I like how a poem on a statue gifted by "the French people" in the late 19th century has somehow come to define the core of the American ethos in the current year. I'll bet you also think the US entered WW2 to save the Jews and fight totalitarianism by... teaming up with, and providing extensive material aid to, totalitarianism! Such amazing insight, your Marxist history professors would be proud.
It opens up the time honored leftist tactic of squealing "I am from 'marginalized' group, you criticized me for something unrelated to that 'marginalization' therefore your argument is invalid."
I should think her advisers and handlers would come up, and largely execute, such strategies. That's what she pays them for.
Things started falling apart for the "establishment" when Trump refused to go down after they "went nuclear" with accusations of sexual impropriety, etc. He was supposed to quit in the face of such attacks, as any normal politician would do. This took them completely by surprise, especially when the public failed to care about the substance of the media smear tactics.
As far as conspiracy goes, I'd be interested in seeing the partisan makeup of the US Civil Service workers. The idea was to insulate the bureaucracy from "partisanship" but only in the sense of preventing politically motivated partisan stacking of the workers making up the Civil Service. Given the way other institutions have been leaning heavily left (largely without direct political machinations) it's not exactly "out there" to assume something like the Civil Service has done so as well. Having the institution which is the literal beating heart of the Government lean favorable for either party is a disaster waiting to happen.
If the rest of the country is enmeshed in partisan tribalism only a moron or apologist could believe government workers aren't subject to the same social forces. It doesn't make any sense.
I think the whole "net neutrality" thing was supposed to go down under Queen Clinton's regime where they could have properly leveraged the fake Russian threat into more government control. The "Muh Russia" narrative, as well, was supposed to emerge during a Clinton regime in order to garner more Federal control over the election process and social media platforms.
That's the main reason, IMO, that the whole "Muh Russia" narrative was so nonsensical and disjointed under Trump, he wasn't supposed to actually win and the Democrats had to improvise in order to keep the narrative going under Trump. I don't think the anti-Russia narrative was ever meant to be used against Trump per se, it was supposed to be an excuse for increased federal powers.
Or make AI illegal and execute anyone who works with it. I'd support a tyrannical world government that promised that. AI is going to be hands down the worst thing to ever happen to humanity. BUT MUH SELF DRIVING CAAAAARS!!!
The product itself, the so-called smartphone, is a finished product. There is nothing left to innovate, instead it is now in the phase of incremental improvements and arbitrary design differences. Handset makers have saddled themselves with a marketing apparatus which relies on hyping innovations and are therefore forced to try selling these kinds of changes as "revolutionary innovations".
The whole idea that you could build a business plan around "innovation" is absurd and goes along way to illustrate whats wrong with SV and start-up culture. That, and the idea that "changing the world" is always good no matter what, which is completely insane.
Oh look, a real world example of powerful entities planning to use AI systems for evil!
But go ahead, mock the AI skeptics with Skynet and Matrix strawmen.
We always seem to find ourselves in these little quandaries in our reckless pursuit of scientific development and apparently no one seems to think it's a problem. We can pass righteous judgement on the Soviets for their utterly insane development of nuclear technologies but then pat ourselves on the back for the latest social media spy tech disguised as a consumer product.
Because, shock of shocks, the Chinese are not western liberals! Holy fucking shit, I'll bet you'd go along with the proposition that "morality is subjective" but here you are, pretending as though the system you like is the best one.
I could see telling the car to go ahead and try to make me some money with the remaining 60% most of the time
By this I assume you mean have the car operate as a sort of ride-hailing service for the general public? Sounds like a real quick way to get your car destroyed by some fucking jackass.
What kind of hyper-trusting jackasses come up with this shit? Even Liberals admit humans are pretty fucking shit, why would anyone think something like this could work? Even if the rider can't steal your car, they'll trash it because they don't give a fuck about you because you don't actually exist to them save as a pathetic abstraction taught to them in school and which has no modulating impact on behavior whatsoever.
