We didn't even have to "pull out". We were never in.
Obama unilaterally agreed to this accord (which by definition, being an international agreement, is a "treaty"), but it was never ratified by Congress, which treaties must be in order to obligate the United States.
You can't pull out of something you were never in.
The Rorschach Test was discredited decades ago. The fact that some psychologists still use it only means that there are quack psychologists just as there are quacks in just about every other field.
Having said that: it is 100% unsurprising that a machine "raised" on nothing by dysfunctional behavior as input will reflect that in its output. GIGO.
People still aren't machines, and machines still aren't even remotely like people. We haven't the slightest clue how to make them that way.
You don't think it's interesting that this happened shortly after our own government warned people to not buy Huawei phones, because they spy on people?
If they can't show any actual damages (and they can't), it's a pointless lawsuit.
Just like if you thought my expanding backyard construction "threatens" to infringe on your own property... unless it actually does, you don't have a case.
That's the way torts generally work in the U.S.
Our laws aren't set up for suing people just because you "think" they "might" do something that harms your interest.
is an utterly ridiculous, nonsensical phrase. Room temperature is measured ultimately in Kelvin, and is so many degrees above theoretical absolute zero.
Even "the vacuum of space", which is not a complete vacuum, is also not at absolute zero, and is a positive temperature. It isn't "cold".
"Cold" is a human-centric term. Something that is far below the freezing of water, for example, most people consider to be pretty damned cold.
But "cold" can only be measured as compared to normal human ambient or body temperature.
So how do you measure "cold"? You don't. There is no way to measure cold. Any more than there is a way to measure "dark". Better close that door, Eugene, or all the dark will leak out.
If the author meant "One ten billionth of the warmth of empty space," that might actually make sense.
Don't forget, folks, we're having a special next week: 75% off the 60% higher price we charged this week. The prices will be so much "less"!
You don't have to "buy". The facts speak for themselves. But nobody can force you to believe them.
Only Keynesian (nee: mainstream) economists have been debating why. Others know. In large part it is Government-Fed collaboration to hold interests low.
But wages HAVE been going up. In my own profession, by as much as 10%. In just the last year and a half.
As for minimum wage: that is a different story.
You may know that Seattle's local government mandated a minimum wage increase recently. Studies showed that in the year since the increase first took effect, it resulted in about $125 LESS monthly for low-wage-earning people.
Keep talking about "economics" and then discussing wage controls. I have little doubt other people -- like me -- will read your words and laugh out loud.
I was going to meta-mod your comment as "-1 bullshit" but I thought I'd reply to it instead.
YES, there is institutional racism here in the U.S. Particularly in colleges and universities. And it has been in place for decades.
It is called "affirmative action". Studies have shown pretty conclusively that it has not worked. And the Supreme Court has signaled that it's probably on its way out.
There was a lot LESS racism in America before Obama got elected. I'm not going to rant about the reasons, but that's a simple fact. Racial tensions were so much higher when he left office than when he began, there is hardly any comparison.
Strangely, a lot of that racial tension has slacked off in the last year. Not all, but a good bit of it.
U.S. intelligence agencies have recommended that US citizens (and especially government officials) stay away from Chinese-designed cell phone brands like One Plus, Hauwei, and ZTE.
They have been found to be "calling home" personal information that you might not appreciate.
Firms like Apple, who create the designs themselves to a low level, and have very strict quality controls and testing, are another matter.
It is the entirely Chinese-designed-and-built brands they recommend not buying.
And no, it's not some government conspiracy theory. Western security researchers have been keeping an eye on this possibility for some time.
Hell, even Samsung TVs were found to be listening in on people's living rooms.
First, please do us a favor and learn Slashdot's formatting features so we know what are actually quotes and what are not.
Thinking further: David Brin described an idea in his book "Earth", a policy that required people on the Internet to see opinions other than their own to re retain their right to vote. A brilliant heroine in the book tuned the necessary filter to receive the most _outrageious_ of the disagreeing postings, to keep her mind and her atttitudes fresh. I admit that I found the policy to be very tempting. Exposure to opposing opinions or opposing data is vital to science and to engineering. It is very easy for a subtle skew in the data being gathered or presented to reinforce an unjustified belief. It's why I appreciate acquaintances of distinct religions, nationalities, or political beliefs. They provide perspective that people just like myself could not provide.
Don't get me wrong; I loved "Earth" as a novel. However, there are several things wrong with this idea.
The first is the assumption that listening to what we, as a civilized society, know to be ideological garbage. Like strong Socialism (or one my say "Communist wannabes").
