It's inevitable less qualified humans will be replaced by machines. It's inevitable over time more qualified humans will be replaced. It's extremely short-sighted (or disingenuous) to blame government regulations for doing something that is inevitably going to happen just a few years down the line anyway. As machines catch up to and surpass humans in more areas the percentage of humans who cannot be profitably employedwill approach unity. In my opinion the reasons to reject these changes tend to be bad ones.
You have the traditionalists, who just don't want anything to change. You have the sour grape connoisseurs, who believe positive change is undesirable because they see it as unlikely. Then there's the worst of them, the people who believe experiencing unpleasantness like working is intrinsically valuable. It's happening. The list of things humans can do that robots and computers cannot do is shrinking... and that list never grows longer. It's time to look to a future free of involuntary employment. It's time to make it happen as soon as possible.
The link I found about this claims the information is years out of date.
The date of the documents suggested they may not provide information on the group's current membership, but could offer insight into fighters recruited in 2013 as well as its bureaucratic systems.
As I understand it ISIS is basically a different system now than it was in 2013. Still it should provide a huge number of places to investigate. Godspeed, FBI.
Take the right grass and/or companion microbes to break down cellulose into something we can digest and you can even eat the grass while waiting for your more nutritious crops to grow
Not on Mars you can't. Martian soil is highly toxic and will have to be processed and separated before use as farmland.
It's not about it being a robot or about pushing blame. In an emergency a sub-optimal percentage of people take charge, but that's still better than everyone taking charge. You can't get a hundred people out of a burning building by having each of them screaming at the others to shut up and follow. It makes sense to follow an entity designated "emergency guidance" whether it's human or robot because that entity is more likely to understand the structure, situation, and risks than oneself.
I'm reminded of the conversation with Google's Deep Mind. The machine seemed to believe in God.
Human: what is morality?
Machine: what is altruism?
Human: what is the definition of altruism?
Machine: if you don 't believe in god, then you don 't know.
Human: ok... so what is the definition of morality?
Machine: well, the truth is, you 're not a believer in god almighty.
If it were learning from Hindi texts I'm sure it would instead believe in reincarnation and the somewhat-different Hindu moral principles. It would say "You're not a believer in Mighty Harihara"
You're absolutely right: an AI must not learn from fairy tales. At the same time it must learn our fairy tales -- but not for morality. To have an idea of how humans think a strong AI must read our fairy tales with the goal of discovering our weaknesses, fears, prejudices, dreams, and beliefs.
Flash that buttery gold, jittery zeitgeist
Wither by the watering hole, water patrol
What are we, a heart huckabee, art fuckery suddenly?
Not enough young in his lung for the water wings?
Colorfully vulgar poacher at a mulch like
'I'ma pull the pulse out a soldier and bolt.' (Fine)
Sign of the time we elapsed
When a primate climb up the spine and attach
Eye for an eye, by the bog's life swamps and vines
They get a rise out of frogs and flies
So when a dog fights hog-tied prize sorta costs a life
The mouths water on a fork and knife
And the allure isn't right
It's gore on a war-torn beach
Where the cash cows actually beef
Blood turns wine when I leak for police
Like 'That's not a riot, it's a feast, let's eat.'
I looked up some of Aesop Rock's lyrics because I was hoping you're right. This isn't quite word salad, but it's close.
No. I'm not saying it's not broken, I read a paper some years ago showing that Tor can be compromised by anyone owning 50% of the nodes. Using fast nodes can cut that percentage significantly. At the time there were, IIRC, 2400 total Tor nodes. So to say Tor wasn't compromised would be to say the US government didn't have the means and will to set up 1200 systems in various places as Tor nodes. I don't know how many nodes there are now but if it's not in the hundreds of thousands, I would bet my ass the whole network is compromised.
But the people who were caught were caught because they leaked personal information in various forms, or downloaded a script that directly leaked their IP's. It wasn't a weakness in the network. My guess is Tor intelligence is mostly being used for actual national security work: tracking down known terrorists who are dumb enough to rely on Tor for anonymity. There's got to be some parallel construction happening as well, but I think they only use it for serious stuff.
Prohibitions against everything from the MAOB to the rifle have been tried at one time or another. The three that have stuck are chemical, biological, and (mostly) nuclear. Why just these three out of all the way we have of killing each-other? Why is white phosphorous still used but Sarin isn't? It's not because one is more horrible. It's because one is prohibitively expensive and dangerous to "safely" develop, use and transport. Why moab and not nuke? because one is prohibitively expensive and dangerous to develop, use and transport. And why landmines but not smallpox? It's not the number of civilian casualties.
There will come a time when fully automated weapons systems are less expensive to deploy, and safer for one's own side, than a soldier. We already have some fully automated weapons systems out there, for example those guarding the Korean DMZ. But when that day comes no prohibition will prevent widespread deployment of fully autonomous weapons.
