>> NBC doesn't trust what viewers say when asked for their opinion on shows.
They shouldn't trust people's expressed opinions. How many people have you heard say naive things like "I'm not influenced by advertising" or "I do my own research"? And yet, advertising works, particularly because advertisers know where prospects go to "research" and get their pitches in there.
This article should disabuse anyone of the notion that they are not influenced by advertising. They are studying brain physiology in order to sell you stuff! They are operating on a subconscious level that many people aren't even aware exists! We have little defense if our conscious mind doesn't even enter into the equation. And if you think these techniques are just used to make you want hamburgers, think again.
Advertising and other forms of subconscious manipulation are used to sell you wars, government policies and political candidates. People think their opinions are their own, but often they have just been selected from a menu presented to them by the media.
Yeah, advertising works. Millions if not billions of dollars have been spent to understand how you think, what motivates you, and how to influence that without your knowledge. Anyone who thinks they are not affected is foolish and ignorant.
You sound just like your typical computer illiterate person getting mad when listening to a programmer complain that the programming in a TV show is nonsense. "What is it with you, why do you have to comment about how your job is represented in movies or TV series?"
Well, that's it then. AC sees no problem with it. I'm sold. Good thing you were here with your timely opinion, because the rest of these people on slashdot are so unreasonable in their cavalier attitudes towards the safety of our children.
When a police car drives down the street, the officer inside is "surveiling" for stolen cars (with his eyes and a hot sheet). A camera with image recognition that did the same thing would be more effective; but I don't see as it as a problem. How is having a radio receiver that listens for the MAC addresses of known to be stolen devices fundamentally different? Now if the software was to record the location of every MAC address and maintain a database forever that would be different. However, I see no indication that is what is being proposed. Sure it is a technically small step to do so; but until they do that I don't see the problem.
In the old days, we called it talking to your children.
The article summary was a bit of a hash, but a per-student dashboard that customized learning and displayed progress made would be a pretty great step up from the Mass Education we have today, that ignores student interests or rates of learning on various topics.
As a parent who would not not want a dashboard like that to keep track of what students are doing well and poorly in? Report cards do that but with less frequency and thus opportunity to correct problems as they arise.
"Usually" is a very important qualifier there. There are some things we do not need, some things the ecosystem does not need, some things that can be removed without disrupting the greater cycle of life. Some of those things are just annoying. Yes, there are things that eat them but not that are dependent on them. Eliminating them eliminates an annoyance. Take the Polio virus for example. Please.
While I agree with the conclusion, I do beleive you arrived at it a bit incorrectly. It's that mosquitoes don't fill any useful ecological niche. Their sole purpose in the environment is to make things suffer, and they don't have any positive contributions which even come close to evening that out. This is a rare thing that should enable us to slaughter them in massive quantities to the point of extinction without any noticeable effect on the environment except that more people will be willing to go on nature walks.
It's called "I'm Fuckin' Awesome, You're Fuckin' Out" by Ian A. Shill and Kenny Powers
I remember reading a book some 10-15 years ago where a statement read something along the lines of:
"The history is riddled with people who made discoveries and people who took credit for them"
But I can't remember the blimmin name of the book! A brief history of time isn't, a history of nearly everything isn't either...
Does anyone know what book I'm talking about?
And if you're really good, Master will let you work in the house instead of the fields.
It doesn't even matter. Google shares a community with those companies. Find a need - Fill a need. If their neighbors start getting pissed at the teamsters then engineers from google will go over there and say "hey guys, want to try out our new automated buses?"...
If I were the teamsters, I would give that whole area a wide berth. They piss off anyone in that area and they're liable to create a test case for some start up or google or someone building an AI driver to replace them.
And the first time one of those experiments actually works well enough to replace a human driver... its over. Not just in some small part of california but across the whole country. They're going to start losing long haul trucking contracts. All of it.
In the end, its gone anyway. that's just the future and you can't fight it. But pissing off people that can make it happen faster is what a complete fool does. And the teamsters are certainly going to do that because that is their culture. They get control and then start slapping people around to get what they want. slapping people around that are building the machines that will replace them... is moronic. And that is apparently their little brainchild.
So, I think we can all agree, there would be good and bad.
I think the 2008 crash demonstrated that there are more than a few psychopaths running major corporations. Maybe we should be thankful they're only screwing investors and customers out of billions, otherwise they would have underground lairs filled with kidnapped plus size women putting the lotion in the basket.
We need to protect access to power companies, air traffic control, military, etc. We need to do so now. (I'm an American, but by "we" I mean all countries, especially countries that might be targeted by terrorists.)
I'm going to go to the web sites of President Obama and my representatives. Those web sites have "Comments" or "Send a Message" sections, in which you can send a message to those people. In the "Comments" sections of the web sites, I'm going to ask them to make electronic security a high priority.
If enough voters ask them to make security a high priority, they might do so. I sure hope so.
Three hundred words does not a Bennett screed make.
You think I'm joking, and so do I, but really, just how far away are we from enough Markov chains that Dice can order the Ramble-bot to write 300 words about the frumious bandersnatch and the Ramble-bot will dutifully crank something out that is indistinguishable from a Bennett screed? It's not exactly a high bar to clear.
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>> NBC doesn't trust what viewers say when asked for their opinion on shows.
They shouldn't trust people's expressed opinions. How many people have you heard say naive things like "I'm not influenced by advertising" or "I do my own research"? And yet, advertising works, particularly because advertisers know where prospects go to "research" and get their pitches in there.