"Go ahead and do the stupidest and most reckless things you can think of, our actuaries show it probably won't blow up in your face." Brilliant.
There are very real limits on the innate human tribal "circuitry". We're only capable of dealing with a certain number of other humans in terms of "they're just like me" and outside of that number other people only just barely exist. We absolutely know and understand that other humans exist, and even most of the time that they're people. I think this is less from tribal thinking than it is from the simple fact that we evolved in an environment where the only other humans you know are in close proximity. The people you only ever meet online or through some similar distant communication process are missing the proximity and the various primitive sense systems we base our understanding of others on do not exist in this virtual environment. Telling me about your girlfriend in Mexico is one thing, me actually meeting her is another.
I would also posit that what we call Tribalism is actually made up of any number of behaviors which contribute in various ways to the emergent Tribal phenomeba. It therefore isn't clear that insisting the Tribe include everyone everywhere by ideological fiat can even mimic tribalistic effects, let alone harass it for some universal Human tribe. Nations aren't just "big ass tribes".
I'm rambling like a madman now, but I'll finish up with this: We don't really understand how the brain stores its understanding of other humans. Given that, we also don't know to what extent direct contact with another human is required to get that full understanding. Given things like unconscious communication through body language and the like it's perfectly likely that we can't fully think someone is human until we meet them in person. Since we will never be able to meet every human being, nor store that information even if we could, human thinking will, in all likelihood, remain very much the same no matter how hard reformers try to train them. If Christianity couldn't do it after a few thousand years, I have little expectation that atheistic left-liberalism will be able to do so in a few generations, if at all.
They do, but I should think the concern with using the car's batteries would be that you can wear out your car's battery by doing things other than travel and if the battery wears out early you can't travel until you replace it.
Presumably your home could operate without the dedicated Powerwall while you wait for it to be replaced.
Leaking data like this to China is bad in the sense of geopolitical strategy, but leaking it to FaceBook is a clear and present danger to the users themselves. Given the way Facebook is being shown to abuse their data collection for any number of shady practices it makes more sense for the individual user to avoid the Facebook collection.
What are the Chinese going to do with your VR porn records? Maybe they could get lucky and find some bad behavior on someone important enough to blackmail, but your average neckbearded incel jacking off VR hentai? Facebook could put that on your Timeline, China just gets a good laugh at how decadent and degenerate the white man has become and how easy it's going to be to dominate European societies in the future.
At the rate we're going the US military is going to be 50%+ female, filled with as many gays, trannies and other leftist riff raff as possible and will be utterly incapable of responding to even the smallest of threats, let alone Russia or China. In other words, fill the military with the very kinds of people who would ordinarily be out protesting everything the military does. Fucking genius.
How is it that these things make the world a better place? These, and many other things, are assumed to be good because they were previously considered bad. There's no time wasted on determining if things were taboo in the past for any particular reason, just a blind and uncompromising orgy of iconoclastic fervor.
Everything anyone has ever said is bad must be good because saying things are bad is not nice and not being nice is bad. Liberalism is a hell of a drug.
Sure, we may have hamstrung our country and doomed it to oblivion, but hey, at least we got cheap consumer goods out of the deal!
Economics in the current year people. The negative effects of policy don't matter so long as they make consumer goods cheaper because as we all know cheap consumer goods will keep the everyone happy forever and it's inconceivable that our Utopian materialist philosophies could possibly be wrong in any way let alone leading to certain doom!
TL;DR; Modern Neoliberal Economics: The only thing that matters is increasing GDP. All other concerns are secondary at best, and in all likelihood ignored entirely on the grounds that reality interferes in a problematic way with ideology.
Who fucking cares? Why are you wringing your hands about such a tiny fraction of deaths? This kind of attitude is how the Boomers made Millennials fucking retarded. If something kills even one Precious Child Who Is Our Future(tm) then it must be eliminated! Just how incapable of dealing with reality, as it is, do you want to make people? "Our idiotic policies may not make any measurable difference but at least we look like good guys while we're doing it!"
