This story is about saving the healthcare industry money.
But I think AI could help the patient too, by predicting which doctors will have more patients readmitted within 30 days.
And just maybe, with a richer database, based on the patient's latest exam(s) and previous history, as found in their recorded electronic health records, AI might outperform doctors with better diagnoses, recommended prescriptions, rehabilitative care, etc.
Not that I'm saying AI should do the exam itself. Having AI administer any kind of health care in any kind of way definitely needs professional human oversight. At least for now.
It's been a while since we had a both-on-the-front-page dupe!
Kudos.
I did notice those dupes eariler, one from msmash, one from BeauHD.
Another problem with/. that I've just discovered: When I was at "-1:13" comments, I didn't see this comment of yours, ceoyoyo. But when I switched to "1:3" comments, your observation showed up. What's with that? I thought the former setting would show all the stuff the latter would, and then some. Is this a issue with/. or with me?
Listen buddy, misusing the comments section is NOT COOL. Weirdo.
The comments section here does seem to be broken. Where's that healthy discourse of those really genuine geeks that brought me here in the first place - and kept me quiet?
Where are those funny, insightful, interesting, and informative comments? Even tongue-in-cheek, obsidian, and blithe remarks would be welcome - if they were cool.
Does/. have an exclusive 'cool geek' mode that I'm not privy to?
And finally, just because there is a predilection for subversion these days: Are there forces out there trying to bring/. down? Maybe all this trolling is really part of a conspiracy from a {bevy, collection, gang, swarm, herd, army, murder} of Cambridge Analytica types who's goal is to remold our minds in time for the next election. It could even be Antigonish, the deep, dark state 'that isn't there', trying to manipulate the huddled masses yearning to be geek.
US corporations actually run the US, the elections are only there to change the people whom are told what to do, and to give the voters the false impression they have a choice.
"If Voting Made a Difference, They Wouldn't Let Us Do It" - Mark Twain (?)
Words change meaning. If, in the 18th century, I told you The Turk was an incredible and fantastic chess playing automaton, what I really would be saying was the machine is a fake, a hoax, a fantasy not credible enough to be believed one bit ("bit" as in "iota", or "extremely small amount", not "Binary Digit").
"Intelligence", "learning", "smart" and "memory", have been redefined for electronic devices that store and process data via instructions from software or hardware. The term "Artificial Intelligence" was coined in 1956. It has a distinct definition separate and only metaphorically related to animal "intelligence" (see below). In 2014, Eugene Goostman said his Chatbot passed the 'Turning Test', i.e., it fooled the judges into believing it was human. The validity of this claim has been met with skepticism. Apparently, Artificial Intelligence can only imitate human intelligence, poorly. If only he had used LISP...
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Learning: noun, The acquisition of knowledge or skills through experience, study or being taught.
Machine learning: A subset of AI, Machine learning is the scientific study of algorithms and statistical models that computer systems use to effectively perform a specific task without using explicit instructions, relying on patterns and inference instead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning
Intelligence: noun, The ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.
Artificial intelligence (or AI): Both the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science which aims to create it, through "the study and design of intelligent agents" or "rational agents", where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions which maximize its chances of success.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence#Artificial_intelligence
Smart: adjective, Having or showing a quick-witted intelligence. (Obviously, not applicable to moi.)
Smart Device: an electronic device, usually connected to other devices, networks, or both, via Bluetooth, WiFi, etc., that can operate to some extent interactively and autonomously. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_device
90% of the cells in our bodies aren't human, and with people coming to ISS from around the world, who's surprised that some of this micro-biodiversity gets spread around?
Think micronauts hitching rides with astronauts they were hanging around with at the time.
Jobs being replaced by AI is just one more example of short term profitability trumping economic stability in general.
Businesses have no obligation to be stewards of society. Get over it.
As billionaire investor Ray Dalio said, "Capitalism and making profits is what motivates the stock market", but "It's not what motivates the whole economy."
Economic stability and marketplace profit are two different things.
It's one of those trifling reasons I don't like government at the beckoning call of financial institutions. We saw its purloined consequences lead to The Great Recession during Bush 43's reign, and again when Obama bailed out the rich at the expense of everybody else.
