At least we can confirm what brand Sirius Cybernetics has been trading under in this rather uncharted backwater of the Galaxy's unfashionable Western Spiral Arm.
Most people want to communicate with machines using human-like queries and do want to not address it as if they're an Enterprise crew member addressing the Star Trek computer. One is friendly and fun, the other is cold and emotionless.
While you were wasting time chatting up Siri, you missed a call from External Reality. All "artificial intelligence" is emotionless. Some people are smart enough to remember that.
Attributing emotional content to interactions with a piece of voice-synthesis software, perhaps understandable, is still pretty naive.
So, yeah, anyone with a clue would prefer not to be tricked into emotional investment in a piece of soulless technology.
Why is everyone so scared of the probability of an Islamic based party being democratically elected without fraud in the middle east?
Because Islam is scary and hates our freedom. Didn't you get the memo?
Yes, I'm being sarcastic. Just in case someone confuses this with a sincerely-held belief, since apparently in a few cases it is.
More to the point, a nice tame secularist government well-calibrated to dance to our tune is vastly superior, even if they're despotic and abusive.
Yeah, being sarcastic again. Although I'm sure this is actually a valid talking point in the minds of a few foreign-policy strategists in certain Three-Letter Acronym agencies.
Apparently (parsing TFA's explanation), yeah, it is.
When you walk into a new scene, your brain performs a series of high-priority tasks to update your current situational map. It would be counter to your survival success to ignore new sensory and context information presented by rounding a corner or entering a cave, especially if that sensory information included such things a predators. Even if what you were pondering as you entered the new scene was, for instance, a very innovative way to knap and flake a stone axe that would really impress the Cro-Magnon chicks. Your pre-historic geek-trance will kill you if you wander all unawares into a cave bear den.
As a high-priority background task, this situational integration would preempt cognitive resources, such as forcing a cache dump of short-term memory to populate with new page tables, as it were.
Well, that's my interpretation. Sorry it's not a car analogy or a pizza analogy.
Yeah. In American English, "near-sighted" is the ophthalmological condition of lacking visual acuity viewing mid- and far-distance objects, while "short-sighted" is the intellectual condition of not forseeing or planning beyond a short time span into the future.
In contrast, "far-sighted" is the contrary ophthalmological condition of lacking visual acuity viewing near-distance objects. There is no confusion with the ability to plan and anticipate the more distant future (i.e., antonym of "short-sighted") because that doesn't happen. Ever. If something doesn't happen this quarter, it doesn't exist.
The spacecraft would be privately owned. And "jet" covers any form of propulsion which emits a stream of reaction mass to provide thrust, including rockets and ion engines. (Hence the "Jet" in NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory).
That reminds me of a South Texas philosophy of home architecture.
Build your house above a crawl space, and with widely-spaced slat floors. Don't bother with trash cans; just poke your rubbish through the floor with your pointy boot toe.
When the crawl space fills up, burn down the house and move on to your next one.
Good news, everyone! I've invented quantum entanglement faster-than-light communications! Unfortunately, to make it work, we'll have to torture one of you in Morse code patterns of pain and decode the sympathetic response at the other end.
Sovereign Immunity wasn't an impediment in the canonical example of a lawsuit about technology-related unlawful seizure: Steve Jackson Games v. United States Secret Service; The Federal Tort Claims Act probably provided the rationale to waive sovereign immunity in this case, since it was the tortuous actions of agents of the Secret Service which were the heart of the case.
This case was the genesis of the EFF.
To recap: SJ Games was raided in early 1990 on unsubstantiated claims of possession of stolen proprietary "telephone system hacking" information. (i.e., interstate theft and wire fraud). The affidavit supporting the warrant was sealed at the request of the Secret Service until October of that year, so SJ Games didn't even know what it was really being raided for.
Some of the seized goods (hardware, documents) were returned within that year, but not all; I'm not sure if all of it ever was.
SJ Games filed suit to "to redress violations of the
Privacy Protection Act of 1980, 42 U.S.C. 2000aa et seq; the Electronic
Communications Privacy Act, as amended, 18 U.S.C. 2510 et seq and 2701 et seq;
and the First and Fourth Amendments to the United States Constitution." in May of 1991 and won the judgment in March of 1993.
