Quite right. Tesla is living off the gigantic traction it gets from a very aggressive marketing and generous government subsidies. It's kind of immoral to take advantage of this and refuse to have the failures talked about.
Another point that's pretty confusing with Elon Musk's approach is the fact that he's constantly talking about the risks of AI (eg: https://www.theguardian.com/te... ) and still, he's advocating this autonomous driving thing as the future of personal transportation. Sounds like kind of a paradox on some level. Or just opportunism.
As far as I got it, they managed to keep the brains "alive" in the sense that cells were getting nutrients through artifical blood flow. There was no sign of any remotely normal functioning of the brains though. So, outside of any ethical considerations, that's still completely pointless.
One thing to consider is that once a brain is deprived of any afferent information, its ability to function probably declines very quickly. It may be interesting for neural experimentation but that's pretty much it.
Of course, if any sort of consciousness was kept "alive", that would be something else entirely.
That's right. And anyway, if they vlog that much it's also because they make much more money off youtubing than they do with cryptocurrencies. Especially those constantly trying to analyze trends and show graphs. Those clearly target people interested in trading (read: make quick money), and clearly don't make any money off of trading. That they are robbed is only fair, and also a bit funny.
Obviously. One year means nothing, 2000 people only can't have any impact on the overall economy of a country, and $690 in a northern Europe country? What are people going to do with this? Seriously?
I'm personally not favorable to this universal basic income thing, but let's be serious when we experiment. You can't seriously not work when you just earn $690 in Finland (just take a look at this: http://www.worldsalaries.org/f... ), unless you become poor and dependant. Is that what this is really all about? And if you still need to find a job to get a decent living, what's the point of the basic income then? Just pulling all salaries so low that it will look like slavery?
You're not. But how does this benefit Microsoft? That's not quite the right question to ask. Microsoft will benefit as long as people buy their products. Whether it has something to do with their stability remains to be seen.
The right to be forgotten, as you said, is very different from the right to suppress something you write to specific recipients. The latter even looks like 1984. And this is more disrupting that it may seem. Permanent vs temporary has been the fundamental distinction between oral communication and written communication in man's history. Of course, as long as there are other email solutions and that Google's "innovations" don't get standardized, you're free not to use Google and not be bothered. To be used, this feature implies that both ends of the email use Google. Just plain stupid (and arrogant).
It's obvious. The FBI would be potentially deprived of information if the emails were destroyed permanently. So this is never going to happen. It's just a step towards getting the legal right to block access to any user's e-mails at Google's will IMO.
I can't see any benefit for the user, except malicious. Short-term email? Is it hard to delete it with a click in a fraction of a second? Seriously?
and we already can't determine responsibilities when an accident happens?
How is that ever supposed to work out on a large scale? Seriously?
Will companies selling autonomous cars try to put the responsibility on a passenger if they happen to have a driver's license? Again, how a machine is supposed to be deemed responsible? And of course the manufacturer will always try and find ways of proving this is not an autopilot default. What does that change? This is not what responsibility is about. Who cares if you did everything "right"... when you're responsible of something, you're accountable. Period. Who will be responsible?
You can't really compare this to autopilots in commercial planes either, for several reasons. First, the pilot IS responsible in all cases, and an plane's autopilot is NOT supposed to be left unattended. Second, planes' autopilots are not designed to make planes avoid obstacles, but just to follow a programmed route and keep the plane flying at a specified speed and altitude. That's all it does. Autonomous cars have new challenges, both technically and in terms of responsibility, that no one actually knows how to deal with as of now.
Will autonomous cars' victims be considered as just collateral damage?
Non-biased AI might do that actually. It should not take long for a decent AI system to figure out how Facebook is a huge waste of time and energy, and flag it undesirable.
leaking and widely available. I'm sure it's no big deal.:D
The fact that passwords, just like physical keys, are not linked to an identity is actually a very big plus in terms of security IMO. Of course they can get stolen (and there are schemes to make it less likely to matter, such as multi-factor authentification.) But the very fact that one could steal both your passwords AND identity at the same time (which will inevitably happen at some point when both are linked) is much, much worse.
This trending economic model (or business model, which is unfortunately starting to mean the same) of forever renting goods leads to the abolition of private property, at least for the masses. Kind of funny that what looks like the the new epitome of capitalism so strangely resembles communism. What's your take on this?
why it went extinct, I think "reviving" any species is not a good idea and may have unknown consequences. And we're not likely to completely figure out the underlying reasons of an extinction.
