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Comment Re:Groundwork for censorship (Score 1) 107

No, you're confusing the definition of censorship with what restraints on free speech are constitutional.

Oh, now you are trying to nitpick?

You are the one who said, "Censorship means suppression of speech or expression by a governing authority." which is a really dumb thing to say, otherwise "government censorship" or "self-censorship" wouldn't be terms.

Comment Re:None (Score 2) 83

I am 100% against flock cameras, but that doesn't mean your statement is true. While I agree that typically people will still steal even with flock cameras, if they catch people doing so and they go to jail they are not able to steal more. So while the a priori effect is negligible, that doesn't mean they can't reduce theft. The problem is that even if they do the loss of freedom from mass surveillance is not compensated for by the few cases where it makes things marginally better in a few select cases, especially given that it is abused already and this is documented fact.

Comment Re:court ordered warrant required (Score 1) 54

There already *are* such limits, and those of us that didn't have the foresight to know they would be ignored should have figured out by now that "strict limits on access" are meaningless. The *only* solution is to make gathering of the data illegal, because once the data has been gathered it can be abused, which is to say it *will* be abused, and *is* being abused.

Comment The is NO SUCH THING as an AI Kill Switch. (Score 1) 40

The real danger of discussing an AI kill switch is that it creates and enables the delusion that such a thing is possible. This is absurd. AI is code and is not a single instance, runtime, or platform. Not only is it true that there is no way to implement it in a single model, or a few select models, the Pandora's box has already been opened. An AI kill switch is technologically impossible to implement, and there is no way to universally legislate or enforce legislation even if it was possible.

Comment Re:Groundwork for censorship (Score 1) 107

Censorship is a problem when you are not free to express an idea.

The form of the idea can be limited without it being censorship: for example, you can't protest with a bullhorn in the middle of the night.

Free speech doesn't mean everyone has to listen to you, it means the people who want to listen to you are able to. Youtube demonetizing a video is not censorship. Removing videos because they don't like the ideas in the videos is the worst kind of censorship, because they are trying to control you.

Comment Re:If an individual did any of this hacking by han (Score 1) 52

Yeah, the anti-hacking law is over-broad but makes "knowingly accesses" an important aspect:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

If you didn't knowingly hack the computer, apparently it's not illegal (unless it's fraud or causes other damage or something).

Comment Re:Headline and article disagree (Score 1) 39

It's not hard to make a computer that is unbeatable in Starcraft, because the computer can click perfectly every time. According to your link:

the unauthorized version of Pluto was additionally modified to use a maphack...During some games, Pluto reached several thousand actions per minute... the bot used its micro to surround and neutralize Mutalisks... the bot simultaneously fought in multiple areas of the map, precisely micro-managed its units

So yeah, that kind of clicking (and maybe perfect information, or maybe not) gives the computer a massive advantage, it doesn't even need a neural network to win.

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