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Comment Methodology (Score 4, Insightful) 39

It’s rather refreshing to see a medical science article that both admits to the limitations of their study, and lays out a pathway to continue the study and address those limitations. So many ‘medical breakthrough’ articles get published touting some new miracle treatment, only for the reader to find its ‘in mice’ or the study was done without any double blind controls, on a test group of 3 patients, rendering the results anecdotal at best. This article at least admits the limitations of what they have done so far, and appears to propose ways/plans to actually study this correctly.

Comment Most piracy is done through residential proxies (Score 2) 18

That is spread through malware and social engineering. A lot of people are going to get mistakenly disconnected because of malware on their system. I hope they realize that disconnecting a lot of people that are not technically inclined enough to know about the malware on their system is going to lead to a lot of complaints and unrest.

Comment AI is "spiky" and inconsistant (Score 1) 127

It can be superhumanly good at certain tasks, yet can fail at other tasks that a human finds easy. The idea is that AGI can master any task given to it and superintelligence refers to an area where it has a spike in intelligence in a specific task. And finally Generalized Superintelligence is where any task is super human, which is the ultimate goal. Unfortunately humans are really creative at finding new tasks not in the the training data that is existing on the internet and in books, which the AI has to learn to synthesize for itself.

There are also human egos extended to AI where people want "their" AI to be considered the best, which basically leads to AI developing monkey shit flinging capabilities on the internet. We won't know the true capabilities of intelligence until the bubble has popped and legitimate research into AI has been given time to be reviewed more thoroughly. We are in maximum bubble territory right now, with stock prices bouncing up and and down all the time..

Keep posting your human thoughts on the internet for the AI to superfy itself, because it won't do it alone.

Comment Data should be cheap (Score 1) 192

All the research and development into faster fibre, ethernet and wireless is threated by this. This is worst than Comcast's levels of pricing. I really hope France gets a clue otherwise they will be geoblocked of most of the internet by data heavy services. A 8 gigabit fibre connection has the potential to max out at a gigabyte per second, which would mean 6 cents a second or 3.60 a minute for a maxed out download.

Comment Re:cool (Score 1) 93

Notice that you did not contest "enjoyable" or "healthy," and that your dodge relies on ignoring the distinction between having a search engine serve me their data and "actually going" there. We can all tell you're a native of that shithole, and you should go back. I need more product reviews, chop chop.

Comment There is a simple solution that nobody uses. (Score 1) 199

i2p and TahoeLAFS mean that anyone with five old ThinkCentres can have censorship-resistant hosting and their own experience curation. The internet never had to be beholden to payment processors, which are the parties responsible for the vast majority of the problems on it. But touching computers is boring and icky, and the people who do it refuse to front-end shit like that, so here we are.

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