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  1. I think we just reached criticality, guys. Imagine the dose of Trumptweets doubled.

  2. Re: Fear mongering on Hawking: AI Could Be 'Worst Event in the History of Our Civilization' (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    That's an excellent observation. The skills will be still needed but in diminishing qualities. Human touch will be valued in many services for a long time.

    Robots will replace humanity not only in material production, but also in services and, most importantly, government, not by a violent takeover, but by gradual sophistications. Think of HMMs that graduated from predicting protein function to making tax grades adjustment decisions for the next year.

    It will become so complicated that even the biggest genius of all times, Donald Trump, won't risk meddling with it.

    We will be just watching how AI will rationally overtake the world, and we will be just watching.

    People think of AI as confrontational takeover. If AI will be amarter than us, it won't even think of us as of a fighting target, it will just gently incorporate us with maximum comfort as consumer ballast passively prompting slower and slower technological progress.

  3. Re: Fear mongering on Hawking: AI Could Be 'Worst Event in the History of Our Civilization' (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no genie. Only a person who rubs the bottle

  4. Say goodbye to it.

    Blame two factors of modern technological cancer:

    Digital. Allows infinite copies of information.

    Internet. Gives the media allowing this info to be copied everwhere.

    It works against content owners and it works against privacy.

    Five years ago my car insurance company disrepected me so i had to pick another one.

    I had to enter in details who i am and such.

    Now, 5 years later the situation repeated itself: and I had to pick another company.

    All i had to do is enter my name and couple of other things. It pulled out everthing by itself, how much i paid for insurance, where do i work, address, all my life.

    Your privacy is a fluke.

  5. Re: Here is a question I have... on Alphabet Is Finally Taking the Driver Out of Some of Its Driverless Cars (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Yes.

  6. Re:This is coming a lot faster than most think on Alphabet Is Finally Taking the Driver Out of Some of Its Driverless Cars (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    >There is just too much demand, too much benefit, and SO much effort being put into making self driving cars work. People

    As I said elsewhere, SDC is a perfect confluence: government, users and corporations - all are insterested in this:

    - Government will get more control on the traffic and population (eventually)
    - Users will get more free time in the comfort of the personal environment of their car (whether it is a hire or personal car does not matter). There won't be proverbial Sartrarian "others".
    - Corporations will be able to sell even more cars, since they won't be limited by the number of able drivers. They will target each of your first world children and your great-grandmother, etc

    It's perfect confluence of interest.

  7. It's older than /.

  8. Chomsky is right on The US Is Now the Only Country In the World To Reject the Paris Climate Deal · · Score: 4, Insightful

    US is rogue state.

  9. 10g at work 5m at home on Ask Slashdot: Why Do We Still Commute? (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    enough said.

    At home I use Wifi to my router. That brings it down from 50mbs to 5 mbs. And then I get ping of 116ms

  10. I am afraid I do not like where this is going on Xbox One X is the Perfect Representation of the Tech Industry's Existential Crisis (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    ... to the subscription model

  11. Re: Modern wealth is an illusion on 'The Second Gilded Age Is Upon Us' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You gotta be kidding me with this examle. Who is next, Madoff?

    You can't equalize bad market fortune with financial crimes like Ponzi scheme and accounting honky tonk.

  12. Re: Propaganda on CERN Scientists Conclude that the Universe Should Not Exist (ign.com) · · Score: 1

    First, they should prove that universe exists.

  13. I wish the same principle could be appl8ed to large mammal pets.

    Pets are allowed on planes now, because of the stress of the owner

  14. I cannot possibly predict user reaction to this

  15. "stuff that matters" on Stephen Hawking's Thesis Crashes Cambridge Site After It's Posted Online (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah

  16. Do not wver feed any wild animals on Bird Feeders Might Be Changing Bird Beaks (axios.com) · · Score: 0

    Please

  17. The title sounds like a premise for a zombie movie on Hong Kong Has No Space Left for the Dead (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Just saying.

  18. You are as stupid as any lefty moron can be.

    Correct zero approximation assumption is that police actually in vast majority are honest servants of public, and the only crybabies are scum of the street and scum lives matter organizations that have an ideologicak awareness of cavemen.

  19. In Soviet Russia on Arkansas Will Pay Up To $1,000 Cash To Kids Who Pass AP Computer Science A Exam · · Score: 1

    Government paid you to study.

    55 roubles per month if you are A and B student in college. 72 roubles per month if straight A student.

    At that time the salary of a junior stuff acientist was 120 roubles per month.

  20. Re: "Not a good thing" on NYT Op-Ed Argues Amazon 'Took Seattle's Soul' (bendbulletin.com) · · Score: 1

    There was a system in the past that people serving buildings had special living quater accomodations that came with the job.

    It was not a bad system.

  21. "The leading in-app video advertising platform" on Vungle CEO Arrested For Child Rape and Attempted Murder (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I wish the whole company was put in jail for a long long time.

  22. Re: I wish sites would just come out and say it on The Internet Is Ripe With In-Browser Miners and It's Getting Worse Each Day (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Hmm oddly this makes sense.

  23. Re: And in other news ... on Real Moviegoers Don't Care About Rotten Tomatoes · · Score: 1

    Orville is utter scheisse. I tried to watch it with open mind, but it was spectacularly unwatchable What you see in any user scores is fan boy buas.

  24. Scorcese is an old fart on Real Moviegoers Don't Care About Rotten Tomatoes · · Score: 1

    He hasnt made a decent movie since Casino

  25. Re: Political Party explains this on Why China is Winning the Clean Energy Race (axios.com) · · Score: 2

    "Climate change" was invented to accomodate consequences of global warming that do not manifest in obvious local climate warming. If anything, it was to cover more observations with antropogenic explanation