eventually with the deepfakes type stuff, we won't need LOP's anymore, just a program to generate on the fly whatever midget+monkey+donkey fetish the mind can conjure up.
Coupled with VR, this will spell the end of mankind -- constant, ever increasing levels of titillation and depravity.
We managed to be on the winning side of two world wars without a single pair of foreign boots touching our soil.
The argument that we need a trillion dollar+ jet program to help prevent something that didn't happen against much more evenly matched opponents is dubious at best.
But who knows, maybe some country in the near future (besides the US) will maintain a blue water navy -- making that a potential outcome possible?
it's ironic that these are the same people (typically) who have zero problems with the insane amount of corporate welfare that defense contractors get every year.
It's like if you see someone buying soda/junk food with an EBT card, it's the worst thing ever, and that person needs to be put in a special camp. But pissing away trillions on a newfangled fighter-jet that will likely never see real combat, that's okay, keep america strong and stuff.
It's the anthill in africa argument though -- sure aliens millions of years more advanced than us might not care about something as inconsequential as an Earth full of humans -- but how much compunction would they feel towards destroying it for $reasons?
AI is a threat because almost by definition we won't know how it works. It will be a black box in which inputs go in, and output comes out.
What do you call a human being who never internalizes the difference between right and wrong? That's the fear of AI, it will turn into a sociopathic menace that doesn't 'get' human empathy.
And besides, how would you even design empathy and emotion into a system that's being lorded over by creatures (from its perspective) that take millions of years to respond? Can you imagine the frustration of asking a question and having to wait eons for a response?
This is probably just a fun way to shoe-horn in banning designer drugs (even those that are yet to have been formulated), without having to actually go through all the trouble of specifically banning anything in specific terms.
Example: there's a ton of different cannabinoids (natural, and synethetic). A precedent like this would allow for the banning of all similar substances (natural or synthetic) because they 'bind to the same receptors as THC'.
If the alternative is dll hell, or even more bloated programs, i think i know which route i'd prefer be taken.
Do you remember DOS games back in the day? That's what you're suggesting we return to.
For example.. what makes more sense: sim city 2000, doom2, and might and magic world of xeen each using their own buggy as fuck audio implementation -- which also barely works, and even then depends on your particular flavor of sound card.. OR letting the developers simply worry about making their game compatible with an audio API that pretty much ensures the sound works across the board?
oh come on. 7 is still in very wide usage. They aren't doing this for technical reasons, it's purely because they want to foist windows 10 on their users.
decide when and how to reboot my computer with updates (spending the money on a pro version is not a valid solution here) have services/features stay disabled (skydrive, cortana)
You can always turn off Windows Defender if you don't like what it's doing
For now.
The windows update bullshit shows where they'd like to go with this. Start small, get users accustomed to the 'user experience improvements', then continually encroach. But basically, MS wants to control your computer, and turn it into a conveyance for advertising, or into a platform for gathering data-- er.. sorry, telemetry about you and your computing habits.
If MS doesn't reverse course as far as making locked down, consumer unfriendly, annoying, intrusive, and just plain awful OS's; Windows 10 might be the start of their decline.
Vista might have been terrible, but they took the experience from that, and made windows 7. Windows 8 and the metro clusterfuck was also bad, but 8.1 solved a lot of those complaints.
10 is bad in a totally different way -- removing user choice and incessant spying. I don't see MS learning their lesson from this. Instead I see them doubling down on these efforts.
Right now there's only really two compelling reasons to stick with windows -- office and gaming.
It's a pretty precarious situation to be in. Sure enterprise will continue to buy windows PC's, but with hardware having been 'good enough' for office drone productivity going on a decade now; how many seats will that really sell per year? (and how frequently does that hardware even need to be refreshed?)
As for games, that's a pretty niche market already. But a few AAA titles being fully released and supported on linux and/or mac might tip the balance a bit. (Or maybe if valve was more aggressive at pushing steamOS on developers?)
think of it as a smoke-test to see if the overall approach makes sense. they'll likely take that as a sign they're on to something, finish the decoding - THEN hand the entire thing to a proper hebrew scholar, to do the final translation.
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Fair enough, personal preference at the end of the day -- but personally i don't romanticize a phone the same way I would a car.
(Besides, has anyone ever in the history of time and/or space gotten laid because they have an iPhone? QED.)
at the end of the day, it's still just a fucking phone.
eventually with the deepfakes type stuff, we won't need LOP's anymore, just a program to generate on the fly whatever midget+monkey+donkey fetish the mind can conjure up.
Coupled with VR, this will spell the end of mankind -- constant, ever increasing levels of titillation and depravity.
this list is referring to ARM, not the Pentium 4 sir.
Jesus Christ. Having a well-educated, thoughtful, free, and open society is the remedy against "toxic information"
Anything else is censorship.
We managed to be on the winning side of two world wars without a single pair of foreign boots touching our soil.
