Not only that, but I dare anyone to suggest a potential beneficial use of such a technology. The only thing such a device would ever be used for would be a state of oppression that humanity has never encountered before. AI is going to be bad enough as it is.
Even IF it wasn't monopolized by governments to enslave the world (and that's a huge fucking if), I'm not so sure a world where everyone can read anyone else's mind is one I particularly care to live in.
Easy, they send a kill signal through the backdoor the manufacturer was forced to add and the car locks the doors and pulls to a stop. The cop shakes you down and sends you on your way while he has a laugh with his buddies.
Humanity's best days are ahead of us, don't let anyone tell you otherwise! AI will save us from destroying ourselves by doing it first.
Methinks you should get out of your megaopolis every now and then and realize that most people live where they work and that it's only bugmen like you who think its normal to drive 3 hours through grid-locked traffic to work.
"What, you only have 10 minute commute? But if you don't live in a city you can't possibly have a life worth living!"
I would say you're dependent on the substance, which is basically the same as "addiction" but without the same stigma attached. When people hear "addict" they immediately think of their junkie cousin who robbed Grandma blind to fuel their habit.
I guess the primary difference is in the consequences of the dependence. Needing to take your "chill pill" in order to sleep is one level, stealing all the copper from your neighbors house to buy meth is another.
Explains their hardcore racism and apparent desire to create genetically modified Superhumans. If they hadn't already snapped up their Lebenstraum back in the 50s I'm sure we'd be seeing the Chinese goose stepping over their neighbors.
Why are we propping up the Chinese? Could it be that their political system is the envy of the Neoliberals? Libtards would love to be able to squelch "right wing Nazi bigots" the same way the god damn gooks can. If the neoliberals thought they could have gotten away with gunning the Alt-right down in the streets in Charlottesville they would have done it in a heartbeat.
Isn't it wonderful that you can repeat their study? That's the nice thing about actual science.
I don't know where you've been for the last few decades, but in the glorious current year we understand that science is a tool of White Supremacy and thus invalid. Repeatable studies exist only to further oppress minorities and is filled to the lily white brim with privilege and the toxic logic of white supremacy.
It's simple to see that I am correct. Open your history book and feast your eyes on all those fucking straight white males in the "Scientists of note" section. White Supremacy, all of it.
This means the right tends to believe their authorities without question, while the left tends to question everything.
So what you're saying is that the Left, which has adopted a policy of "Listen and Believe" and "Lived Experience > Facts" is actually the side that tends to question everything?
Fucking LOL. The only way this could possibly be true is if you assume that all the "classical liberals" pushed out of the left by the rise of Progressive Culture Communism aren't really right-wing even though the "Right" only exists in terms of "The people Leftists don't like," so I'm not sure how you plan on getting that to work out logically.
Furthermore, if you really think that authoritarian thinking exists solely on the right... well, I don't know what to say to someone who believes something so absolutely ludicrous.
... citizens that still believe in common sense, rational thought, and intelligent discourse.
I contend that there has never been a significant population of such people anywhere, ever. The plebes always have been, and always will be, largely irrational emotional reasoners.
Those "halcyon days" of a "rational and intelligent populace" are a myth of the intelligentsia, a sort of creation myth for (classical) liberal principles.
The enlightenment thinkers told us outright that their ideas would only work for a population with the attributes you're lamenting a lack of. Since our system appears to have worked for some time and is only just now breaking down (it's not), it must be the case that there was a population capable of maintaining a liberal society and that some part of that capability has since degraded.
Anyone with half a brain can see that the masses have always been primarily irrational, emotional thinkers. At best, your claim can be borne out by observing that the Elites (who are the ones really responsible for maintenance of our liberal society) are, themselves, the ones degenerating. Witness the current Elite culture of Progessive Neo-liberalism and the mental gymnastics required to make any sense whatsoever out of the various bizarre claims of the Progressives. The elites are increasingly incapable of rational thought and even sometimes against rationality itself!
SJWism doesn't just reward emotional reasoning, it requires it. In their zeal to signal virtue, the Western elites are actually destroying societies and blaming it on the plebes. The plebes never destroy societies, Elites do.
It's not just the statistics which are bigoted. It turns out that all math and science are White Supremacist, so pretty much everything just needs to be destroyed so we can have our perfectly Diverse Utopia.
Except DC's #metoo cinematic universe is garbage, the movies have largely been trash and the likelihood that the rest of the big DC movies are going to be dumpster fires, as well.
Or were you trying to insinuate that Suicide Squad was going to save the comic book movie?
