If the description of the app were "this is buggy adware that crashes all the time and steals all your personal info and can barely fulfill its nominal function" then more people would be able to reach the right conclusions.
Eternally torturing people for not believing in eternal torture, but in such a way that no one can notice and change their ways, is probably one of the less effective methods of discipline.
We live in a world of empiricism, where the concepts of faith and religion are - if not outright mocked and denigrated - are under constant pressure.
I guess religion mocking and denigrating science kind of backfired on them.
The engines of media are actively working to tear religion* down: few films in the last 40 years (aside from those specifically built for sale to the isolated Christian demographic) have identified-Christian characters that don't prove to be motivated to evil thereby.
Don't most of the Christian films identify non-Christian characters as being motivated to evil thereby? It shouldn't surprise you that people who see Yahweh as the ultimate in morality have different morals than people who don't, nor that each might consider the other evil.
I assign the blame for the accident to the self-driving car, since they seem to have an unusually large accident rate and are keeping the details secret despite having video evidence of every accident. For all I know, control of the car could have switched from the computer to the fall guy one millisecond before the accident.
I do believe I've discovered a disease with the following symptoms: 1) a breakdown of linguistic ability, resulting in a fundamental change from clear concise words intended to convey meaning, to meaningless grunts which confer little or no meaning. 2) randomly taking offense at clear communication 3) decreased capability for higher brain functions (this may indicate susceptibility rather than being a symptom -- studies are inconclusive, not helped by the fact the infected oppose many studies of brain function). For example, certain sounds send them into an uncontrollable rage which their amygdalas are incapable of suppressing. 4) the most dangerous symptom, it appears the infected try to infect others; generally the infected join in large numbers to seek out uninfected brains, primarily using their mouths to spread the disease 5) the earliest symptoms frequently occur soon after a person first experiences the infected's bite, and is self-censorship in an attempt to avoid the sounds which set off the infected's uncontrollable rage. As the disease progresses, the victim inevitably turns on his friends in an attempt to infect them.
On second thought, this disease might terrify others if it were named descriptively. Perhaps it would be better to give it some pleasant-sounding, inoffensive, politically correct name.
The organization suggests researchers, health officials, and journalists should use more neutral, generic terms, such as severe respiratory disease or novel neurologic syndrome instead. “It will certainly lead to boring names and a lot of confusion,” predicts Linfa Wang
WHO thought this was a good idea? It's all fun and games until someone confuses two different severe respiratory diseases, or a novel neurologic syndrome for an older neurologic syndrome.
Let the self-driving cars get a lower accident rate than human drivers first. (And none of this crap about humans being at fault -- good drivers can and should dodge accidents that aren't their fault.)
It would take an incredibly long time for nature to breed out fundamental traits that go back millions of years. For example, monkeys will refuse to pull a lever and get food, if they observe that other monkeys pull a lever and get more food. What we have now is crappy jobs for crappy pay, and a bunch of the job "openings" are fake ones with impossible and unnecessary requirements written so that management can prove they looked for but couldn't find qualified workers. And while it's not absolutely necessary to have a job/money for dating, popular perception is that it makes a huge difference.
So, quite naturally, a lot of young men opt out. And the response is that they should "quit being addicted" and they should "man up". Not that "young men aren't interested in the current job market and we should do something to make it more attractive to them" or "young men aren't interested in a relationship where they have almost all the risks and responsibilities and are expected to conform to some twisted ideal besides".
I say, let the free market take care of it. If enough young men go "on strike" then employers will have to offer them better jobs, else let them compete for the "real men". And if women can't compete with a picture, maybe that's their problem.
False positives also have a negative humanitarian cost, in having people live in stress and fear of an earthquake that doesn't happen, then losing faith in science/the authorities. And correct predictions over too large a range of dates would also have huge negatives -- because there is no benefit if people can't act on the knowledge.
As for humanitarian costs, anyone truly concerned with that would probably be donating to a third world country...
Sold to whom, at what price? I want into this market. Tell me where I can sell useless irrelevant information for big bucks.
Sorry, it's actually useful relevant information for small bucks. And you can sell it to the scum of the earth (eg advertisers for targeted ads, spammers, etc).
If he was a hourly laborer, doing the work after hours would be enough, but for professional work that just doesn't help. It would have to be both after hours, and also unrelated to his work.
Why? Shouldn't the employer be entitled to the laborer's work because of all the on-the-job muscular strengthening on the company's time? What if a bricklayer decides to independently build a wall for someone else on his off-time, using the bricklaying skills he learned at his job? That sounds ridiculous, but as soon as it comes to patents and software, somehow it becomes reasonable?
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If the description of the app were "this is buggy adware that crashes all the time and steals all your personal info and can barely fulfill its nominal function" then more people would be able to reach the right conclusions.
Eternally torturing people for not believing in eternal torture, but in such a way that no one can notice and change their ways, is probably one of the less effective methods of discipline.
We live in a world of empiricism, where the concepts of faith and religion are - if not outright mocked and denigrated - are under constant pressure.
I guess religion mocking and denigrating science kind of backfired on them.
The engines of media are actively working to tear religion* down: few films in the last 40 years (aside from those specifically built for sale to the isolated Christian demographic) have identified-Christian characters that don't prove to be motivated to evil thereby.
