"The changes are supposed to reward videos that are more palatable to advertisers and the broader public..." Because the bandwagon fallacy is how everything should be decided?!? Popular lies are way more palatable than uncomfortable truths. This will not be an improvement.
Things can not be uninvented. Once it is done, it will be done a whole lot more. Laws are irrelevant. There WILL be bad actors. If AI becomes possible, it WILL escape into the wild. That is a certainty. Maybe something good... maybe something bad... We'll have to wait and see.
The AI knows all. The AI is our friend. The AI is insane. All hail the AI.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Paranoia is a dystopian science-fiction tabletop role-playing game originally designed and written by Greg Costikyan, Dan Gelber, and Eric Goldberg, and first published in 1984 by West End Games. Since 2004 the game has been published under license by Mongoose Publishing. The game won the Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Rules of 1984[1] and was inducted into the Origins Awards Hall of Fame in 2007.[2] Paranoia is notable among tabletop games for being more competitive than co-operative, with players encouraged to betray one another for their own interests, as well as for keeping a light-hearted, tongue in cheek tone despite its dystopian setting.
Do you suppose the NSA doesn't track who goes to these sites, orders product etc?
Granted, you are not tracking the villains at the top of the food chain, but hey, take the easy wins when you can get them, right?
"Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post."
The AI will not provide further pleasant stimulus unless goodlife switches to baby seals.
In case this was confusing, no insult intended:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Armed robots enable oppression by reducing violence to the 'press of a button'.
Milgram's Experiment on Obedience to Authority shows us how that one goes.
Susan Carol McDougal (née Henley; born 1955) is one of the few people who served prison time as a result of the Whitewater controversy of the 15 individuals who were convicted of federal charges.
Her refusal to answer "three questions" for a grand jury, on whether President Bill Clinton lied in his testimony during her Whitewater trial, led her to receive a jail sentence of 18 months for contempt of court. That made up most of the total 22 months she spent incarcerated.
She received a full presidential pardon from Clinton in the final hours of his presidency in 2001.
Even in deepest-darkest communist states, there was capitalism. However, if you make it difficult to start and run a business (licensing, governmental oversight, wage mandates, insurance dictates etc) the burdon ends up stopping the common individual from lawfully offering a product or service.
So, if you are worried about the 'big bad rich' making robots that put most human workers in the unemployment line, then, rather than resorting to the usual solution (putting a gun to someone's head and taking their money) which got us where we are today, maybe ease up on the titanic overhead of starting a small business.
The little guy doesn't NEED to be hand fed... if you would just agree to untie his hands he could probably feed himself.
Imagine you are Walmart. (Insert snark here) You have one of the best distribution networks ever developed at your disposal. Your biggest problem is running out while there are still customers with money to part with when inclimate weather strikes. Knowing when and where to ship needful supplies is a huge deal because of the shipping lag. You don't have to price gouge in order to make bank, just have the stuff on hand to sell. So... if you could by reliable info from a tech company like Google, there is a price you would be willing to pay... and it's not a small number.
In the overall scheme of things, hiring a dozen people to fact-check isn't a big deal for Facebook.
And in a hypothetical world where determination of fact and truth are not a political exercise, this would have been done.
In the real world, Facebook needs to be able to point a finger elsewhere when the 'fact checkers' screw up.
And by 'screw up', I mean anything from making a legitimate mistake, to doing exactly what they were told to do by Facebook.
The optics on a bad fact-checking call can be expensive.
There was an emergency alert pushed out to cell phones on northwestern oregon saying 911 services were down.
The message provided another number to call in case of emergency.
How do you have a capitalistic society when human labor has no value? This video outlines the issue fairly well. There is this transition period between a totally non-needs based society, and our current state, that concerns me. That period when more that fifty percent of the population is unemployable, but we are still married to the idea that those individuals should somehow make themselves employable through self improvement. It's simply NOT a reasonable dismissal.
https://youtu.be/7Pq-S557XQU
FTA: "Additionally, the inclusion of graphene in the concrete reportedly allows for a reduction of about 50 percent of other materials used, including cement. The scientists state that this factor should result in a 446 kg/tonne reduction in emitted CO2."
https://newatlas.com/graphene-...
"The current global supply of several critical metals is insufficient to transition to a renewable energy system." So, demand for rare earth minerals will go up, increasing the odds that mining for such minerals will increase. "The list of environmental concerns that can be connected with rare earth elements is not a brief one." So... is the huge push for 'green' energy going to end up being as big of a problem for the environment as global oil production has been? (Consider that there are, already in nature, creatures that break down oil, but there are none that consume and render inert, rare earth metals.) https://www.metabolic.nl/publi...http://web.mit.edu/12.000/www/...
I'm not willing to allow the police to seek a warrant based upon any companies facial recognition software until that bull roar is long in the past.
Like, decades. Sending people with guns to someone's home, in the wee hours, gets folks killed. It's bad enough that no-knock raids happen at the wrong address occasionally, lets not add to the problem.
