What do you think the wall in Game of Thrones is based on? The aliens already caged us off with the wall in Antarctica, why do you think the whole place is a no-fly zone?
True, but a biosafety officer would tend to have a narrower view of the possible scope of risks. Since no one knows exactly what risks to consider it seems better to get a generalist who can consult with specialists, rather than the reverse.
Obviously as with most things, the simplest solution is the best: launch high yield nukes in every direction and don't send people in the other directions. 100% guaranteed contamination free (so long as they don't wait too long and orbits shift around.)
Amazon does pretty well, full episode available at the stroke of 9 PM. Pretty sure it costs as much as the HBO Now thing but more convenient. Also, pretty sure there was a Reddit post the other week with a guy leaking the entire seasons' storyline (though possibly with fake info since he said Greyworm died in episode 3, which apparently was just a scene flashing by as a possible future, suggesting they're giving different pieces to different people in an attempt to weed out an internal leaker.)
If they took it seriously it wouldn't have been stolen, nor would they have poked the 300lb hacker.
On the one hand it's their crappy IT department, on the other hand they might wise up to the fact their buddy's son or an Indian outsourcing (slave camp (or even worse: h1b's...shudder) don't know about IT and switch to a release-the-whole-season-at-once model to avoid leaks.
Minimum requirements for "programmer" as a title would be something which compiles to a binary as a natural function of the language (in some cases also.NET even though it's running under a managed code engine, just because it's used for a lot of desktop and server applications, but excluding things like PerlToExe converters.) All real programmers know at least 1 variant of assembly.
Is that enough to get you to stop this pedantic idiocy?
In my career I've met thousands of programmers (none of which focus on PHP, because scripting isn't programming - the number would be in the tens of thousands if I included web "developers,") none with degrees were competent in any language.
Because they don't actually do anything but marketing and sales. They aren't "tech," they're salesmen. Salesmen need connections.
2 decades in and I've yet to meet a single developer who was both not self-taught and was competent. College can't teach someone to code, only how to read code (partially at that.)
Yes, just the ads on/. bother me that much. I've routinely gone 1-2 weeks before installing AdBlock, but it's always the/. ads which irritate me enough to actually install it.
It's not even technology, it's just Apple's new slave labor camp. It's a regular looking building save for the fact it's round. The only thing spectacular about this is that it is proof the Apple cult is all over Jobs' dick even after it's become necrotic.
Similar to how flight patterns and decided, the building is so large they had to make the halls arc to shorten the time it takes to get to the other side of the building.
Yes, in true Apple fashion they couldn't just make it denser for the sake of productivity because having a massive hollow area inside which does nothing can only be balanced with curves, textureless white paint, and glass.
The ads on/. that jump around the screen are actually bad enough that I installed AdBlock - no other site is that bad when you're trying to click a link.
Spend a minute and look into the literally THOUSANDS of military jobs that are not in combat zones or areas of scarcity.
This is not a logistical move - if it was, it would come from the pentagon and not from a loudmouth on Twitter.
You know nothing about the military and it shows. "Non-combat" doesn't mean you won't deploy, Hell, it doesn't even mean you won't be on the front line. Every soldier is infantry first and foremost, those "thousands of military jobs" you mention are the secondary roles they fill. Most of the people in the military are in "non-combat" roles, most have also deployed AT LEAST once. There are no cushy desk jobs in the military that don't at least deploy. Fuck, I was in a "non-combat" job and went on more convoys manning a gun turret than most of the infantry or even marines that I knew.
Crazy theory here: What if Tesla is working on an autonomous car because they got a military contract to develop an autonomous military vehicle? He might have a *very* keen insight into this problem because maybe his company has already created it.
It's marketing, regulation, and government stipends - Musks' real bread and butter. He hypes things up, he scares up fear or worry to regulate his competitors, and he gets funding to do things "the right way" after the anti-competitive regulations and government stipends make it possible to beat his competitors, then he switches marketing rhetoric to stop the fear campaign for himself by showing how he's doing it "the right way."
TL;DR: There's no keen insight, he's just trying to get public backing for anti-AI regulations to avoid some guy in his garage knocking him out of business then later abiding by the regulations he instigated in order to gain a monopoly while getting subsidies for doing so.
Zuckerberg is just a glorified webmaster from the 90s, when you think about it.
More like a glorified thief, liar, and cheat. He was paid to write Facebook's predecessor in the role of a contractor, then when complete took it and rebranded as Facebook while screwing over the guys who hired him, then proceeded to lie and cheat to trick people out of their otherwise private information, to be sold to alphabet agencies.