Revisiting the Boeing 767 crash and an officially unsolved 2016 accident, now of all times, makes me suspicious as to why.
The Boeing 737 Max 8s crashes were originally presented as possibly/probably due to pilot error. Now that the world has a completely different take, this pops up.
According to the story on/., the 767 and 3591 crashes might have been due to the pilots succumbing to "somatogravic illusion"; a shortcoming in human perception. In other words, pilot error.
Possibly, but why bring this up now? Relevance? Obfuscation? Are they trying to bury the bit where Boeing was charging extra for the 737 Max 8 fix?
A new old saying comes to mind, "First blame the pilot, then the plane. Never the company."
My first ignorant impression is that any successful solution to the problem ultimately revolves around updating and syncing both the road systems self driving vehicles as follows:
1) There are better and frequent on-the-road sensors that self driving vehicles can make efficient use of.
2) AI traffic control that monitors, and at some level, literally drives the vehicles on the road.
3) A quick and easy way for the driver take control.
4) A system that makes sure the driver stays alert. Maybe follow Volvo's driver monitoring system, which will, as necessary, slow down, pull over, stop, and even cut off the vehicle.
We do need to change something. Democracy currently is a system where a minority wields power and coercion on the majority. And while AI's 'algorithmic decisions' are subject to prejudice, bias and manipulation, those terms pretty much define almost every politician these days. AI could take over policy making if those who have already subverted government allowed. The thing is, corporations make too much money to just walk away.
We are ruled by those in pursuit of wealth and power. Put axiomatically, "Gain wealth, forgetting all but self."
I also fear that technology, left unchecked, will sabotage interpersonal relations, society as a whole, and take our jobs. Maybe technology will extract nature's wealth for the satiation of all of humanity's wants, needs and desires. Maybe not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
One big problem is we're not the enlightened, reasoning beings who elect people that serve the interest of the greater good.
Walter Lippmann, in "Public Opinion" said the masses were an incompetent "bewildered herd", the primary defect of democracy, and that democracy could only be kept functioning by an elite class of intellectuals and experts pumping out government sanctioned propaganda.
Democracy is a system of rule by law, not individuals. It could be reasoned that AI could do a better job at making and enforcing law than people. But could we handle it?
Dan Dennett says our sense of self, consciousness and free will are just illusions, something we've made up. Evolution has given us the ability to abide or the possibility to skirt the law. Free will has nothing to do with it.
As a general rule, we are irrational, unreliable, greedy, gullible, cunning and conning bastards. To quote Machiavelli, "We can say this of most people: that they are ungrateful and unreliable; they lie, they fake, they're greedy for cash and they melt away in the face of danger."
Forget asking if AI could handle our government. Of course it could, one way or another, more efficiently too, and eventually better. But could we handle being ruled by AI?
The underlying problem is the FAA has a revolving door to the Aviation Industry where people, regulation and oversight passes through unobstructed by responsibility or moral conscience.
On a side note, this story from the Seattle Times shows how important investigative reporting is to society. If the government ever gets serious about regulating private enterprise again, it will be due to stories like this, and the resulting public outrage. We are yet again in their debt.
Those with the money will do it no matter what. Enhanced humans are a future given.
Just my 2 cents;)
I take it you've read "Homo Deus" by Yuval Noah Harari. That's its main point.
Bet the DOD is funding such genetic engineering research now. They're famous for funding biological and medical research. What really scares me is how they might apply genetic editing. Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, Epsilons, then me. "How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!" - The Tempest, by Wm Shakespeare (with an obvious reference to Aldous Huxley.)
Southwest, and I think American have both said they don't think anything is fundamentally wrong with the plane. Possibly this is some kind of training issue.
Given there have been no issues here, I don't think it's unreasonable for other carriers to keep flying them even while they figure out what happened.
Boeing must be embarrassed they sold the 737 Max as being so similar to the other 737s, pilots won't have to go back to school in order to fly it.
Updating pilot manuals to handle a known hardware failure sounds like a good idea. Calling accidents that arise from said hardware failure 'pilot error' doesn't.
