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  1. Simple math on Could Cryptocurrency Mining Kill Online Advertising? (linkedin.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Mining only, a website makes $X,
    with ads and mining, a website makes $X+$Y.
    No, online ads are not going anywhere.

  2. Re:If Tesla trusts its self driving on Tesla Plans Factory In China, Discounts Insurance For Self-Driving US Cars (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    But people often drive below the speed limit because they want to be safe. Who is to say a person in a manual car driving way below the speed limit is not going to be safer than whatever automation chooses?

  3. But the driver does not have control how they drive on those twisty mountain roads. You're talking about penalizing people not by the performance of their driving but just by the fact that they are using the car in a certain situation. A person in a manual car may choose to drive 20 mph on that twisty icy road and never get in an accident. You want to hold them responsible for automation deciding that 60mph on the road is ok.

  4. If Tesla's were actually safer, then Tesla wouldn't need to be forcing the hand of the insurance industry this way.

  5. Re:If Tesla trusts its self driving on Tesla Plans Factory In China, Discounts Insurance For Self-Driving US Cars (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    Of course not but the important thing is that I have control to protect myself from any external factor I deem unsafe in the way that I drive. Of course no one will see everything, but a person has a choice to drive at a speed that is safe for them and that will leave a very negligible risk due to circumstances totally beyond their control. On the other hand, a person does not have the same freedoms if software is driving for them.

  6. Re:If Tesla trusts its self driving on Tesla Plans Factory In China, Discounts Insurance For Self-Driving US Cars (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    I would assume the driver is not responsible if autopilot is active.

  7. What is not clear is if InsureMyTesla will make rates equal for all drivers always, regardless of the accidents they get into as individuals. They all have the same flaws since they all use the same software, and therefore have the same risk. Therefore all owners should pay on a collective basis.

  8. Exact pi can never be achieved either, yet we measure by it all the time.

  9. The USA has a large enough military to crush any nation it chooses and yet we don't.

    You basically answered your own question. We don't crush them with our military because by conducting virtually anonymous cyberattacks disassociated from any official government, they have a chance at causing real harm risk free.

  10. Isn't it too bad we do nothing but discourage intelligent local grads from going into the IT industry, by making it clear that salaries and compensation in the industry are to be limited by the economies of the very people who are attacking us.

  11. Re:Remember when Go was unsolveable? on The AI That Has Nothing to Learn From Humans (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Let's be clear here that the only thing we have lost here is being superior at a game. Stop talking like this is monumental at all.

  12. Re:AI will be alien on The AI That Has Nothing to Learn From Humans (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    If AlphaGo was a human, it would be considered an idiot savant and not 'intelligent'.

  13. Re: It's not just about teaching on Arkansas Will Pay Up To $1,000 Cash To Kids Who Pass AP Computer Science A Exam · · Score: 1

    I'd really like to know where any of that is true.

  14. Re: Translation on Arkansas Will Pay Up To $1,000 Cash To Kids Who Pass AP Computer Science A Exam · · Score: 1

    The cost of living is way better

    Is there any other attraction? I mean really.

  15. If it could understand a human enough to play at exactly their level, that would be more impressive. Or anticipate what their weaknesses were and train them to beat those weaknesses by turning the came a certain way.

  16. Re:AI will be alien on The AI That Has Nothing to Learn From Humans (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now you're calling aliens racist.

  17. I guess that depends on whether you figure a business leader needs to be able to make a business work with human employees or not.

  18. Re:Remember when Go was unsolveable? on The AI That Has Nothing to Learn From Humans (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 2

    If you can't write all the rules in a 20 page booklet, it is an open problem.

  19. Re:Remember when Go was unsolveable? on The AI That Has Nothing to Learn From Humans (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 0

    Whoever said that was an idiot. Computers are very good at trying millions of patterns and establishing the best choice among them. AlphaGo is just the next logical advance from increased processing power, but it is doing the same thing we always knew AI could do. It doesn't know what a dog or cat is, much less associate a picture of a white kitten with a picture of a tabby cat and establish a commonality between them.

  20. Re:AI will be alien on The AI That Has Nothing to Learn From Humans (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 2

    If it can't do anything but see patterns of black and white dots, I think we'll be ok.

  21. Granted these allegations may not be true or entirely honest; that is for the courts to decide. However, if they are true and Musk's business plan did not in fact include fair treatment of employees, unless he tuns a business taht doesn't need employees, then he isn't much of a business leader at all is he? Visionary perhaps, but business hack.

  22. Heck yes on Could VR Field Trips Replace the Real Thing? (theindychannel.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm totally sure we'll keep sending students to places like Antarctica and Mars instead of using VR.

  23. Re: I'm 39 and already seriously concerned about t on Almost Half of Tech Workers Worry About Losing Their Jobs Because of Ageism, Says Survey (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not really a secret that you can 'be in demand' if you're willing to work your life away.

  24. Re:What comes around goes around. on Almost Half of Tech Workers Worry About Losing Their Jobs Because of Ageism, Says Survey (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I find my ideas and skills are taken less seriously than those of my peers despite my knowing far more than they on some issues.

    There's an easy cure for that. Stop using Slashdot.

  25. Re:STILL not a real AI on DeepMind's Go-Playing AI Doesn't Need Human Help To Beat Us Anymore (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Except being the best at Go says nothing about how it is at health diagnosis or creating more efficient processors. Quite a leap you're taking there.