Not to say Musk is any better, considering he drives talented engineers like they are in a sweatshop and his grand aspiration is a slave labor camp on Mars fueled by the cult of personality void left by Steve Jobs' last attempt to steal a new liver.
Of course, you could go on about the evils of any billionaire, but there's no nobility in poverty so all the world's greatest shitbags are still better than you or anyone else here.
Strong AI in a couple of decades. But we don't know where to start...you are full of shit.
If you knew anything about the development of AI you'd know we don't actually need to know what the fuck it does or even entirely how it does it. Semantic search is a great example of low-level AI: tag things, footprint things, weight things based on footprints, get enough data, and you can suddenly search for "people named like juices" and get "OJ Simpson."
Similarly you can create a system of genetic algorithms with some level of feedback weighting by the ability to communicate between two FPGAs and they will eventually hit on a mechanism to communicate wirelessly purely within the FPGA completely unknown to the researchers (this has been done, look it up if you don't believe me.)
The entire premise of AI is "it will do things for us we don't know how to do" because it is based on a bunch of technologies that do things we want without having much if any of a clue as to how they are doing it ("we" being defined as "the people who created them," not "you and I.")
You also don't know _anything_ about manufacturing. Our manufacturing employment has been in decline, our manufacturing is just fine, we aren't Europe. And we import more $ worth of manufactured goods from Mexico than China.
Oh, that makes sense, you came from _Reddit_, no wonder you're speaking out of your ass. That whole "we couldn't manufacture everything we need if we wanted to" bit was more or less what you just fucking reiterated in your zeal to be right on the internet: that we import most of what we need. Moreover the idea we get more manufactured goods we need - as in all the electronics driving every aspect of our post-industrial society - from Mexico than we do from China is absurd. We get garbage from Mexico, we get 99% of our tech manufacturing required to maintain our infrastructure from China.
FYI The USA has the most automated manufacturing sector on the planet. Which I'll grant is partly due to our schools terrible job of educating 'the slow ones'.
That is profoundly ignorant. Our manufacturing sector has been on the decline for decades and at this point we couldn't produce even 70% of the essentials for our society domestically if we needed to.
If your hinging your argument on AI, you really should learn the difference between strong AI and carefully trained neural nets.
I program them, I know what they are. I also clearly specific super-Human AI, not heuristics. The way we're heading we'll be there within a couple of decades max.
But they legitimately have no bubbles. It's a socialist dictatorship where the government owns everything and can direct anyone on a whim, that's why they beat everyone on the world stage - they're effectively one massive company that dwarfs all others and can legally kill people when interacting with a capitalist system.
Babes in the capitalist woods. This will end in revolution if they're not very careful.
Sure, if they played by capitalist rules. They only exploit those from an outward perspective though. When full or near-full manufacturing automation is achieved along with agricultural automation (or just if they move their labor to agriculture-only) the music effectively stops and any country they don't want to manufacture for essentially reverts to the pre-industrial era overnight. At that point their economy doesn't matter - they already control it in a socialist manner internally and capitalism is just a show for the rest of us. While the rest of the world is recovering from severe collapse they'll have 40-80 years (if not longer) to cement in AI and be so far ahead technologically nobody else will ever catch up.
No evidence of Chinese leadership's awsome planning.
There's a lot of shit you can say about the Chinese: amoral, manipulative, deceptive, socialist, etc - but saying they lack awesome planning isn't among that list.
China has the closest thing to a technocracy as exists on Earth, their entire leadership chain is full of scientists and engineers who think decades in advance on a massive scale and have managed to take the biggest singular nation on Earth and turn it into practically a single entity working toward their common objectives. Would it suck to live in China? Absolutely. That doesn't mean they lack long term planning, quite the opposite, it's a sign of supreme delayed gratification.
The third option: keep them happy with handouts and get rid of people.
Imagine the backlash if China develops smarter-than-Human-AI, and is able to control it. They would effectively outpace every nation on Earth combined in technological development. Until the AI can build its own Army they would then need to defend themselves from and perhaps conquer parts of the rest of the world. A military 800 million strong would go a long way toward that, especially if they can successfully paint the rest of the world as the aggressors. Nothing about China+AI is good for anyone else.
The owner of this "site" was completely ignorant of anything network related... which means the use of any anonymizing network is useless.
Sounds more like he was ignorant to crime and tried to approach it as a normal dev project. If he had the site up when his house was raided he was probably actively developing it and considered it in a beta stage.
Still profoundly stupid, but there are different flavors of stupid and it's good to point out which one this particular retard is...I would assume for some reason.
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They will weed out double agents in the interview process with a lie detector brain probe.
Alien probes don't go in the brain.
