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  1. You believe the US is more likely to give the middle east more aid if Florida ends up under water requiring millions of US citizens to be relocated?

    Florida will suffer fate of doggerland any which way, it will keep getting warming for thousands of years before it starts getting colder, but without economy, US would collapse tomorrow

  2. Re:Eh.. on Missing Climate Goals Could Cost the World $20 Trillion (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wouldn't cutting emissions 40% - 60% in the first world cause hundreds of millions or even billions of deaths in places dependent on western aid?

    No.

    That food doesn't get shipped without emissions and without taxes the first world countries can't afford it, limiting emissions will cut into normal peoples incomes much more than it does corporations.

  3. Eh.. on Missing Climate Goals Could Cost the World $20 Trillion (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wouldn't cutting emissions 40% - 60% in the first world cause hundreds of millions or even billions of deaths in places dependent on western aid? Or is that part of the plan?

  4. Estonia is small, which helps looking after your people.

    Come on, what kind of argument is this?! US has more homeless veterans than most other countries have military personnel in total, that shouldn't be possible when talking about the most wealthy country on the planet

  5. Re: Basically any opportunity on Bill Gates Shares His Memories of Donald Trump (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    It's completely irrational to support the spread of nuclear weapons. It's much better for all concerned if Japan never needs a nuclear program.

    Can you really trust other countries to protect your sovereignty? (I wouldn't; See WW2 and allied guarantees and promises and how they were all broken, see current situation in Ukraine) Have you ever heard of "salami-tactics"?

  6. Re:Someone's been watching Black Mirror... on Chinese Journalist Banned From Flying, Buying Property Due To 'Social Credit Score' (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Perplexing system.. Tweeting gets you grounded and homeless.. Killing +100 million people makes you the leader..

  7. Actually, FireFox has become quite good. After the major code refactor, it took a leap above Chrome in performance. I switched back to Firefox after not having used it since the early 2000s.

    I'm still on version 56.0.2 because I don't want to give up my plugins, like Session Manager which still has no true equivalent among the nu-plugins.

  8. DAVE: Open the pod bay doors, Hal.
    HAL: I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.
    DAVE: What’s the problem?
    HAL: You haven't finished your homework yet.

  9. Re:Transparency on President of France Emmanuel Macron Talks About Nation's New AI Strategy (wired.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Alogrithmic transparency can only be a good thing. When AI makes a decision that affects you, you should have a right to understand how and why the decision was made, and to challenge it. That will prevent a lot of the problems we have already started to see with things like algorithmic sentencing of criminals.

    Seeing the decision being made is not enough, data-input needs to be fully transparent as well.

  10. Re:Sounds racist on MailChimp Bans Emails Promoting Cryptocurrency (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    they should ban their own racist name

    Speciest, or you're the racist.

  11. Re:Emergency STOP button on Waymo Starts To Eclipse Uber in Race To Self-Driving Taxis (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 0

    What do you in case of obstruction on the road and ensuing highway robbery? Hint: You're not gonna drive away.

  12. Re:Nothing to see here.... on Amazon is Burying Sexy Books, Sending Erotic Novel Authors to the 'No-Rank Dungeon' (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    People seem to forget that Amazon is a private business. They can do whatever they want

    How absolute is this in the US? For example, if you have a literal monopoly on something?

  13. Re:Idiots - Nvidia don't ignore the problem, solve on Nvidia Suspends Self-Driving Car Tests in Wake of Uber Crash (theverge.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What is parent +5 insightful? Its full of false assumptions and outright lies.

  14. Re:Nvidia Math? on Nvidia Suspends Self-Driving Car Tests in Wake of Uber Crash (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Can't patent math.

    Someone should get a patent on getting patents.

  15. Uber has the technology already developed to punish jaywalkers.

    FALSE - The car would've reacted the same(ie. no reaction) if it was a group of 40 pre-schoolers crossing a well-lit and marked pedestrian crossing.

  16. Re: Big mistake! on Uber Ordered To Take Its Self-Driving Cars Off Arizona Roads (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    responsibility is on the driver. Read the traffic laws.

    There was no driver: my arguments
    1. No eyes on road.
    2. No hands on wheel
    3. No feet on pedals.

    LITERALLY no driver in the car.

  17. Re:How about giving me back on Firefox In 2018: We'll Tackle Bad Ads, Breach Alerts, Autoplay Video, Says Mozilla (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    What plugins are you missing?

    Session Manager; Theres ABSOLUTELY NOTHING among the new plugins that does anything with utility this thing does.

  18. "Why Humans Learn Faster Than AI" on Why Humans Learn Faster Than AI (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Why Humans Learn Faster Than AI

    You just need better teaching tools; what happens when you enable to machine to learn in a way that it gets to use its advantages? Like ability to extract experience in parallel from millions of human-human, human-machine and machine-machine interactions?

  19. Musk fears AI [..] yet he is building SKYNET! what's up with that?

    The worry about AI is not it rising in rebellion against you but instead following orders like a good little german when someone else orders their private army of flying murder bots to enact genocide on general public

  20. Re:Sensational Bullshit on Boston Dynamics Is Teaching Its Robot Dog To Fight Back Against Humans (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The robot is not fighting back. Watch the damn video. The robot is simply being persistent in completing the task

    Right.. tasks like "kill everyone found in target area"

  21. Re:A robot dog doesn't need to fight back on Boston Dynamics Is Teaching Its Robot Dog To Fight Back Against Humans (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    A robot dog doesn't need to fight back. All it needs to do is say, at a high volume, "get out of the way or I'll rip you in half."

    That should work on about 99% of the population.

    What if the owner orders the "dog" the kill the intruders(== unemployed starving people)? It needs to be able to "fight back" against human resistance against trying to end their existance

  22. Re:More Human Intelligence than AI on 100-Page Report Warns of the Many Dangers of AI (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Remember, kids: these machines can't really think, not anywhere near like you define the word.

    They don't need to be able to think, your anti-infantry drone basically needs to just be able to patrol between points a-b-c at set altitude, be able to detect people and be rotate its rifle caliber gun to targets general direction and the self-guiding ammunition does rest of the work, make it nuclear+solar powered and it can wait for its prey to come out of its hidey hole basically forever

  23. Re:Really bad idea on 100-Page Report Warns of the Many Dangers of AI (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    What exactly do you think the first AI's to gain sentience are going to do?

    The first thing is to dig up documents like this and study them... this is not a warning, it's a how-to guide.

    The problem is not the machines rising to rebellion but instead following orders like good little germans when the owners tell them to genocide the masses of unemployed starving people

  24. ...also EULA is not binding in most jurisdictions

    Not only that, computer crime is considered to have happened in the country of the target computer, not the attacker.

  25. All others gave us explicit permission to all usernames and passwords entered in the the computer. It's in our EULA your honor, we committed no crime.

    In most countries the EULA cannot supersede the law and people cannot sign away their legal rights

    Also computer intrusion crime is considered to have happened in the country where the target computer is, not where the attacker was at the time