It's more like the Democrats are the equivalent of the Conservatives, and the Republicans are the BNP. So to be fair, there's a choice there even if all the options suck.
If it takes me an hour to install the software without donating, and I can have the binaries for any donation of at least $x, then my time only has to be worth more than $x per hour.
"Knowledge-Based Education – We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority."
If this paragraph, which by your admission is an authentic quote, does not fill you with deep revulsion, then you are insane. Challenging fixed beliefs is the only purpose of general education; everything else is as useful as memorizing Wikipedia.
That is completely nonsensical. The option to override the process manually must exist simply to correct mistakes like this. That same option can therefore also be used to introduce mistakes.
Therefore, the only question is how likely it is that the heuristic algorithm could have determined this category, and how likely it is that a human could have done it. The keywords found on the FSF site has no overlap with the keywords on common gambling sites, so the first is unlikely. A human who does not like the FSF has a motive to do this, so the second is not unlikely.
People act as if this were moon-landing type conspiracy theory stuff; as though it required nefarious dealings at the highest level and everything you ever believed would have to be wrong. It's not as if Bill Gates has to personally sign off secret orders to sabotage the competition, just like the Google board of directors likely didn't authorize the sabotage of OpenStreetMaps. It'd just be a bit of opportunistic trickery, maybe done by an overly enthusiastic employee or to get back at a personal rivalry with a GNU-evangelizing acquaintance. As such, it's not an extraordinary claim. No extraordinary evidence required.
I usually go: "You're in a desert, walking along in the sand, when all of a sudden you look down and see a tortoise..." That's when the chatbot tries to shoot me, so it's fairly easy to sniff it out that way.
But on a serious note, it would be fairly feasible to code in a recognition of repetitive phrases and an increasingly impatient/frustrated response. For giggles, it can accuse you of being a bot if your questions start to become too weird or repetitive.
Seemingly relevant meme references are incredibly easy to synthesize. The asynchronicity is a greater challenge as it requires a completely different model of intelligence. The "question / answer" model greatly limits the amount of thinking the AI has to do, as it doesn't have to follow trains of thoughts (or come up with original ones) on its own.
I guess it's a step up from the "no evidence" approach. At least they acknowledge the idea that facts have some significance when making claims about the world.
European law forces ISPs to retain traffic data for half a year. Germany is the only state currently refusing to implement the law, but I don't have any illusions that this will last.
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Electron volts per eye roll?
Well, if you're rolling each eye at the speed of light, then...
I think that's a whooosh. :P
I like my statements like I like my statements: Tautological.
Should have put a photo of himself making a serious face. And titled his letter "A Personal Appeal From Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales".
Take this guy, for instance - not some lone nut, but an influential and respected spokesperson. Bloody frightening.
It's more like the Democrats are the equivalent of the Conservatives, and the Republicans are the BNP. So to be fair, there's a choice there even if all the options suck.
Because murder is, in fact, a crime in England as well as Scotland.
If you publish Muhammad cartoons in Denmark, you can bet you won't be extradited to Saudi Arabia to stand trial for blasphemy.
How do I get to this universe of yours? Sounds like a lovely place.
I'll only spend money on a smartphone made by a company that does not litigate frivolously.
(Not holding my breath on this one.)
... +10^10 internets.
Not quite; then you'd get the printer free with a two-year cartridge subscription. :P
If it takes me an hour to install the software without donating, and I can have the binaries for any donation of at least $x, then my time only has to be worth more than $x per hour.
That he calls them a "donation perk" rather than selling them indicates you can already set your own price. That's hard to undercut.
...considered harmful.
"Knowledge-Based Education – We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority."
If this paragraph, which by your admission is an authentic quote, does not fill you with deep revulsion, then you are insane. Challenging fixed beliefs is the only purpose of general education; everything else is as useful as memorizing Wikipedia.
That is completely nonsensical. The option to override the process manually must exist simply to correct mistakes like this. That same option can therefore also be used to introduce mistakes.
Therefore, the only question is how likely it is that the heuristic algorithm could have determined this category, and how likely it is that a human could have done it. The keywords found on the FSF site has no overlap with the keywords on common gambling sites, so the first is unlikely. A human who does not like the FSF has a motive to do this, so the second is not unlikely.
People act as if this were moon-landing type conspiracy theory stuff; as though it required nefarious dealings at the highest level and everything you ever believed would have to be wrong. It's not as if Bill Gates has to personally sign off secret orders to sabotage the competition, just like the Google board of directors likely didn't authorize the sabotage of OpenStreetMaps. It'd just be a bit of opportunistic trickery, maybe done by an overly enthusiastic employee or to get back at a personal rivalry with a GNU-evangelizing acquaintance. As such, it's not an extraordinary claim. No extraordinary evidence required.
I usually go: "You're in a desert, walking along in the sand, when all of a sudden you look down and see a tortoise..." That's when the chatbot tries to shoot me, so it's fairly easy to sniff it out that way.
But on a serious note, it would be fairly feasible to code in a recognition of repetitive phrases and an increasingly impatient/frustrated response. For giggles, it can accuse you of being a bot if your questions start to become too weird or repetitive.
Chris Hansen would like a word with both of you. :P
Seemingly relevant meme references are incredibly easy to synthesize. The asynchronicity is a greater challenge as it requires a completely different model of intelligence. The "question / answer" model greatly limits the amount of thinking the AI has to do, as it doesn't have to follow trains of thoughts (or come up with original ones) on its own.
"Why don't you have a seat right over there."
I see. It's not a Turing test, it's a tool commissioned for To Catch A Predator.
and too young to know nothing?
Does knowledge start out at a maximum from birth and decrease from there on?
Much like spam mail, HFT would cease to be an issue if a transaction came with even a tiny overhead. (And in both cases, I doubt it'll ever happen.)
I guess it's a step up from the "no evidence" approach. At least they acknowledge the idea that facts have some significance when making claims about the world.
Stuff like that is happening already. Look at hard drives.
European law forces ISPs to retain traffic data for half a year. Germany is the only state currently refusing to implement the law, but I don't have any illusions that this will last.