What do you think the wall in Game of Thrones is based on? The aliens already caged us off with the wall in Antarctica, why do you think the whole place is a no-fly zone?
We designed the Egyptian pyramids.
Congrats, one of your ancestors learned how to stack rocks in a pile.
True, but a biosafety officer would tend to have a narrower view of the possible scope of risks. Since no one knows exactly what risks to consider it seems better to get a generalist who can consult with specialists, rather than the reverse.
Obviously as with most things, the simplest solution is the best: launch high yield nukes in every direction and don't send people in the other directions. 100% guaranteed contamination free (so long as they don't wait too long and orbits shift around.)
So Hillary assassinated Seth Rich for nothing?
Amazon does pretty well, full episode available at the stroke of 9 PM. Pretty sure it costs as much as the HBO Now thing but more convenient. Also, pretty sure there was a Reddit post the other week with a guy leaking the entire seasons' storyline (though possibly with fake info since he said Greyworm died in episode 3, which apparently was just a scene flashing by as a possible future, suggesting they're giving different pieces to different people in an attempt to weed out an internal leaker.)
If they took it seriously it wouldn't have been stolen, nor would they have poked the 300lb hacker.
On the one hand it's their crappy IT department, on the other hand they might wise up to the fact their buddy's son or an Indian outsourcing (slave camp (or even worse: h1b's...shudder) don't know about IT and switch to a release-the-whole-season-at-once model to avoid leaks.
As an addendum to the other reply to this comment: Java is not a real language.
Minimum requirements for "programmer" as a title would be something which compiles to a binary as a natural function of the language (in some cases also .NET even though it's running under a managed code engine, just because it's used for a lot of desktop and server applications, but excluding things like PerlToExe converters.) All real programmers know at least 1 variant of assembly.
Is that enough to get you to stop this pedantic idiocy?
In my career I've met thousands of programmers (none of which focus on PHP, because scripting isn't programming - the number would be in the tens of thousands if I included web "developers,") none with degrees were competent in any language.
Because they don't actually do anything but marketing and sales. They aren't "tech," they're salesmen. Salesmen need connections.
2 decades in and I've yet to meet a single developer who was both not self-taught and was competent. College can't teach someone to code, only how to read code (partially at that.)
Yes, just the ads on /. bother me that much. I've routinely gone 1-2 weeks before installing AdBlock, but it's always the /. ads which irritate me enough to actually install it.
It's not even technology, it's just Apple's new slave labor camp. It's a regular looking building save for the fact it's round. The only thing spectacular about this is that it is proof the Apple cult is all over Jobs' dick even after it's become necrotic.
Similar to how flight patterns and decided, the building is so large they had to make the halls arc to shorten the time it takes to get to the other side of the building.
Yes, in true Apple fashion they couldn't just make it denser for the sake of productivity because having a massive hollow area inside which does nothing can only be balanced with curves, textureless white paint, and glass.
The ads on /. that jump around the screen are actually bad enough that I installed AdBlock - no other site is that bad when you're trying to click a link.
Do yourself a favor -
Spend a minute and look into the literally THOUSANDS of military jobs that are not in combat zones or areas of scarcity.
This is not a logistical move - if it was, it would come from the pentagon and not from a loudmouth on Twitter.
You know nothing about the military and it shows. "Non-combat" doesn't mean you won't deploy, Hell, it doesn't even mean you won't be on the front line. Every soldier is infantry first and foremost, those "thousands of military jobs" you mention are the secondary roles they fill. Most of the people in the military are in "non-combat" roles, most have also deployed AT LEAST once. There are no cushy desk jobs in the military that don't at least deploy. Fuck, I was in a "non-combat" job and went on more convoys manning a gun turret than most of the infantry or even marines that I knew.
Crazy theory here: What if Tesla is working on an autonomous car because they got a military contract to develop an autonomous military vehicle? He might have a *very* keen insight into this problem because maybe his company has already created it.
It's marketing, regulation, and government stipends - Musks' real bread and butter. He hypes things up, he scares up fear or worry to regulate his competitors, and he gets funding to do things "the right way" after the anti-competitive regulations and government stipends make it possible to beat his competitors, then he switches marketing rhetoric to stop the fear campaign for himself by showing how he's doing it "the right way."
TL;DR: There's no keen insight, he's just trying to get public backing for anti-AI regulations to avoid some guy in his garage knocking him out of business then later abiding by the regulations he instigated in order to gain a monopoly while getting subsidies for doing so.
Zuckerberg is just a glorified webmaster from the 90s, when you think about it.
More like a glorified thief, liar, and cheat. He was paid to write Facebook's predecessor in the role of a contractor, then when complete took it and rebranded as Facebook while screwing over the guys who hired him, then proceeded to lie and cheat to trick people out of their otherwise private information, to be sold to alphabet agencies.