News reports are pointing to an airflow sensor, called the "Angle of Attack" sensor as the possible problem. It's false readings (bad data) tricks the plane's computer into issuing a 'nose down' command to keep the plane flying. This is the problem the pilots are trying to deal with as the plane heads 'nose down' to the ground.
This more than just a training issue. There's no question the pilots on the Ethiopian flight to Kenya were battling with the plane as it issued a steep dive command moments into the flight. All 157 on board died 6 minutes after takeoff. 189 people died 13 minutes into the October flight from Jakarta to Pangkal Pinang in Indonesia. Here too, there's no doubt the pilots were fighting for their lives.
Either fix the plane, the computer, the sensor - or replace human pilots with AI. This is killing people.
Yeah, from the cousins of the people who put fluoride in America's drinking water, turning brains into jelly, just so they could mold 'em any way they wanted to - thanks to this mental floss. The International socialist.
Vaccinations are suspected to be covertly supported by a coven who secretively call themselves "Bernies". They are Socialist Blue collarless, jobless, Volvo driving welfare cheats bent on destroying the new world order, and herald into power a left wing International Sanderneesta Government.
If destroying America ain't bad enough, now they're promoting herd stupidity with vaccines that probably do more damage than good.
Despite the fraudulent news mess, some president's own Dr. Harry Freakin Boringstein found that vaccination is based on shoddy science and overdosing Bernies. Just think of the children! Vaccinations put them at risk of developing a predilection for the bad guy buzz.
They want to change our flag to pure driven slush blue. They don't care what the Red, White and Blue really stands for. Red: for the rednecks who rule; White: well, I can't say - it's really that politically incorrect these days; and Blue:...BLUE? Shit not blue again! It should be green like money. Oh god, that'd make us Hungary. Which reminds me, I gotta go get something to eat.
I've been thinking about this for a while. Bruce Schneier's admonition for lawmaker technologists and 'public interest technologies' lets me rephrase the dilemma in a more palatable way. The following are my heart felt opinions, i.e., boring and stupid.
"We don't expect legislators to be experts in everything. We expect them to get and accept expertise. The second thing we need is for technologists to get involved in policy, and what we need is more public interest technologists."
1) Should technologists become lawmakers? It's Corporate lobbyists who write the legislation pertinent to their interest these days. Legislators don't just accept technological expertise, they let 'em write the bills, word for word. Ipso-facto, technologists, via lobbyists, are already lawmakers. Surely this isn't news to Bruce Schneier.
Even in court, there's the Frye standard or the superseding Federal Rule of Evidence 702, where an expert's reliably applied scientific, technical or other specialized knowledge is admissible if it helps to understand the evidence.
As for those 'flash points' he mentioned: Apple's shtick is that their products have the best privacy. Of course that upsets law enforcement officers, like ex FBI chief James Comey, who thinks it's better, safer if we have no real privacy at all tech wise. Whistle-blowers like Bill Binney, Ed Loomis and Thomas A. Drake have disagreed, saying it would be better to have telecommunications be 'ThinThread'ed for key words and phrases. And Edward Snowden thinks the public should have a say in the government's data collection policies.
Everyone mentioned above makes well reasoned arguments for their side. Call me paranoid, but even if the FBI/NSA/Whoever could be trusted right now, sooner or later the greedy cheats, thieves and liars will be in place to screw us over. So, I'm for encryption, no back doors and a legal system that doesn't steal our stuff. One for Apple.
2) "My expert is better than yours": the public interest isn't necessarily served by scientists [1]. Back in the day, some of the brightest scientists, like Frederick Seitz and Fred Singer worked for the tobacco industry, misleading the public and the law for decades. Many truly great scientists have gone on to deny climate change, acid rain, CFCs, and much, much more. Even now, if your company has the money, there are eminent scientists out there with enough political clout to obfuscate evidence in any field, and claim whatever "is not settled scientifically."
3) Progress: On 1/20/2019, Fareed Zakaria said that G5 will have as big an impact as the Gutenberg Press. Combined with AI, big data, genetic engineering, and advances in automation, the future looks to be a dystopian merge of Orwell's "1984" and Huxley's "Brave New World". And didn't Elon Musk say he wants us commoners to have a data plugin into our brains? What could possibly go wrong?
