I had good communists I grew under i.e. they did not force delete on half of population but I understand what you say. It feels the same way today as it did back then. I think this Kova guy does not deserve to get a nomination but not for the reasons that are being discussed now.
Is it all that simple? As for people (being targets etc) can have control - that is a fairy tale. This does not work properly in majority so called democracies in the West where democracy has been replaced (for good reasons) by representative type of it. The result in US is for instance that majority probably knows that war on drugs is senseless and rather counterproductive. It goes on however even if in some places you can sell and buy ganja now and do not fear immediate legal consequences. There are other examples and there are other countries where the same happens. One may argue of course that this is not the same as immediate threat to all humans which brings us all on the boat etc. Yet who said that the 'revolt of the machines' will be of massive military type that we all associated with warfare. What about efficient, targeted and limited actions against some individuals? As an example - if a protest movement grows big enough it may indeed change course of history, if you take wind from the sails by assassinating one of its leaders you may prevent said change of the course of history. I would not think there would be mass protests in such case and even if there were properly controlled by propaganda actions they just die out. For this you just need enough power. We have seen how that worked in Iran with half of the country taking to the streets in early 2000s. But even the military coup that took place in Chile in the 60ties has succeeded. Who says it is not possible then? Even skynet like 'revolt of the machines' is in some sense possible - the swarms may be difficult to stop once put into action and some of these actions may be difficult to recover. The potential is there. Even if the likelihood of utter demise of humanity in any particular year is small - there are plenty of years ahead.
To UN I have one thing to say - it may work as a forum for information exchange between countries but it is already overtaken by the countries which do not share values majority people in the West does consider vital. My point is: what qualifies UN to any decision in the name of humanity?
I read quite a bit about this the last time there was a 'breakthrough' and I came to similar conclusion. Seems like the problems along the way are non-tivial and possibly built into fabric of the universe. But I think research brings us forward anyway in the sense that the only failed experiment is the one you cannot reproduce. Negative result does not really exist - one makes a conjecture, thinks out a way to prove it or disprove it and at the end you get the result. The billions that landed there could have been put to other use - that is true but then again there is no such thing as 100%efficiency anywhere and we learned here quite a few things.
o365 is already best ever but combined with browser and sharepoint it exceeds all expectations. Really happy that they made it for us to enjoy. I think so fast and so few hangings editors and excel sheets I had last time in 1993??? Well done.
This power : "At the same news conference, Jourova warned Facebook that it faces the prospect of sanctions from European member states if the company does not comply with consumer protection rules." There is nothing really stopping EUcracy from doing what it wants - as it chief said many times and as has been proven time and again - even if people of Europe raise against this cancer they can safely be ignored. Referendums can be repeated as many times to see the proper result coming.
If a person is in many groups it may at the same time be discriminated and promoted. If we protect one particular group in a set then we shall protect all or is it ok if one group is not protected in a set of them divided by one criteria? I just wonder.
To me it is on one hand an exercise in futility to call racism on any difference between people. On the other hand if you do offer protection than you should protect all groups. Also this one group that I meant above. I am afraid we are going into wrong direction.
I would not call it globalism. To me it looks like one of these autoimmune illnesses - the body turns on itself.
A human is not always wise and knowledgeable, although some are. In mass, humans are a blob of meat that lacks any intelligence, dignity and self restraint. You can steer it, sometimes it works but that is it. There is a system reason why groups of people are usually not smart. In India which has huge groups of less educated people using communication technology, the calls for lynch spread through whatsapp killed some innocent people. There are attempts to prevent people doing this on purpose or by accident. Some of these attempts (if not all) will be abused by politicians to silence persons less loyal to the party line than they should be. Some of these tools to fight fakes will be abused by companies to limit the image damage they could suffer if the truth about their activities become transparent to hordes of their customers. I am not sure what the solution may be. Thought and speech must be free or we have a problem. It requires careful users or people may die or 'only' suffer loss of their livelihoods etc Dose FB have a good solution? probably not.