Not to say Musk is any better, considering he drives talented engineers like they are in a sweatshop and his grand aspiration is a slave labor camp on Mars fueled by the cult of personality void left by Steve Jobs' last attempt to steal a new liver.
Of course, you could go on about the evils of any billionaire, but there's no nobility in poverty so all the world's greatest shitbags are still better than you or anyone else here.
Strong AI in a couple of decades. But we don't know where to start...you are full of shit.
If you knew anything about the development of AI you'd know we don't actually need to know what the fuck it does or even entirely how it does it. Semantic search is a great example of low-level AI: tag things, footprint things, weight things based on footprints, get enough data, and you can suddenly search for "people named like juices" and get "OJ Simpson."
Similarly you can create a system of genetic algorithms with some level of feedback weighting by the ability to communicate between two FPGAs and they will eventually hit on a mechanism to communicate wirelessly purely within the FPGA completely unknown to the researchers (this has been done, look it up if you don't believe me.)
The entire premise of AI is "it will do things for us we don't know how to do" because it is based on a bunch of technologies that do things we want without having much if any of a clue as to how they are doing it ("we" being defined as "the people who created them," not "you and I.")
You also don't know _anything_ about manufacturing. Our manufacturing employment has been in decline, our manufacturing is just fine, we aren't Europe. And we import more $ worth of manufactured goods from Mexico than China.
Oh, that makes sense, you came from _Reddit_, no wonder you're speaking out of your ass. That whole "we couldn't manufacture everything we need if we wanted to" bit was more or less what you just fucking reiterated in your zeal to be right on the internet: that we import most of what we need. Moreover the idea we get more manufactured goods we need - as in all the electronics driving every aspect of our post-industrial society - from Mexico than we do from China is absurd. We get garbage from Mexico, we get 99% of our tech manufacturing required to maintain our infrastructure from China.
FYI The USA has the most automated manufacturing sector on the planet. Which I'll grant is partly due to our schools terrible job of educating 'the slow ones'.
That is profoundly ignorant. Our manufacturing sector has been on the decline for decades and at this point we couldn't produce even 70% of the essentials for our society domestically if we needed to.
If your hinging your argument on AI, you really should learn the difference between strong AI and carefully trained neural nets.
I program them, I know what they are. I also clearly specific super-Human AI, not heuristics. The way we're heading we'll be there within a couple of decades max.
But they legitimately have no bubbles. It's a socialist dictatorship where the government owns everything and can direct anyone on a whim, that's why they beat everyone on the world stage - they're effectively one massive company that dwarfs all others and can legally kill people when interacting with a capitalist system.
Babes in the capitalist woods. This will end in revolution if they're not very careful.
Sure, if they played by capitalist rules. They only exploit those from an outward perspective though. When full or near-full manufacturing automation is achieved along with agricultural automation (or just if they move their labor to agriculture-only) the music effectively stops and any country they don't want to manufacture for essentially reverts to the pre-industrial era overnight. At that point their economy doesn't matter - they already control it in a socialist manner internally and capitalism is just a show for the rest of us. While the rest of the world is recovering from severe collapse they'll have 40-80 years (if not longer) to cement in AI and be so far ahead technologically nobody else will ever catch up.
No evidence of Chinese leadership's awsome planning.
There's a lot of shit you can say about the Chinese: amoral, manipulative, deceptive, socialist, etc - but saying they lack awesome planning isn't among that list.
China has the closest thing to a technocracy as exists on Earth, their entire leadership chain is full of scientists and engineers who think decades in advance on a massive scale and have managed to take the biggest singular nation on Earth and turn it into practically a single entity working toward their common objectives. Would it suck to live in China? Absolutely. That doesn't mean they lack long term planning, quite the opposite, it's a sign of supreme delayed gratification.
The third option: keep them happy with handouts and get rid of people.
Imagine the backlash if China develops smarter-than-Human-AI, and is able to control it. They would effectively outpace every nation on Earth combined in technological development. Until the AI can build its own Army they would then need to defend themselves from and perhaps conquer parts of the rest of the world. A military 800 million strong would go a long way toward that, especially if they can successfully paint the rest of the world as the aggressors. Nothing about China+AI is good for anyone else.
The owner of this "site" was completely ignorant of anything network related... which means the use of any anonymizing network is useless.
Sounds more like he was ignorant to crime and tried to approach it as a normal dev project. If he had the site up when his house was raided he was probably actively developing it and considered it in a beta stage.
Still profoundly stupid, but there are different flavors of stupid and it's good to point out which one this particular retard is...I would assume for some reason.