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Comment Causation? (Score 1, Interesting) 111

Sounds to me like a lawyer trying to get their name out there on a first-of-it's-kind suit.

Good luck trying to establish a shred of causation if it's public knowledge that the kid intentionally thwarted safeguards. And then you have to convince a jury or a judge that tricking the AI into talking about suicide is what led to the kid going through with it.

It sounds like hogwash, so it's got about a 50/50 chance of succeeding.

Comment Re:What's to stop them? (Score 4, Insightful) 28

This isn't a technology problem, it's a law problem. The law is supposed to stop authorities from searching things outside of the scope of a warrant. The law is also supposed to impose penalties when authorities fail to operate within their legal bounds.

In short, "stopping them" is the entire point of the 4th Amendment.

Comment Re:don't they have more important things to worry (Score 1) 259

See, this is how a good cause loses reasonable people.

Yes it is true that a flat map depicts Africa smaller than it actually is.

But we're to believe that A. this is a tangible, real factor in the continent's generational poverty, and B. that it is done willfully and intentionally (the fact that such visual distortions come with transferring a sphere to a flat map is purely coincidental) to that effect.

I like to believe I am a reasonable person, but I think perhaps there are factors that more acutely impact Africa than how it appears on a map.

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