The argument that we need a trillion dollar+ jet program to help prevent something that didn't happen against much more evenly matched opponents is dubious at best.
But who knows, maybe some country in the near future (besides the US) will maintain a blue water navy -- making that a potential outcome possible?
it's ironic that these are the same people (typically) who have zero problems with the insane amount of corporate welfare that defense contractors get every year.
It's like if you see someone buying soda/junk food with an EBT card, it's the worst thing ever, and that person needs to be put in a special camp. But pissing away trillions on a newfangled fighter-jet that will likely never see real combat, that's okay, keep america strong and stuff.
But i'd be willing to bet we're absolutely in a league of our own when it comes to debt for graduates.
USA USA USA!
So who'd be willing to chip in and help relocate creimer to Denmark?
when convenient. it really depends who they are seeking rents from.
It's the anthill in africa argument though -- sure aliens millions of years more advanced than us might not care about something as inconsequential as an Earth full of humans -- but how much compunction would they feel towards destroying it for $reasons?
AI is a threat because almost by definition we won't know how it works. It will be a black box in which inputs go in, and output comes out.
What do you call a human being who never internalizes the difference between right and wrong? That's the fear of AI, it will turn into a sociopathic menace that doesn't 'get' human empathy.
And besides, how would you even design empathy and emotion into a system that's being lorded over by creatures (from its perspective) that take millions of years to respond? Can you imagine the frustration of asking a question and having to wait eons for a response?
Ellison was there too in the 60's.
This is probably just a fun way to shoe-horn in banning designer drugs (even those that are yet to have been formulated), without having to actually go through all the trouble of specifically banning anything in specific terms.
Example: there's a ton of different cannabinoids (natural, and synethetic). A precedent like this would allow for the banning of all similar substances (natural or synthetic) because they 'bind to the same receptors as THC'.
sounds like the cat was just slightly ahead of the ex as far as determining your relevance goes? :)
Propaganda: information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
That sounds like a reasonable outcome honestly. Do i get to pick the breed of dog?
I was about to say "he's right" -- not every problem needs a technical solution.
But a technical solution will always be light years better than importing foreigners.
So nevermind. You're right.
If the alternative is dll hell, or even more bloated programs, i think i know which route i'd prefer be taken.
Do you remember DOS games back in the day? That's what you're suggesting we return to.
For example.. what makes more sense: sim city 2000, doom2, and might and magic world of xeen each using their own buggy as fuck audio implementation -- which also barely works, and even then depends on your particular flavor of sound card..
OR letting the developers simply worry about making their game compatible with an audio API that pretty much ensures the sound works across the board?
(or did i just get whooshed?)
oh come on. 7 is still in very wide usage. They aren't doing this for technical reasons, it's purely because they want to foist windows 10 on their users.
decide when and how to reboot my computer with updates (spending the money on a pro version is not a valid solution here)
have services/features stay disabled (skydrive, cortana)
You can always turn off Windows Defender if you don't like what it's doing
For now.
The windows update bullshit shows where they'd like to go with this. Start small, get users accustomed to the 'user experience improvements', then continually encroach.
But basically, MS wants to control your computer, and turn it into a conveyance for advertising, or into a platform for gathering data-- er.. sorry, telemetry about you and your computing habits.
Because one Google was not enough for this world.
But! Definitely looking forward to cyberpunk 2077. Especially after playing a couple hundred hours of Witcher 3.
Here's to hoping that similar levels of effort and care are going into the writing, dialog, and over all story telling.
If MS doesn't reverse course as far as making locked down, consumer unfriendly, annoying, intrusive, and just plain awful OS's; Windows 10 might be the start of their decline.
Vista might have been terrible, but they took the experience from that, and made windows 7. Windows 8 and the metro clusterfuck was also bad, but 8.1 solved a lot of those complaints.
10 is bad in a totally different way -- removing user choice and incessant spying. I don't see MS learning their lesson from this. Instead I see them doubling down on these efforts.
Right now there's only really two compelling reasons to stick with windows -- office and gaming.
It's a pretty precarious situation to be in. Sure enterprise will continue to buy windows PC's, but with hardware having been 'good enough' for office drone productivity going on a decade now; how many seats will that really sell per year? (and how frequently does that hardware even need to be refreshed?)
As for games, that's a pretty niche market already. But a few AAA titles being fully released and supported on linux and/or mac might tip the balance a bit. (Or maybe if valve was more aggressive at pushing steamOS on developers?)
to be fair though, if you've got a tesla and make it 'nice and toasty' and melt the ice, you won't be driving anywhere for about 3 hours. :)
think of it as a smoke-test to see if the overall approach makes sense. they'll likely take that as a sign they're on to something, finish the decoding - THEN hand the entire thing to a proper hebrew scholar, to do the final translation.
you're focusing on the wrong part of this. =/