That is an experiment that failed so often, so consistently, and so horribly, throughout the 20th century, it's a surprise there are still hangers-on like Venezuela and (to a slightly lesser extent) China in the 21st. Venezuela as a political entity is in its death throes, and I think China will start to decline soon as well.
The reason I bring this up is: you might be amazed at just how much NON-valuable, ideologically crazy stuff there is out there in social media. Twitter included.
Trying to listen to the most extreme alternate views will not refresh your mind; it will destroy your faith in humanity.
Intellectual diversity is a great thing. But accepting (for example) young-Earth Creationists and their ideas into your circle of friends will not, in general, make you a better person.
Agree; nobody should be surprised, and I don't think anyone is disputing, that humans, through land-use change, have caused some massive changes to water distribution.
California, for example, is likely fucking itself out of an agricultural future, if it keeps going the way it has been. Nobody wants to give them more water.
The only part I dispute is that they can reliably tell what aspects of that may be genuinely attributable to "climate change".
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China is not an ally.
And ZTE was caught spying on both government and private owners of their products.
You can't obligate the U.S. to a treaty by Executive Order.
FYI, here's how those work:
The President is head (chief executive officer, if you will) of the Executive Branch. Pretty much just like the CEO of a corporation.
He can use Executive Orders to tell his employees (people in the Executive Branch) what to do. That's all.
Executive Orders do not, and cannot by law, obligate anybody but Federal employees to do anything.
Not incorrect.
Hahahaha. You use Snopes as your "authoritative" source? That's funny.
Look it up, man. Treaties have to be ratified by the Senate. Paris never was. It doesn't get much simpler than that.
We didn't even have to "pull out". We were never in.
Obama unilaterally agreed to this accord (which by definition, being an international agreement, is a "treaty"), but it was never ratified by Congress, which treaties must be in order to obligate the United States.
You can't pull out of something you were never in.
No.
It has been apparent for decades that the Turing Test is not an adequate measure of "true AI".
People are too easy to fool.
Programs that pass limited versions of the Turing Test have been around for a very long time.
ELIZA fooled people clear back in 1966. But by all measures it was a rather elementary program.
Not only does "True AI" not yet exist, we really have no idea how to accomplish it.
Not an argument.
That's like saying you shouldn't bitch when someone breaks your arm, because the next person in line got a broken leg.
Fallacious reasoning, plain and simple.
Nimrod was a legendary great hunter.
Bugs Bunny called Elmer Fudd that with tremendous sarcasm.
It's not an insult.
You know, it's funny.
Slashdot used to be a civilized, high-tech-and-science-oriented place.
But these days, make one simple factual statement that goes against the narrative, and get marked down (as I did).
It's pretty sickening, really. The extent some people will go to push lies.
If some of them were even close to 2,000 years old, they have survived both much warmer and much colder conditions than today.
The Medieval Warm Period was 300 years long.
Leftist Seattle City Government: "We're going to tax all the rich big businesses a boatload of money in order to house the homeless."
Big Businesses: "Kiss my WHAT???"
Seattle: "Never mind."
It's to collect money to use to do things that make a society healthier and more productive.
Not about what really happens.
Sorry not sorry, but back at ya.
INTENT is completely irrelevant. What matters is what actually happens.
No.
The Rorschach Test was discredited decades ago. The fact that some psychologists still use it only means that there are quack psychologists just as there are quacks in just about every other field.
Having said that: it is 100% unsurprising that a machine "raised" on nothing by dysfunctional behavior as input will reflect that in its output. GIGO.
People still aren't machines, and machines still aren't even remotely like people. We haven't the slightest clue how to make them that way.
You don't think it's interesting that this happened shortly after our own government warned people to not buy Huawei phones, because they spy on people?
Use your brain.
Doesn't matter.
If they can't show any actual damages (and they can't), it's a pointless lawsuit.
Just like if you thought my expanding backyard construction "threatens" to infringe on your own property... unless it actually does, you don't have a case.
That's the way torts generally work in the U.S.
Our laws aren't set up for suing people just because you "think" they "might" do something that harms your interest.
10 billion times colder...
is an utterly ridiculous, nonsensical phrase. Room temperature is measured ultimately in Kelvin, and is so many degrees above theoretical absolute zero.
Even "the vacuum of space", which is not a complete vacuum, is also not at absolute zero, and is a positive temperature. It isn't "cold".
"Cold" is a human-centric term. Something that is far below the freezing of water, for example, most people consider to be pretty damned cold.
But "cold" can only be measured as compared to normal human ambient or body temperature.
So how do you measure "cold"? You don't. There is no way to measure cold. Any more than there is a way to measure "dark". Better close that door, Eugene, or all the dark will leak out.
