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Comment Re:Don't say don't say don't say don't say gay (Score 1) 234

Besides, there are a decent number of people who are not trans, but who get frequently mistaken for the opposite sex. These laws quite literally encourage people to harass people

I have a friend who had that happen several times. Although she is quite straight and cis, she has a shaved head, and security guards have gotten mad at her for going to the "wrong" bathroom.

but worrying about men in a women's restroom just sounds like people are looking for a reason to "other" people and using that as an excuse.

Sometimes you can see through the cracks in the stalls, and that really worries some people.

Comment Re: I have questions... (Score 1) 72

To sell to the government you have to get GSA approved.

Unless the government has an urgent need. Then they just whip out their credit card and buy from Best Buy or eBay*.

*It usually involves a middleman to do the reselling. To cover up the actual source, provide plausible deniability for the administration doing the purchasing, and make those resellers a bundle of cash (some of which is applied to the requisite campaign funds to keep the whole process running).

Comment Re:Not AI (Score 1) 97

AI is a broad field that encompasses a lot of things that you probably don't think of as AI such as linear regression, clustering, and decision trees. I understand this annoys some people, but I can assure you that this isn't anything new. This is what AI was always about.

You are describing "weak AI" and it's not what AI was always about.

When people say "AI" by itself, they typically mean "strong AI," but not always.

Comment Re:And nothing will happen (Score 1) 169

Of course there was the Enron exec who committed suicide by running off the road, shooting himself in the back of the head twice and then dropping the gun 10 feet away.

MRSA is nasty, and not often encountered outside of healthcare facilities. Once the infection has taken hold it's really difficult to get rid of. If someone has figured out a way to weaponize it that is NOT a good development.

Comment Re:Not AI (Score 3, Interesting) 97

There are a bunch of startups in the last 5 years or so who are trying to collect data in hospitals to prevent deaths. It's not an advertising model (yet) because hospitals are willing to pay.

One of the easiest methods of preventing death is by catching sepsis early, when it's still treatable, and a number of startups have been able to achieve death reductions in pilot tests. Of course, this means that nurses need to spend more time entering data, which is annoying.

This is not AI, it's just data science, but they call it AI because "hype." Funding is easier, getting clients is easier, etc.

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