Exactly like the old doctors being forced to retire because they can't practice part time and make a profit due to overwhelming regulatory compliance costs. Supply of doctors falls, cost of medical care goes up, and then the idiots like you scream for more government interference until you wind up in a situation where you have to leave the fucking country if you get sick or hurt because no-one can afford medical care or even insurance.
Yes, let's make them do what they are already doing, but now force them to hire a bunch of people to comply with our demands, raising the cost of the service and introducing more barriers to entry! Actually, let's just nationalize them! We'll call it Ubertrak! No-one will use it and the taxi lobby will be happy!
Wal-mart was for forcing companies to pay medical insurance. Why increase their own costs? Because it blocks new competition from entering the market. This is the ultimate effect of pretty much all regulation.
I actually disagree with all of that. Maybe I'm posting from the future or something, but my L70 is dandy. Typing is rarely a hassle, and I haven't had any problems with the camera, though I haven't used it for much. The pictures it takes seem time to me, though I only look at them on the phone's own screen.
But...we've only had science for the last few hundred years. Most of the more advanced technology was used by priests back then to fool rubes into thinking they were the messengers of the Gods, gibs mony plox.
"They are pretty reliable because they can't do much to begin with."
What can you do with a more expensive one that you can't do with a cheap one? My $100 Android seems to be able to run every ap I have downloaded. But then, I don't use it to play games, either.
Yes, all of those things should be legal. Prostitution because the alternative is "white" slavery, drugs because the alternative is massive nation destroying violence and people who harmed no-one spending their lives in jail (ie more slavery), and child pornography because the alternative is increased rates of child rape, as has been shown in Japan and even in the West where such pornography was perfectly legal until the 70's, and was produced professionally under strict supervision for the benefit of the actors, who had a good time and were paid exorbitant sums.
Then you should worry. They are primate level on some if not many tasks already. Thing is, they don't have to be the SIZE of a human brain to match humans, as most of our brains are used for serendipitous crap like breathing and sexual arousal levels. An insect brain is plenty to process images at primate level, if devoted entirely to that task.
"are talking about AI that we are not even remotely close to building"
This assumes linear speed of progress, which hasn't been the case for well over half a century. Exponential progress means you are barely making any progress at all then you are suddenly done.
Yes, there was a major breakthrough in 2006 that has powered the "deep learning" revolution that has given us things like instant voice recognition on your smartphone and machines that beat humans at Jeopardy. Basically, someone got neural nets to work, and work right, and potentially together. I imagine that each time I hear about some new task that an AI has been trained to do, that we have produced another tiny part of the brain that will one day become "THE" AI.
This is why now is the time for discussion of AI ethics (really, nine years ago was the right time, or even earlier).
That's like waiting for your face to get wet before worrying about the tsunami.
AIs working off of neural nets approximately equal to the size of insect brains have shown themselves capable of primate level object recognition, and are able to give millions of people optimized driving directions simultaneously. An AI that can form a "basic thought" is already a god. Or a demon.
Why did Mr. Burns want all that water? If he was going to resell it at an even higher price, then Apu should have just raised his price higher, and/or Barney would have gotten out his Plow King and shuttled water from another town. I suspect, however, that Mr. Burns needed the water because there was a problem at the plant, and he needed water for the cooling systems, which helps EVERYONE by preventing a meltdown.
IE rich people don't get rich or stay rich by monopolizing resources for no reason.
Yeah, just like those damn college guys who give each other gas money in exchange for rides. Don't they know they are supposed to pay a million dollars (!!!) for a medallion before they can do that?
"The American Way" was something tangential, namely that a man should be allowed to go about his business with no interference from the federal government, very little from the state government, and only a little from the local government. Further, he should be entitled to enjoy the fruits of his labors in full. Go watch an episode of The Andy Griffith Show and realize, in silent horror, that that really is what America used to be like, hilariously incompetent deputies aside.
The American Way has changed. No longer a dream, it's a nightmare.
Sorry, but they are. If you have government regulations, then you don't have a free market. You have something else. Stop destroying the meaning of words, please.
Too bad the guys who own SeLECT Defense are such terrible salesmen. Everyone in the US, at the very least, should have their teeth sealed with this. I put it on four or five years ago, and ever since then I've only had to brush once every few days, to get rid of attached food particles. Stopped my tooth decay dead in its tracks, and it was a real problem before I put it on.
Funny, since a taxi driver can rape you, murder you, and dump the body without leaving any evidence that you were ever in his cab, as opposed to Uber where the company knows exactly when and where you got in and out, what route you took, etc. An Uber driver raping a passenger is like a guy raping someone in the lobby of a police station. He's going to get caught, and he knows it. So in reality, it just doesn't happen, except maybe when someone just poses as an Uber driver, but fuck, you can pose as a police officer and rape someone too.
Sorry, but they do, in fact, pay for commercial insurance. The other costs are the fault of government intervention in the marketplace on behalf of the taxi companies. Fuck them both is a broken broomhandle. Medallions are fascism, plain and simple. The merger of government and corporate power to produce income for the government and shield the corporation from competition. Uber is what will make THEM behave, not the other way around.
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Exactly like the old doctors being forced to retire because they can't practice part time and make a profit due to overwhelming regulatory compliance costs. Supply of doctors falls, cost of medical care goes up, and then the idiots like you scream for more government interference until you wind up in a situation where you have to leave the fucking country if you get sick or hurt because no-one can afford medical care or even insurance.