4) Reason interrupted: The US Constitution is based on the Enlightenment theories that say a legitimate government must have the consent of the governed, whose reason tells them they are all equal, independent and free to do as they please as long as they don't harm other's lives, health, liberty or possessions. These are noble sentiments obviously made before Darwin.
We are a cunning, sly, adaptive and flawed species, One of our many flaws is that our reason is encumbered. We make choices based on how we perceive things. Losers take more risks than winners. We can be fooled by slight-of-hand or a shill. Big data, psychographics and micro-marketing has made advertising indistinguishable from brainwashing.
Jobs are going away. Right now they are emigrating to other countries. Detroit, once nicknamed "Motor City" because it was the heart of the American auto industry, is now the buckle of the Rust Belt. In 2019, Detroit tops the list of America's Most Dangerous Cities for the forth year running. With over 30% of their population living below the poverty line, Detroit had the highest repor
It's legal for websites to gather and sell our data because there is no legal right to privacy in the Constitution.
It's called Surveillance Capitalism. More than just our labor, information about us is an object of economic value. In effect, people have been turned into commodities.
Market research's psychographics classifies us according to our social niche. That information is then used to micro-target specific segments of the market, the segments we occupy. As part of a massive feedback loop, words and phrases we are comfortable with are used in tailor-made messages designed to massage our psyche, and get us to buy whatever they're selling, be it goods, services, logos, ideas or politics.
Good luck trying to get the money-grubbing hands of these publishers out the of pockets of publicly funded research. It's been tried before.
Years ago, these greedy bastards figured out that if they bought up most all of the relevant publications, they would have the scientific community by the short and curlies. They succeeded. Now it's "Publish Behind a Paywall, or Perish."
Remember Alexandra Elbakyan? Science's Pirate Queen. She's the creator or Sci-Hub, the website that provides free access to millions of paywalled and open-access research papers and books - illegally. Alexandra Elbakyan deserves the highest respect possible because she has risked everything to provide free access to published research - it's that important to her.
The world needs Plan S. to succeed. It's that important.
If you have to shitpost, please be more amusing. For example:
For a while there, I thought China had figured out how to apply the Nash Equilibrium to society via big data and the cognitive neuroscience of behavior.
Then I thought, it's China, dude. What's really going on is probably more of a game of "Fuck You, Buddy", where somebody's got to win, and if it isn't you, it might be me.
Agreed. All the shitposting and comment filtering is really bringing/. down. I've seen eerily similar postings elsewhere, even YouTube. I don't think it's all coming from somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds. There's a whole troll industry out there. We saw just tip of the iceberg in 2016 with the likes of Nimble America, AggregateIQ and Cambridge Analytica. That some of them could still be active makes me wonder why?
Slashdot Mirror
And just maybe, with a richer database, based on the patient's latest exam(s) and previous history, as found in their recorded electronic health records, AI might outperform doctors with better diagnoses, recommended prescriptions, rehabilitative care, etc.
Not that I'm saying AI should do the exam itself. Having AI administer any kind of health care in any kind of way definitely needs professional human oversight. At least for now.
It's been a while since we had a both-on-the-front-page dupe!
Kudos. I did notice those dupes eariler, one from msmash, one from BeauHD.
Another problem with /. that I've just discovered: When I was at "-1:13" comments, I didn't see this comment of yours, ceoyoyo. But when I switched to "1:3" comments, your observation showed up. What's with that? I thought the former setting would show all the stuff the latter would, and then some. Is this a issue with /. or with me?
Listen buddy, misusing the comments section is NOT COOL. Weirdo.
The comments section here does seem to be broken. Where's that healthy discourse of those really genuine geeks that brought me here in the first place - and kept me quiet? Where are those funny, insightful, interesting, and informative comments? Even tongue-in-cheek, obsidian, and blithe remarks would be welcome - if they were cool.
Does /. have an exclusive 'cool geek' mode that I'm not privy to?
And finally, just because there is a predilection for subversion these days: Are there forces out there trying to bring /. down? Maybe all this trolling is really part of a conspiracy from a {bevy, collection, gang, swarm, herd, army, murder} of Cambridge Analytica types who's goal is to remold our minds in time for the next election. It could even be Antigonish, the deep, dark state 'that isn't there', trying to manipulate the huddled masses yearning to be geek.
