The main reason why there is no criminality among animals is that there are no laws among them either. No laws, no criminals. Without a law against shooting you and taking your stuff, I shoot you and take your stuff without becoming a criminal.
Well, we belong to the kingdom Animalia, the phylum Chordata, the Mammalia class and Primates order, the Hominidae family, Genus homo and Species Homo Sapiens.
Except for the last one there are other animals we share this trait with. And except for the latter two, there are currently others who share the same level on the classification chart.
What makes a human human? What makes a human not an animal? What's special about us?
You know what country has the most assault weapons per capita in private hands? Switzerland. You know in what country you have one of the lowest gun related homicides worldwide? Switzerland.
It's not the guns. It's the people wielding them and the situation they're in. Want to eliminate killing sprees? Give people a reason not to go on one.
The crackpot I'm talking about is the person the site cites as its authority, David Talbott. A man so important that he didn't even get his own Wikipedia page, so I can only link to other sources. Let's not take the ones that "slander" him as the crackpot he is, let's use his entry in the Velikovsky Encyclopedia.
Velikovsky was by the way the psychiatrist who invented the woo we're talking about here.
There's a big difference between "there might be another reason" and "let's listen to a crackpot tell us his fairy tales that will fundamentally change what we know about the universe".
The whole shit is based on the ideas of a psychiatrist, I wouldn't be surprised if he pulled it off knowing more about how to trick humans into believing you than astronomy.
An algorithm cares about is nothing but whether it's profitable. Rest assured it will be biased. Why? Because of exactly that. All it takes is that some algorithm determines that $minority as a group has a higher chance of destroying something, not paying rent or generally being something you don't want as a landlord. And there you go.
This is near certain. Yes, that's unfair. Algorithms don't care about fairness, though. They "care" (strange word with computers. Or corporations for that matter...) about profit.
Just like I was really pissed when I was 23 and needed to rent a car and they only would've given me one if I paid through the nose. That's ageism! Or an algorithm telling them that young people tend to have more accidents.
Work out how to construct them and make them part of your platform. I have a hunch that right now this could bring in some decent dollar from private citizens.
Just because what they do isn't illegal doesn't mean it's right. I know that the prevailing idea in the US (and increasingly in the rest of the world) is "if it ain't illegal I'm entitled to do it".
Yes. You won't get locked up for doing it. Ok. That does NOT mean that I have to like you or even that I must not hate you for doing it. Being legal doesn't make it right.
Just like being illegal doesn't make it wrong, by the way.
I have to thank you for that link, the Flat Earthers have really become stale (I mean, let's be honest here, they just circle-jerk around the same arguments just like the religious nuts) and debunking them is starting to bore people. This should provide material for at least a few months.
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The main reason why there is no criminality among animals is that there are no laws among them either. No laws, no criminals. Without a law against shooting you and taking your stuff, I shoot you and take your stuff without becoming a criminal.
Out of curiosity, where do you work? Want to bet I find a reason to kill you for it?
Well, we belong to the kingdom Animalia, the phylum Chordata, the Mammalia class and Primates order, the Hominidae family, Genus homo and Species Homo Sapiens.
Except for the last one there are other animals we share this trait with. And except for the latter two, there are currently others who share the same level on the classification chart.
What makes a human human? What makes a human not an animal? What's special about us?
You know what country has the most assault weapons per capita in private hands? Switzerland. You know in what country you have one of the lowest gun related homicides worldwide? Switzerland.
It's not the guns. It's the people wielding them and the situation they're in. Want to eliminate killing sprees? Give people a reason not to go on one.
Huh? Did he get promoted from president to immortal god?
The crackpot I'm talking about is the person the site cites as its authority, David Talbott. A man so important that he didn't even get his own Wikipedia page, so I can only link to other sources. Let's not take the ones that "slander" him as the crackpot he is, let's use his entry in the Velikovsky Encyclopedia.
Velikovsky was by the way the psychiatrist who invented the woo we're talking about here.
That's what I did. Worked pretty well so far.
The algorithm does not care.
Sorry, I was using the maturity level of the original post as the general gauge.
Where did you get that from?
There's a big difference between "there might be another reason" and "let's listen to a crackpot tell us his fairy tales that will fundamentally change what we know about the universe".
The whole shit is based on the ideas of a psychiatrist, I wouldn't be surprised if he pulled it off knowing more about how to trick humans into believing you than astronomy.
An algorithm cares about is nothing but whether it's profitable. Rest assured it will be biased. Why? Because of exactly that. All it takes is that some algorithm determines that $minority as a group has a higher chance of destroying something, not paying rent or generally being something you don't want as a landlord. And there you go.
This is near certain. Yes, that's unfair. Algorithms don't care about fairness, though. They "care" (strange word with computers. Or corporations for that matter...) about profit.
Just like I was really pissed when I was 23 and needed to rent a car and they only would've given me one if I paid through the nose. That's ageism! Or an algorithm telling them that young people tend to have more accidents.
How could you miss the opportunity to make a Uranus joke here?
The story is really amazing when you see it from HALs perspective. What you have there is a computer trying to solve a classic double bind situation.
And finding a solution for it.
The section for the nutjobs is a few comments up where the religious nut started it.
Work out how to construct them and make them part of your platform. I have a hunch that right now this could bring in some decent dollar from private citizens.
Just because what they do isn't illegal doesn't mean it's right. I know that the prevailing idea in the US (and increasingly in the rest of the world) is "if it ain't illegal I'm entitled to do it".
Yes. You won't get locked up for doing it. Ok. That does NOT mean that I have to like you or even that I must not hate you for doing it. Being legal doesn't make it right.
Just like being illegal doesn't make it wrong, by the way.
I have to thank you for that link, the Flat Earthers have really become stale (I mean, let's be honest here, they just circle-jerk around the same arguments just like the religious nuts) and debunking them is starting to bore people. This should provide material for at least a few months.
Yeah, and I'm one of them.
Blasted diet.
So I guess I'm not part of the "in" crowd. I didn't know it for decades. Any chance I could still get some kind of proof?
Li'l hint why I'd insist: We used to know for centuries, not just decades, that the Earth is the center of the universe.
You were still at "hunter/gatherer level" economy 20 years ago? Talk about catching up!
Do they get to choose the side they have to wear the star on?
Still, more people have a pussy as a pet than an ass.
You do know that people have developed a capability lately that became known to experts as "lying"?
The sexual orientation of an app is none of your business and please quit staring at its package.