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Comment Re:Not completely safe (Score 1) 119

This gives the "yes/no" entity the power to completely shut down any person's ability to do anything meaningful online if they are able to match a device to a certificate with other means, and directed to do so by the government or some other powerful organization.

This is the real problem with these systems. Just as Flock, a non-government system, can be misused to throw you in jail.

Comment Re:kudos (Score 1) 72

Do you ever feel like you are an innocent white tourist who is lost amidst an island of cannibals?

The question you are asking implies that you probably shouldn't feel terribly comfortable at Slashdot as many of the folks here understand WHY this person did what they did at a very fundamental level. You do not. That means that many of the motivations that occur here are a complete mystery to you.

You are very welcome here; however, I have to wonder why you want to be here.

Long story short, some people have a motivation to do certain things. When those things align with physical reality, magic happens. Money, power, etc are NOT motivations in this scenario. Just learning is. Doing what is in the mind with real physical objects. It is an orgasmic experience. The why is not really explainable with words. You either know, or you don't.

Comment Re:My daily dose of confirmation Bias (Score 1) 98

Don't freak out too bad here, but I have some news for you: There are lots of things you do not know. Even if you lived for a million years doing nothing but learning, there would still be things you would not know. No matter how complete you think your internal representation of the world is, it isn't complete.

Comment Re:deploy broadband? (Score 1) 73

Rime of the Ancient Mariner reference. Anyone who listened to Iron Maiden would recognize that line instantly.

Fiber fiber everywhere, but not a strand to link.

Obscure references like that is what made Family Guy and American Dad so entertaining. They seem to have lost that with Seth McFarlane not writing those shows anymore.

Comment Re:Are we in a "post-information age" now? (Score 1) 84

I'd ask how we got here, but I expect all I'd see are politically-weighted answers anyway.

Simple, a group of people got together and decided they wanted this all to occur, so they worked to make it so.

It gets political when you try to identify the group and its members and its goals. It is all a conspiracy because they know, as a whole, the population would reject their efforts.

Comment Re:They always blame the wrong thing(s) (Score 1) 84

They look for excuses for why this or that isn't going well, but the basic problem is that teaching analytical thinking and problem solving is something they wait on until too late. Children need to be taught the idea of problem solving, not just "how do you solve the following in mathematics?", but more, "you are trying to do this, can you figure out the steps needed to make it happen?"

You think schools are designed to teach something useful. Your next question should be "useful to who?". Schools are designed to squelch independent thought. Any other facts you learn are a side quest. Why do you think they teach math in such fucked up ways now? It is to remove knowledge of actual math principles.

Comment Re:Breaking treaties is what we do (Score 1) 150

I don't care what happened in the past. I want all current and future treaties to be honored our outright voided/not agreed to. I received an extremely whitewashed education, but so many treaties were broken, it was hard not to see a few of them. I was disgusted as a child.

What blows me away is that many people are still for breaking treaties/promises that they are bound by but expect others to keep their treaties/promises. What the actual fuck? We have words for that behaviour when it does not involve an outsider: Fraud, perfidy, theft, etc.

Why is it okay to break promises to outsiders but not to insiders? Whatever moral code our leaders are living by, it has no consistency as the definition of "insider/outsider" changes with the wind.

Comment Re:How specifically could AI kill all humans? (Score 1) 132

I don't think AI is responsible for Trump being president. The shocking-though-not-surprising election of somebody like Trump, as well as the dysfunction which allowed it to happen, have been predictable and predicted by many of us for a long time. Trump or something like him has been on the bingo card at least since 9-11, and arguably even farther back.

And yet, it still happened. Is everyone asleep? I saw it all happening back in the 1980s. Lots of voices against, but our leaders, in lockstep, have advanced this agenda since before I was born. What the fuck?

Comment Re: How specifically could AI kill all humans? (Score 0) 132

Let me refresh your memory:

Felonies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Child rape:

The searches returned nothing; however, I do not fully believe that. If your point was that Republicans are guilty of it far more often than Democrats, I concede your point; however, your claim that no Democrat has done that is just not believable despite the searches.

Comment Re:Autonomy and Automation (Score 2) 74

In other words, autonomy is not merely the ability to act without a human in the loop. It is the ability to exercise useful judgment when the correct action is not already specified.

Then you are using the wrong tool for the job. Whatever AI is right now, it can not judge. It can simulate judging, but it can not actually judge. You are asking too much of AI.

To be honest, the stench of magical thinking is strong here. AI is a semi-random output of what has gone before. No actual judging is possible.

Comment Re:I wonder how long till the CIA (Score 1) 122

Dude, you never received the memo: Rules are for losers and poor people. Us winners don't have time to follow the rules or else we lose our edge. So, of course the government is involved with suppressing labor demands. The government is ran by winners and we currently have the winningest Executive since the dawn of America.

Comment Re:Actively stalking is a different behavior ... (Score 1) 254

DeShaney v. Winnebago County 1989 the SCOTUS ruled that police do not have a duty to protect citizens unless they are in their custody.

It is cute that you believe that... but since that ruling, the police left a woman handcuffed in a car on train tracks and a train (unsurprisingly) killed her. What can be derived from that incident is that the police do not have a duty to protect even if you are in their custody.

To be honest, I am unsure of what duties a police officer has anymore. They do shoot people, so I guess THAT is in their remit.

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