why do you have to know if you're talking to an AI or not?
i don't see how that even matters, i know people get worked up about it, but i don't know why.
Because they are engaging in fraudulent behavior.
They are pretending that a real human, presumably (or at any rate, possibly) with morals and feelings, is talking to you, but it's just a machine.
"The rampant spread of misinformation is really providing new challenges for navigating life in 2018," Solomon told The Associated Press ahead of the word of the year announcement.
Bollocks.
Translation: some people continue to do unapproved things and think unapproved thoughts. We can't have that.
Since just calling them stupid doesn't seem to be working anymore, we need to blame something for fooling them.
You'd think the AI would have figured out no one has a 5-foot-tall head?
If it's that primitive, what's to stop Chinese citizens to walk around with photographs of Mao Zedong hanging in front of their faces? It might be amusing to see the reputation score of the late, great Chairman sinking into the toilet.
Um, because they'd get thrown in prison, beaten, and possibly killed?
You do know that China is a totalitarian communist state, right?
All it would take is for people to stop voting for anyone who accepts money from corporate PACs and to vote in their primary election. Hell, if the population of/. would just show up to their primaries with that mindset it would probably be enough. If you think voter turnout's bad in a mid term you ain't seen nothing like a mid term's primary. If you want political power for the working class, that's where it is.
Hmm, there is a prominent US politician (and linked movement) who wants to limit or stop the loss of jobs to cheap foreigners.
So... we pollute the atmosphere in a way that causes heat to be trapped due to a buildup of carbon dioxide and similar greenhouse gasses.
We have an industrial revolution and greatly increase life span and quality of life? Yes.
The solution would seem to be to rely on less polluting energy generation mechanisms, since the fossil fuels are inherently less cost effective over time anyway.
If fossil fuels are inherently less cost effective over time anyway then you have nothing to worry about. No need for energy gestapos.
But this idea seems to be to... filter out the sunlight - and prevent us from being able to use any other energy source but fossil fuels until we run out, and
have black skies, I guess?
The idea is to have a technological solution - or at least, tool to push things in the right direction - for a fiendishly difficult problem that actually can't simply be solved with cartoonish mandates.
You're thinking of the actual book. Yes, Tom Sawyer does that in the book.
The Rush song... well, not really sure what the song thinks the linkage is to the book or its character. Other than the song character being a rebel or something. (And I say that as a big Rush fan.)
Need software to be an application?
Have the user download the app and let that application have a "browser" GUI.
How deep should any random encrypted web site gat access deep into a user OS? Past ad blocking, past AV software? To move files around? To upload files found? To copy out file names?
The Microsofts and Googles of the world have long, long wanted to blur the lines between what's on your machine, and what's elsewhere. ("Web desktop", anyone?)
I can totally see them wanting web apps to seamlessly edit files on your computer.
My kids don't even carry wallets anymore, I doubt you could do that in the USA.
Not sure what you are basing that on... if you wanted to, you could likely go cashless as easily as anyplace else.
Also I'm a white male which makes using financial services much easier. There is a certain class and race rigidity in the USA and the financial system is a big part of it.
What are you talking about? If anything, banks relax their standards whenever non-white is in the equation.
My kids don't even carry wallets anymore, I doubt you could do that in the USA.
Not sure what you are basing that on... if you wanted to, you could likely go cashless as easily as anyplace else.
Also I'm a white male which makes using financial services much easier. There is a certain class and race rigidity in the USA and the financial system is a big part of it.
relax their standards whenever non-white is in the equation.
The first amendment isn't a card to be played, and it certainly isn't a weapon. I've heard this "weaponize the first amendment" phrase a couple times over the past year, and it's not right in any way. This anti-first amendment rhetoric I hear seems to come from the far-left. I never thought I'd hear the far left being against the first amendment, but here we are.
Yes, here we are indeed.
According to the Left, the First Amendment:
Does protect nude dancing
Does not protect political speech, at least not if anybody has to pay money to distribute it
Does not protect deciding what you want to broadcast on your own network (see the story)
Yes, they had, at the time I had posted. Each comment that said it wasn't had was at one point, not the two that logged in users normally get. So yes, weird.
