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Comment Re:Humans do more then see (Score 1) 50

Humans have already lost. Both Waymo and Tesla FSD have better "accident per mile" numbers than humans. By a lot, it's not margin of error it's not driving locales. They have mimicked human reasoning for nearly all relevant situations aside from highly contrived scenarios you may dream up but never see in real life. It even understands construction worker gestures and signs.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts...

Comment Re: Hold on to your papers... (Score 5, Interesting) 148

You'd think there'll be people solving the easy unsolved problems, but the fact is humans go for glamor. I'll give you a specific example, in my company .. which does biotech .. I mention in passing to every intern the following: "there are about 20,000 genes in the human genome. For many of them, nobody has investigated what it does. You can find numerous lists on this (reference: https://unknome.mrc-lmb.cam.ac... ) .. for example a famous gene like TP53 (which causes cancer when fucked) has tens of thousands of publications made about it (though ironically there's likely still stuff it does that we don't know). Meanwhile as shown in the reference URL there are hundreds of genes that have had no papers published on them. Like zero, no publications .. given the resources available at this company we will let you investigate what those genes do and possibly find out something cool, but, you have to do it on your own time."

Guess how many interns have bothered to do that in the past decade? Zero.

Comment Re:Good or bad? (Score 0) 132

What part of the bill of rights protects your whereabouts in public from being recorded? Are you referring to this: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated"

You aren't being tracked inside your house. Nor is anyone doing a cavity search on you.

Now I agree "mass surveillance" is creepy, but we can have Flock without mass surveillance. If someone is kidnapped or attacked in a particular location the police should have the right to see what cars or persons were around there. How is that different from the police going around asking neighbors if they saw any vehicle or person leaving a building? That's literally what law enforcement has done in the US for over a hundred years. You know, a detective finding out from a homeless dude that "a guy in a red shirt left the building at 11:10am where the crime took place", and then someone else says "a guy wearing a red shirt ran into apartment 13B across the street at 11:15am" . DA takes the case and red shirt owner in apt 123b;We're okay with people convicted on flimsy stuff like that, but not surveillance that shows the perp's movements clearly?

We should make it illegal for surveillance to be abused or utilized to solve minor crimes. Only major felonies. Make it highly illegal to abuse it -- strong jail times attached, and also make any surveillance obtained information on minor crimes impossible to use. So if they catch you smoking weed they can't use that against you.

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