If bitcoin crashes, "crypto" is going to get a generally bad name.
Why did you think the banksters are encouraging this bubble in the first place? They get to destroy something that would take away from their power and fleece the rubes while they're at it. Win win.
It seems the trend is the small and fast browser wins, then the browser maker puts so much junk on it, it slows it down for an other company to make a new one stripped down to what people want.
To be fair, a good deal of the junk they're putting on is directly in support of the underlying technology the browsers are implementing on the first place. I'm sure the CSS engine alone is a breathtaking sight to behold.
Imagine the kinds of abhorrent rites and dark symbologies the decadent wizards of Microsoft used to bring some semblance of sanity to IE while keeping "Quirks Mode" locked up in a box with a special hole for it to excrete "Compatible Output". A part of me wants to see the full source code for something like IE, even though I know it will probably drive me mad.
It kind of seems like a symptom of mature web browsers, to wrestle ponderously with whatever technical debts they've managed to accrue while trying to add features to vie for market share for a product which the vast majority of its users knows next nothing about.
Exactly. It's much better to sacrifice everything on the altar of Efficiency. What kind of moron wouldn't want to live in a world where every facet of life is decreed from on high by noble, enlightened bureaucrats? If we don't act now to stop this plague of "self determination", why, the economy might only grow at 3.6% next quarter. This is a travesty, and it shall not be tolerated. Just think of all the heavy handed social policy we're missing out on, all of the minuscule reductions in meaningless statistics! I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want to live in a world where liberty was valued over the vacuous abstractions of our bureaucratic overlords, it sounds so messy and chaotic. To think that a human being could be expected to take responsibility for their own actions... it's too terrible to contemplate!
True, but the current Pivot is to insinuate that the charges against Manafort and Papadopoulos are intended to get them in a custody so the investigators can wring the inevitably damning evidence from them.
Slashdot Mirror
That sounds about the right size for APKs hostfile, which is essentially what is being suggested.
Not only that, but I dare anyone to suggest a potential beneficial use of such a technology. The only thing such a device would ever be used for would be a state of oppression that humanity has never encountered before. AI is going to be bad enough as it is.
Even IF it wasn't monopolized by governments to enslave the world (and that's a huge fucking if), I'm not so sure a world where everyone can read anyone else's mind is one I particularly care to live in.
Y'all can go be ants somewhere the fuck else.
Easy, they send a kill signal through the backdoor the manufacturer was forced to add and the car locks the doors and pulls to a stop. The cop shakes you down and sends you on your way while he has a laugh with his buddies.
Humanity's best days are ahead of us, don't let anyone tell you otherwise! AI will save us from destroying ourselves by doing it first.
Well it isn't as though we know what dreaming even is in the first place, so not really, no.
Your chat bot was probably more cogent than 90% of the human players.
Probably didn't call people fags nearly as often, anyway.
So what you're saying is that Artificial Intelligence is just around the corner and we should be giving all of our money to the VCs pushing it?
Methinks you should get out of your megaopolis every now and then and realize that most people live where they work and that it's only bugmen like you who think its normal to drive 3 hours through grid-locked traffic to work.
"What, you only have 10 minute commute? But if you don't live in a city you can't possibly have a life worth living!"
I would say you're dependent on the substance, which is basically the same as "addiction" but without the same stigma attached. When people hear "addict" they immediately think of their junkie cousin who robbed Grandma blind to fuel their habit.
I guess the primary difference is in the consequences of the dependence. Needing to take your "chill pill" in order to sleep is one level, stealing all the copper from your neighbors house to buy meth is another.
So the Chinese are the "Real Nazis(TM)"?
Explains their hardcore racism and apparent desire to create genetically modified Superhumans. If they hadn't already snapped up their Lebenstraum back in the 50s I'm sure we'd be seeing the Chinese goose stepping over their neighbors.
Why are we propping up the Chinese? Could it be that their political system is the envy of the Neoliberals? Libtards would love to be able to squelch "right wing Nazi bigots" the same way the god damn gooks can. If the neoliberals thought they could have gotten away with gunning the Alt-right down in the streets in Charlottesville they would have done it in a heartbeat.
Good night, alt-right!
Isn't it wonderful that you can repeat their study? That's the nice thing about actual science.
I don't know where you've been for the last few decades, but in the glorious current year we understand that science is a tool of White Supremacy and thus invalid. Repeatable studies exist only to further oppress minorities and is filled to the lily white brim with privilege and the toxic logic of white supremacy.
It's simple to see that I am correct. Open your history book and feast your eyes on all those fucking straight white males in the "Scientists of note" section. White Supremacy, all of it.
