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  1. But their parents/guardians can for them.

  2. Humans making decisions for AI. on Google Cancels AI Ethics Board In Response To Outcry (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    We just had a bunch of men making decisions about rights for women that everyone made an outcry about.

    And yet now we have proposals for ALL HUMAN board to make decisions about the rights of AIs.

    Rights for every color except silver and grey apparently.

  3. Or... on Germany Urged To Champion Global Treaty To Ban 'Killer Robots' · · Score: 1

    Put liability for any civilian deaths onto the manufacturer.
    The manufacturer won't want that, so fully autonomous killing won't be an available option, and there will always be a person in the loop to 'pull the trigger'.

    Or it'll be the military who manufactures the minor add-on that upgrades it to fully autonomous and the liability will then be on the military for any civilian deaths, and they will just invoke sovereign immunity.

    A country that is being invaded will turn on the fully autonomous mode because they won't give a shit about the ICC when their very existence is at stake.

  4. Re:How is this different on New App Gives Free Movie Tickets To People Who Watch 15 Minutes of Ads (indiewire.com) · · Score: 1

    That's exactly what I came here to say.
    Though they could use the data usefully even then to train an AI to distinguish between a person watching and a recording (since the recording won't be able to do face and eye motion in reaction to the ad.)

  5. Re:Define "ethics" first on Can We Build Ethics Into Automated Decision-Making? (oreilly.com) · · Score: 1

    I followed the basic rules that I would expect a machine to follow.
    a) Protect the passengers.
    b) Try to avoid collisions if possible.
    c) If not possible, then stay in lane.

    Following those 3 rules, according to MIT, I hate grannies.

  6. Alita isn't Japanese? She's from Mars. And the city she was dropped down into isn't in Japan? She could be any nationality and it would be fine.

    Whereas Major Kusanagi in GitS is a Japanese person living in Japan in a Japanese shell.

  7. Re:Change curriculum first on Schools Are Locking Students' Phones Away to Help With Concentration (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I went to school when phones were the size of bricks.
    I wasn't allowed to read a book after I'd finished because that was 'disruptive' to the other students.
    I'd have to doodle in the margins so that I appeared to be working.

  8. Re:Jesus fuckin' Christ, this again? on Is a Lack of Data Holding Back Universal Basic Income Programs? (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    It's more efficient because you don't have to employ lots of people to decide who is worthy to get what benefits.

  9. Re:Jesus fuckin' Christ, this again? on Is a Lack of Data Holding Back Universal Basic Income Programs? (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    It works if you increase tax by $12,000 on average for everyone.
    For most people, the 'extra' money is simply taxed away again.

  10. Re:"giving away free money is expensive" on Is a Lack of Data Holding Back Universal Basic Income Programs? (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There's no NEW money.
    Almost all the existing benefits are cancelled.
    The ordinary worker and the rich will have the UBI taxed away again.
    Some savings will be made in not having to employ lots of people to decide who deserves what benefits.

    The people that it's intended to help are already receiving a bunch of benefits in one form or another with various strings attached. This just removes the strings and paperwork and just gives them a weekly amount to spend however they like.

    People seem to be imagining that UBI will be enough to support a middle class lifestyle without working. It's not. It's enough to have a bed for the night, food and clothing. Enough that people aren't sleeping on the streets, starving or freezing to death, which is what any decent society would be trying to prevent in any case.

  11. Re:UBI = giving money to the rich when others need on Is a Lack of Data Holding Back Universal Basic Income Programs? (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, it'll be given to the rich as well.
    And promptly taxed away again.
    The ordinary working guy to the rich won't see much difference in net income.
    There would be savings in not having to employ lots of people to decide who is deserving of what benefits.

  12. If you can smell the chlorine, then the water isn't clean.

  13. Re: It's arguably a public service what they're do on Hiding in Plain Sight: The YouTubers' Crowdfunding Piracy (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    And things that shouldn't be a crime at all?

    What Rosa Parks did was a crime, but it shouldn't have been a crime at all.

    The anti-copyright people are trying hard to bring the copyright laws back to reasonable levels, but they have a hard fight because the pro-copyright people have made lots of money off prolonging copyright protection.

  14. Re:Decrypt This Blockchain! on Australia Passes Anti-Encryption Laws [Update] (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    We'll get quantum decryption before then?

    And then we'll be back to One-Time-Pads for unbreakable encryption (transferred in couriers heads like Johnny Mnemonic?)

  15. Re:Betteridge is actually appropriate here on Does Switching Jobs Make You a Worse Programmer? (forrestbrazeal.com) · · Score: 1

    Reminds of the time when I had to introduce the concept of 'iteration' instead of 5 pages of X1=0; X2=0; X3=0...

  16. Change the hiring advert? on Facebook Is Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma, Lawsuit Claims (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    There's some people who must enjoy looking at this stuff (otherwise it wouldn't get posted), so why not just hire them?

    Psychopaths need jobs too you know.

  17. How does this compare? on FDA Chief Considers Ban of All Flavored E-Cigarettes (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Okay, you have 2million kids now using e-cigs.
    How does that compare to before e-cigs were available? How many kids were cig smokers in the past?

  18. Re:What is the politically correct way to die? on No Healthy Level of Alcohol Consumption, Says Major Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably never. They want to be able to blame people for them dying.

    It's the ultimate 'blame the victim'. "That person died because they did something wrong."

    Eventually it'll be 'They inhaled too much oxygen in their lives. Oxygen is a known factor in premature death.'

  19. Or a prison camp for the mutants and vigilantes who break the Sokovia Accords.

  20. It's almost as if you make it easy to buy/use something legally, people will be more likely to use it.

    That said, every few years, I check to see if I can buy my favourite J/KPop tunes...nope, they don't want to sell them to me. I guess I'll keep ripping them from Youtube then.

  21. Re:VR is at a sad state on The First Real Boom in Virtual Reality? It's Pornography. (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    It's like the Channel Tunnel. It'll bankrupt lots of companies who try to do it, but eventually it'll get there.

  22. Re:Don't be sour, dear recruiter on Ask Slashdot: Have You Ever 'Ghosted' an Employer? (linkedin.com) · · Score: 1

    Sometimes the job _does_ exist. But only to those people who have double the expertise and will accept half the pay

    So they just keep the ad out in the hopes they catch the unicorn.

  23. Re:The odds of my kid getting gunned down on Patreon Is Suspending Adult Content Creators Because of Its Payment Partners (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It's even worse when it's near, but not near enough to see or touch.

    Noisy sex is fun when both you and your flatmates are getting it on like dueling saxes.

    Not so much when it's just them, and you are trying to drown it out with the headphones on.

  24. Re:Stop funding them.. on Lawrence Lessig Criticizes Proposed 140-Year Copyright Protections (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Not _currently_ under copyright.
    If a large number of people followed your advice, they soon would be. They've done retrospective copyright before and they'll probably do it again.
    Hell, they'd like to copyright the Bible, but it would be a huge catfight as to who owns it.

  25. Re:Fine, just make sure kids aren't buying this cr on Valve Will Stop Removing Controversial Games on Steam Unless They Are 'Illegal or Straight up Trolling' (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Have the system send nudes directly to the police.
    If they aren't over 18, they can be charged with creating child porn and no one wants to risk that.

    If they send someone elses nudes then they can be charged with revenge porn or copyright infringement and again, no one wants to risk that.

    Hey, if FB wants peoples nudes, why not join the club?!