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Comment regarding driverless cars immobility (Score 1) 241

you know what would be an easy fix? equip waymos with a hand-held remote control unit that first responders can get to and drive the car. there are problems with this approach, of course, like waymo would probably have to remotely OK such a problem. still, seems like a pretty handy tool

Comment Innocent until proven guilty? (Score 1) 314

So, he's charged with destroying evidence for a crime he may or may not have committed. Put in that light, maybe innocent until proven guilty doesn't apply here. But even calling it "evidence" sets up the bias. Destroying data for possible crime is a way to put it, but then that seems like minority report. The other point is that like, I'd argue a defense that it wasn't me 'protecting' or 'destroying' anything--it was preemption of possible viruses or what-have-you loaded onto the phone out of his person.

Comment citizens united for the AI era (Score 1) 51

So Citizens United in effect argued corporations should have privileges humans enjoy (donating cash to campaigns). What about data centers? I mean, individual data centers, outside of ownership? The thinking goes: the US invested/invests in these data centers and has a stake in AI-producing companies, who in turn depend on data centers. Clip the data centers and you clip AI, so they are national importance, on par with the corporations above them.

Comment summary left out important information (Score 3, Informative) 55

I had a hard time figuring out where the problem was because the summary left out the detail that ai-training on books destroys them without saving the data (the book lettering, i guess) in the process. That's a big detail to leave out. I mean, I don't know if I have an issue if it's otherwise--that, during the course of it, the books are digitized and made available. But that's something that I can understand people would argue against, i.e., they believe the loss of a physical copy of a rare book is something to avoid. Totally understandable. However, isn't a valid counteragument that the bookseller's prerogative whether to sell a book or not?

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