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Do you even know your checks and balances? This is not about government, it's about court. Facebook only has to pay because individuals (or in that case, a privacy organisation) decided to sue Facebook

What do we do against this?

“Most real-world strategic interactions involve hidden information" "Tay’s objective was to engage people, and it did. “What unfortunately Tay discovered,” Domingos said, “is that the best way to maximize engagement is to spew out racist insults.”"

So, even if the next Tay has "behave in a civilised manner" as a objective function, it will be hard to implement as the ethical rules we presume in reality are not written out as the rules of a video game. In fact, they involve many grey areas and not so many strict right-or-wrong-statements.

That's actually a point the author makes - he sees an AI as a tool for the artist, not as an creative subject on its own. I found it highly interesting to read about a writer's perspective on text producing AIs. Especially the part where its output suddenly was "I don't know what you want me to do". Part 2 - where he presents a sci-fi short film with a plot written by AI - is also a interesting read.

That's actually a point the author makes - he sees AIs as a tool for the author, not as a author itself. I found it highly interesting to read about a writer's perspective on text producing AIs. Especially the part where its output suddenly was "I don't know what you want me to do". Part 2 - where he presents a sci-fi short film with a plot written by AI - is also a interesting read.

"It’s not merely an emotional something. Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. When you rise to the level of love, of its great beauty and power, you seek only to defeat evil systems. Individuals who happen to be caught up in that system, you love, but you seek to defeat the system."

I think that a women quota is useful in cases where the proportion of female (one could also insert specific cultural backgrounds here) possible applicants for a role (be it junior or leader) is much higher than the proportion in the actual role. For instance, in theatres or hospitals in Germany, a large part of the employees is female whilst the bosses tend to be male. You cannot argue with "but better candidates will be turned down just because they are male" because obviously, the criteria for choosing are heavily unbalanced already. It's harder to determine whether a quota is useful in jobs the reason for not choosing women might be women not applying for the job. But we won't solve the matter by hating each other over the cause. Let's try to be critical, yet empathic.

It means that this statement: "Apple wants their customers to feel like someone has their back" might be applied to Google, too, to a more limited degree.

You don't have to turn all cultural characteristics into money.

My prediction is that this is wrong. They'll be able to understand widely used terms, but once you start speaking in a more creative way it will fail. At least if there is no change in the construction of AI - because the subtleties of everyday language are not 'understandable' just via empirics. Reading tip: Douglas Hofstadter's article "The Shallowness of Google Translate".

Let's agree about the premise that a objective reality exists. Still, the problem persists - we do not know anything about this objective reality or more accurately said, we can not know whether our subjective perception of reality matches this objective reality. There is no way to find out as we are bound to our limited senses.

I'd recommend reading "On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense" by Nietzsche.

"and we can tell which is which" - I doubt that. You think you can, but others will disagree on your truth. So how do we determine who is right? Yes, it's a philosophical discussion, but therefore no less relevant.

I'm very glad I'm not a student in the USA. In Germany, almost all universities are owned by the state, which means study fees are about 700€ per year - transportation ticket already being covered. And if your parents have low income, the state will give you a grant of which you'll have to pay back only by half. I know that this might be a unpopular opinion over here, but there are a lot of fields which are important for a society while offering a relatively low income. In USA's system, these become luxury goods. Fields like Ecology, philosophy, history, education or cultural studies suffer. I find the idea "it doesn't yield a lot of money, thus it's useless" weird, but that might be a cultural difference.

That's 7cups of tea.

I should have noted that I already know about that one and the harry potter fanfiction (that was actually a collaboration of authors and AI, which is why the text makes more sense). Thank you anyway!

I'm imagining something like an anti-Klu-Klux-Klan demonstration on the train... Let's not make a political discussion out of this, shall we?

That doesn't solve the problem that Google still constantly knows where I am (as long as my OS is Android). Wasn't there an article hinting that our smartphones even track GPS when it's disabled? Also, I'm quite surprised to live in a time where having to manually type an address is considered a problem.