So it doesn't matter if the NSA uses AI systems to more efficiently process all that juicy data they're stashing away in those giant data centers? *yawn*
Corporations knowing, in absolute terms, more about you than you know about yourself? *shrug*
As long the AI isn't nuking cities and gunning down kids in the street it's no problem whatsoever. Got it.
You don't need the fucking Terminator for AI to be used for evil.
How about China? They've got that fancy new Social Credit rating system. Bet that's pretty hard to maintain, there's a lot of data to sift through. So they build an "AI" to do some of it for them. AI now controls a significant portion of peoples lives and it doesn't have access to a single nuke!
Even better, whenever the AI makes mistakes and ruins peoples lives, there's no one human to blame! The AI told us to do it, not our fault! We fixed the bug and of course there aren't any more, ha ha that's preposterous. Then there's the fact that we're already getting results from certain systems that we don't quite understand how the system actually got to the results, or at least not without a significant amount of reverse engineering. Humans already have a hard time with accountability, why not build a society with none whatsoever?
I'm less worried about AI going Skynet than I am worried about it being the most efficient system of social control in human history. That, and that the people who are developing it are going to do so recklessly, just like every tech has been. Does anyone really trust China, the US, or the Silicon Valley Data Barons to develop AI systems that actually help people? By "help" I obviously don't mean "help people give us more data", so that's right out.
Geek culture in general is degenerate garbage for a degenerate audience. Oh look at me, my identity is indelibly tied to a mediocre sci-fi movie franchise! When they make a bad Star Wars movie it literally kills a part of my soul! At least I have my towering intellect, obsessive personality disorder, and unopened toy collection to console me.
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I like how a poem on a statue gifted by "the French people" in the late 19th century has somehow come to define the core of the American ethos in the current year. I'll bet you also think the US entered WW2 to save the Jews and fight totalitarianism by ... teaming up with, and providing extensive material aid to, totalitarianism! Such amazing insight, your Marxist history professors would be proud.
It opens up the time honored leftist tactic of squealing "I am from 'marginalized' group, you criticized me for something unrelated to that 'marginalization' therefore your argument is invalid."
Now why would anyone be against that?
And take French, or how else would you explain the pronunciation of the name of the Canadian prime minister?
Because French is a trash language. There is no other explanation.
I should think her advisers and handlers would come up, and largely execute, such strategies. That's what she pays them for.
Things started falling apart for the "establishment" when Trump refused to go down after they "went nuclear" with accusations of sexual impropriety, etc. He was supposed to quit in the face of such attacks, as any normal politician would do. This took them completely by surprise, especially when the public failed to care about the substance of the media smear tactics.
As far as conspiracy goes, I'd be interested in seeing the partisan makeup of the US Civil Service workers. The idea was to insulate the bureaucracy from "partisanship" but only in the sense of preventing politically motivated partisan stacking of the workers making up the Civil Service. Given the way other institutions have been leaning heavily left (largely without direct political machinations) it's not exactly "out there" to assume something like the Civil Service has done so as well. Having the institution which is the literal beating heart of the Government lean favorable for either party is a disaster waiting to happen.
If the rest of the country is enmeshed in partisan tribalism only a moron or apologist could believe government workers aren't subject to the same social forces. It doesn't make any sense.
I think the whole "net neutrality" thing was supposed to go down under Queen Clinton's regime where they could have properly leveraged the fake Russian threat into more government control. The "Muh Russia" narrative, as well, was supposed to emerge during a Clinton regime in order to garner more Federal control over the election process and social media platforms.
That's the main reason, IMO, that the whole "Muh Russia" narrative was so nonsensical and disjointed under Trump, he wasn't supposed to actually win and the Democrats had to improvise in order to keep the narrative going under Trump. I don't think the anti-Russia narrative was ever meant to be used against Trump per se, it was supposed to be an excuse for increased federal powers.