Yes, let's make them do what they are already doing, but now force them to hire a bunch of people to comply with our demands, raising the cost of the service and introducing more barriers to entry! Actually, let's just nationalize them! We'll call it Ubertrak! No-one will use it and the taxi lobby will be happy!
Wal-mart was for forcing companies to pay medical insurance. Why increase their own costs? Because it blocks new competition from entering the market. This is the ultimate effect of pretty much all regulation.
This is how civilizations fail, FYI.
All work and no play make Jack a dull troll.
I actually disagree with all of that. Maybe I'm posting from the future or something, but my L70 is dandy. Typing is rarely a hassle, and I haven't had any problems with the camera, though I haven't used it for much. The pictures it takes seem time to me, though I only look at them on the phone's own screen.
But...we've only had science for the last few hundred years. Most of the more advanced technology was used by priests back then to fool rubes into thinking they were the messengers of the Gods, gibs mony plox.
"They are pretty reliable because they can't do much to begin with."
What can you do with a more expensive one that you can't do with a cheap one? My $100 Android seems to be able to run every ap I have downloaded. But then, I don't use it to play games, either.
Yes, all of those things should be legal. Prostitution because the alternative is "white" slavery, drugs because the alternative is massive nation destroying violence and people who harmed no-one spending their lives in jail (ie more slavery), and child pornography because the alternative is increased rates of child rape, as has been shown in Japan and even in the West where such pornography was perfectly legal until the 70's, and was produced professionally under strict supervision for the benefit of the actors, who had a good time and were paid exorbitant sums.
Then you should worry. They are primate level on some if not many tasks already. Thing is, they don't have to be the SIZE of a human brain to match humans, as most of our brains are used for serendipitous crap like breathing and sexual arousal levels. An insect brain is plenty to process images at primate level, if devoted entirely to that task.
"are talking about AI that we are not even remotely close to building"
This assumes linear speed of progress, which hasn't been the case for well over half a century. Exponential progress means you are barely making any progress at all then you are suddenly done.
So...don't trust anyone over 30?
Go to the Craigslist rideshare section. Yes, they are indistinguishable.
Yes, there was a major breakthrough in 2006 that has powered the "deep learning" revolution that has given us things like instant voice recognition on your smartphone and machines that beat humans at Jeopardy. Basically, someone got neural nets to work, and work right, and potentially together. I imagine that each time I hear about some new task that an AI has been trained to do, that we have produced another tiny part of the brain that will one day become "THE" AI.
This is why now is the time for discussion of AI ethics (really, nine years ago was the right time, or even earlier).
That's like waiting for your face to get wet before worrying about the tsunami.
AIs working off of neural nets approximately equal to the size of insect brains have shown themselves capable of primate level object recognition, and are able to give millions of people optimized driving directions simultaneously. An AI that can form a "basic thought" is already a god. Or a demon.
Why did Mr. Burns want all that water? If he was going to resell it at an even higher price, then Apu should have just raised his price higher, and/or Barney would have gotten out his Plow King and shuttled water from another town. I suspect, however, that Mr. Burns needed the water because there was a problem at the plant, and he needed water for the cooling systems, which helps EVERYONE by preventing a meltdown.
IE rich people don't get rich or stay rich by monopolizing resources for no reason.
Yeah, just like those damn college guys who give each other gas money in exchange for rides. Don't they know they are supposed to pay a million dollars (!!!) for a medallion before they can do that?
"The American Way" was something tangential, namely that a man should be allowed to go about his business with no interference from the federal government, very little from the state government, and only a little from the local government. Further, he should be entitled to enjoy the fruits of his labors in full. Go watch an episode of The Andy Griffith Show and realize, in silent horror, that that really is what America used to be like, hilariously incompetent deputies aside.
The American Way has changed. No longer a dream, it's a nightmare.
"The two aren't mutually exclusive"
Sorry, but they are. If you have government regulations, then you don't have a free market. You have something else. Stop destroying the meaning of words, please.
Why have innovation and free markets when we can have government regulations?
I'm sure this will be a great success, just like Obamacare and Amtrak.
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Whatever you say, same"fag".
No, the laws were enacted to protect corrupt taxi cartels (you know, the ones signing your paychecks) from competition.
Too bad the guys who own SeLECT Defense are such terrible salesmen. Everyone in the US, at the very least, should have their teeth sealed with this. I put it on four or five years ago, and ever since then I've only had to brush once every few days, to get rid of attached food particles. Stopped my tooth decay dead in its tracks, and it was a real problem before I put it on.
Why don't you log in? Afraid you'll be made for the shill you are?
Funny, since a taxi driver can rape you, murder you, and dump the body without leaving any evidence that you were ever in his cab, as opposed to Uber where the company knows exactly when and where you got in and out, what route you took, etc. An Uber driver raping a passenger is like a guy raping someone in the lobby of a police station. He's going to get caught, and he knows it. So in reality, it just doesn't happen, except maybe when someone just poses as an Uber driver, but fuck, you can pose as a police officer and rape someone too.
"The taxi laws were built over the years to deal with problems."
Yes, problems like competition from the little guy limiting the cash flow for the big boys.
Sorry, but they do, in fact, pay for commercial insurance. The other costs are the fault of government intervention in the marketplace on behalf of the taxi companies. Fuck them both is a broken broomhandle. Medallions are fascism, plain and simple. The merger of government and corporate power to produce income for the government and shield the corporation from competition. Uber is what will make THEM behave, not the other way around.