It is not only modifications to the photo that can make a photo or a clip to be considered fake. If you leave context out the photo or a video maybe be authentic and fake at the same time. Descriptions of such material can also be done in such a way that the message they are part of can be considered false too. To refer to the history - during WWII both sides used photo material that they could find which often enough made the same material and different message being presented to (different) public. This came out only after research has been done on the subject. It has become more difficult to keep secrets as for instance Skripal case showed - yet how do you verify the work of police and secret services in this case when what they did is shifting through a mountain of material - a dedicate task force took months to do that in one particular case. I guess the result will be that fakes identification in this particular sense will be only the cases where material was altered technologically. So if I say the Russians gassed people in Idlib and show a photo of people with signs of chemical injuries it can be as true as the same photo with 'Turks did it' and one with 'Assad did it'. At the end Assad will be bombed of course but what is the truth and how come we to it?
In Germany a guy that tried to burn a synagogue walked free. A guy who burnt the doors to a mosque got 10y.
There is no joking with one religion. It is to be noted however that the first judgment was against a couple of members of certain religious community - namely the one that owned mosques. If I coming from a country of known jew haters did the same I would get maximum for terrorist activity which life.
Is that what science says? I am asking because from what I read about global warming (of whatever origin) that is not the case. We may have made it worse by multiplying w/o end. The bed news is that any process that involves for instance an ocean is slow. This does not mean the wind is slow but that the process is slow. But this also means that if we stop CO2 production then assuming that this is really the reason we have a problem in the first place the results of that may be visible in 50 or 100 years. Which kind of proves the comment of not giving a fuck. What you should do is to decrease population levels as humans living everywhere tend to be affected by a storm anywhere. What you could also do is build walls the way Dutch do it. It is unavoidable so you can just as well start now or start preparation to move all your stuff inland. Whining here about climate change because we had a warm summer is just silly as it is ineffective. It also has negative effect on people like me who were sympathetic but became annoyed by silly fucks running around and telling me that I should not drive diesel while they are traveling half the world for holidays with friends and family, 4 times a year. I used to go for a good steak, baked potatos, nice salad and a bottle of wine every time discussions became too heated to have an argument. We are now at a point where I cannot do it every time because I would have to my friendly restaurant every day. I just stopped caring.
Seems to me humans are just like Machiavelli described - ready to be the worst at any time. Evil conservatives will make life miserable for quite some - that is their nature. Some of them will support regimes that are not so democratic to say the least. The other side deteriorated to be marxists i.e. people ready to kill other people so that they cannot become evil. I wonder how we proceed from there. No discussion is possible with marxists. They just claim arguments against their views are invalid and their positions are non-negotiable anyway. We are still on the left swing - I wonder what happens when we reach the end of it? Will we have reeducation camps or we just lock automatically (google will help I am sure) bank and media accounts of evil people so that they die in elevators etc because they cannot open the doors with their now invalid cards etc.
They come anyway. EU courts have consistently decided to make blocking entry at the border and moving illegals back to where they come from impossible legally. There are now numerous countries that tried and have been tried. On top of that EU hired shops hover not far away from the coast of Africa to bring whoever pass to international waters to Europe. Mostly these are young men in best military age and w/o any chance to get a proper job in Europe. We do not need massive natural catastrophe to have what you envisioned. But yes the problem from chronic will move to acute if the shit hits the fan.
Yes the end of the world as we know it. It may mean lots of lost opportunities. It may also mean lots of new ones. We will never know for sure whether brexit is better than no brexit and staying with the big EU 'democracy'. Try to make the best out of it.
If they dont now then they will soon.
First rape case in a dormitory with this system installed will make alexa forced to show if the accusation is correct or not. Unless of course the majority of cases will be dismissed because all parties involved were intoxicated to the point they did not know what was happening to them - who raped who is then a valid question and yet one that cannot be answered. Still for all other case of indecent conduct a consent can be determined.
... the most deadly disease there is. There are no known cases of survival. Sometimes, regrettably it is associated with dementia and fear tho. I drink wine and beer, eat bread, noodles and meat too. Till some goodperson bans it or put under such prohibitive tax that nobody except the goodpeople can afford them I will continue doing so. Fuck goodpeople. When I was young I thought only evilpeople are bad for us. Not so now. Too many goodpeople telling me how evil I am because I live. My current answer to that is: fuck you.
Ach and my next car will most likely have diesel engine. In next elections I will vote right wing radicals (till they win and then I will be voting left wing variety).