To borrow the central conceit of the Battlestar Galactica retread series: "All this has happened before, and all this will happen again."
Wrong as in libel, slander, etc. *Not* wrong as in unpopular, politically incorrect, challenging the powerful, etc.
So... who decides the difference? That's the crux of the issue, in the final analysis.
Don't forget that the charge in Soviet China political prosecutions of the press is usually something equivalent to "slandering the State", typically by sharing unflattering truths with the public.
I feel like I'm risking a "whoosh", but I'll go ahead and say it.
If you leave the foxes guarding the chickens, you can be certain there'll be no fowl. At least, no live fowl. Lots of fowl feathers, though, and shed fowl blood.
I also learned that airplanes work because air travels a longer distance going over the top of the wing than the bottom
I learned that too. I guess it was sincerely believed for a long time.
that movies work because of persistence of vision
Yeah. The brain-centric nature of motion perception was discovered in the early 20th Century, but I was still being taught that the eye is where image persistence became perceived motion. Kind of disappointing.
and that the primary colors were Red, Yellow and Blue.
They are, if you're in elementary school art class. They don't make many magenta or cyan tempra paints, after all. (And more to the point, those pseudo-primary colors work in a subtractive color system pretty well. The main thing they can't reliably do is mix to a full color gamut.) Now, in my elementary school SCIENCE class, they taught us about TWO different sets of primary colors: additive (Red, Green, Blue) and subtractive (Magenta, Cyan, Yellow). And they made a point of saying not to pay any attention to what the art teacher was saying about primary colors.
A lot of the modern English language, particularly parts of the vocabulary related to law, justice, and rulership, are inherited from the Norman-French of William the Conqueror and his successors. Anglo-Norman was the language of the Norman ruling class, and by assimilation part of English.
Now, it's fair to argue whether Norman-French is "French". I suspect it's as close to modern French as medieval Portuguese is to modern Castilian Spanish. But it is definitely French, not Latin, so those contributions to English are directly via French, not merely a common root of Latin.
Note, too, that a lot of specific legal jargon (i.e., words and phrases specific to the practice of law) is derived from Law French. Such words as "mortgage", "parole", or "tort" come directly from Ango-Norman or Parisian French.
My lovely municipality goes one step beyond. Its municipal waste collection service (tax-funded, contracted) has a curbside yard waste component, and all that collected yard waste is composed. The resulting compost is bagged and sold locally in normal retail operations (just another provider of yard amendment stuff at your local Wal-Mart or Home Depot or whatever). And it's quite cheap, I suppose because the feedstocks are subsidized by the municipal refuse collection system. And great on gardens.
So, if this little Midwestern US city mandates food-waste composting, it wouldn't be a great burden, other than a little more sorting (since we already have curbside metal/paper/plastic recycling as well) and another container to put out once a week.
Anyone who speaks of Unix as a monolithic entity clearly doesn't actually work with "multiple Unixen". BSD and the under-the-hood portions of OSX fit well within the continuum of operating systems which spans the label "Unix". Certainly, I find more commonality between BSD derivatives and Solaris than I do between Solaris and AIX.
I know that it's not often acknowledged, but in the long run there's one ironclad rule, enforced with all the ruthlessness of natural selection: If you can't afford to do it right, you can't afford to do it at all.
You don't tackle vast projects with half-vast security. You're just spending lots of money to embarrass yourself and let down people who depend on you, if you try.
Security is not optional. All the impediments you described are merely challenges to engineer around. The only real insurmountable obstacle is not giving sufficient damn to actually try to overcome the other issues rather than handwaving them away as "too hard" or "too expensive."
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At least we can confirm what brand Sirius Cybernetics has been trading under in this rather uncharted backwater of the Galaxy's unfashionable Western Spiral Arm.
Most people want to communicate with machines using human-like queries and do want to not address it as if they're an Enterprise crew member addressing the Star Trek computer. One is friendly and fun, the other is cold and emotionless.
While you were wasting time chatting up Siri, you missed a call from External Reality. All "artificial intelligence" is emotionless. Some people are smart enough to remember that.
