If an alien race as much above us as we are above rats were to come here and began to use Humans in like manner, how would we react/feel/moralize?
Well, there's one way to find out -- keep wiring rat brains together until they become smarter than us, give them instructions on human testing, and see what they come up with and how we feel about it.
Not just "similar" malware, but anything that has a patched-to-date Flash infection vector. It might actually slow the spread of malware, while decreasing its own ability to spread, at least by that mechanism. And finally, when it's found and purged, the infected systems are somewhat more secure.
Not saying this is a good idea, but it seems that if it spread enough, it could decrease infectable targets in the short-term, maybe drastically?
Instead, the PR Crisis Consultants wrote an apology that didn't at all make nice with the Reddit community
How hard would that have been? s/We/I/g , and a couple other specifics about taking responsibility for screwing up, and that they were going to come up with a 'comprehensive plan' in three weeks. At that point, they could hope something else enters the news cycle in the interim, and if not, they could stall a little longer.
Nobody's going to work for Reddit if they're told at the door: "We'll keep you around as long as some splinter cell of mods doesn't start a flashmob against you. And we try to fire bad people but if they have loyal mods they're impossible to get rid of."
Ok, so the 401k matching is 3% and vests over two years, I'll be working with sociopaths, and the health insurance kicks in on the first of the month. And sorry, where do I turn in my W-4 again?
After you go through that much basil, you'll have the munchies something fierce, and a small area like that probably can't grow enough food to satisfy you.
and instead focus on using its enormous data assets to make meaningful connections between people and facilitate organic engagement within a rich ecosystem.
Yes, it doesn't give as fast results as the Net, but it was a lot tougher to intercept.
Now that inexpensive, massively interconnectable cameras are available, if there's someone you want to keep an eye on, I'd think surveillance is much easier nowadays.
The shift workers howled and laughed and were pelted, and broke ranks, and the jelly beans managed to work their way into the mechanism of the slidewalks after which there was a hideous scraping as the sound of a million fingernails rasped down a quarter of a million blackboards, followed by a coughing and a sputtering, and then the slidewalks all stopped and everyone was dumped thisawayandthataway in a jackstraw tumble, and still laughing and popping little jelly bean eggs of childish color into their mouths. It was a holiday, and a jollity, an absolute insanity, a giggle. But ...
The shift was delayed seven minutes.
They did not get home for seven minutes.
The master schedule was thrown off by seven minutes.
Quotas were delayed by inoperative slidewalks for seven minutes.
From 'Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman', Harlan Ellison.
Along these lines, does the robot have an interlock with the safety cage door? So that the robot can't move dangerously if the safety cage door sensor/electric eye determines that the door is open?
First law of robotics: A robot without computer vision or radar may assume that it has free agency to operate within the convex hull encompassing its range of motion (otherwise referred to as its threatened area).
Even if the robot malfunctions due to other failures, those safety cages and perimeter markings are supposed to pretty much guarantee that you'll be safe if you're standing outside them, right? In that regard, one might worry more about robots that have autonomous control and unrestricted range of motion.
I retract all that was previously stated and label this for "entertainment purposes only".
Great! I hope you took a photo with you standing in front of whichever government building you put that sticker on... oh wait, sorry, I misread the antecedent. My bad.
Drone pilots are actually burning out due to extreme crisis of conscious issues. They work 9-5 killing people, then go home to their families.
I wonder if some of this is due to their inability to decompress with people in similar situations, like the armed forces can do with each other at meals or in the barracks.
It almost sounds like going home to their family every night, while certainly desirable, could perversely be keeping them from coping mechanisms that come along with being physically and mentally (attentionally ?) present with others in the same situation, e.g., during training/combat.
They see themselves as terrible assassins, not righteous heroes fighting a murderous enemy.
See, that's the problem -- as long as they see themselves in either role, it won't work. Perhaps if they were isolated at youth, taught to fight each other, and then misled into thinking it was just a really good video game or simulation of some sort. I bet they could make a movie out of that.
Between your game ideas, implementation, and playtesting, what have you discovered about planning, targeting, or adapting games to various durations (e.g., an hour or shorter to the better part of a day) and between dedicated gatherings with friends to something you could maybe play with someone you randomly meet in a coffeehouse for a while? This is more of an open-ended question; I'd just like to hear about your experience in considering and working through these issues.
I personally was too young to appreciate the social context around your pocket games when I played them, but still enjoyed them a lot -- Ogre, Car Wars, Illuminati, and Awful Green Things from Outer Space, and I'll mention Illuminati again because I enjoyed it so much.
When I eat with friends on the weekend, I'll order an omelette with an extra egg, extra veggies, and some nuts to add protein and keep me going through the day. It's almost the size of the entire plate. Since I order it frequently, I decided a while back to give it a name. It comes with basil pesto and looks green, and the name I gave it could be mistaken to refer to a large green character that has risen to animated movie fame recently. Thanks to you, Mr. Jackson, however, I chose the name from an entirely different time and setting.
It was actually cost that decreased by 50% last week. So hopefully nobody remembers that, and they can double their battery capacity and their profits at the same time!
They haven't done many experiments. The ones they performed, they did by... decreasing the gain until a Raspberry Pi inside a cadaver lost connectivity? That sounds plausible, right?
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If an alien race as much above us as we are above rats were to come here and began to use Humans in like manner, how would we react/feel/moralize?
Well, there's one way to find out -- keep wiring rat brains together until they become smarter than us, give them instructions on human testing, and see what they come up with and how we feel about it.
Get your paws off me, you damn dirty multirat!
Welcome our cute and fuzzy, already pretty intelligent long-tail enabled distributed multiprocessing overlords.
