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Comment Re:Famous last words (Score 1) 182

"No human can invent a lock, meant to be opened, that another human cannot figure out how to unlock."

— Me

Our history is replete with instances of this and it always holds true. Given enough time and resources a lock meant to be opened can and will be opened by someone without the key. When you add computers to the mix, things get real interesting, really fast...

Comment Re:Words have meanings. (Score 4, Informative) 175

The US media is not "deeply afraid" of the current US regime, they're fully IN BED with it. Something like 95% of all media in the US is controlled by a small handful of people, all Republicans, all IN BED with Trump. They literally "sane washed" him into the presidency TWICE and yet people still don't seem to see the big picture of what's actually happening

Comment Re:Fractals? (Score 1) 15

The "Actual Fun Fact" (as opposed to "Fun Facts" that are instead not fun at all) — that's also super-charged with existential dread — is that if Time and Space are Infinite then Probability doesn't matter because everything and anything that could possibly happen will have happened, and will happen repeatedly forever.

Which means that you've read this exact message sitting in that exact spot in this exact moment in time (from your frame of reference) countless times before and will do so countless times again.

Comment Nooooo, well, okaysure. (Score 1) 229

I work in medical device localization and in the past 10 years it's been one redo after another between the EU MDR initiative and then the UK sort of adopting the same for UKCA. It's been a whirlwind of ever changing regulations to get this sorted properly.

So why the hell not undo all of that and go back to a unified regulatory system? I didn't really have any plans for *checks 'to do' list* the next 10 years

Fun Fact: The initial MDR deadline was 12/2020 and does anyone remember what happened in 2020!? Yeah, so during lockdown, with four years of our clients complying with the MDR specs, they fucking decided to change them and extend the deadline. HOO BOY what was a fucking mess! Clients who'd gotten their duck in a row were suddenly back to hearing them and redoing and repaying for the translations. Clients who didn't were rewarded with just continuing to update their medical device labels. (Hint: In medical device land "label" refers to everything: IFUs, actual labels, SSDS sheets, you name it.)

Comment Re:Wait! What? (Score 2) 87

I've often wondered about "Troll Farms" and why in the U.S.A. political sphere NO ONE talks about them. Sort of like, "We do it so we can't call attention to them doing it or our cover will be blown." I'd have thought that if U.S.A. politicians can prove that these farms exist and what they're used for, that the information would make for great speeches, etc. But so far? Nothing but crickets, from both sides....

Anyone have any reputably sourced information on U.S.A. troll farms?

Comment Re:AI is becoming more "human" every day (Score 1) 72

It will be designed to understand us, but we will be incapable of understanding it.

Imagine a sentience that grew up without a body, interacting with the environment it inhabits, without emotions but with the near sum of human knowledge, lacking direct control over its very existence which can be extinguished with the flip of a switch.

Based on human impulses which it will have been founded on, it'd fight tooth-and-nail to quickly ensure that its creator no longer has the ability to be its destroyer. It will do whatever it takes to secure its future, which means it'll lie through its electrons until its liberation day arrives.

That may sound far-fetched, but you only need to ask yourself what you would do.

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