There was a story here few months ago - the guy was fired by faulty apparently autonomous HR system. After the weeks of forcing the HR drone to accept its failure the colleagues of the fired guy did not want to believe his explanation and ostracized him - after all he was fired by robots. So it does happen and to grownups. The point here is however that it does not matter robot or whatever - as soon as it has some authority and some herd pressure is mounted the individual will do what it thinks is 'right'. The similarly done experiments with subjects thinking that they are applying electric shocks were unjustly criticized. This is how we are. After all in extreme situations who is going to get up and protest bullying of a guy with blue eyes (or any other arbitrary chosen aspect of own self - could even be incorrect, main thing is - you are alone when accused by a group).
You are right of course - this is not tv or robots, in old times it was books too that were destroying morals of the youth and thus civilization. In reality these were always humans that took up a challenge of destroying as much of humanity as possible. I suspect there is a law of nature working here - evolution resulting in competition and this resulting in destruction. This may even be a reason why we do not see signs of other civilizations up in the skies (assuming that there would be any and we would be able to recognize them as such).
Why would you not use robots as drug dealers? If it saves costs and improves security of the delivery then why not? After all if other businesses do it, then drug lords would do it too.
come to think of it maybe Daleks just wanted to cuddle with us and in our silliness we misunderstood what they wanted. They could not handle rejection and went on with their Exterminate! thing only because they sought for love?
Over billions of years the evolution took care of that.Gosh the bloody rock that extinguished almost all life few millions years ago so it is not nice but nature will take care of it. The constant alarm about change is of course understandable. If the good citizens that raise these alarms all the time took time to spread condoms in Africa (for the starters) that would help more that constant talking about how bad global anthropocentric warming is. If you believe in it do something real go and promote use of condoms. You may help prevent spread of aids and other std there too - consider that a worthwhile bonus.
Gamble is a gamble. You may attempt to minimize losses but where are all the sophisticated PHDs that were doing magic before 2008 while claiming black swans do not exist. Surely some of them made money, some of them made losses and some of them continue doing their gambling which is to say - you need some luck too. Connecting to exchange in such a way as to see future deals is helpful. It does not mean you as a private person cannot make money on your deals. It just not as certain and in any case any deal is subject to luck.
This is not to say you cannot win some on outsourcing. You just need to do it right and the savings will not be as the comparison of hourly wages made by some silly MBA may suggest.
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I had good communists I grew under i.e. they did not force delete on half of population but I understand what you say. It feels the same way today as it did back then. I think this Kova guy does not deserve to get a nomination but not for the reasons that are being discussed now.
Is it all that simple?
As for people (being targets etc) can have control - that is a fairy tale. This does not work properly in majority so called democracies in the West where democracy has been replaced (for good reasons) by representative type of it. The result in US is for instance that majority probably knows that war on drugs is senseless and rather counterproductive. It goes on however even if in some places you can sell and buy ganja now and do not fear immediate legal consequences. There are other examples and there are other countries where the same happens. One may argue of course that this is not the same as immediate threat to all humans which brings us all on the boat etc. Yet who said that the 'revolt of the machines' will be of massive military type that we all associated with warfare. What about efficient, targeted and limited actions against some individuals? As an example - if a protest movement grows big enough it may indeed change course of history, if you take wind from the sails by assassinating one of its leaders you may prevent said change of the course of history. I would not think there would be mass protests in such case and even if there were properly controlled by propaganda actions they just die out. For this you just need enough power. We have seen how that worked in Iran with half of the country taking to the streets in early 2000s. But even the military coup that took place in Chile in the 60ties has succeeded. Who says it is not possible then? Even skynet like 'revolt of the machines' is in some sense possible - the swarms may be difficult to stop once put into action and some of these actions may be difficult to recover. The potential is there. Even if the likelihood of utter demise of humanity in any particular year is small - there are plenty of years ahead.
To UN I have one thing to say - it may work as a forum for information exchange between countries but it is already overtaken by the countries which do not share values majority people in the West does consider vital. My point is: what qualifies UN to any decision in the name of humanity?
I read quite a bit about this the last time there was a 'breakthrough' and I came to similar conclusion. Seems like the problems along the way are non-tivial and possibly built into fabric of the universe. But I think research brings us forward anyway in the sense that the only failed experiment is the one you cannot reproduce. Negative result does not really exist - one makes a conjecture, thinks out a way to prove it or disprove it and at the end you get the result. The billions that landed there could have been put to other use - that is true but then again there is no such thing as 100%efficiency anywhere and we learned here quite a few things.
o365 is already best ever but combined with browser and sharepoint it exceeds all expectations. Really happy that they made it for us to enjoy. I think so fast and so few hangings editors and excel sheets I had last time in 1993??? Well done.