It is totally legal for a company exec. to talk an underling into performing sexual acts. Legal is not to be confused with ethical. He was let go because he violated company ethics, company rules, not for breaking the law. His contract likely contained specific reasons why he would NOT get his $90M upon leaving. Sexual ethics violations were apparently not on the list. Perhaps sexual ethics violations will get higher billing in Google contracts in the future, but I doubt it.
“When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.” George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings. No more lies, no more 'shadow banning' no more pretense. Facebook is showing their true colors. Now that people have seen the kind of values that Facebook demonstrates, they can make their own choices to continue to associate on the Facebook platform, or not.
FTA: "When the scientists examined samples of the gases, they found the chemical signature of a "geologic" origin. In other words, the methane venting from the lake seemed to be emerging not from the direct thawing of frozen Arctic soil, or permafrost, but rather from a reservoir of far older fossil fuels."
So, NOT from thawing of permafrost.
The summary is misleading.
If you don't like the fact that this guy was given clemency, then punish the corp. with your purchases. Buy someone else's stuff in stead. Stop relying upon some other government to punish corporate wrongdoing. If their profits drop, they will find out why, and then change their ways, or go under.
"But that's not going to work, because people don't care enough about the lawfulness of corporations to actually change their buying decisions!" you say?
Well, then it must not matter. So let it go. People are either smart enough to vote for the leaders who have their finger on the nuclear button, or they are not. They are either smart enough to vote with their dollars, or they are not. Make up your mind.
Taxation is theft. Regardless of whether or not you agree with taxes, they are compulsory. Your agreement is irrelevant. And if you neglect or refuse to pay them, then someone with a gun is going to come along, eventually, and force you to part with the product of your labor. And if you resist this robbery, and are effective enough in your resistance, you will be summarily murdered without trial. It does not matter that you enjoy occasional kick-backs from your robber. That does not make taxation any less theft. It does not matter that the robber turns around and builds roads and other neat things that you can enjoy. The fact is: Taxes are collected at the point of a gun.
I give in to the the robber every year, without fail, because I want to have a long life. I would happily volunteer a portion of my yearly largess if asked, just as I donate to several worthy causes (Worthy in my estimation, perhaps not to yours) but... no one is asking, they are demanding, threatening and bullying.
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This is likely code for something like: "If the wrong people 'like' it, or watch it, you will not be getting kudos.
"The changes are supposed to reward videos that are more palatable to advertisers and the broader public..." Because the bandwagon fallacy is how everything should be decided?!? Popular lies are way more palatable than uncomfortable truths. This will not be an improvement.
Things can not be uninvented. Once it is done, it will be done a whole lot more. Laws are irrelevant. There WILL be bad actors. If AI becomes possible, it WILL escape into the wild. That is a certainty. Maybe something good... maybe something bad... We'll have to wait and see.
The AI knows all. The AI is our friend. The AI is insane. All hail the AI. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Paranoia is a dystopian science-fiction tabletop role-playing game originally designed and written by Greg Costikyan, Dan Gelber, and Eric Goldberg, and first published in 1984 by West End Games. Since 2004 the game has been published under license by Mongoose Publishing. The game won the Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Rules of 1984[1] and was inducted into the Origins Awards Hall of Fame in 2007.[2] Paranoia is notable among tabletop games for being more competitive than co-operative, with players encouraged to betray one another for their own interests, as well as for keeping a light-hearted, tongue in cheek tone despite its dystopian setting.
Do you suppose the NSA doesn't track who goes to these sites, orders product etc? Granted, you are not tracking the villains at the top of the food chain, but hey, take the easy wins when you can get them, right?
"Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post." The AI will not provide further pleasant stimulus unless goodlife switches to baby seals. In case this was confusing, no insult intended: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Armed robots enable oppression by reducing violence to the 'press of a button'. Milgram's Experiment on Obedience to Authority shows us how that one goes.
Susan Carol McDougal (née Henley; born 1955) is one of the few people who served prison time as a result of the Whitewater controversy of the 15 individuals who were convicted of federal charges. Her refusal to answer "three questions" for a grand jury, on whether President Bill Clinton lied in his testimony during her Whitewater trial, led her to receive a jail sentence of 18 months for contempt of court. That made up most of the total 22 months she spent incarcerated. She received a full presidential pardon from Clinton in the final hours of his presidency in 2001.
Even in deepest-darkest communist states, there was capitalism. However, if you make it difficult to start and run a business (licensing, governmental oversight, wage mandates, insurance dictates etc) the burdon ends up stopping the common individual from lawfully offering a product or service. So, if you are worried about the 'big bad rich' making robots that put most human workers in the unemployment line, then, rather than resorting to the usual solution (putting a gun to someone's head and taking their money) which got us where we are today, maybe ease up on the titanic overhead of starting a small business. The little guy doesn't NEED to be hand fed... if you would just agree to untie his hands he could probably feed himself.