Don't most of the Christian films identify non-Christian characters as being motivated to evil thereby? It shouldn't surprise you that people who see Yahweh as the ultimate in morality have different morals than people who don't, nor that each might consider the other evil.
Exactly what I was going to say... the AI that exterminates mankind will keep working indefinitely.
And not just regular squatters either.....SPACE squatters!
Sounds like an empty threat.
No, I'm pretty sure the heat death of the universe will kill those languages
I'm naming my next programming language Entropy.
I've never seen where lack of justification ever stopped the government.
Occasionally a judge will scold them after the fact. (no punishment, of course)
But Linux, being open source, has more transparency than windows.
I assign the blame for the accident to the self-driving car, since they seem to have an unusually large accident rate and are keeping the details secret despite having video evidence of every accident. For all I know, control of the car could have switched from the computer to the fall guy one millisecond before the accident.
Pretty soon Microsoft is going to be underwater.
In my lifetime the number of incarcerated Americans has risen about 300%.
I KNEW this was someone's fault!
I do believe I've discovered a disease with the following symptoms:
1) a breakdown of linguistic ability, resulting in a fundamental change from clear concise words intended to convey meaning, to meaningless grunts which confer little or no meaning.
2) randomly taking offense at clear communication
3) decreased capability for higher brain functions (this may indicate susceptibility rather than being a symptom -- studies are inconclusive, not helped by the fact the infected oppose many studies of brain function). For example, certain sounds send them into an uncontrollable rage which their amygdalas are incapable of suppressing.
4) the most dangerous symptom, it appears the infected try to infect others; generally the infected join in large numbers to seek out uninfected brains, primarily using their mouths to spread the disease
5) the earliest symptoms frequently occur soon after a person first experiences the infected's bite, and is self-censorship in an attempt to avoid the sounds which set off the infected's uncontrollable rage. As the disease progresses, the victim inevitably turns on his friends in an attempt to infect them.
On second thought, this disease might terrify others if it were named descriptively. Perhaps it would be better to give it some pleasant-sounding, inoffensive, politically correct name.
The organization suggests researchers, health officials, and journalists should use more neutral, generic terms, such as severe respiratory disease or novel neurologic syndrome instead. “It will certainly lead to boring names and a lot of confusion,” predicts Linfa Wang
WHO thought this was a good idea? It's all fun and games until someone confuses two different severe respiratory diseases, or a novel neurologic syndrome for an older neurologic syndrome.
And money too! If people had more money, there'd be less poverty and stuff.
The problem is that assumes that the people entering bad data are outnumbered by folks willing to put in the effort to put in good data.
It's too bad people are so eager to play pranks on such a nice, non-evil corporation like Google.
NON-Self-driving cars need to be banned.
Let the self-driving cars get a lower accident rate than human drivers first. (And none of this crap about humans being at fault -- good drivers can and should dodge accidents that aren't their fault.)
It would take an incredibly long time for nature to breed out fundamental traits that go back millions of years. For example, monkeys will refuse to pull a lever and get food, if they observe that other monkeys pull a lever and get more food. What we have now is crappy jobs for crappy pay, and a bunch of the job "openings" are fake ones with impossible and unnecessary requirements written so that management can prove they looked for but couldn't find qualified workers. And while it's not absolutely necessary to have a job/money for dating, popular perception is that it makes a huge difference.
So, quite naturally, a lot of young men opt out. And the response is that they should "quit being addicted" and they should "man up". Not that "young men aren't interested in the current job market and we should do something to make it more attractive to them" or "young men aren't interested in a relationship where they have almost all the risks and responsibilities and are expected to conform to some twisted ideal besides".
I say, let the free market take care of it. If enough young men go "on strike" then employers will have to offer them better jobs, else let them compete for the "real men". And if women can't compete with a picture, maybe that's their problem.
So your evidence that targeted ads are a failure, is that they mostly show you ads for stuff you've considered buying.
False positives also have a negative humanitarian cost, in having people live in stress and fear of an earthquake that doesn't happen, then losing faith in science/the authorities. And correct predictions over too large a range of dates would also have huge negatives -- because there is no benefit if people can't act on the knowledge.
As for humanitarian costs, anyone truly concerned with that would probably be donating to a third world country...
Sold to whom, at what price? I want into this market. Tell me where I can sell useless irrelevant information for big bucks.
Sorry, it's actually useful relevant information for small bucks. And you can sell it to the scum of the earth (eg advertisers for targeted ads, spammers, etc).
If he was a hourly laborer, doing the work after hours would be enough, but for professional work that just doesn't help. It would have to be both after hours, and also unrelated to his work.
Why? Shouldn't the employer be entitled to the laborer's work because of all the on-the-job muscular strengthening on the company's time? What if a bricklayer decides to independently build a wall for someone else on his off-time, using the bricklaying skills he learned at his job? That sounds ridiculous, but as soon as it comes to patents and software, somehow it becomes reasonable?
They kept the surface area constant between the shapes.
Doesn't matter since the relative surface areas will change as it dissolves.
Hehe... just imagine the "fiscal conservative"'s response to a suggestion that we could reduce our trade deficit by legalizing drugs.
It would be like if an airline backed think tank suggested piloting and aviation repair education as a cure for the sagging economy.
How much of this is due to their providing illegal things that other countries pay for? (eg drugs)