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Europe Divided Over Robot 'Personhood' (politico.eu) 246

Posted by msmash from the assigning-responsibilities dept.
Politico Europe has an interesting piece which looks at the high-stakes debate between European lawmakers, legal experts and manufacturers over who should bear the ultimate responsibility for the actions by a machine: the machine itself or the humans who made them?. Two excerpts from the piece: The battle goes back to a paragraph of text, buried deep in a European Parliament report from early 2017, which suggests that self-learning robots could be granted "electronic personalities." Such a status could allow robots to be insured individually and be held liable for damages if they go rogue and start hurting people or damaging property.

Those pushing for such a legal change, including some manufacturers and their affiliates, say the proposal is common sense. Legal personhood would not make robots virtual people who can get married and benefit from human rights, they say; it would merely put them on par with corporations, which already have status as "legal persons," and are treated as such by courts around the world.

Comment Where's your Ferrari? (Score 1) 72

This reminds me of a joke I read last year on facebook about smoking and its associated costs.

GF: You know if you've never smoked in that 15 years you would have enough money to buy a Ferrari?
BF: Do you smoke?
GF: No!
BF: Where's your Ferrari?

I spent way more time than I should on playing games. I know it. But I can't help but wonder what kind of life I would have achieved if I never gamed. Probably the exact same life because I know more people who don't game and just as mediocre as me. We just have different "addictions".

Comment Re:Needs a new direction (Score 1) 222

by bronney (#56146824) Attached to: We've Reached Peak Smartphone

But we're the minority. The majority don't care what OS it runs as long as it gets their job done so there's really no economic value in adopting bsd from the major manufacturers. I think to attract the mass, the best way is looks now that we've reached the cpu gpu plateau. We might probably go back to the time when Motorola used to make weird phones.

Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 62

by bronney (#56051225) Attached to: GTA Online Is Full Of Abandoned Modes

GTA Online has come a long way since it first launched. When it first came out it's bullshit free for all killings. Nowadays it can be played hardcore, youtube gta heist world records. It's fun playing with friends. I enjoy survival and parachuting very much.

Comment Re:Gotta kill em all (Score 1) 80

by bronney (#55635869) Attached to: Pokemon Go Led To Increase In Traffic Deaths and Accidents, Says Study

That's because they never had my lesson, which I called "Coca-Cola". When you're at a ball game and you are holding 2 cups of coca cola without caps on (this was int he old days) and some fucker ran in the hallway and bump into you. You are most likely to have spilled the coke on yourself because instinctively we are good people and really go out of our way to harm others. However my uncle taught me this great lesson. If the fuckers don't care, don't care for them. Next time, when someone bumps into you, spill the whole shit on them. They are also less likely to be running around like idiots in the future.

If you've been bullied like this in a crowded fast-food restaurant, you'd know. Many people won't give way and even if you try your best it's unavoidable that you see a collision. Instead, lift the tray up to the face height so that they gtfo cuz they know you can't see them and if they don't give way, their face will most likely be in danger. It all sounds anti-social but damn it works.
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Pokemon Go Led To Increase In Traffic Deaths and Accidents, Says Study (arstechnica.com) 80

Posted by BeauHD from the fun-while-it-lasted dept.
A new study from Purdue University uses detailed local traffic accident reports to suggest that Pokemon Go caused a marked increase in vehicle damages, injuries, and even deaths due to people playing the game while driving. Ars Technica reports: In the provocatively titled "Death by Pokemon Go" (which has been shared online but has yet to be peer-reviewed), Purdue professors Mara Faccio and John J. McConnell studied nearly 12,000 accident reports in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, in the months before and after Pokemon Go's July 6, 2016 launch. The authors then cross-referenced those reports with the locations of Pokestops in the county (where players visit frequently to obtain necessary in-game items) to determine whether the introduction of a Pokestop correlated with an increase in accident frequency, relative to intersections that didn't have them. While the incidence of traffic accidents increased across the county after Pokemon Go's introduction, that increase was a statistically significant 26.5 percent greater at intersections within 100 meters of a Pokestop, compared to those farther away. All told, across the county, the authors estimate 134 extra accidents occurred near Pokestops in the 148-day period immediately after the game came out, compared to the baseline where those Pokestops didn't exist. That adds up to nearly $500,000 in vehicle damage, 31 additional injuries, and two additional deaths across the county, based on extrapolation from the accident reports.

The study uses a regression model to account for potential confounding variables like school breaks and inclement weather, which could cause variation separate from Pokemon Go. The model also compares Pokestops to Pokegyms (where it was nearly impossible to play while driving) to account for the possibility that generally increased traffic to Pokemon Go locations was leading to more accidents, even among drivers who stopped and parked before playing. In all cases, though, being able to compare to intersections without a Pokestop and to the same dates the year before, helped provide natural control variables for the study.

Comment No such thing as work life balance. (Score 1) 513

If you think a 50 50 is balance then you're scammed. Let's ignore the fact that you only have 1 life and it encompasses everything you do it in including work. You'd be hard press to do a life life balance if you don't even have to work. Let alone this bs balance you're sold to.

Back to strategizing the groupthink retraining matrix lol.

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