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Platystemon)
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'googling' is already basically a prayer for knowledge, we don't know how it works we just know a human made it at some point all we need is to forget that and we can get going on our religious technocracy
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Oct 14, 2018 23:28
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I still ask Jeeves
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Oct 14, 2018 23:45
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DragQueenofAngmar posted:'googling' is already basically a prayer for knowledge, we don't know how it works we just know a human made it at some point Magical Black Box mysticism loses all its bullshitting power when the inputs and outputs are all readily comprehensible to laypersons though. If you want bullshit persuasive enough to run a theocracy it'll need at least two levels of obfuscation and separation, so bored/clever users can't just bruteforce their way to reformatting god.
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Oct 14, 2018 23:47
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DragQueenofAngmar posted:'googling' is already basically a prayer for knowledge, we don't know how it works we just know a human made it at some point https://youtu.be/Cl14xh4GSrc
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Oct 15, 2018 00:16
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silentsnack posted:Magical Black Box mysticism loses all its bullshitting power when the inputs and outputs are all readily comprehensible to laypersons though. If you want bullshit persuasive enough to run a theocracy it'll need at least two levels of obfuscation and separation, so bored/clever users can't just bruteforce their way to reformatting god. right we just need to get a little stupider or for Google to disable any indications of how the system works, maybe limit everyone to 10-15 Questionings a day so they can't play word games to figure it out
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Oct 15, 2018 00:54
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silentsnack posted:Magical Black Box mysticism loses all its bullshitting power when the inputs and outputs are all readily comprehensible to laypersons though. If you want bullshit persuasive enough to run a theocracy it'll need at least two levels of obfuscation and separation, so bored/clever users can't just bruteforce their way to reformatting god. Deep Neural Networks 
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Oct 15, 2018 01:01
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What if the "humanity was more advanced in ancient times" are on to something and what we thought were gods were basically Google and Amazon?
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Oct 15, 2018 01:22
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It’s like google, but he fucks
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Oct 15, 2018 01:23
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wtf is this https://www.reno.gov/home/showdocument?id=70957 "hey we have outsourced government"
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Oct 15, 2018 06:33
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Grognan posted:wtf is this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OddnvlQgH9w
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Oct 15, 2018 12:52
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Media Bloodbath posted:Deep Neural Networks 
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Oct 15, 2018 13:04
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https://twitter.com/va_shiva/status/1051821416012816390 The fact that we legitimately have something called blood quantum laws is cyberpunk as gently caress.
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Oct 15, 2018 14:27
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Not all tribes observe blood quantum laws for membership, but they wouldn't include Elizabeth Warren anyway.
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Oct 15, 2018 14:36
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It's odd that the same people who keep challenging her genetic purity are also the same people who keep using it as an excuse to call her ethnic slurs. Speaking of native americans, North Dakota voter ID laws are taking away their vote. In yet another example of how literally the only reason for voter ID laws is vote suppression. Supreme Court was fine with it though, which kinda reflects another trend with the Supreme Court consistently failing to react to politically corrupt system rigging, which segues into something that's really cyberpunk: RedMaP, the Redistricting Majority Project, wherein they use big data to find and take advantage of local elections where they can rig a majority in a state to gerrymander district lines for decades to come. RedMaP was already a major factor in the Republican landslide in 2018. It's going to come to the supreme court, but that's not really something to be enthusiastic about. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/06/01/616216560/episode-845-redmap
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Oct 15, 2018 16:30
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The Supreme Court will soon rule it unconstitutional to hold elections during a time of war tbh
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Oct 15, 2018 16:46
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Oct 15, 2018 17:47
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https://twitter.com/Slate/status/1051465597605818369?s=19 It's not a bug it's a feature!
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Oct 15, 2018 22:50
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ShriekingMarxist posted:https://twitter.com/Slate/status/1051465597605818369?s=19 Charles Motherfucking Babbage posted:On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. Would you like to know more? (TW: Wikipedia)
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Oct 15, 2018 23:21
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Computers are literally magic boxes to so many people. The sheer wilful ignorance people have towards them fascinates and frustrates me daily. It's not that they don't know about how they work, its that they don't want to know, and even act offended if you try and educate them!
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Oct 15, 2018 23:45
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I think you'll find they work exactly as I think they should, as I have paid several thousand dollars. It is you, computer person, who is failing me but keeping the machine's potential hidden. What, no, I don't need to know the process. Hah! Computers reengineer our processes, you fool!
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Oct 16, 2018 00:52
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Usually tech companies just hide beyond their algorithms and act like they're mathematically beyond reproach for baking bias into their systems. I guess kudos for Amazon for admitting fault?
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Oct 16, 2018 01:17
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lmaooooo
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Oct 16, 2018 18:56
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where's this from, it's great
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Oct 16, 2018 19:01
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we uad a postdoc for a while who insisted on doing even the most basic data analysis with neural nets she didnt last long lmao
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Oct 16, 2018 19:11
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I don't even know what a neural net is or deep learning so I feel I am ill prepared for the cyberpunk future
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Oct 16, 2018 19:13
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The Slack Lagoon posted:I don't even know what a neural net is or deep learning so I feel I am ill prepared for the cyberpunk future we already went over it its this
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Oct 16, 2018 19:22
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Food Boner posted:we uad a postdoc for a while who insisted on doing even the most basic data analysis with neural nets to follow up, she managed to con somebody into a probably 6 figure sv data science job
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Oct 16, 2018 19:23
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Oct 16, 2018 19:23
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The Slack Lagoon posted:I don't even know what a neural net is or deep learning so I feel I am ill prepared for the cyberpunk future It's just function approximating. We give it a poo poo ton of variables and their answers, it makes up a function that relates them together as best it can.
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Oct 16, 2018 19:24
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content post from pooky
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Oct 16, 2018 19:28
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Its just The Machine That Won The War
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Oct 16, 2018 19:34
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 I feel like this interaction qualifies for this thread
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Oct 16, 2018 20:12
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my coworker just went off about how great it would be if we had holodecks because "you can kill people for real in those things."
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Oct 16, 2018 21:19
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poo poo POST MALONE posted:my coworker just went off about how great it would be if we had holodecks because "you can kill people for real in those things." also sexbots and killbots
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Oct 16, 2018 21:32
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poo poo POST MALONE posted:my coworker just went off about how great it would be if we had holodecks because "you can kill people for real in those things." you can do that in real life too???
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Oct 16, 2018 21:36
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I had a coworker proselytizing about the flat earth so someone called me over to debunk it and the conversation got onto conspiracies theories and the Kennedy assassination and a russian coworker was adamant that it was not russia but rather that it was the jews citing oswald's last name lmao
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Oct 16, 2018 23:44
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ted cruz's dad wasnt russian or jewish though
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Oct 17, 2018 00:09
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Former DILF posted:I had a coworker proselytizing about the flat earth so someone called me over to debunk it and the conversation got onto conspiracies theories and the Kennedy assassination and a russian coworker was adamant that it was not russia but rather that it was the jews citing oswald's last name lmao how do you look at the kennedy assassination against the backdrop of CIA activity at the time and not just go "oh, it's part of that general pattern". even chomsky has said that it doesn't matter who killed kennedy, and it'd hardly be the worst thing they did.
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Oct 17, 2018 00:30
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Also Kennedy deserved it.
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Oct 17, 2018 00:51
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Oct 17, 2018 01:09
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