As someone said, if we don't correct the causes (and I don't know how we could do that if we don't completely know them), it will go extinct again anyway.
And if we just do this out of sheer historical preservation and keep some species alive in artificial conditions, it's kind of perverse in a way. Living beings are not museum objects.
as potentially lowering some cancers risks?
https://www.webmd.com/cancer/n...
Thing is, apart from known classified poisons, nothing is either completely black or white. And in retrospective, it looks like almost any man-made food processing has potentially deleterious effects on human health, cooking/heating being the most common. Then again, cooking and otherwise transforming food is part of what made us evolve into humans.
Probably so. And the huge fees related to gigantic network congestion, imo, pushed people to sell even faster, for fear of seeing fees rising even more.
Unfortunately, I don't see how those cryptocurrencies can ever be sustainable in the long run. They are much too expensive and resource-hungry to just maintain. This is crazy.
Indeed. But behind the whole "agile" gimmick, which is just there to make it look like it's remotely related to technical management, there's a devious business model that probably won't go away at least until the whole current economy collapses. It's all about securing continuous revenue. Like others have said, it goes hand-in-hand with subscription-based models. Once you get into this kind of business model, I don't think there is any easy way out. It's a trap.
Fully agree.
This business model is making me sick.
This may be controversial, but I actually think this is getting close to communism, something the USA had been fighting against for decades. Giving stuff for free to the people in exchange for their privacy and having control over how/when it's used/can be used. Not owning stuff anymore, just being allowed to used it for a limited time and conditions.
Isn't that ironical? Am I the only one getting this nauseous impression?
As to the actual calculator device itself, it may be true that it seems a bit outdated, although modern calculators like the HP Prime or TI Nspire CAS are certainly modern devices compared to the older TI 84 and the like. And as opposed to using the calculator as an app on a cell phone, there certainly are much less sources of distraction on an actual calculator, which is a big plus in my opinion.
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Quite right. Tesla is living off the gigantic traction it gets from a very aggressive marketing and generous government subsidies. It's kind of immoral to take advantage of this and refuse to have the failures talked about.
Another point that's pretty confusing with Elon Musk's approach is the fact that he's constantly talking about the risks of AI (eg: https://www.theguardian.com/te... ) and still, he's advocating this autonomous driving thing as the future of personal transportation. Sounds like kind of a paradox on some level. Or just opportunism.
As far as I got it, they managed to keep the brains "alive" in the sense that cells were getting nutrients through artifical blood flow. There was no sign of any remotely normal functioning of the brains though. So, outside of any ethical considerations, that's still completely pointless.
One thing to consider is that once a brain is deprived of any afferent information, its ability to function probably declines very quickly. It may be interesting for neural experimentation but that's pretty much it.
Of course, if any sort of consciousness was kept "alive", that would be something else entirely.
of having trojan horses inside their homes, why not.
That's right. And anyway, if they vlog that much it's also because they make much more money off youtubing than they do with cryptocurrencies. Especially those constantly trying to analyze trends and show graphs. Those clearly target people interested in trading (read: make quick money), and clearly don't make any money off of trading. That they are robbed is only fair, and also a bit funny.
I'm personally not favorable to this universal basic income thing, but let's be serious when we experiment. You can't seriously not work when you just earn $690 in Finland (just take a look at this: http://www.worldsalaries.org/f... ), unless you become poor and dependant. Is that what this is really all about? And if you still need to find a job to get a decent living, what's the point of the basic income then? Just pulling all salaries so low that it will look like slavery?
You're not. But how does this benefit Microsoft? That's not quite the right question to ask. Microsoft will benefit as long as people buy their products. Whether it has something to do with their stability remains to be seen.
The right to be forgotten, as you said, is very different from the right to suppress something you write to specific recipients. The latter even looks like 1984. And this is more disrupting that it may seem. Permanent vs temporary has been the fundamental distinction between oral communication and written communication in man's history.
Of course, as long as there are other email solutions and that Google's "innovations" don't get standardized, you're free not to use Google and not be bothered. To be used, this feature implies that both ends of the email use Google. Just plain stupid (and arrogant).
It's obvious. The FBI would be potentially deprived of information if the emails were destroyed permanently. So this is never going to happen.