This article should disabuse anyone of the notion that they are not influenced by advertising. They are studying brain physiology in order to sell you stuff! They are operating on a subconscious level that many people aren't even aware exists! We have little defense if our conscious mind doesn't even enter into the equation. And if you think these techniques are just used to make you want hamburgers, think again.
Advertising and other forms of subconscious manipulation are used to sell you wars, government policies and political candidates. People think their opinions are their own, but often they have just been selected from a menu presented to them by the media.
Yeah, advertising works. Millions if not billions of dollars have been spent to understand how you think, what motivates you, and how to influence that without your knowledge. Anyone who thinks they are not affected is foolish and ignorant.
They use the weasel-words "may be recorded" since the recording system might break.
That is them giving you permission to record the conversation.
You sound just like your typical computer illiterate person getting mad when listening to a programmer complain that the programming in a TV show is nonsense. "What is it with you, why do you have to comment about how your job is represented in movies or TV series?"
To use a Nickelback analogy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Uber surges the price to match the market demand, more drivers come out, and everyone who wants a ride can get one..
Everyone who can and will pay the higher price, will get a ride.
Me, I like my juice in burger form, made from dead animals.
You stumped me with iBall. I'm sure it was a very shitty product though.
God can do anything. God will take care of the details.
When a police car drives down the street, the officer inside is "surveiling" for stolen cars (with his eyes and a hot sheet). A camera with image recognition that did the same thing would be more effective; but I don't see as it as a problem. How is having a radio receiver that listens for the MAC addresses of known to be stolen devices fundamentally different? Now if the software was to record the location of every MAC address and maintain a database forever that would be different. However, I see no indication that is what is being proposed. Sure it is a technically small step to do so; but until they do that I don't see the problem.
The article summary was a bit of a hash, but a per-student dashboard that customized learning and displayed progress made would be a pretty great step up from the Mass Education we have today, that ignores student interests or rates of learning on various topics.
As a parent who would not not want a dashboard like that to keep track of what students are doing well and poorly in? Report cards do that but with less frequency and thus opportunity to correct problems as they arise.
Is it true that sometimes smart people want to do other things with their time than work in IT?
pussy?
i have mod points, but i haven't been able to mod for weeks, but +1 insightful if i could now.
Why can't you awful people let Gary Gygax rest in peace?
I *am* a known thief, you insensitive clod!
FUCK YOU
Want to go to a music festival where the police ingore the presence of known thieves? FUCK YOU
first they came for the annoying things...
I have an extensive list.
"Not a good plan usually."
"Usually" is a very important qualifier there. There are some things we do not need, some things the ecosystem does not need, some things that can be removed without disrupting the greater cycle of life. Some of those things are just annoying. Yes, there are things that eat them but not that are dependent on them. Eliminating them eliminates an annoyance. Take the Polio virus for example. Please.
Do you really think you are smarter than reality?
While I agree with the conclusion, I do beleive you arrived at it a bit incorrectly. It's that mosquitoes don't fill any useful ecological niche. Their sole purpose in the environment is to make things suffer, and they don't have any positive contributions which even come close to evening that out. This is a rare thing that should enable us to slaughter them in massive quantities to the point of extinction without any noticeable effect on the environment except that more people will be willing to go on nature walks.
Forget that! We need to go directly to the source and put the panels on the sun!
+1 Insightful as fuark.
I remember reading a book some 10-15 years ago where a statement read something along the lines of: "The history is riddled with people who made discoveries and people who took credit for them" But I can't remember the blimmin name of the book! A brief history of time isn't, a history of nearly everything isn't either... Does anyone know what book I'm talking about?
Yes because anything short of your very narrow interpretation of how economics worked mostly in the 1920s and then briefly in the 1950s is slavery.
Get real.
It doesn't even matter. Google shares a community with those companies. Find a need - Fill a need. If their neighbors start getting pissed at the teamsters then engineers from google will go over there and say "hey guys, want to try out our new automated buses?"...
If I were the teamsters, I would give that whole area a wide berth. They piss off anyone in that area and they're liable to create a test case for some start up or google or someone building an AI driver to replace them.
And the first time one of those experiments actually works well enough to replace a human driver... its over. Not just in some small part of california but across the whole country. They're going to start losing long haul trucking contracts. All of it.
In the end, its gone anyway. that's just the future and you can't fight it. But pissing off people that can make it happen faster is what a complete fool does. And the teamsters are certainly going to do that because that is their culture. They get control and then start slapping people around to get what they want. slapping people around that are building the machines that will replace them... is moronic. And that is apparently their little brainchild.
How many makes it data?
Well yeah, of course, ex-girlfriends are known to be notoriously good judges of character.
I think the 2008 crash demonstrated that there are more than a few psychopaths running major corporations. Maybe we should be thankful they're only screwing investors and customers out of billions, otherwise they would have underground lairs filled with kidnapped plus size women putting the lotion in the basket.
We need to protect access to power companies, air traffic control, military, etc. We need to do so now. (I'm an American, but by "we" I mean all countries, especially countries that might be targeted by terrorists.)
I'm going to go to the web sites of President Obama and my representatives. Those web sites have "Comments" or "Send a Message" sections, in which you can send a message to those people. In the "Comments" sections of the web sites, I'm going to ask them to make electronic security a high priority.
If enough voters ask them to make security a high priority, they might do so. I sure hope so.
Humbly, to reverse improper moderation.
You think I'm joking, and so do I, but really, just how far away are we from enough Markov chains that Dice can order the Ramble-bot to write 300 words about the frumious bandersnatch and the Ramble-bot will dutifully crank something out that is indistinguishable from a Bennett screed? It's not exactly a high bar to clear.