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Comment Re:likely the wrong path (Score 1) 79

They've already dealt with this. If you read the fine print on these agreements, many or most of the recent ones say that the company has the option of rolling up any "substantially similar" arbitration cases into a single mass arbitration. (Which as usual, is decided by a person whose paycheck ultimately depends on the business of that same company.)

Comment How old were you in 2003? (Score 1) 81

Why 2003? Let's see if you can figure this one out.
Hint: SCO

Also, are you familiar with events like:
- Steve Balmer taking a trip to Munich (back in 2003)
- Ken Brown's report: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
- Names like Darl McBride, Laura DiDio, Maureen O'Gara?

If you were, then you would be able to understand why today Linux is allowed to be used in corporate settings, but only via the text console, never on the desktop.

Comment Re:Another scam? (Score 3, Insightful) 59

...What if AI eventually leads us to agents of average human intelligence? ...

Then all the average humans are out of work. And there probably isn't enough need for above-average intelligence humans to keep all that many working.

The economy, as we currently run it, ceases to function when unemployment exceeds 50%.

Comment Re:Keep it quiet (Score 1, Insightful) 65

anti-DEI police of the current Administration

That DEI enforcement group seems to be asleep on the job. The current administration has appointed numerous women* to important positions.

*Biological women, that is. Sorry about the rest of you guys. I guess you are going to have to do a better job tucking.

Are you sure about that "biological" thing? Most of them look like Stepford Wives.

Comment Re: What is a "harmful response?" (Score 1) 59

I don't think "continuous" means what you think it means. The reason you can do this is because the models are continuous.

One of the defining papers in this field is 2013 "Intriguing properties of neural networks" by Szegedy et al. In their own words from the abstract, "we find that deep neural networks learn input-output mappings that are fairly discontinuous to a significant extent"

I'm using the word "continuous" in the same sense as them. (Perhaps it does indeed mean what I think it means...)

Comment Re: What is a "harmful response?" (Score 2) 59

In image processing like this article is talking about, the classic example of a harmful response is that your car's camera sees "speed limit 30" sign, but a small sticker it makes the image processor believe it saw a "speed limit 70" sign.

(this is an actual demonstrated attack. It means that pranksters could cripple self driving.)

The thing about these image classifiers is that they're not "continuous". You can make it see a stop sign as a right-of-way sign, or a green light.

Comment Re:CBDC, and so it begins (Score 3, Interesting) 96

As soon as cash is gone, taxes are going to be hiked because economic activity can't escape into the grey zone so easily.

Logically the opposite: as soon as cash is gone, taxes are going to decrease because economic activity can't avoid paying taxes by escaping into the grey zone so easily, and hence the people formerly dodging taxes will start paying their share.

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