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  1. No. We are not. That is just the stupid press reporting on things they do not understand.

  2. No. For multiple reasons. on Ask Slashdot: Could Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics Ensure Safe AI? (wikipedia.org) · · Score: 1

    First, the are a fictional device and serve as the basis of stories. Stop mistaking fantasy for reality. Second, they require general intelligence on the side of the one following them. General intelligence cannot be implemented in machines today and there is not even a theory that would make that possible. No, really not. This means that it is unclear whether it is possible at all. Sure, there are a lot of stupid people that do not have general intelligence themselves in any meaningful quantity and they think present day non-intelligent automation is just as smart as they are and hence must have general intelligence. Not so. Machines are utterly dumb and cannot even begin to understand simple ideas. They have no chance understanding anything like the three laws. Yes, there are a lot of humans that are not any better, but that does not make the three laws any less useless.

    Hence: There is no general intelligence in machines today and it is unclear whether there ever will be. Get over it.

  3. Re:Causality and the question of Why? on AI Can't Reason Why (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    That depends whether the rooster believes in a flat earth...

  4. Re:reasoning on AI Can't Reason Why (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, you are quite right. The thing is that only a minority of people (some 10-15%) are independent thinkers, i.e. people that are actually able to and chose to use the general intelligence they have. The rest is merely mindlessly parroting what they were told is "truth". "Half of humanity" is entirely too positive.

    Incidentally, the scientific method comes into play much later. If you cannot tell cause and effect in a really simple case, then you cannot apply the scientific method, because you have to actually understand it to apply it.

    However, this whole stupidity about "AI" explains some thing nicely: The unthinking masses think "AI" is intelligent, because it is about as smart as they are, namely not at all.

  5. This is called "does not have intelligence" on AI Can't Reason Why (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Stop calling automation with absolutely no intelligence "AI" and this misunderstanding goes away.

  6. Re:I have been living under that rock on 'Yanny vs. Laurel' Reveals Flaws In How We Listen To Audio (theproaudiofiles.com) · · Score: 1

    Let me paraphrase what you just said: "You disagree with me on something, why are you here? I want no one disagreeing with me in my nice, cozy in-group! You are polluting my safe space!". So, why are _you_ here?

  7. Re:Want us to have kids on US Births Dip To 30-Year Low (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Don't be a twat. You know perfectly well what I was saying.

  8. Re:PEBCAK on Ask Slashdot: Which Is the Safest Router? · · Score: 1

    Yes, they should. It is not hard. It is just something you need to understand that you need to do and there a lot of literate and educated people fail. They just think they know better than the actual experts and then they get attacked. And, they believe, was then obviously not their fault.

  9. Re:Feminism at work on US Births Dip To 30-Year Low (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    The communists in question were fascists. To the core.

    And that is just it. You are not a fascist because you or others claim you are one. There is a definition (with some fuzziness, as this is about the real world) and any group that matches that definition is a fascist one. It does not matter whether they claim to be a political group (left, right, communist, capitalist, anarchist, whatever), a religious one or something else. It matters what they do.

  10. Re:Feminism at work on US Births Dip To 30-Year Low (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Indeed. As is any other extreme. Because extremists disrespect and destroy (if they can) anybody that is not an extremist of the same color.

  11. Re:Feminism at work on US Births Dip To 30-Year Low (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    You have been fucked in the head, seriously. Your propaganda is both incredibly stupid and incredibly disconnected from reality.

  12. Re:Want us to have kids on US Births Dip To 30-Year Low (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    Don't be selfish. Get with it and have a family.

    Quite a bit of hard scientific data indicates that the ones having those children are the selfish ones and they are destroying the planet.

  13. Re:Want us to have kids on US Births Dip To 30-Year Low (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    And that would be indeed one of this things that somebody that actually did a tiny bit of research would find on this. It is not the only reason, but it is an important one.

  14. Re:I have been living under that rock on 'Yanny vs. Laurel' Reveals Flaws In How We Listen To Audio (theproaudiofiles.com) · · Score: 1

    Let me check....no, still do not care. The thing is, people may hear exactly the same words and still understand completely different things and that already is a much, much larger problem than this non-story here. Many people are so disconnected from reality that you can explain things carefully, in different ways and with proof, and they will still understand the stupid thing they think is right. The problem in the audio-path is _minor_ compared to what people themselves do to the date they are given.

  15. Re:I have been living under that rock on 'Yanny vs. Laurel' Reveals Flaws In How We Listen To Audio (theproaudiofiles.com) · · Score: 1

    I am a very senior engineer and also a scientist. And my paycheck is rock solid. Incidentally, this is not about "the brain", this is about how the auditory subsystem does error correction. That is a bit different and not in any way related to my work.

  16. Re: I have been living under that rock on 'Yanny vs. Laurel' Reveals Flaws In How We Listen To Audio (theproaudiofiles.com) · · Score: 1

    Hahahaha, half right. But I will keep you guessing!

  17. Re:One does not exclude the other on 'Yanny vs. Laurel' Reveals Flaws In How We Listen To Audio (theproaudiofiles.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks for demonstrating that an actually smart person has no trouble understanding what I said.

  18. I have been living under that rock on 'Yanny vs. Laurel' Reveals Flaws In How We Listen To Audio (theproaudiofiles.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Or maybe I just do not care about these things. Like at all. No, not even a bit.

  19. Re:Want us to have kids on US Births Dip To 30-Year Low (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I, unlike you, have access to more sources of information than just this article. It is not about money. That is just an agenda pushed by some people that want to obscure the real thing that is going on.

  20. Re:Feminism at work on US Births Dip To 30-Year Low (npr.org) · · Score: 1, Troll

    No, I do not. While they called themselves "communism", they actually fall under fascism in most respects that matter. The funny thing here is how utterly clueless you are. But I guess you just want to push some demented propaganda.

  21. Re:Crappy Software alert on Hardcoded Password Found in Cisco Enterprise Software, Again (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Matches my experience.

  22. Re:Who the Fuck is Writing the Shit? on Hardcoded Password Found in Cisco Enterprise Software, Again (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, is the TLA scum is _this_ stupid in placing their backdoors, then the world is really in fast decline. Not saying they are not this stupid, but if they are that would be very bad.

  23. Re:Depends on skills on Ask Slashdot: Which Is the Safest Router? · · Score: 1

    pfSense is pretty good if you know what you are doing. A firewall is a very partial answer to the problem of "being hacked" though and will not address most attack vectors.

  24. Re:PEBCAK on Ask Slashdot: Which Is the Safest Router? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The answer is that the wrong question is being asked. Any other answer is less than helpful and may prompt the one asking the question to continue down the wrong road to solve this problem. The second part of the answer is to ask how this person was actually hacked. Very likely, he did some not-too smart thing and needs to stop doing that in order to solve his problem.

  25. Re:PEBCAK on Ask Slashdot: Which Is the Safest Router? · · Score: 1

    There is a deluge of attacks coming in to everybody. Network-based, email-based, web-based. Do stupid things, get hacked, initially by some form of attack automation. For example, I have several emails with executable malware attachments per day. Don't do stupid things, and you usually do not get hacked, even if your set-up is not hardened.