On the other hand, there are black-skinned people from abroad (from Latin America and Africa) that you just can not differentiate from African Americans - and they are the fortunate ones, because no one will dare to check their ID, for fear that the NAACP and Jesse Jackson will jump on their throats
Not a big Jesse Jackson fan either, but the situations just aren't comparable. There are probably an order of magnitude (or more) Hispanic illegal immigrants than black illegal immigrants.
You start a forest fire through your negligence, and you get held civilly liable for the resulting damage. Gun, camp fire, whatever. If it's your fault, your wallet takes the hit.
That's probably more motivating to this kind of moron than the threat of probation for a couple of years.
Whether he overheard her saying it was intended for export, or he just hated her for all the usual group hate reasons that some people think is the answer to all questions, he *in fact* prevented a crime, and probably prevented himself from being an accessory to that crime.
That's a fairly prevalent view. I used to work making a machine to do cancer detection. The machines can do much better than the general standard of care, but they get things wrong, and are undoubtedly worse on some types of cancer with little prevalence. Human mistakes that labs do their best not to quantify and publicize are ok - machine mistakes evaluated for FDA approval are not.
Ponder the mystery of how mass unemployment is possible in the first place. If a bunch of people are unemployed - that is, both needy and idle - why don't they start exchanging goods and services?
Largely because of government barriers to entry in a field, or increasing the costs of entry, coupled with perverse incentives created by the structure of government assistance.
If you're unemployed and on the dole, you can easily face greater than 100% effective marginal tax rates, as the government takes assistance away faster than you earn money.
Moreover, the problem of knowledge representation is still not solved adequately.
I think that's more to the point. The first step for AI is a 3-D model of the world accurately parsed into objects. Then you have to be able to automatically model the behavior of the objects.
Connect enough sensors, enough actuators, and enough computing power to unsupervised algorithms like Hinton's Deep Learning, and you'll start to see interesting things happen. Build in some of the biological low level algorithms we've already deciphered, and things will happen faster.
I don't think probability and uncertainty is the issue at all. The richness and fidelity of what you're doing those calculations on is the issue.
yes. You have the freedom to have all public speech monitored (in Canada).
In return for this freedom you have the right to say anything you want - but others have the right to not be forced to listen. You get call blocking as a basic service, and the freedom from harassment in many public venues.
Which means you're free to say anything you want that the government censors don't find offensive. See Canadian Human Rights Council for details.
Nice. All constraints we put on government should be put on ourselves as well. There's a fine principle.
Does that work for prerogatives, so that all prerogatives given to government should be given to me as well? Can I walk around with a gun and arrest people too?
I wake up every day at 6 am and I go to the park. There's absolutely nobody there at that time, except for me and my wife. If I talk to my wife while I'm there, do you seriously expect me to assume that "somebody could have listened to us"?
Someone who wanted to listen to you could. Welcome to the 21st century.
I don't expect you to assume that. Many people prefer to live in denial. You seem to be one of them.
I'm glad somebody figured that out. One of the problems for totalitarians is the data deluge. Correction - one of the problems *was* data deluge.
Recording and processing all phone traffic is nothing for a government. Putting mics all over public spaces is just a matter of scale. Work your way down the marginal utility scale.
Heads up display that let's varying levels of outside light in, with retinal tracking, sub vocalization recognition, stereo video and binaural audio playback and recording. Add gloves for gesture, typing, and more mouse control.
What is the technical problem with a heads up displays? Stick two little screens in front of my eyes - why is that so hard? Seems like they've been trying that for decades, but never quite pull it off.
Simply put, concealed carry is not a panacea; it can solve problems, it can create problems.
Really? You mean it won't magically end all violence and cure grandma's gout?
I think the pro second amendment side of this discussion is fully aware that life involves trade offs. It's the "gun's are icky" crowd that denies it, and thinks that if they only stick their heads in the sand deep enough, the world will be lollipops and rainbows.
What scares me is the number of gun related deaths these people will accept, just so they can own guns; on the same note they are absolutely against universal health coverage - how Christian!
Breivik, however, had the accurate expectation that no one would be armed to oppose him, and even the "authorities" wouldn't show up armed for a long time.
His maximum possible sentence is a whole 21 years. 100 days per victim. Gotta love civilization.
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On the other hand, there are black-skinned people from abroad (from Latin America and Africa) that you just can not differentiate from African Americans - and they are the fortunate ones, because no one will dare to check their ID, for fear that the NAACP and Jesse Jackson will jump on their throats
Not a big Jesse Jackson fan either, but the situations just aren't comparable. There are probably an order of magnitude (or more) Hispanic illegal immigrants than black illegal immigrants.
You start a forest fire through your negligence, and you get held civilly liable for the resulting damage. Gun, camp fire, whatever. If it's your fault, your wallet takes the hit.
That's probably more motivating to this kind of moron than the threat of probation for a couple of years.
When I'm king, things will be different.
There, you happy now?