Great, so in your analogy here Humans themselves are the natives, right? Charming argument, that.
Reality has a racist bias.
Or make AI illegal and execute anyone who works with it. I'd support a tyrannical world government that promised that. AI is going to be hands down the worst thing to ever happen to humanity. BUT MUH SELF DRIVING CAAAAARS!!!
This guy Geek Culture(tm)'s
The product itself, the so-called smartphone, is a finished product. There is nothing left to innovate, instead it is now in the phase of incremental improvements and arbitrary design differences. Handset makers have saddled themselves with a marketing apparatus which relies on hyping innovations and are therefore forced to try selling these kinds of changes as "revolutionary innovations".
The whole idea that you could build a business plan around "innovation" is absurd and goes along way to illustrate whats wrong with SV and start-up culture. That, and the idea that "changing the world" is always good no matter what, which is completely insane.
Oh look, a real world example of powerful entities planning to use AI systems for evil!
But go ahead, mock the AI skeptics with Skynet and Matrix strawmen.
We always seem to find ourselves in these little quandaries in our reckless pursuit of scientific development and apparently no one seems to think it's a problem. We can pass righteous judgement on the Soviets for their utterly insane development of nuclear technologies but then pat ourselves on the back for the latest social media spy tech disguised as a consumer product.
Because, shock of shocks, the Chinese are not western liberals! Holy fucking shit, I'll bet you'd go along with the proposition that "morality is subjective" but here you are, pretending as though the system you like is the best one.
I could see telling the car to go ahead and try to make me some money with the remaining 60% most of the time
By this I assume you mean have the car operate as a sort of ride-hailing service for the general public? Sounds like a real quick way to get your car destroyed by some fucking jackass.
What kind of hyper-trusting jackasses come up with this shit? Even Liberals admit humans are pretty fucking shit, why would anyone think something like this could work? Even if the rider can't steal your car, they'll trash it because they don't give a fuck about you because you don't actually exist to them save as a pathetic abstraction taught to them in school and which has no modulating impact on behavior whatsoever.
"Go ahead and do the stupidest and most reckless things you can think of, our actuaries show it probably won't blow up in your face." Brilliant.
There are very real limits on the innate human tribal "circuitry". We're only capable of dealing with a certain number of other humans in terms of "they're just like me" and outside of that number other people only just barely exist. We absolutely know and understand that other humans exist, and even most of the time that they're people. I think this is less from tribal thinking than it is from the simple fact that we evolved in an environment where the only other humans you know are in close proximity. The people you only ever meet online or through some similar distant communication process are missing the proximity and the various primitive sense systems we base our understanding of others on do not exist in this virtual environment. Telling me about your girlfriend in Mexico is one thing, me actually meeting her is another.
I would also posit that what we call Tribalism is actually made up of any number of behaviors which contribute in various ways to the emergent Tribal phenomeba. It therefore isn't clear that insisting the Tribe include everyone everywhere by ideological fiat can even mimic tribalistic effects, let alone harass it for some universal Human tribe. Nations aren't just "big ass tribes".
I'm rambling like a madman now, but I'll finish up with this: We don't really understand how the brain stores its understanding of other humans. Given that, we also don't know to what extent direct contact with another human is required to get that full understanding. Given things like unconscious communication through body language and the like it's perfectly likely that we can't fully think someone is human until we meet them in person. Since we will never be able to meet every human being, nor store that information even if we could, human thinking will, in all likelihood, remain very much the same no matter how hard reformers try to train them. If Christianity couldn't do it after a few thousand years, I have little expectation that atheistic left-liberalism will be able to do so in a few generations, if at all.
They do, but I should think the concern with using the car's batteries would be that you can wear out your car's battery by doing things other than travel and if the battery wears out early you can't travel until you replace it.
Presumably your home could operate without the dedicated Powerwall while you wait for it to be replaced.