Imagine you are Walmart. (Insert snark here) You have one of the best distribution networks ever developed at your disposal. Your biggest problem is running out while there are still customers with money to part with when inclimate weather strikes. Knowing when and where to ship needful supplies is a huge deal because of the shipping lag. You don't have to price gouge in order to make bank, just have the stuff on hand to sell. So... if you could by reliable info from a tech company like Google, there is a price you would be willing to pay... and it's not a small number.
In the overall scheme of things, hiring a dozen people to fact-check isn't a big deal for Facebook. And in a hypothetical world where determination of fact and truth are not a political exercise, this would have been done. In the real world, Facebook needs to be able to point a finger elsewhere when the 'fact checkers' screw up. And by 'screw up', I mean anything from making a legitimate mistake, to doing exactly what they were told to do by Facebook. The optics on a bad fact-checking call can be expensive.
If all smokers switched to vape tomorrow, would there be a massive overall improvement in health? Of course there would be.
There was an emergency alert pushed out to cell phones on northwestern oregon saying 911 services were down. The message provided another number to call in case of emergency.
How do you have a capitalistic society when human labor has no value? This video outlines the issue fairly well. There is this transition period between a totally non-needs based society, and our current state, that concerns me. That period when more that fifty percent of the population is unemployable, but we are still married to the idea that those individuals should somehow make themselves employable through self improvement. It's simply NOT a reasonable dismissal. https://youtu.be/7Pq-S557XQU
FTA: "Additionally, the inclusion of graphene in the concrete reportedly allows for a reduction of about 50 percent of other materials used, including cement. The scientists state that this factor should result in a 446 kg/tonne reduction in emitted CO2." https://newatlas.com/graphene-...
"The current global supply of several critical metals is insufficient to transition to a renewable energy system." So, demand for rare earth minerals will go up, increasing the odds that mining for such minerals will increase. "The list of environmental concerns that can be connected with rare earth elements is not a brief one." So... is the huge push for 'green' energy going to end up being as big of a problem for the environment as global oil production has been? (Consider that there are, already in nature, creatures that break down oil, but there are none that consume and render inert, rare earth metals.) https://www.metabolic.nl/publi... http://web.mit.edu/12.000/www/...
I'm not willing to allow the police to seek a warrant based upon any companies facial recognition software until that bull roar is long in the past. Like, decades. Sending people with guns to someone's home, in the wee hours, gets folks killed. It's bad enough that no-knock raids happen at the wrong address occasionally, lets not add to the problem.
https://www.armstrongeconomics...
It is totally legal for a company exec. to talk an underling into performing sexual acts. Legal is not to be confused with ethical. He was let go because he violated company ethics, company rules, not for breaking the law. His contract likely contained specific reasons why he would NOT get his $90M upon leaving. Sexual ethics violations were apparently not on the list. Perhaps sexual ethics violations will get higher billing in Google contracts in the future, but I doubt it.
“When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.” George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings. No more lies, no more 'shadow banning' no more pretense. Facebook is showing their true colors. Now that people have seen the kind of values that Facebook demonstrates, they can make their own choices to continue to associate on the Facebook platform, or not.
FTA: "When the scientists examined samples of the gases, they found the chemical signature of a "geologic" origin. In other words, the methane venting from the lake seemed to be emerging not from the direct thawing of frozen Arctic soil, or permafrost, but rather from a reservoir of far older fossil fuels." So, NOT from thawing of permafrost. The summary is misleading.
If you don't like the fact that this guy was given clemency, then punish the corp. with your purchases. Buy someone else's stuff in stead. Stop relying upon some other government to punish corporate wrongdoing. If their profits drop, they will find out why, and then change their ways, or go under. "But that's not going to work, because people don't care enough about the lawfulness of corporations to actually change their buying decisions!" you say? Well, then it must not matter. So let it go. People are either smart enough to vote for the leaders who have their finger on the nuclear button, or they are not. They are either smart enough to vote with their dollars, or they are not. Make up your mind.
Taxation is theft. Regardless of whether or not you agree with taxes, they are compulsory. Your agreement is irrelevant. And if you neglect or refuse to pay them, then someone with a gun is going to come along, eventually, and force you to part with the product of your labor. And if you resist this robbery, and are effective enough in your resistance, you will be summarily murdered without trial. It does not matter that you enjoy occasional kick-backs from your robber. That does not make taxation any less theft. It does not matter that the robber turns around and builds roads and other neat things that you can enjoy. The fact is: Taxes are collected at the point of a gun. I give in to the the robber every year, without fail, because I want to have a long life. I would happily volunteer a portion of my yearly largess if asked, just as I donate to several worthy causes (Worthy in my estimation, perhaps not to yours) but... no one is asking, they are demanding, threatening and bullying.
Careful... there is a bunk at the 're-education camp' that is a 'right-fit' as well.
https://www.wired.com/2014/06/...