It must be destroyed.
This means the right tends to believe their authorities without question, while the left tends to question everything.
So what you're saying is that the Left, which has adopted a policy of "Listen and Believe" and "Lived Experience > Facts" is actually the side that tends to question everything?
Fucking LOL. The only way this could possibly be true is if you assume that all the "classical liberals" pushed out of the left by the rise of Progressive Culture Communism aren't really right-wing even though the "Right" only exists in terms of "The people Leftists don't like," so I'm not sure how you plan on getting that to work out logically.
Furthermore, if you really think that authoritarian thinking exists solely on the right... well, I don't know what to say to someone who believes something so absolutely ludicrous.
... citizens that still believe in common sense, rational thought, and intelligent discourse.
I contend that there has never been a significant population of such people anywhere, ever. The plebes always have been, and always will be, largely irrational emotional reasoners.
Those "halcyon days" of a "rational and intelligent populace" are a myth of the intelligentsia, a sort of creation myth for (classical) liberal principles.
The enlightenment thinkers told us outright that their ideas would only work for a population with the attributes you're lamenting a lack of. Since our system appears to have worked for some time and is only just now breaking down (it's not), it must be the case that there was a population capable of maintaining a liberal society and that some part of that capability has since degraded.
Anyone with half a brain can see that the masses have always been primarily irrational, emotional thinkers. At best, your claim can be borne out by observing that the Elites (who are the ones really responsible for maintenance of our liberal society) are, themselves, the ones degenerating. Witness the current Elite culture of Progessive Neo-liberalism and the mental gymnastics required to make any sense whatsoever out of the various bizarre claims of the Progressives. The elites are increasingly incapable of rational thought and even sometimes against rationality itself!
SJWism doesn't just reward emotional reasoning, it requires it. In their zeal to signal virtue, the Western elites are actually destroying societies and blaming it on the plebes. The plebes never destroy societies, Elites do.
BUT MUH RUSSIA!!!!!
That's easy, #KILLALLMEN
It's not just the statistics which are bigoted. It turns out that all math and science are White Supremacist, so pretty much everything just needs to be destroyed so we can have our perfectly Diverse Utopia.
Lurching from one fad to another, with bad advice and half baked ideas from start to finish.
Sounds a lot like Progressivism, tbh.
So Hilllary, then.
Because being
condemned to death by a rich elite
Just doesn't happen in any other economic systems! Why, I'll bet if we switched to Communism, no one would have to be purged at all!
Except DC's #metoo cinematic universe is garbage, the movies have largely been trash and the likelihood that the rest of the big DC movies are going to be dumpster fires, as well.
Or were you trying to insinuate that Suicide Squad was going to save the comic book movie?
If bitcoin crashes, "crypto" is going to get a generally bad name.
Why did you think the banksters are encouraging this bubble in the first place? They get to destroy something that would take away from their power and fleece the rubes while they're at it. Win win.
It seems the trend is the small and fast browser wins, then the browser maker puts so much junk on it, it slows it down for an other company to make a new one stripped down to what people want.
To be fair, a good deal of the junk they're putting on is directly in support of the underlying technology the browsers are implementing on the first place. I'm sure the CSS engine alone is a breathtaking sight to behold.
Imagine the kinds of abhorrent rites and dark symbologies the decadent wizards of Microsoft used to bring some semblance of sanity to IE while keeping "Quirks Mode" locked up in a box with a special hole for it to excrete "Compatible Output". A part of me wants to see the full source code for something like IE, even though I know it will probably drive me mad.
It kind of seems like a symptom of mature web browsers, to wrestle ponderously with whatever technical debts they've managed to accrue while trying to add features to vie for market share for a product which the vast majority of its users knows next nothing about.
Exactly. It's much better to sacrifice everything on the altar of Efficiency. What kind of moron wouldn't want to live in a world where every facet of life is decreed from on high by noble, enlightened bureaucrats? If we don't act now to stop this plague of "self determination", why, the economy might only grow at 3.6% next quarter. This is a travesty, and it shall not be tolerated. Just think of all the heavy handed social policy we're missing out on, all of the minuscule reductions in meaningless statistics! I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want to live in a world where liberty was valued over the vacuous abstractions of our bureaucratic overlords, it sounds so messy and chaotic. To think that a human being could be expected to take responsibility for their own actions... it's too terrible to contemplate!
Nothing describes the scientific mind better than Hubris.
True, but the current Pivot is to insinuate that the charges against Manafort and Papadopoulos are intended to get them in a custody so the investigators can wring the inevitably damning evidence from them.