A podcast would be nice:
Not just "similar" malware, but anything that has a patched-to-date Flash infection vector. It might actually slow the spread of malware, while decreasing its own ability to spread, at least by that mechanism. And finally, when it's found and purged, the infected systems are somewhat more secure.
Not saying this is a good idea, but it seems that if it spread enough, it could decrease infectable targets in the short-term, maybe drastically?
Instead, the PR Crisis Consultants wrote an apology that didn't at all make nice with the Reddit community
How hard would that have been? s/We/I/g , and a couple other specifics about taking responsibility for screwing up, and that they were going to come up with a 'comprehensive plan' in three weeks. At that point, they could hope something else enters the news cycle in the interim, and if not, they could stall a little longer.
Nobody's going to work for Reddit if they're told at the door: "We'll keep you around as long as some splinter cell of mods doesn't start a flashmob against you. And we try to fire bad people but if they have loyal mods they're impossible to get rid of."
Ok, so the 401k matching is 3% and vests over two years, I'll be working with sociopaths, and the health insurance kicks in on the first of the month. And sorry, where do I turn in my W-4 again?
After you go through that much basil, you'll have the munchies something fierce, and a small area like that probably can't grow enough food to satisfy you.
Oh, actual basil. Got it.
So in the future, when Reddit screws the pooch, you can rest assured that I will
and instead focus on using its enormous data assets to make meaningful connections between people and facilitate organic engagement within a rich ecosystem.
I think they're working on an app for that.
Yes, it doesn't give as fast results as the Net, but it was a lot tougher to intercept.
Now that inexpensive, massively interconnectable cameras are available, if there's someone you want to keep an eye on, I'd think surveillance is much easier nowadays.
Or maybe someone who wanted a breather:
The shift workers howled and laughed and were pelted, and broke ranks, and the jelly beans managed to work their way into the mechanism of the slidewalks after which there was a hideous scraping as the sound of a million fingernails rasped down a quarter of a million blackboards, followed by a coughing and a sputtering, and then the slidewalks all stopped and everyone was dumped thisawayandthataway in a jackstraw tumble, and still laughing and popping little jelly bean eggs of childish color into their mouths. It was a holiday, and a jollity, an absolute insanity, a giggle. But . ..
The shift was delayed seven minutes.
They did not get home for seven minutes.
The master schedule was thrown off by seven minutes.
Quotas were delayed by inoperative slidewalks for seven minutes.
From 'Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman', Harlan Ellison.
Along these lines, does the robot have an interlock with the safety cage door? So that the robot can't move dangerously if the safety cage door sensor/electric eye determines that the door is open?
First law of robotics: A robot without computer vision or radar may assume that it has free agency to operate within the convex hull encompassing its range of motion (otherwise referred to as its threatened area).
Even if the robot malfunctions due to other failures, those safety cages and perimeter markings are supposed to pretty much guarantee that you'll be safe if you're standing outside them, right? In that regard, one might worry more about robots that have autonomous control and unrestricted range of motion.
"Hey, honey, they just bombed my house and killed my parents. Can I stay over at your place for a while?"
"I'm not sure I'm ready for that kind of commitment."
No longer must we live under the disingenuous denials of a domestic surveillance program's existence. It's now been properly approved by a court.
That's good, right? In all seriousness, though, does it sort of count as progress?
I retract all that was previously stated and label this for "entertainment purposes only".
Great! I hope you took a photo with you standing in front of whichever government building you put that sticker on ... oh wait, sorry, I misread the antecedent. My bad.
Drone pilots are actually burning out due to extreme crisis of conscious issues. They work 9-5 killing people, then go home to their families.
I wonder if some of this is due to their inability to decompress with people in similar situations, like the armed forces can do with each other at meals or in the barracks.
It almost sounds like going home to their family every night, while certainly desirable, could perversely be keeping them from coping mechanisms that come along with being physically and mentally (attentionally ?) present with others in the same situation, e.g., during training/combat.
Besides, we'll still have enough change to cover the loss, with some left over.
Speak for yourself.
They see themselves as terrible assassins, not righteous heroes fighting a murderous enemy.
See, that's the problem -- as long as they see themselves in either role, it won't work. Perhaps if they were isolated at youth, taught to fight each other, and then misled into thinking it was just a really good video game or simulation of some sort. I bet they could make a movie out of that.
Between your game ideas, implementation, and playtesting, what have you discovered about planning, targeting, or adapting games to various durations (e.g., an hour or shorter to the better part of a day) and between dedicated gatherings with friends to something you could maybe play with someone you randomly meet in a coffeehouse for a while? This is more of an open-ended question; I'd just like to hear about your experience in considering and working through these issues.
I personally was too young to appreciate the social context around your pocket games when I played them, but still enjoyed them a lot -- Ogre, Car Wars, Illuminati, and Awful Green Things from Outer Space, and I'll mention Illuminati again because I enjoyed it so much.
All I'd contribute is the upgrade idea.
And the playtesting, right?
When I eat with friends on the weekend, I'll order an omelette with an extra egg, extra veggies, and some nuts to add protein and keep me going through the day. It's almost the size of the entire plate. Since I order it frequently, I decided a while back to give it a name. It comes with basil pesto and looks green, and the name I gave it could be mistaken to refer to a large green character that has risen to animated movie fame recently. Thanks to you, Mr. Jackson, however, I chose the name from an entirely different time and setting.
I call it 'The Ogre'.
It was actually cost that decreased by 50% last week. So hopefully nobody remembers that, and they can double their battery capacity and their profits at the same time!
They haven't done many experiments. The ones they performed, they did by ... decreasing the gain until a Raspberry Pi inside a cadaver lost connectivity? That sounds plausible, right?