Attributing emotional content to interactions with a piece of voice-synthesis software, perhaps understandable, is still pretty naive.
So, yeah, anyone with a clue would prefer not to be tricked into emotional investment in a piece of soulless technology.
Only extremely poor metaphors which are much closer to the "borderline autistic" side.
Where it all went wrong is that no one used a car analogy.
Why is everyone so scared of the probability of an Islamic based party being democratically elected without fraud in the middle east?
Because Islam is scary and hates our freedom. Didn't you get the memo?
Yes, I'm being sarcastic. Just in case someone confuses this with a sincerely-held belief, since apparently in a few cases it is.
More to the point, a nice tame secularist government well-calibrated to dance to our tune is vastly superior, even if they're despotic and abusive.
Yeah, being sarcastic again. Although I'm sure this is actually a valid talking point in the minds of a few foreign-policy strategists in certain Three-Letter Acronym agencies.
Two problems here. 1st, you're lying! 2nd, you're a karma whore for capitalizing on anti-consertative ignorant fucks out there with Mod points.
TBH, your post is a prime example of Poe's Law: "it is impossible to create a parody of fundamentalism that someone won't mistake for the real thing."
Or, in other words, "Can't tell if trolling..."
Sure it's temporary. You're only blind until your retinas grow back.
Or until you're dead. Or until the Sun balloons into a red giant and fries Earth's biosphere. Or the heat-death of the universe.
On some level, everything's temporary. So it's perfectly true and completely accurate.
Apparently (parsing TFA's explanation), yeah, it is.
When you walk into a new scene, your brain performs a series of high-priority tasks to update your current situational map. It would be counter to your survival success to ignore new sensory and context information presented by rounding a corner or entering a cave, especially if that sensory information included such things a predators. Even if what you were pondering as you entered the new scene was, for instance, a very innovative way to knap and flake a stone axe that would really impress the Cro-Magnon chicks. Your pre-historic geek-trance will kill you if you wander all unawares into a cave bear den.
As a high-priority background task, this situational integration would preempt cognitive resources, such as forcing a cache dump of short-term memory to populate with new page tables, as it were.
Well, that's my interpretation. Sorry it's not a car analogy or a pizza analogy.
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Is that you, Dick Cheney?
Yeah. In American English, "near-sighted" is the ophthalmological condition of lacking visual acuity viewing mid- and far-distance objects, while "short-sighted" is the intellectual condition of not forseeing or planning beyond a short time span into the future.
In contrast, "far-sighted" is the contrary ophthalmological condition of lacking visual acuity viewing near-distance objects. There is no confusion with the ability to plan and anticipate the more distant future (i.e., antonym of "short-sighted") because that doesn't happen. Ever. If something doesn't happen this quarter, it doesn't exist.
It doesn't even have to be a cover story.
The spacecraft would be privately owned. And "jet" covers any form of propulsion which emits a stream of reaction mass to provide thrust, including rockets and ion engines. (Hence the "Jet" in NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory).
This is why the word "tainted" has special significance in environmental systems.
That reminds me of a South Texas philosophy of home architecture.
Build your house above a crawl space, and with widely-spaced slat floors. Don't bother with trash cans; just poke your rubbish through the floor with your pointy boot toe.
When the crawl space fills up, burn down the house and move on to your next one.
I'm not sure I like where that leads.
Sovereign Immunity wasn't an impediment in the canonical example of a lawsuit about technology-related unlawful seizure: Steve Jackson Games v. United States Secret Service; The Federal Tort Claims Act probably provided the rationale to waive sovereign immunity in this case, since it was the tortuous actions of agents of the Secret Service which were the heart of the case.
This case was the genesis of the EFF.
To recap: SJ Games was raided in early 1990 on unsubstantiated claims of possession of stolen proprietary "telephone system hacking" information. (i.e., interstate theft and wire fraud). The affidavit supporting the warrant was sealed at the request of the Secret Service until October of that year, so SJ Games didn't even know what it was really being raided for.
Some of the seized goods (hardware, documents) were returned within that year, but not all; I'm not sure if all of it ever was.