If the author meant "One ten billionth of the warmth of empty space," that might actually make sense.
Don't forget, folks, we're having a special next week: 75% off the 60% higher price we charged this week. The prices will be so much "less"!
And before anybody tries to ply me with more bullshit:
I am well aware that the City of Seattle did its own study, with deliberately diddled figures, to show that didn't happen.
EVERYBODY else, and I'm talking economic experts, disagree.
You don't have to "buy". The facts speak for themselves. But nobody can force you to believe them.
Only Keynesian (nee: mainstream) economists have been debating why. Others know. In large part it is Government-Fed collaboration to hold interests low.
But wages HAVE been going up. In my own profession, by as much as 10%. In just the last year and a half.
As for minimum wage: that is a different story.
You may know that Seattle's local government mandated a minimum wage increase recently. Studies showed that in the year since the increase first took effect, it resulted in about $125 LESS monthly for low-wage-earning people.
Keep talking about "economics" and then discussing wage controls. I have little doubt other people -- like me -- will read your words and laugh out loud.
I was going to meta-mod your comment as "-1 bullshit" but I thought I'd reply to it instead.
YES, there is institutional racism here in the U.S. Particularly in colleges and universities. And it has been in place for decades.
It is called "affirmative action". Studies have shown pretty conclusively that it has not worked. And the Supreme Court has signaled that it's probably on its way out.
There was a lot LESS racism in America before Obama got elected. I'm not going to rant about the reasons, but that's a simple fact. Racial tensions were so much higher when he left office than when he began, there is hardly any comparison.
Strangely, a lot of that racial tension has slacked off in the last year. Not all, but a good bit of it.
Why is that, do you think?
Haha! The John Cook "Denial 101" series?
That is your "evidence"?
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!
U.S. intelligence agencies have recommended that US citizens (and especially government officials) stay away from Chinese-designed cell phone brands like One Plus, Hauwei, and ZTE.
They have been found to be "calling home" personal information that you might not appreciate.
Firms like Apple, who create the designs themselves to a low level, and have very strict quality controls and testing, are another matter.
It is the entirely Chinese-designed-and-built brands they recommend not buying.
And no, it's not some government conspiracy theory. Western security researchers have been keeping an eye on this possibility for some time.
Hell, even Samsung TVs were found to be listening in on people's living rooms.
It's time you got a bit more paranoid, folks.
No joke.
I have been on Twitter since late 2006, and have never once seen a commercial ad, except for the occasional newby spammer who started that same day.
But then, different people use it different ways, I suppose.
First, please do us a favor and learn Slashdot's formatting features so we know what are actually quotes and what are not.
Thinking further: David Brin described an idea in his book "Earth", a policy that required people on the Internet to see opinions other than their own to re retain their right to vote. A brilliant heroine in the book tuned the necessary filter to receive the most _outrageious_ of the disagreeing postings, to keep her mind and her atttitudes fresh. I admit that I found the policy to be very tempting. Exposure to opposing opinions or opposing data is vital to science and to engineering. It is very easy for a subtle skew in the data being gathered or presented to reinforce an unjustified belief. It's why I appreciate acquaintances of distinct religions, nationalities, or political beliefs. They provide perspective that people just like myself could not provide.
Don't get me wrong; I loved "Earth" as a novel. However, there are several things wrong with this idea.
The first is the assumption that listening to what we, as a civilized society, know to be ideological garbage. Like strong Socialism (or one my say "Communist wannabes").
That is an experiment that failed so often, so consistently, and so horribly, throughout the 20th century, it's a surprise there are still hangers-on like Venezuela and (to a slightly lesser extent) China in the 21st. Venezuela as a political entity is in its death throes, and I think China will start to decline soon as well.
The reason I bring this up is: you might be amazed at just how much NON-valuable, ideologically crazy stuff there is out there in social media. Twitter included.
Trying to listen to the most extreme alternate views will not refresh your mind; it will destroy your faith in humanity.
Intellectual diversity is a great thing. But accepting (for example) young-Earth Creationists and their ideas into your circle of friends will not, in general, make you a better person.
None of the alternatives are very good.
And yes, I'm including in that list Gab, as ideologically inclusive as it tries to be.
Agree; nobody should be surprised, and I don't think anyone is disputing, that humans, through land-use change, have caused some massive changes to water distribution.
California, for example, is likely fucking itself out of an agricultural future, if it keeps going the way it has been. Nobody wants to give them more water.
The only part I dispute is that they can reliably tell what aspects of that may be genuinely attributable to "climate change".