they caused genuine distress to a number of members of the public, who should be able to go about their daily business without being put in fear in this way
This may go too far in law, though I sympathize with the sentiment. You can't just invent law outside a legislature.
Algorithms agnostic to text string meanings would not be biased. The only bias is determining what is popular, a numeric thing, which is the goal here, so does not count.
Now if humans selected text strings to weight more highly, bias could creep in that way.
The ultimate goal of giant memeplexes like religions and political platforms is to convince their cog believers of the righteousness and possibility of grabbing the brass ring of power so they can force the submemes onto everyone, not just the true believers.
We now have the mathematical analysis necessary to support the statement that there will never be peace until the last politician is strangled with the guts of the last preacher.
Many of these places are dirt floor existence. I got news for you -- the environment is no friend of mankind. Only our ability to beat it into submission increases the quality of life.
So first ask yourself, dangerous...compared to what?
It will only temporarily be an expensive thing, if it even is. Mass demand and production will make the price drop rapidly.
A cabal of ultra rich hogging it eternally for themselves (much less keeping it pricey) is the stuff of dystopia fantasies and idiot shows like Family Guy.
It's questionable whether consciousness would even work in a real computer, in the sense of the computer duplicating a neural net.
Consciousness is a real phenomenon, and therefore arises out of real world physics, real atoms and energies, somehow. This is separate from the brain as data processor.
You could duplicate the processes and still thus lack consciousness. Depending on how necessary consciousness is to intelligent thought, the virtual brain may not turn on at all.
One thing is certain, though, consciousness does not arise from abstract information passing back and forth (unless you are a kind of dualist.) An virtual neuron is electrons in metal. It is not carbon cells and DNA and a million chemicals.
People who cheered her on (if any) would be very embarrassed to be called out on it. See also people on a ledge and people yelling "jump!" But put a camera on them yelling this and they shut up.
This has a name -- "US Derangement Syndrome", where every ill of the world is traced back to the US, then tracer stops tracing, dusts his hands off, and declares "US evul"!
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Slashdot should do this.
So in the long run, was the french revolution a good thing or a bad thing?
It was great for power hungry politicians outside the system to put their greedy hands in charge instead...with attendant corruption wealth.
"He looked at a Jennifer Lawrence picture for 2 1/2 minutes. Serve up a pizza ad!"
Fair enough. Was that the case here? But...
they caused genuine distress to a number of members of the public, who should be able to go about their daily business without being put in fear in this way
This may go too far in law, though I sympathize with the sentiment. You can't just invent law outside a legislature.
There is nothing to address. These are spam posts, including the "rapid downmod shows" one.
> failure
-- Hundreds of thousands of creations
-- Millions of objects and components
Someone is a failure here, Microsoft.
We had ordered a brand new Gateway for a new project for my boss' company, which was just him in his house. We bought Doom II as a, ahem, stress test.
It didn't run. We called the Gateway tech support, and they stated they "didn't consider Doom a PC-compatible program they needed to support."
Back it went and we got a different one elsewhere, which did run it.
As Gateway didn't go out of business, they must have changed their tune quickly.
Cheap, factory-produced modular housing (and I don't mean trailer homes) was invented 20, or 40 years ago.
Look to your beloved people-loving politicians as to why you can't buy 4000 square food homes for $80k.
Chrome cleared up the unclosable browser tab a few years back, with the failsafe check box to prevent the tab from opening any more windows.
A few weeks back someone found a way around that. I haven't stumbled across it again.
"Slashdot has signed an agreement with Amazon for an IoT button registered Slashdotters can get for free! It will 1-push reorder boxes of kleenex!"
If they offer opt out for something other than religious or legitimate medical reasons, that's the government's problem for doing that.
They have no business with reedumication camps. A pamphlet, optionally accepted, is all.
"Another branch of the European government was furious they had not thought of this first because les terroristes "
Algorithms agnostic to text string meanings would not be biased. The only bias is determining what is popular, a numeric thing, which is the goal here, so does not count.
Now if humans selected text strings to weight more highly, bias could creep in that way.
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(Sniff) this is the proudest downmod I've ever had. With 375 posts, I despaired of even being noticed!
The ultimate goal of giant memeplexes like religions and political platforms is to convince their cog believers of the righteousness and possibility of grabbing the brass ring of power so they can force the submemes onto everyone, not just the true believers.
We now have the mathematical analysis necessary to support the statement that there will never be peace until the last politician is strangled with the guts of the last preacher.
Many of these places are dirt floor existence. I got news for you -- the environment is no friend of mankind. Only our ability to beat it into submission increases the quality of life.
So first ask yourself, dangerous...compared to what?
Slashdot is News for Nerds. Yet often has political articles because of editors and votes.
I'm suing!
It will only temporarily be an expensive thing, if it even is. Mass demand and production will make the price drop rapidly.
A cabal of ultra rich hogging it eternally for themselves (much less keeping it pricey) is the stuff of dystopia fantasies and idiot shows like Family Guy.
It's questionable whether consciousness would even work in a real computer, in the sense of the computer duplicating a neural net.
Consciousness is a real phenomenon, and therefore arises out of real world physics, real atoms and energies, somehow. This is separate from the brain as data processor.
You could duplicate the processes and still thus lack consciousness. Depending on how necessary consciousness is to intelligent thought, the virtual brain may not turn on at all.
One thing is certain, though, consciousness does not arise from abstract information passing back and forth (unless you are a kind of dualist.) An virtual neuron is electrons in metal. It is not carbon cells and DNA and a million chemicals.
That's a funny definition of no purpose.
People who cheered her on (if any) would be very embarrassed to be called out on it. See also people on a ledge and people yelling "jump!" But put a camera on them yelling this and they shut up.
If there are logs of people cheering her on, that may be of interest, too. Even if not illegal, they could be called out publicly and shamed.
The modern lifestyle problems are more sedentary lifestyle than too much food.
Every time I had a physical labor job I dropped weight like a rock.
Again, it is lack of regular physical motion all day cuttong calorie burning than eating too much, for the vast majority of people.
Except that shaming and "just lose weight dammit!" have a 95% long term failure rate as a medical treatment method.
This has a name -- "US Derangement Syndrome", where every ill of the world is traced back to the US, then tracer stops tracing, dusts his hands off, and declares "US evul"!