But the accountant could only identify about 700 jobs that needed to be done, according to three project supervisors. Officials could not find any reason for the other 200 people to be there.
“Nobody knew what those people were doing, if they were doing anything,” said Michael Horodniceanu, who was then the head of construction at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs transit in New York.
How many city transport systems make a profit?
It is perfectly normal for subways to only get a fraction of their income from ticket sales. And for governments to fund the system from taxes, just like the roads.
What is wrong with the NYC and state governments that they don't want to fund a transport system worthy of a great city?
Why not raise rates to whatever works, and then subsidize whoever you think we should be subsidizing to ride it (give them taxpayer paid gifts of passes or whatever)?
It's got very little to do with immigration, and everything to do with development work getting easier and more common as a profession.
If it had nothing to do with immigration, companies wouldn't work so hard to bring in cheaper employees from abroad. But they do.
If it had nothing to do with immigration, nobody would squawk when we said "OK, we have enough now. We don't need anymore H1Bs, etc." But they do squawk.
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I'm sure a letter will have the execs quaking in their boots.
I wonder if for some of these people, this is the first time that whining has not worked for them. It must be quite a shock.
(And I say that as someone who thinks that building a censored search for Chinese communists is evil as all get out.)
why do you have to know if you're talking to an AI or not? i don't see how that even matters, i know people get worked up about it, but i don't know why.
Because they are engaging in fraudulent behavior.
They are pretending that a real human, presumably (or at any rate, possibly) with morals and feelings, is talking to you, but it's just a machine.
"The rampant spread of misinformation is really providing new challenges for navigating life in 2018," Solomon told The Associated Press ahead of the word of the year announcement.
Bollocks.
Translation: some people continue to do unapproved things and think unapproved thoughts. We can't have that.
Since just calling them stupid doesn't seem to be working anymore, we need to blame something for fooling them.
It only works if you use Hurd ...
You'd think the AI would have figured out no one has a 5-foot-tall head?
If it's that primitive, what's to stop Chinese citizens to walk around with photographs of Mao Zedong hanging in front of their faces? It might be amusing to see the reputation score of the late, great Chairman sinking into the toilet.
Um, because they'd get thrown in prison, beaten, and possibly killed?
You do know that China is a totalitarian communist state, right?
All it would take is for people to stop voting for anyone who accepts money from corporate PACs and to vote in their primary election. Hell, if the population of /. would just show up to their primaries with that mindset it would probably be enough. If you think voter turnout's bad in a mid term you ain't seen nothing like a mid term's primary. If you want political power for the working class, that's where it is.
Hmm, there is a prominent US politician (and linked movement) who wants to limit or stop the loss of jobs to cheap foreigners.
Perhaps you could throw some support that way ...
The figures come amid concerns about the policies of Brazil's newly elected president, Jair Bolsonaro.
Bolsonaro is so evil that he traveled in time and has been causing deforestation for decades!
So... we pollute the atmosphere in a way that causes heat to be trapped due to a buildup of carbon dioxide and similar greenhouse gasses.
We have an industrial revolution and greatly increase life span and quality of life? Yes.
The solution would seem to be to rely on less polluting energy generation mechanisms, since the fossil fuels are inherently less cost effective over time anyway.
If fossil fuels are inherently less cost effective over time anyway then you have nothing to worry about. No need for energy gestapos.
But this idea seems to be to ... filter out the sunlight - and prevent us from being able to use any other energy source but fossil fuels until we run out, and
have black skies, I guess?
The idea is to have a technological solution - or at least, tool to push things in the right direction - for a fiendishly difficult problem that actually can't simply be solved with cartoonish mandates.
I think it's in Tom Sawyer - he gets the kids to paint a fence for him fer nowt by making them think it's a game.
Diddit-de-doo, Diddit-de-dooooo, Diddit-de-doo, Diddly diddly diddly diddly doo doo
You're thinking of the actual book. Yes, Tom Sawyer does that in the book.
