it couldn't understand something rather than making it up? I mean what are all these AI people working on if it can't do this job extremely reliably?

Comment Re:Nation of Origin: Carolina (Score 1) 119

The Marsh case if I understand it correctly did in fact make that distinction, since in this case the "public streets" were "owned" by the company is where the case hinged on. The court decided since in this case the streets were considered public spaced even if a company in fact had private control over them. It was a unique distinction in the particulars.

I believe the judges in the ruling in fact made that distinction, so I can't go into my local pet store and place pamphlets for my religion on the store shelves and then claim freedom of speech when the store owner takes them down and asks me to leave. If you can show me precedent on that from another case, be happy to look it over.

The crazy thing is if you go to for example YouTube's website: "Our mission is to give everyone a voice and show them the world." sounds like a town to me.

That why we don't base Con Law on corporate slogans. YouTube has a TOS, me posting video there means I am the behest of those terms. I can always roll my own server and serve whatever video I want. Some people (not you) believe freedom of speech means you have a "right" to the largest audiences when that is not in fact the case.

Comment Re:Blood diamonds anyone? (Score 1) 112

Different question:

A girl who knows anything about tech might in fact find it very cool that a jewelry grade diamond came out of a complex and impressive industrial process. If they are socially conscious they know about the diamond trade problems and DeBeers and don't want to support that.

A woman who doesn't find your trains "cool" may still find appeal in your passion for it, your attitude around your hobby tends to be more attractive to people than the thing itself.

Comment Re:Nation of Origin: Carolina (Score 2) 119

Sure. Now write a law than discriminates between "legitimate arguments of a position in order to suppress real concerns" and those that do not without any false positives.

Write a law that defines what being "civil" is without false positives or negatives or making it completely subjective.

there is no reason to be using those epithets

Sure, but which ones? Old ones from the 16th century? New ones the kids just came up with? What If I am using in a historical analysis prerspective?

You see how this is tricky?

I think once you have the government defining the exacts of speech, well, that action alone is good or bad is going to cause a chilling effect and if you take away a platform (or publisher, whatever, your definition makes everyone neither) liability protections then they are just going to restrict speech even more.

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