Just how advanced do you think this algo is? You actually believe that it can understand an "idea"? Unless some major advancements in NLU happened while I was asleep last night, the proposed toxicity detector is going to be a glamourized swear word detector. There is no way it is capable of what you're accusing it of.

Exactly this! The toxicity detector doesn't know whether you're posing difficult questions and challenging prior conceptions. And it sure as shit doesn't know how people are going to feel about a comment. It's detecting the types of language used in toxic comments. That's it. Keep the naughty words to a minimum and you'll be golden.

Everybody keeps throwing around all of these ways that China could abuse this system, like discrediting based on social media post or publishing dissenting material. Thing is, they haven't implemented anything like that. So far the only thing that dings your score is criminal charges, traffic violations, and defaulting on loans. So it's like a cross between a criminal record and a credit score. Not very dystopian.

The big problem I'm seeing here is that it digs people into a hole. If a person is defaulting on loans too much, they end up in a situation where paying off future loans becomes more difficult. That seems counter productive.

Can you imagine the house he could build in the rust-belt though? The price of an apartment in Manhattan will get you an entire city block in The D.

*chest

Anybody in the field would just use a more specific term. In this case, "Computer Vision". I think the only field that would probably like the term AI back would be people making game-playing agents.

They are vague on the details, but it sounds like they are starting with fixing a congenital heart defect in certain types of badly inbred dogs. They even mention that it's not really age reversal but "pet owners won’t worry about semantics". As far as I can tell, they are just taking the anti-aging angle to drive the hype train.

A correction would have them all go down to zero.

Plus at Starbucks you have to talk to a human. Unpleasant start to a day.

All those things that you mentioned would indeed fuck your life. But abstaining from Starbucks wouldn't, so I guess that's different huh?

It gets better. I just punched this into a compounding interest calculator: $3 a day for 40 years at a modest 6% outputs $172,526.71. Enough to have a major impact on one's lifestyle in during retirement.

That's not mandatory is it?

Spec Ops: The Line
It has a scene where you accidentally bomb a bunch of civilians, and the go through a nice walk through their neighbourhood.

Some people do this, but there are traditions involved beyond just putting a box on a shelf. It takes some space to build a little shrine, and there are incense involved. HK apartments can be really small.

Oh no, they're gentrifying the landfill depot?! Where will the rats live?