Leaking data like this to China is bad in the sense of geopolitical strategy, but leaking it to FaceBook is a clear and present danger to the users themselves. Given the way Facebook is being shown to abuse their data collection for any number of shady practices it makes more sense for the individual user to avoid the Facebook collection.
What are the Chinese going to do with your VR porn records? Maybe they could get lucky and find some bad behavior on someone important enough to blackmail, but your average neckbearded incel jacking off VR hentai? Facebook could put that on your Timeline, China just gets a good laugh at how decadent and degenerate the white man has become and how easy it's going to be to dominate European societies in the future.
At the rate we're going the US military is going to be 50%+ female, filled with as many gays, trannies and other leftist riff raff as possible and will be utterly incapable of responding to even the smallest of threats, let alone Russia or China. In other words, fill the military with the very kinds of people who would ordinarily be out protesting everything the military does. Fucking genius.
How is it that these things make the world a better place? These, and many other things, are assumed to be good because they were previously considered bad. There's no time wasted on determining if things were taboo in the past for any particular reason, just a blind and uncompromising orgy of iconoclastic fervor.
Everything anyone has ever said is bad must be good because saying things are bad is not nice and not being nice is bad. Liberalism is a hell of a drug.
Sure, we may have hamstrung our country and doomed it to oblivion, but hey, at least we got cheap consumer goods out of the deal!
Economics in the current year people. The negative effects of policy don't matter so long as they make consumer goods cheaper because as we all know cheap consumer goods will keep the everyone happy forever and it's inconceivable that our Utopian materialist philosophies could possibly be wrong in any way let alone leading to certain doom!
TL;DR; Modern Neoliberal Economics: The only thing that matters is increasing GDP. All other concerns are secondary at best, and in all likelihood ignored entirely on the grounds that reality interferes in a problematic way with ideology.
Who fucking cares? Why are you wringing your hands about such a tiny fraction of deaths? This kind of attitude is how the Boomers made Millennials fucking retarded. If something kills even one Precious Child Who Is Our Future(tm) then it must be eliminated! Just how incapable of dealing with reality, as it is, do you want to make people? "Our idiotic policies may not make any measurable difference but at least we look like good guys while we're doing it!"
So it doesn't matter if the NSA uses AI systems to more efficiently process all that juicy data they're stashing away in those giant data centers? *yawn*
Corporations knowing, in absolute terms, more about you than you know about yourself? *shrug*
As long the AI isn't nuking cities and gunning down kids in the street it's no problem whatsoever. Got it.
You don't need the fucking Terminator for AI to be used for evil.
How about China? They've got that fancy new Social Credit rating system. Bet that's pretty hard to maintain, there's a lot of data to sift through. So they build an "AI" to do some of it for them. AI now controls a significant portion of peoples lives and it doesn't have access to a single nuke!
Even better, whenever the AI makes mistakes and ruins peoples lives, there's no one human to blame! The AI told us to do it, not our fault! We fixed the bug and of course there aren't any more, ha ha that's preposterous. Then there's the fact that we're already getting results from certain systems that we don't quite understand how the system actually got to the results, or at least not without a significant amount of reverse engineering. Humans already have a hard time with accountability, why not build a society with none whatsoever?
I'm less worried about AI going Skynet than I am worried about it being the most efficient system of social control in human history. That, and that the people who are developing it are going to do so recklessly, just like every tech has been. Does anyone really trust China, the US, or the Silicon Valley Data Barons to develop AI systems that actually help people? By "help" I obviously don't mean "help people give us more data", so that's right out.
Make mine with Santorum! Yum!
I wonder what kind of documents you'd need to cook up to get that sample? Asking for a friend.
But what's another trite superhero story worth?
Geek culture in general is degenerate garbage for a degenerate audience. Oh look at me, my identity is indelibly tied to a mediocre sci-fi movie franchise! When they make a bad Star Wars movie it literally kills a part of my soul! At least I have my towering intellect, obsessive personality disorder, and unopened toy collection to console me.