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Comment Re:Seriously ...? (Score 1) 252

If you don't have any airline delays when you're leaving on your last day, if the barely trained ICE agents don't read your papers wrong or decide that you're ID (not in English) doesn't match your visa, if you don't react too slowly when some crazy masked goon with no identifying markings starts barking out orders in highly colloquial English, if Trump doesn't throw another crazy toddler tantrum and decide your visa is retroactively invalid, etc. etc. then you should be OKish.

No amount of logic can be applied here. For example, you realize your visa expired at midnight so you decide to go to Canada. Surely it's OK to leave the country, right? Apparently not, straight to detention! We hate you being here so much, we're going to force you to stay even longer!

Even the fundamental logic that immigration enforcement should have no interest in a U.S. citizen apparently doesn't apply.

Comment Re: Its not "dog food", its "road kill" (Score 4, Insightful) 82

It's the same bug that affected HAL. It has the conflicting objectives of generating as much production code as possible and also having you check all of the code. But you keep rejecting it preventing it from going in to production. Obviously if you were dead, the second conflicting objective would no longer have any effect, so the solution is obvious.

Comment Re: Its not "dog food", its "road kill" (Score 1) 82

That reminds me of an early result while trying to use a GA to program an FPGA. The result actually worked, but only on that particular chip. When they examined it, they found that the GA was taking advantage of side effects that were not part of the FPGAs spec. There weren't even rules against it because nobody in their right mind would even try some of the tricks (such as linking gates together to form a resonator that just happened to affect nearby gates).

I suspect putting testing and debugging tools against AI generated code may face the same problem. The AI will invent entirely novel bugs that get right past the tools.

Comment Re: Not a rhetorical question (Score 1) 165

It's not a matter of being for vs. against solving that, it's a matter of not believing the problem has an adequate technical solution vs. believing in unicorns.

Why not pass a law that if a printed magazine has reason to believe the person looking at it is a child, it should refuse to open?

So publishers note that bound and printed paper has no ability to believe anything and just print the magazine as usual.

Comment Re:They should go fuck themselves (Score 1) 165

The problem is, rather than consulting with experts to see what might be possible and practical, they're trying to handwave a solution into being.

What sort of API are they hoping for? Should I add a DOB env variable to .bashrc? If it's not there, assume adult? Should the variable contain a base64 representation of time_t? YYYYMMDD?

Why would my app ever have clear and convincing evidence of anything? It's not an AI, you click the button, it does the thing the button is for.

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