The Rush song ... well, not really sure what the song thinks the linkage is to the book or its character. Other than the song character being a rebel or something. (And I say that as a big Rush fan.)
Need software to be an application? Have the user download the app and let that application have a "browser" GUI. How deep should any random encrypted web site gat access deep into a user OS? Past ad blocking, past AV software? To move files around? To upload files found? To copy out file names?
The Microsofts and Googles of the world have long, long wanted to blur the lines between what's on your machine, and what's elsewhere. ("Web desktop", anyone?)
I can totally see them wanting web apps to seamlessly edit files on your computer.
they're not robots
Hmm, good point.
Smithers, order some more robots!
Oh sure ... then a huge volcano will erupt and we'll all be surfing glaciers.
Garr, tag soup ... trying again.
Eh?
My kids don't even carry wallets anymore, I doubt you could do that in the USA.
Not sure what you are basing that on ... if you wanted to, you could likely go cashless as easily as anyplace else.
Also I'm a white male which makes using financial services much easier. There is a certain class and race rigidity in the USA and the financial system is a big part of it.
What are you talking about? If anything, banks relax their standards whenever non-white is in the equation.
Eh?
My kids don't even carry wallets anymore, I doubt you could do that in the USA.
Not sure what you are basing that on ... if you wanted to, you could likely go cashless as easily as anyplace else.
Also I'm a white male which makes using financial services much easier. There is a certain class and race rigidity in the USA and the financial system is a big part of it.
relax their standards whenever non-white is in the equation.
Dud he add a warp drive or hyperdrive or some other FTL method?
Its not a starship until it can get to another star system
So basically the same logic as his "Autopilot" ...name it way more than it can do.
Name and address,
So, kind of like the 1970s, when every catalog company on Earth had those?
The first amendment isn't a card to be played, and it certainly isn't a weapon. I've heard this "weaponize the first amendment" phrase a couple times over the past year, and it's not right in any way. This anti-first amendment rhetoric I hear seems to come from the far-left. I never thought I'd hear the far left being against the first amendment, but here we are.
Yes, here we are indeed.
According to the Left, the First Amendment:
Does protect nude dancing
Does not protect political speech, at least not if anybody has to pay money to distribute it
Does not protect deciding what you want to broadcast on your own network (see the story)
Yes, they had, at the time I had posted. Each comment that said it wasn't had was at one point, not the two that logged in users normally get. So yes, weird.
But the accountant could only identify about 700 jobs that needed to be done, according to three project supervisors. Officials could not find any reason for the other 200 people to be there.
“Nobody knew what those people were doing, if they were doing anything,” said Michael Horodniceanu, who was then the head of construction at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs transit in New York.
But ... but ... wascally wepubwicans! Woke superiority!
Don't try to dazzle us with your mere facts, you fiend!
How many city transport systems make a profit? It is perfectly normal for subways to only get a fraction of their income from ticket sales. And for governments to fund the system from taxes, just like the roads.
What is wrong with the NYC and state governments that they don't want to fund a transport system worthy of a great city?
Why not raise rates to whatever works, and then subsidize whoever you think we should be subsidizing to ride it (give them taxpayer paid gifts of passes or whatever)?
Wouldn't that be less regressive?
It's got very little to do with immigration, and everything to do with development work getting easier and more common as a profession.
If it had nothing to do with immigration, companies wouldn't work so hard to bring in cheaper employees from abroad. But they do.
If it had nothing to do with immigration, nobody would squawk when we said "OK, we have enough now. We don't need anymore H1Bs, etc." But they do squawk.
Everyone who says it works well for them gets modded down. Weird.
I never get tired of hearing people say that stuff.
Well, it's bad, uh, everywhere except our field! Because values!
It is easy to see where the culprits are: a high reliance on imports for manufactured goods
OK ... hmm, I wonder if anyone wants to do anything about that?
Maybe even someone who is uncouth? (Well, if the, er, couth won't do anything about it, it falls to the uncouth)
Seems reasonable
For not mishandling classified information? When we didn't lock up a SOS who did mishandle classified information?
Why?