SJ Games filed suit to "to redress violations of the Privacy Protection Act of 1980, 42 U.S.C. 2000aa et seq; the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, as amended, 18 U.S.C. 2510 et seq and 2701 et seq; and the First and Fourth Amendments to the United States Constitution." in May of 1991 and won the judgment in March of 1993.
To borrow the central conceit of the Battlestar Galactica retread series: "All this has happened before, and all this will happen again."
Wrong as in libel, slander, etc. *Not* wrong as in unpopular, politically incorrect, challenging the powerful, etc.
So... who decides the difference? That's the crux of the issue, in the final analysis.
Don't forget that the charge in Soviet China political prosecutions of the press is usually something equivalent to "slandering the State", typically by sharing unflattering truths with the public.
I feel like I'm risking a "whoosh", but I'll go ahead and say it.
If you leave the foxes guarding the chickens, you can be certain there'll be no fowl. At least, no live fowl. Lots of fowl feathers, though, and shed fowl blood.
All things considered, a fairly apt metaphor.
they can prove you are not really working.
With certain plausible exceptions.
I also learned that airplanes work because air travels a longer distance going over the top of the wing than the bottom
I learned that too. I guess it was sincerely believed for a long time.
that movies work because of persistence of vision
Yeah. The brain-centric nature of motion perception was discovered in the early 20th Century, but I was still being taught that the eye is where image persistence became perceived motion. Kind of disappointing.
and that the primary colors were Red, Yellow and Blue.
They are, if you're in elementary school art class. They don't make many magenta or cyan tempra paints, after all. (And more to the point, those pseudo-primary colors work in a subtractive color system pretty well. The main thing they can't reliably do is mix to a full color gamut.) Now, in my elementary school SCIENCE class, they taught us about TWO different sets of primary colors: additive (Red, Green, Blue) and subtractive (Magenta, Cyan, Yellow). And they made a point of saying not to pay any attention to what the art teacher was saying about primary colors.
No.
A lot of the modern English language, particularly parts of the vocabulary related to law, justice, and rulership, are inherited from the Norman-French of William the Conqueror and his successors. Anglo-Norman was the language of the Norman ruling class, and by assimilation part of English.
Now, it's fair to argue whether Norman-French is "French". I suspect it's as close to modern French as medieval Portuguese is to modern Castilian Spanish. But it is definitely French, not Latin, so those contributions to English are directly via French, not merely a common root of Latin.
Note, too, that a lot of specific legal jargon (i.e., words and phrases specific to the practice of law) is derived from Law French. Such words as "mortgage", "parole", or "tort" come directly from Ango-Norman or Parisian French.
The rules of acquisition are the only rational moral system. Because Rule of Acquisition #286 says so.
FTFY.
Atomic number 115 still hasn't been named (or confirmed, according to TFA), but I know what it should be named when the time comes.
My lovely municipality goes one step beyond. Its municipal waste collection service (tax-funded, contracted) has a curbside yard waste component, and all that collected yard waste is composed. The resulting compost is bagged and sold locally in normal retail operations (just another provider of yard amendment stuff at your local Wal-Mart or Home Depot or whatever). And it's quite cheap, I suppose because the feedstocks are subsidized by the municipal refuse collection system. And great on gardens.
So, if this little Midwestern US city mandates food-waste composting, it wouldn't be a great burden, other than a little more sorting (since we already have curbside metal/paper/plastic recycling as well) and another container to put out once a week.
Anyone who speaks of Unix as a monolithic entity clearly doesn't actually work with "multiple Unixen". BSD and the under-the-hood portions of OSX fit well within the continuum of operating systems which spans the label "Unix". Certainly, I find more commonality between BSD derivatives and Solaris than I do between Solaris and AIX.
I know that it's not often acknowledged, but in the long run there's one ironclad rule, enforced with all the ruthlessness of natural selection: If you can't afford to do it right, you can't afford to do it at all.
You don't tackle vast projects with half-vast security. You're just spending lots of money to embarrass yourself and let down people who depend on you, if you try.
Security is not optional. All the impediments you described are merely challenges to engineer around. The only real insurmountable obstacle is not giving sufficient damn to actually try to overcome the other issues rather than handwaving them away as "too hard" or "too expensive."
And that, my cynical friend, is what's silly.