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Comment Who's monitoring the monitors of the monitors? (Score 1) 156

Here's my question: the AI doomsayers, particularly those in government, are demanding guardrails for security. In other words, mere mortals shouldn't be allowed access to sophisticated hacking functionality. Okay, but what if you want to use those tools to look for vulnerabilities in your own systems so nefarious entities won't be able to hack them? Will you have to go to some supposedly trusted government agency to have them tell you whether or not your systems are secure (for a nominal service fee)? How do you know you can trust them? Because they're the government?

Comment Can't be or won't be recycled? (Score 1) 117

That's the question. Is it truly that some plastic CAN'T be recycled or is it more likely that they aren't because it's too expensive or time consuming to do so and there's no market for it? Places like California love to stroke their own egos when they have 27 different trash containers for every conceivable use-case and then it's out-of-sight-out-of-mind. Just like everywhere else that uses one recycle container.

Comment AI does a LOT of grunt work (Score 2) 120

Let's say that you have 6 years worth of information about an organization. You want to create a year-over-year summary report that drills into what the organization did and more importantly, what all that cost. Could you hire a few of people to pour over that data and try to come up with something useful? Sure. They'd be expensive and they take a lot of time to do the job. Also, you never know if they're not cherry-picking the data or concealing some of it because they have a personal axe to grind. Humans have their own motivations or lack thereof. They might not actually do the work and instead come up with a report that's B.S while using the money you paid them to go to Tahiti. AI would do this task in a day or two and it won't conveniently forget to include data because of some ideological viewpoint.

At this point, you do have to iterate a few times and disambiguate the information so it can process it correctly. But it asks you for clarification instead of assuming. The models are going to become more efficient and require fewer iterations over the next couple of years.

Ultimately, you do have to have a pretty good understanding of the subject matter in order to collaborate well. If you don't know the first thing about electronics and you asked AI to design a circuit to do something, it probably won't work. But if you know how to tell AI what you're seeing on scopes and meters, it can help you make modifications to get it to work. That applies to pretty much any subject. The people using AI to make a lot of money in the market most likely already have a good understanding of how the market works.

Comment Technological yin-yang (Score 1) 98

Every piece of technology can be used for both good and bad. On the one hand, flock cameras could track an Amber alert suspect. I know of a case in Arizona where a murderer killed two people and drove the bodies all the way to Ohio where he borrowed his neighbor's backhoe in order to bury not just the bodies but the car they were in. So, arguably a good use-case for this tech.

But then you have the recent video of cops in Colorado accusing some woman of being a porch pirate saying that she can't make a move in this town without them knowing about it. Turns out that she was totally innocent and someone else was the pirate.

So, the old saying that those who would sacrifice liberty for temporary security deserve neither is entirely appropriate here. What happens when the next actual fascist administration comes along and cooks up some over-hyped scary disease and uses flock cameras to lock you up because you violated some bullshit lockdown order? I'm guessing that 50% of you would want the cameras gone while another 50% would say "Good, lock them up because I don't want to get sick." To the latter, I say "Your papers are not in order."

Comment Harbinger of a future SCOTUS case (Score 1) 295

If this gets passed, and I doubt it will, it will definitely be taken up by SCOTUS. Assuming that the court doesn't get f*cked by packing it with crazy socialists, the tax will get thrown out.

Taxing unrealized capital gains is no different than taxing new university graduates on future income that they haven't actually made yet because, you know, some of them will eventually become wealthy because of the career path they were blessed with so why not tax them now.

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