Whether he overheard her saying it was intended for export, or he just hated her for all the usual group hate reasons that some people think is the answer to all questions, he *in fact* prevented a crime, and probably prevented himself from being an accessory to that crime.
Newton's meme's were very successful, as were Khan's genes. People aren't the entities with evolutionary success.
The meme for large families is a beneficial symbiant to genes. Likely some genes are a beneficial symbiant to that meme as well.
No. No one thinks that, so it's not a particularly honest evaluation of my points on your part.
Why don't you exercise a few brain cells to see if there were any government imposed barriers to productive labor faced by the hungry or the homeless?
Humans make mistakes, robots should not.
That's a fairly prevalent view. I used to work making a machine to do cancer detection. The machines can do much better than the general standard of care, but they get things wrong, and are undoubtedly worse on some types of cancer with little prevalence. Human mistakes that labs do their best not to quantify and publicize are ok - machine mistakes evaluated for FDA approval are not.
Weren't we all supposed to be enjoying 5 months of vacation by now....
In western nations, we are. Except we take those months in multi year vacations, a few when young, and decades when old.
Ponder the mystery of how mass unemployment is possible in the first place. If a bunch of people are unemployed - that is, both needy and idle - why don't they start exchanging goods and services?
Largely because of government barriers to entry in a field, or increasing the costs of entry, coupled with perverse incentives created by the structure of government assistance.
If you're unemployed and on the dole, you can easily face greater than 100% effective marginal tax rates, as the government takes assistance away faster than you earn money.
2) The desire to have large families is entirely up to genetics and is unaffected by things like societal pressure, economics, and resource scarcity.
The desire for large families doesn't have to be genetic to be statistically heritable, which it obviously is. We're just meatsacks for our memes.
What will mostly change will be the definition of "good toys",
The good toys will be what they've always been - other people.
Moreover, the problem of knowledge representation is still not solved adequately.
I think that's more to the point. The first step for AI is a 3-D model of the world accurately parsed into objects. Then you have to be able to automatically model the behavior of the objects.
Connect enough sensors, enough actuators, and enough computing power to unsupervised algorithms like Hinton's Deep Learning, and you'll start to see interesting things happen. Build in some of the biological low level algorithms we've already deciphered, and things will happen faster.
I don't think probability and uncertainty is the issue at all. The richness and fidelity of what you're doing those calculations on is the issue.
"Don't kill me bro"
Don't Drone me Bro.
For sure on every shift there will be somebody with Lihuanian, Latvian, Maltese, Slovenian, Georgian :-)
There sure will be - the speech recognition servers are on a 24x7 shift.
Clearly, then, the solution is to install listening devices in everyone's homes.
No. Everyone's heads.
yes. You have the freedom to have all public speech monitored (in Canada).
In return for this freedom you have the right to say anything you want - but others have the right to not be forced to listen. You get call blocking as a basic service, and the freedom from harassment in many public venues.
Which means you're free to say anything you want that the government censors don't find offensive. See Canadian Human Rights Council for details.
Nice. All constraints we put on government should be put on ourselves as well. There's a fine principle.
Does that work for prerogatives, so that all prerogatives given to government should be given to me as well? Can I walk around with a gun and arrest people too?
I wake up every day at 6 am and I go to the park. There's absolutely nobody there at that time, except for me and my wife. If I talk to my wife while I'm there, do you seriously expect me to assume that "somebody could have listened to us"?
Someone who wanted to listen to you could. Welcome to the 21st century.
I don't expect you to assume that. Many people prefer to live in denial. You seem to be one of them.
I'm glad somebody figured that out. One of the problems for totalitarians is the data deluge. Correction - one of the problems *was* data deluge.
Recording and processing all phone traffic is nothing for a government. Putting mics all over public spaces is just a matter of scale. Work your way down the marginal utility scale.
Heads up display that let's varying levels of outside light in, with retinal tracking, sub vocalization recognition, stereo video and binaural audio playback and recording. Add gloves for gesture, typing, and more mouse control.
What is the technical problem with a heads up displays? Stick two little screens in front of my eyes - why is that so hard? Seems like they've been trying that for decades, but never quite pull it off.
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Please state the primary intended use for a gun.
That depends on who is doing the using and intending.
Simply put, concealed carry is not a panacea; it can solve problems, it can create problems.
Really? You mean it won't magically end all violence and cure grandma's gout?
I think the pro second amendment side of this discussion is fully aware that life involves trade offs. It's the "gun's are icky" crowd that denies it, and thinks that if they only stick their heads in the sand deep enough, the world will be lollipops and rainbows.
Damned spoons!
You are perfectly right!
What scares me is the number of gun related deaths these people will accept, just so they can own guns; on the same note they are absolutely against universal health coverage - how Christian!
This is a great reason to stay away from the US!
You are perfectly right! Great reason! Stay away!
Or just knew others would be armed.
Breivik, however, had the accurate expectation that no one would be armed to oppose him, and even the "authorities" wouldn't show up armed for a long time.
His maximum possible sentence is a whole 21 years. 100 days per victim. Gotta love civilization.