This power : "At the same news conference, Jourova warned Facebook that it faces the prospect of sanctions from European member states if the company does not comply with consumer protection rules."
There is nothing really stopping EUcracy from doing what it wants - as it chief said many times and as has been proven time and again - even if people of Europe raise against this cancer they can safely be ignored. Referendums can be repeated as many times to see the proper result coming.
If a person is in many groups it may at the same time be discriminated and promoted. If we protect one particular group in a set then we shall protect all or is it ok if one group is not protected in a set of them divided by one criteria? I just wonder. To me it is on one hand an exercise in futility to call racism on any difference between people. On the other hand if you do offer protection than you should protect all groups. Also this one group that I meant above. I am afraid we are going into wrong direction.
I would not call it globalism. To me it looks like one of these autoimmune illnesses - the body turns on itself.
A human is not always wise and knowledgeable, although some are. In mass, humans are a blob of meat that lacks any intelligence, dignity and self restraint. You can steer it, sometimes it works but that is it. There is a system reason why groups of people are usually not smart. In India which has huge groups of less educated people using communication technology, the calls for lynch spread through whatsapp killed some innocent people. There are attempts to prevent people doing this on purpose or by accident. Some of these attempts (if not all) will be abused by politicians to silence persons less loyal to the party line than they should be. Some of these tools to fight fakes will be abused by companies to limit the image damage they could suffer if the truth about their activities become transparent to hordes of their customers. I am not sure what the solution may be. Thought and speech must be free or we have a problem. It requires careful users or people may die or 'only' suffer loss of their livelihoods etc Dose FB have a good solution? probably not.
It is not only modifications to the photo that can make a photo or a clip to be considered fake. If you leave context out the photo or a video maybe be authentic and fake at the same time. Descriptions of such material can also be done in such a way that the message they are part of can be considered false too. To refer to the history - during WWII both sides used photo material that they could find which often enough made the same material and different message being presented to (different) public. This came out only after research has been done on the subject. It has become more difficult to keep secrets as for instance Skripal case showed - yet how do you verify the work of police and secret services in this case when what they did is shifting through a mountain of material - a dedicate task force took months to do that in one particular case. I guess the result will be that fakes identification in this particular sense will be only the cases where material was altered technologically. So if I say the Russians gassed people in Idlib and show a photo of people with signs of chemical injuries it can be as true as the same photo with 'Turks did it' and one with 'Assad did it'. At the end Assad will be bombed of course but what is the truth and how come we to it?
Is it really? If so then we should relax instead and get some refreshments.
Friends and family in my cellar?
In Germany a guy that tried to burn a synagogue walked free. A guy who burnt the doors to a mosque got 10y. There is no joking with one religion. It is to be noted however that the first judgment was against a couple of members of certain religious community - namely the one that owned mosques. If I coming from a country of known jew haters did the same I would get maximum for terrorist activity which life.
Is that what science says? I am asking because from what I read about global warming (of whatever origin) that is not the case. We may have made it worse by multiplying w/o end. The bed news is that any process that involves for instance an ocean is slow. This does not mean the wind is slow but that the process is slow. But this also means that if we stop CO2 production then assuming that this is really the reason we have a problem in the first place the results of that may be visible in 50 or 100 years. Which kind of proves the comment of not giving a fuck. What you should do is to decrease population levels as humans living everywhere tend to be affected by a storm anywhere. What you could also do is build walls the way Dutch do it. It is unavoidable so you can just as well start now or start preparation to move all your stuff inland. Whining here about climate change because we had a warm summer is just silly as it is ineffective. It also has negative effect on people like me who were sympathetic but became annoyed by silly fucks running around and telling me that I should not drive diesel while they are traveling half the world for holidays with friends and family, 4 times a year. I used to go for a good steak, baked potatos, nice salad and a bottle of wine every time discussions became too heated to have an argument. We are now at a point where I cannot do it every time because I would have to my friendly restaurant every day. I just stopped caring.
Seems to me humans are just like Machiavelli described - ready to be the worst at any time. Evil conservatives will make life miserable for quite some - that is their nature. Some of them will support regimes that are not so democratic to say the least. The other side deteriorated to be marxists i.e. people ready to kill other people so that they cannot become evil. I wonder how we proceed from there. No discussion is possible with marxists. They just claim arguments against their views are invalid and their positions are non-negotiable anyway. We are still on the left swing - I wonder what happens when we reach the end of it? Will we have reeducation camps or we just lock automatically (google will help I am sure) bank and media accounts of evil people so that they die in elevators etc because they cannot open the doors with their now invalid cards etc.