Not necessarily. Take, for example, A Modest Proposal I believe it would take human level intelligence the satirical point is easily understood without non-verbal cue.
How would that normalize abusive relationships? Does that work the same way people who play violent video games tend to go shoot up malls? People who can't distinguish reality from fantasy are insane, and they would be dangerous with or without availability of a particular fantasy.
The things I spoke of are visual effects. The things you spoke of require physical intervention and/or are unrelated to this type of technology. We already have AR menu translation and a prototype for the name thing by the way. Wake up and smell the future.
When its full promise is realized AR will be huge. All we have now is gimmicks but AR can draw a line on the ground to point you to your car; draw a circle around your child in the store; track your fallen contact lens; translate menus; show you the right size to chop your onion; alert you to a drunk driver ahead of you; teach you how to change your oil; display the names of people you're looking at; let you practice karate with virtual opponents; plan furniture movement and purchases; and on and on and on. In terms of actual utility they're way ahead of volumetric displays.
It's now virtually impossible to travel through any public space in a major metropolitan area without being captured. They're everywhere, the image quality is better, and the ability to store images for longer has increased.
I'm supposed to think this is a good thing?? I would rather double my insurance costs. People still think automated image recognition is a conspiracy theory. People freely give up every detail of their lives for the privilege of staying connected to their friends on social media. People pay hundreds of dollars for phones that track their location at every moment. What the actual fuck is wrong with 80% of society? I can't believe this massive divergence in values. Am I literally the only person left who cares about his privacy?
Since when do federal laws permit things? The constitution forbids laws that forbid things. This stretch toward the idea that whatever is not expressly permitted, is forbidden is a stretch toward tyranny.
If you want a massive education program it's insane to go to war to get one. Just implement the training program. If you want the government to pay for infrastructure, just push for government-funded infrastructure programs, it's insane to create a war as an excuse. War is insane. Period,
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It's inevitable less qualified humans will be replaced by machines. It's inevitable over time more qualified humans will be replaced. It's extremely short-sighted (or disingenuous) to blame government regulations for doing something that is inevitably going to happen just a few years down the line anyway. As machines catch up to and surpass humans in more areas the percentage of humans who cannot be profitably employedwill approach unity. In my opinion the reasons to reject these changes tend to be bad ones.
You have the traditionalists, who just don't want anything to change. You have the sour grape connoisseurs, who believe positive change is undesirable because they see it as unlikely. Then there's the worst of them, the people who believe experiencing unpleasantness like working is intrinsically valuable. It's happening. The list of things humans can do that robots and computers cannot do is shrinking... and that list never grows longer. It's time to look to a future free of involuntary employment. It's time to make it happen as soon as possible.
Your ilk is the reason I return to Slashdot day after day.
People are dying in droves. Stop the slaughter! Make it illegal to operate a motor vehicle.
I found the prototype
As I understand it ISIS is basically a different system now than it was in 2013. Still it should provide a huge number of places to investigate. Godspeed, FBI.
Take the right grass and/or companion microbes to break down cellulose into something we can digest and you can even eat the grass while waiting for your more nutritious crops to grow
Not on Mars you can't. Martian soil is highly toxic and will have to be processed and separated before use as farmland.
It started as a 2chan clone
For Mootles friends a little home
A place to chat and call their own
and let ideas free to roam.
When you let ideas free
There is no way to certainly
contain their strength and make them be
again your own, So Moot did see:
A visitor, or two or ten
and hundreds more who came to lend
a thought, a hand, a new-found friend
But bigger! moar! it would not end.
By word of mouth there rose a roar
No longer dozens, came by score
of thousands, millions! many more
their thoughts and dreams to there outpour.
And what had once been just a board
and just a place to strike a chord
or crack a joke, well now they warred
against some random other horde.
The memes! the battles! lulz and games!
Boisterous with varied aims
to close a pool or mock a dame's
unworthy vapid haughty claims.
And so our 4chan grew and grew
it gave us wings to fly, and glue
and with our posts turned us into
the family that we never knew
But all good things will find an end
The highest fall.. our souls did rend
Right in the back, a knife did send
our once beloved leader, friend.
Cuck! Cuck! the evil fuck
who sold his family for a buck!
Who sold his soul and freedom's cry
for some ugly bitch he saw pass by
It's not about it being a robot or about pushing blame. In an emergency a sub-optimal percentage of people take charge, but that's still better than everyone taking charge. You can't get a hundred people out of a burning building by having each of them screaming at the others to shut up and follow. It makes sense to follow an entity designated "emergency guidance" whether it's human or robot because that entity is more likely to understand the structure, situation, and risks than oneself.
Yeah! God loves you so much that he'll torture forever if you don't love him back.
Combine it with the war on cash. Up next: Anyone not wearing a trackable GPS chip at all times is forbidden from using money.