It's just a step towards getting the legal right to block access to any user's e-mails at Google's will IMO.
I can't see any benefit for the user, except malicious. Short-term email? Is it hard to delete it with a click in a fraction of a second? Seriously?
Will companies selling autonomous cars try to put the responsibility on a passenger if they happen to have a driver's license? Again, how a machine is supposed to be deemed responsible? And of course the manufacturer will always try and find ways of proving this is not an autopilot default. What does that change? This is not what responsibility is about. Who cares if you did everything "right"... when you're responsible of something, you're accountable. Period. Who will be responsible?
You can't really compare this to autopilots in commercial planes either, for several reasons. First, the pilot IS responsible in all cases, and an plane's autopilot is NOT supposed to be left unattended. Second, planes' autopilots are not designed to make planes avoid obstacles, but just to follow a programmed route and keep the plane flying at a specified speed and altitude. That's all it does. Autonomous cars have new challenges, both technically and in terms of responsibility, that no one actually knows how to deal with as of now.
Will autonomous cars' victims be considered as just collateral damage?
Non-biased AI might do that actually. It should not take long for a decent AI system to figure out how Facebook is a huge waste of time and energy, and flag it undesirable.
The fact that passwords, just like physical keys, are not linked to an identity is actually a very big plus in terms of security IMO. Of course they can get stolen (and there are schemes to make it less likely to matter, such as multi-factor authentification.) But the very fact that one could steal both your passwords AND identity at the same time (which will inevitably happen at some point when both are linked) is much, much worse.
This trending economic model (or business model, which is unfortunately starting to mean the same) of forever renting goods leads to the abolition of private property, at least for the masses. Kind of funny that what looks like the the new epitome of capitalism so strangely resembles communism. What's your take on this?
I didn't notice. My bad.
why it went extinct, I think "reviving" any species is not a good idea and may have unknown consequences. And we're not likely to completely figure out the underlying reasons of an extinction. As someone said, if we don't correct the causes (and I don't know how we could do that if we don't completely know them), it will go extinct again anyway. And if we just do this out of sheer historical preservation and keep some species alive in artificial conditions, it's kind of perverse in a way. Living beings are not museum objects.
as potentially lowering some cancers risks? https://www.webmd.com/cancer/n... Thing is, apart from known classified poisons, nothing is either completely black or white. And in retrospective, it looks like almost any man-made food processing has potentially deleterious effects on human health, cooking/heating being the most common. Then again, cooking and otherwise transforming food is part of what made us evolve into humans.
Period.
The participants' houses won't completely belong to them anymore, just to cut 30% of electricity cost? Now that's a deal. :D
Not to mention that the rooms you get through OTAs are not always the best either.
Relying on actual humans for the design and production of goods is bad. Let's just use humans as living wallets. https://realagenda.wordpress.c...
Probably so. And the huge fees related to gigantic network congestion, imo, pushed people to sell even faster, for fear of seeing fees rising even more. Unfortunately, I don't see how those cryptocurrencies can ever be sustainable in the long run. They are much too expensive and resource-hungry to just maintain. This is crazy.
Indeed. But behind the whole "agile" gimmick, which is just there to make it look like it's remotely related to technical management, there's a devious business model that probably won't go away at least until the whole current economy collapses. It's all about securing continuous revenue. Like others have said, it goes hand-in-hand with subscription-based models. Once you get into this kind of business model, I don't think there is any easy way out. It's a trap.
Yeah, in a world where adding a button in a frigging toolbar gets you a major version bump. :D
Fully agree. This business model is making me sick.
This may be controversial, but I actually think this is getting close to communism, something the USA had been fighting against for decades. Giving stuff for free to the people in exchange for their privacy and having control over how/when it's used/can be used. Not owning stuff anymore, just being allowed to used it for a limited time and conditions. Isn't that ironical? Am I the only one getting this nauseous impression?
As to the actual calculator device itself, it may be true that it seems a bit outdated, although modern calculators like the HP Prime or TI Nspire CAS are certainly modern devices compared to the older TI 84 and the like. And as opposed to using the calculator as an app on a cell phone, there certainly are much less sources of distraction on an actual calculator, which is a big plus in my opinion.
France is not a federation, it is a unitary sovereign state.
Only in theory. :)
By the way, does that mean that Windows can phone home and send to MS all of your Linux data? Isn't that pretty!