Just a few days ago I found an old E-Mail for the change.org petition for this... Glade it made it that far.

I'd highlight that these thoughts did not produce your depression, but your depression produces these thoughts. I end up believing similar perspectives on life when I'm stuck too deep in depression, too. If you want to be happier again, work on the root of your grief. With the help of a professional, at best.

That's an individual experience, not scientific proof. An experience limited to school kids of a certain age and location who share their problems with your wife.

Yeah, because they on Facebook's side as long as it didn't seem to be threatening human rights for them. Don't assume anyone not living in your cultural area has the same attitude against facebook on the spot. The Philippines were new to it, and Rappler now learned how dangerous it can be the hard way.

It wasn't working. At least on my device MS edge became super buggy and unusable whenever I went to maps.

All untreated BPDs experience splitting. For me, that isn't up for debate

I don't know where you got that information from, but I'll assume it's the bad experiences you mentioned. I'm sorry you made them. "a pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation" is one of nine criterias used to diagnose BPD. One must fulfil only five, however. Please try not to make those generalizations. It's important. People suffering from borderline are still individual humans. Even if they have similar (not the same) problems as the ones who hurt you, it's not fair to divert your disappointment.

Well, there are. I'm studying philosophy, for example and while I'm interested in tech I can't say I understand much of it. I come here for the interesting mix of news and refreshingly critical points of view.

It's not only about the woman and her body. It's also about the child and the relationship between woman and child. Our lives don't start when we leave the womb. Our first experiences are inside of it, when we are immensely close with the mother - hell, we are inside of her body. So... It's also about sharing this first experiences and about bonding with the child. Something that is not possible with a surrogate mother. Or rather, something that happens to the surrogate mother instead. I don't think that 'handing the baby over' can ever be easy for that reason.

I've read something about a method used by online banking services some time ago: They tracked the way the customer moves their mouse, calculated their arm lenghts etc. and when the movements were suspiciously different, the system assumes it's a fraud and logs them out.

I wouldn't call the criterion for a good paper "never reports anything inaccurate" as news are written by humans and humans are fallible, but rather "is able to admit mistakes and will put effort into clarifying rather than covering them". Also I would criticise the term "not reporting anything bad" - that could also be interpreted as not reporting anything that could speak against the government, for example. Instead I would recommend "acts according to some set of morals" as a criterion - in Germany we have a "Press Code" that every journalist learns and that is also being observed by the German Press Council. Another note: I think there cannot exist such a thing as the one perfect paper, because there does not exist one perfect opinion or viewpoint. The purpose of a good paper is to bring that into account: To picture different, maybe yet unseen perspectives on a problem. A set of high quality papers with different focuses existing alongside each other is a good thing for the same reason.

One paper that does a great job in my opinion is "Die Zeit". I am not familiar with the American media landscape and thus a equivalent, however.

Well... Maybe overthink WHICH movies you are watching? There is a huge culture around movies that doesn't only consist of hollywood. Try going to a indie film festival, for example.

I travelled with Flixbus multiple times when the sector was still booming about two years ago. I don't understand the complains. Flixbus has comfortable seats, you can charge your phone and they have very fair prices for snacks and drinks. Of course, you do not have infinite space if you have long legs (but more than in a common bus) and the Wifi could be laggy sometimes. But hey, they had free wifi before the Deutsche Bahn was even thinking about it! And a online media center with quite a variety of films free to watch. They really made an effort to provide good service and offer a comfortable ride, so my experience.

I switched to ride sharing (not like Uber - but a in a way where someone who is taking a certain route anyway fills up their empty seats) since Flixbus got more expensive when their competition died out.

Try Cities: Skylines. They offer a lot of (in my opinion) overpriced DLCs, but it's already a great game without them. You can get it in a Humble Bundle for about 10(?) bucks right now.