If it were learning from Hindi texts I'm sure it would instead believe in reincarnation and the somewhat-different Hindu moral principles. It would say "You're not a believer in Mighty Harihara"
You're absolutely right: an AI must not learn from fairy tales. At the same time it must learn our fairy tales -- but not for morality. To have an idea of how humans think a strong AI must read our fairy tales with the goal of discovering our weaknesses, fears, prejudices, dreams, and beliefs.
Flash that buttery gold, jittery zeitgeist
Wither by the watering hole, water patrol
What are we, a heart huckabee, art fuckery suddenly?
Not enough young in his lung for the water wings?
Colorfully vulgar poacher at a mulch like
'I'ma pull the pulse out a soldier and bolt.' (Fine)
Sign of the time we elapsed
When a primate climb up the spine and attach
Eye for an eye, by the bog's life swamps and vines
They get a rise out of frogs and flies
So when a dog fights hog-tied prize sorta costs a life
The mouths water on a fork and knife
And the allure isn't right
It's gore on a war-torn beach
Where the cash cows actually beef
Blood turns wine when I leak for police
Like 'That's not a riot, it's a feast, let's eat.'
I looked up some of Aesop Rock's lyrics because I was hoping you're right. This isn't quite word salad, but it's close.
No. I'm not saying it's not broken, I read a paper some years ago showing that Tor can be compromised by anyone owning 50% of the nodes. Using fast nodes can cut that percentage significantly. At the time there were, IIRC, 2400 total Tor nodes. So to say Tor wasn't compromised would be to say the US government didn't have the means and will to set up 1200 systems in various places as Tor nodes. I don't know how many nodes there are now but if it's not in the hundreds of thousands, I would bet my ass the whole network is compromised.
But the people who were caught were caught because they leaked personal information in various forms, or downloaded a script that directly leaked their IP's. It wasn't a weakness in the network. My guess is Tor intelligence is mostly being used for actual national security work: tracking down known terrorists who are dumb enough to rely on Tor for anonymity. There's got to be some parallel construction happening as well, but I think they only use it for serious stuff.
which still can't distinguish between a garden shed and a tank
...or at least the ones you know about can't.
Prohibitions against everything from the MAOB to the rifle have been tried at one time or another. The three that have stuck are chemical, biological, and (mostly) nuclear. Why just these three out of all the way we have of killing each-other? Why is white phosphorous still used but Sarin isn't? It's not because one is more horrible. It's because one is prohibitively expensive and dangerous to "safely" develop, use and transport. Why moab and not nuke? because one is prohibitively expensive and dangerous to develop, use and transport. And why landmines but not smallpox? It's not the number of civilian casualties.
There will come a time when fully automated weapons systems are less expensive to deploy, and safer for one's own side, than a soldier. We already have some fully automated weapons systems out there, for example those guarding the Korean DMZ. But when that day comes no prohibition will prevent widespread deployment of fully autonomous weapons.
Not necessarily. Take, for example, A Modest Proposal I believe it would take human level intelligence the satirical point is easily understood without non-verbal cue.
How would that normalize abusive relationships? Does that work the same way people who play violent video games tend to go shoot up malls? People who can't distinguish reality from fantasy are insane, and they would be dangerous with or without availability of a particular fantasy.
The things I spoke of are visual effects. The things you spoke of require physical intervention and/or are unrelated to this type of technology. We already have AR menu translation and a prototype for the name thing by the way. Wake up and smell the future.
When its full promise is realized AR will be huge. All we have now is gimmicks but AR can draw a line on the ground to point you to your car; draw a circle around your child in the store; track your fallen contact lens; translate menus; show you the right size to chop your onion; alert you to a drunk driver ahead of you; teach you how to change your oil; display the names of people you're looking at; let you practice karate with virtual opponents; plan furniture movement and purchases; and on and on and on. In terms of actual utility they're way ahead of volumetric displays.
What can the Slashdot readership do to help things go smoothly?
Okay, but can you provide evidence they were wrong about this?
It's now virtually impossible to travel through any public space in a major metropolitan area without being captured. They're everywhere, the image quality is better, and the ability to store images for longer has increased.
I'm supposed to think this is a good thing?? I would rather double my insurance costs. People still think automated image recognition is a conspiracy theory. People freely give up every detail of their lives for the privilege of staying connected to their friends on social media. People pay hundreds of dollars for phones that track their location at every moment. What the actual fuck is wrong with 80% of society? I can't believe this massive divergence in values. Am I literally the only person left who cares about his privacy?
Since when do federal laws permit things? The constitution forbids laws that forbid things. This stretch toward the idea that whatever is not expressly permitted, is forbidden is a stretch toward tyranny.
I wonder how much someone is getting paid every time the word "uber" is displayed on the front page.
If you want a massive education program it's insane to go to war to get one. Just implement the training program. If you want the government to pay for infrastructure, just push for government-funded infrastructure programs, it's insane to create a war as an excuse. War is insane. Period,