You mean we reached the end of the petri dish?
They come anyway. EU courts have consistently decided to make blocking entry at the border and moving illegals back to where they come from impossible legally. There are now numerous countries that tried and have been tried. On top of that EU hired shops hover not far away from the coast of Africa to bring whoever pass to international waters to Europe. Mostly these are young men in best military age and w/o any chance to get a proper job in Europe. We do not need massive natural catastrophe to have what you envisioned. But yes the problem from chronic will move to acute if the shit hits the fan.
Yes the end of the world as we know it. It may mean lots of lost opportunities. It may also mean lots of new ones. We will never know for sure whether brexit is better than no brexit and staying with the big EU 'democracy'. Try to make the best out of it.
anonymous transcription of the activity in room X at timestamp Y can be easily correlated with the data from your mobile phone.
If they dont now then they will soon.
First rape case in a dormitory with this system installed will make alexa forced to show if the accusation is correct or not. Unless of course the majority of cases will be dismissed because all parties involved were intoxicated to the point they did not know what was happening to them - who raped who is then a valid question and yet one that cannot be answered. Still for all other case of indecent conduct a consent can be determined.
... the most deadly disease there is. There are no known cases of survival. Sometimes, regrettably it is associated with dementia and fear tho. I drink wine and beer, eat bread, noodles and meat too. Till some goodperson bans it or put under such prohibitive tax that nobody except the goodpeople can afford them I will continue doing so. Fuck goodpeople. When I was young I thought only evilpeople are bad for us. Not so now. Too many goodpeople telling me how evil I am because I live. My current answer to that is: fuck you.
Ach and my next car will most likely have diesel engine. In next elections I will vote right wing radicals (till they win and then I will be voting left wing variety).
There was a story here few months ago - the guy was fired by faulty apparently autonomous HR system. After the weeks of forcing the HR drone to accept its failure the colleagues of the fired guy did not want to believe his explanation and ostracized him - after all he was fired by robots. So it does happen and to grownups. The point here is however that it does not matter robot or whatever - as soon as it has some authority and some herd pressure is mounted the individual will do what it thinks is 'right'. The similarly done experiments with subjects thinking that they are applying electric shocks were unjustly criticized. This is how we are. After all in extreme situations who is going to get up and protest bullying of a guy with blue eyes (or any other arbitrary chosen aspect of own self - could even be incorrect, main thing is - you are alone when accused by a group). You are right of course - this is not tv or robots, in old times it was books too that were destroying morals of the youth and thus civilization. In reality these were always humans that took up a challenge of destroying as much of humanity as possible. I suspect there is a law of nature working here - evolution resulting in competition and this resulting in destruction. This may even be a reason why we do not see signs of other civilizations up in the skies (assuming that there would be any and we would be able to recognize them as such).
Why would you not use robots as drug dealers? If it saves costs and improves security of the delivery then why not? After all if other businesses do it, then drug lords would do it too.
come to think of it maybe Daleks just wanted to cuddle with us and in our silliness we misunderstood what they wanted. They could not handle rejection and went on with their Exterminate! thing only because they sought for love?
Over billions of years the evolution took care of that.Gosh the bloody rock that extinguished almost all life few millions years ago so it is not nice but nature will take care of it. The constant alarm about change is of course understandable. If the good citizens that raise these alarms all the time took time to spread condoms in Africa (for the starters) that would help more that constant talking about how bad global anthropocentric warming is. If you believe in it do something real go and promote use of condoms. You may help prevent spread of aids and other std there too - consider that a worthwhile bonus.
Gamble is a gamble. You may attempt to minimize losses but where are all the sophisticated PHDs that were doing magic before 2008 while claiming black swans do not exist. Surely some of them made money, some of them made losses and some of them continue doing their gambling which is to say - you need some luck too. Connecting to exchange in such a way as to see future deals is helpful. It does not mean you as a private person cannot make money on your deals. It just not as certain and in any case any deal is subject to luck.
This is not to say you cannot win some on outsourcing. You just need to do it right and the savings will not be as the comparison of hourly wages made by some silly MBA may suggest.