US corporations actually run the US, the elections are only there to change the people whom are told what to do, and to give the voters the false impression they have a choice.
"If Voting Made a Difference, They Wouldn't Let Us Do It" - Mark Twain (?)
"Intelligence", "learning", "smart" and "memory", have been redefined for electronic devices that store and process data via instructions from software or hardware. The term "Artificial Intelligence" was coined in 1956. It has a distinct definition separate and only metaphorically related to animal "intelligence" (see below). In 2014, Eugene Goostman said his Chatbot passed the 'Turning Test', i.e., it fooled the judges into believing it was human. The validity of this claim has been met with skepticism. Apparently, Artificial Intelligence can only imitate human intelligence, poorly. If only he had used LISP...
--
Learning: noun, The acquisition of knowledge or skills through experience, study or being taught.
Machine learning: A subset of AI, Machine learning is the scientific study of algorithms and statistical models that computer systems use to effectively perform a specific task without using explicit instructions, relying on patterns and inference instead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning
Intelligence: noun, The ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.
Artificial intelligence (or AI): Both the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science which aims to create it, through "the study and design of intelligent agents" or "rational agents", where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions which maximize its chances of success. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence#Artificial_intelligence
Smart: adjective, Having or showing a quick-witted intelligence. (Obviously, not applicable to moi.)
Smart Device: an electronic device, usually connected to other devices, networks, or both, via Bluetooth, WiFi, etc., that can operate to some extent interactively and autonomously. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_device
90% of the cells in our bodies aren't human, and with people coming to ISS from around the world, who's surprised that some of this micro-biodiversity gets spread around? Think micronauts hitching rides with astronauts they were hanging around with at the time.
It's one of those trifling reasons I don't like government at the beckoning call of financial institutions. We saw its purloined consequences lead to The Great Recession during Bush 43's reign, and again when Obama bailed out the rich at the expense of everybody else.
The Boeing 737 Max 8s crashes were originally presented as possibly/probably due to pilot error. Now that the world has a completely different take, this pops up.
According to the story on /., the 767 and 3591 crashes might have been due to the pilots succumbing to "somatogravic illusion"; a shortcoming in human perception. In other words, pilot error.
Possibly, but why bring this up now? Relevance? Obfuscation? Are they trying to bury the bit where Boeing was charging extra for the 737 Max 8 fix?
A new old saying comes to mind, "First blame the pilot, then the plane. Never the company."
1) There are better and frequent on-the-road sensors that self driving vehicles can make efficient use of.
2) AI traffic control that monitors, and at some level, literally drives the vehicles on the road.
3) A quick and easy way for the driver take control.
4) A system that makes sure the driver stays alert. Maybe follow Volvo's driver monitoring system, which will, as necessary, slow down, pull over, stop, and even cut off the vehicle.
"...57 percent of consumers said it frustrates them when shows and movies disappear from their streaming libraries."
All too true. Netflix dropped the stuff I really wanted to watch. So I dropped them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Predator_State
I also fear that technology, left unchecked, will sabotage interpersonal relations, society as a whole, and take our jobs. Maybe technology will extract nature's wealth for the satiation of all of humanity's wants, needs and desires. Maybe not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
One big problem is we're not the enlightened, reasoning beings who elect people that serve the interest of the greater good.
Walter Lippmann, in "Public Opinion" said the masses were an incompetent "bewildered herd", the primary defect of democracy, and that democracy could only be kept functioning by an elite class of intellectuals and experts pumping out government sanctioned propaganda.
Democracy is a system of rule by law, not individuals. It could be reasoned that AI could do a better job at making and enforcing law than people. But could we handle it? Dan Dennett says our sense of self, consciousness and free will are just illusions, something we've made up. Evolution has given us the ability to abide or the possibility to skirt the law. Free will has nothing to do with it.
As a general rule, we are irrational, unreliable, greedy, gullible, cunning and conning bastards. To quote Machiavelli, "We can say this of most people: that they are ungrateful and unreliable; they lie, they fake, they're greedy for cash and they melt away in the face of danger."
Forget asking if AI could handle our government. Of course it could, one way or another, more efficiently too, and eventually better. But could we handle being ruled by AI?
Slashdot ate my non-English quotation mark start. The quote was supposed to be: "In the Trump Administration, Science Is Unwelcome. So Is Advice."
I wonder if eating your non-English quotation mark made /. talk any different?
Comme pour moi, Dave Lister's Chicken Vindaloo a la Red Dwarf always made me talk funny.
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Holly : Jean-Paul Sartre said hell was being locked forever in a room with your friends.
Lister : Holly, all his mates were French.
On a side note, this story from the Seattle Times shows how important investigative reporting is to society. If the government ever gets serious about regulating private enterprise again, it will be due to stories like this, and the resulting public outrage. We are yet again in their debt.
Those daring commuters on the flying taxis
They're all safe, everyone believes
As long as Boeing stays on the ground.
Those with the money will do it no matter what. Enhanced humans are a future given.
Just my 2 cents ;)
I take it you've read "Homo Deus" by Yuval Noah Harari. That's its main point.
Bet the DOD is funding such genetic engineering research now. They're famous for funding biological and medical research. What really scares me is how they might apply genetic editing. Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, Epsilons, then me. "How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!" - The Tempest, by Wm Shakespeare (with an obvious reference to Aldous Huxley.)
Southwest, and I think American have both said they don't think anything is fundamentally wrong with the plane. Possibly this is some kind of training issue.
Given there have been no issues here, I don't think it's unreasonable for other carriers to keep flying them even while they figure out what happened.
Boeing must be embarrassed they sold the 737 Max as being so similar to the other 737s, pilots won't have to go back to school in order to fly it.
Updating pilot manuals to handle a known hardware failure sounds like a good idea. Calling accidents that arise from said hardware failure 'pilot error' doesn't.
News reports are pointing to an airflow sensor, called the "Angle of Attack" sensor as the possible problem. It's false readings (bad data) tricks the plane's computer into issuing a 'nose down' command to keep the plane flying. This is the problem the pilots are trying to deal with as the plane heads 'nose down' to the ground.
This more than just a training issue. There's no question the pilots on the Ethiopian flight to Kenya were battling with the plane as it issued a steep dive command moments into the flight. All 157 on board died 6 minutes after takeoff. 189 people died 13 minutes into the October flight from Jakarta to Pangkal Pinang in Indonesia. Here too, there's no doubt the pilots were fighting for their lives.
Either fix the plane, the computer, the sensor - or replace human pilots with AI. This is killing people.
Yeah, from the cousins of the people who put fluoride in America's drinking water, turning brains into jelly, just so they could mold 'em any way they wanted to - thanks to this mental floss. The International socialist.
Vaccinations are suspected to be covertly supported by a coven who secretively call themselves "Bernies". They are Socialist Blue collarless, jobless, Volvo driving welfare cheats bent on destroying the new world order, and herald into power a left wing International Sanderneesta Government.
If destroying America ain't bad enough, now they're promoting herd stupidity with vaccines that probably do more damage than good.
Despite the fraudulent news mess, some president's own Dr. Harry Freakin Boringstein found that vaccination is based on shoddy science and overdosing Bernies. Just think of the children! Vaccinations put them at risk of developing a predilection for the bad guy buzz.
They want to change our flag to pure driven slush blue. They don't care what the Red, White and Blue really stands for. Red: for the rednecks who rule; White: well, I can't say - it's really that politically incorrect these days; and Blue:...BLUE? Shit not blue again! It should be green like money. Oh god, that'd make us Hungary. Which reminds me, I gotta go get something to eat.
"We don't expect legislators to be experts in everything. We expect them to get and accept expertise. The second thing we need is for technologists to get involved in policy, and what we need is more public interest technologists."
1) Should technologists become lawmakers? It's Corporate lobbyists who write the legislation pertinent to their interest these days. Legislators don't just accept technological expertise, they let 'em write the bills, word for word. Ipso-facto, technologists, via lobbyists, are already lawmakers. Surely this isn't news to Bruce Schneier.
Even in court, there's the Frye standard or the superseding Federal Rule of Evidence 702, where an expert's reliably applied scientific, technical or other specialized knowledge is admissible if it helps to understand the evidence.
As for those 'flash points' he mentioned: Apple's shtick is that their products have the best privacy. Of course that upsets law enforcement officers, like ex FBI chief James Comey, who thinks it's better, safer if we have no real privacy at all tech wise. Whistle-blowers like Bill Binney, Ed Loomis and Thomas A. Drake have disagreed, saying it would be better to have telecommunications be 'ThinThread'ed for key words and phrases. And Edward Snowden thinks the public should have a say in the government's data collection policies.
Everyone mentioned above makes well reasoned arguments for their side. Call me paranoid, but even if the FBI/NSA/Whoever could be trusted right now, sooner or later the greedy cheats, thieves and liars will be in place to screw us over. So, I'm for encryption, no back doors and a legal system that doesn't steal our stuff. One for Apple.
2) "My expert is better than yours": the public interest isn't necessarily served by scientists [1]. Back in the day, some of the brightest scientists, like Frederick Seitz and Fred Singer worked for the tobacco industry, misleading the public and the law for decades. Many truly great scientists have gone on to deny climate change, acid rain, CFCs, and much, much more. Even now, if your company has the money, there are eminent scientists out there with enough political clout to obfuscate evidence in any field, and claim whatever "is not settled scientifically."
3) Progress: On 1/20/2019, Fareed Zakaria said that G5 will have as big an impact as the Gutenberg Press. Combined with AI, big data, genetic engineering, and advances in automation, the future looks to be a dystopian merge of Orwell's "1984" and Huxley's "Brave New World". And didn't Elon Musk say he wants us commoners to have a data plugin into our brains? What could possibly go wrong?
4) Reason interrupted: The US Constitution is based on the Enlightenment theories that say a legitimate government must have the consent of the governed, whose reason tells them they are all equal, independent and free to do as they please as long as they don't harm other's lives, health, liberty or possessions. These are noble sentiments obviously made before Darwin.
We are a cunning, sly, adaptive and flawed species, One of our many flaws is that our reason is encumbered. We make choices based on how we perceive things. Losers take more risks than winners. We can be fooled by slight-of-hand or a shill. Big data, psychographics and micro-marketing has made advertising indistinguishable from brainwashing.
Jobs are going away. Right now they are emigrating to other countries. Detroit, once nicknamed "Motor City" because it was the heart of the American auto industry, is now the buckle of the Rust Belt. In 2019, Detroit tops the list of America's Most Dangerous Cities for the forth year running. With over 30% of their population living below the poverty line, Detroit had the highest repor
Must be listening to some really bad ass brain numbing tunes.
It's called Surveillance Capitalism. More than just our labor, information about us is an object of economic value. In effect, people have been turned into commodities.
Market research's psychographics classifies us according to our social niche. That information is then used to micro-target specific segments of the market, the segments we occupy. As part of a massive feedback loop, words and phrases we are comfortable with are used in tailor-made messages designed to massage our psyche, and get us to buy whatever they're selling, be it goods, services, logos, ideas or politics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism/
The Mo Tard Effect.
I, for one, welcome our new GMO human overlords.
Remember Alexandra Elbakyan? Science's Pirate Queen. She's the creator or Sci-Hub, the website that provides free access to millions of paywalled and open-access research papers and books - illegally. Alexandra Elbakyan deserves the highest respect possible because she has risked everything to provide free access to published research - it's that important to her.
The world needs Plan S. to succeed. It's that important.
For a while there, I thought China had figured out how to apply the Nash Equilibrium to society via big data and the cognitive neuroscience of behavior.
Then I thought, it's China, dude. What's really going on is probably more of a game of "Fuck You, Buddy", where somebody's got to win, and if it isn't you, it might be me.
Oh, wait... that's us.
Never mind.
Agreed. All the shitposting and comment filtering is really bringing /. down. I've seen eerily similar postings elsewhere, even YouTube. I don't think it's all coming from somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds. There's a whole troll industry out there. We saw just tip of the iceberg in 2016 with the likes of Nimble America, AggregateIQ and Cambridge Analytica. That some of them could still be active makes me wonder why?