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Mr.Radar posted:This is a very good talk about how tech companies are destroying the world and what could be done to help mitigate the damage:  Cegłowski hasn't updated the talks index in a while, he's still putting new ones on the site:http://idlewords.com/talks/notes_from_an_emergency.htm (the one in the video, with links!) http://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm (links and slides!) http://idlewords.com/talks/robot_armies.htm (links and slides!) quote:If you look at AI believers in Silicon Valley, this is the quasi-sociopathic checklist they themselves seem to be working from.
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James has since deleted the tweet (how can you even keep the same set of opinions over time if you constantly backpedal on half the statements you make?) but thankfully it's still available... via Google Cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0B-kOYRuAkAJ:https://twitter.com/JamesADamore/status/910547650407055360 Jury's still out on how ironic that is.
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actionjackson posted:Ceglowski is awesome especially his haunted by big data talk There's a new unlisted one on his site: http://idlewords.com/talks/build_a_better_monster.htm quote:Every time we went to the supermarket, my mom would give me a quarter to play Pac Man. As a good socialist kid, I thought the goal of the game was to help Pac Man, who was stranded in a maze and needed to find his friends, who were looking for him.
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He's talking about poo poo he's just seen as a guest of Adobe's MAX conference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzBZWBht02I Last year they had Jordan Peele and when he was genuinely scared about VoCo (the experimental tool for replacing spoken phrases in recordings - of course they assure that the publicly available version will put watermarks in the audio), the audience assumed he was in comedian mode and just laughed along  (In other news, my copy of Disrupted arrived today  )
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So the Breitbart job didn't pay enough to support an ex-Googler lifestyle, huh.
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https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/27/17054740/palantir-predictive-policing-tool-new-orleans-nopdquote:The company provided software to a secretive NOPD program that traced people’s ties to other gang members, outlined criminal histories, analyzed social media, and predicted the likelihood that individuals would commit violence or become a victim. As part of the discovery process in Lewis’ trial, the government turned over more than 60,000 pages of documents detailing evidence gathered against him from confidential informants, ballistics, and other sources — but they made no mention of the NOPD’s partnership with Palantir, according to a source familiar with the 39ers trial.
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Mar 1, 2018 12:09
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"All the pricks you hate will be clustered together at this remote location at specific times." Can't wait for the bombings.
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Mar 16, 2018 21:28
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I love how the second part of his instant fix is a massive long-term project with no guarantee of public approval.
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mandatory lesbian posted:creative jobs at the least Depends what kind. RNNs are catching up fast to replace rotoscoping artists at stereo conversion studios. Korean animation houses that currently make in-betweens for the whole world may not be far behind. Orchestrators/score preppers on the musical side. Anything that has small fry creatives propping up big names. You bet your rear end freelance jobs will start to dry up once software starts delivering good enough photo collages, background music or webdesign.
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May 21, 2018 23:49
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Raldikuk posted:I still love the idea that she could visit a factory and determine if there were anti union activities going on. Obviously never left the house. Stalling on Twitter is real easy since you can just wait 10 minutes until the public loses interest.
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May 22, 2018 18:24
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Wouldn't the meth have had accelerated her judgement? If anything, it makes Uber even more at fault.  https://twitter.com/aintnofuntime/status/999798460067954688
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gently caress, we had four years to figure out that a GDPR-compliant Doubleclick would be the true unicorn. Go back to statically served random 468x60 banners, subsidize the profit difference for website owners with VC money.
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 Can't even get mad at this. I mean, this is the thing that was meant to save online reporting from the ad crash, right? Having it forced by regulators just saves publishers a nasty transition period I really wanted them to endure, but so be it
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May 30, 2018 20:00
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That would be a fair concern if WaPo had a monopoly on news. The service isn't essential and you can just walk away if you don't like their set conditions - which they were now forced to reveal. Hell, it's legal to sell loaves of bread for €900 as long as there are other options readily available.
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May 31, 2018 14:10
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HootTheOwl posted:There is no difference. All speakers are microphones, and microphones can't be shut off. If your sound vibrates the magnet, you will produce an electrical signal.
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So they're grifting billionaires to subsidize public transport? Could start a flying car company next and just run bus lines on the VC dime as the "first step, while we're working out the new fleet. Don't worry, we'll break ALL the laws." But you'll have to trust the public not to make a Twitter expose about it or else the plan is ruined
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Feb 27, 2019 08:46
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TheFluff posted:idk, this is the startup thread, I'm just the ideas guy It is disruptive at least And like the best of them, relies on forcing legislation regulating consumer choice to become profitable (assuming you're aiming to be the content producer). The Flufftopia is people trading illegal bootleg copies of Tom Cruise movies while all theaters in the country play a two-hour timelapse of municipal workers. Life back in balance.
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...so you're buying the views with investor money and using them as a metric to raise more. I'd say that's genius if it wasn't the default startup model
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:It's this, tv has played a specific type of person as being the one true face of tech, anyone else is seen as a one time exception or whatever. Any studies to back that up?  The Asian programmer stereotype is very much a thing in TV
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May 9, 2019 14:50
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:What effect causes that to never be a thing that is ever reflected in any actual data or survey or voting pattern? Hey, maybe it's this Tarezax posted:Almost all the younger folks are super liberal but keep our politics mostly on the DL because of the above dudes. I can totally imagine young people who try to fit in the conservative status quo at their job but go full Che in the polls, when their manager isn't watching this is just supporting anecdote with conjecture tho 
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MickeyFinn posted:School "reform" is such a crappy issue because pretty much everyone has spent a lot of time in classrooms, so they think they have an idea about what to do to "fix" education in America. For some reason they never end up on less racism (including ending local school funding) and more money for teachers, food for the students and supplies. Funny that. Dumb middle management tricks in public education (sure, this new form to fill every week should solve everything) always have that "trying to copy Finland" excuse (probably hoping no one will actually look it up) when the Finnish solution is just more teachers focusing on fewer students at a time for more money. Imagine that
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Also worth noting is that if you're comparing to the current iteration of the Hyperloop idea, lanes are layered transport. e: poo poo the overpass photo made this point better. how about putting a train up where there's no holes to dig https://twitter.com/_cingraham/status/1132657437444415488 Loving the "well astronomers can just edit this vanity project out of photos, what's the problem here exactly? " take in the replies
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May 28, 2019 21:42
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Judging from the Xero recruiters in the replies saying "we don't actually do this", I'd wager the CEO just made that up on the spot to seem smart. ...in an interview. poo poo, imagine the logistics with tracking these dumbass tests through internal documents
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Once ASMR content gained enough popularity the meaning shifted to what's essentially roleplay and a lot of it is just girlfriend experience/personal attention content or just straight up talking about fetish poo poo to the mic. And since the preteen dream of fame now involves being a streamer taking requests live, pedos are capitalizing on that
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Maybe it's refuge in audacity, pretending you had some dumb silly reason to fail the candidate so you don't have to admit your oldschool biases, against women and disabled people for instance 
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Family Values posted:I'm really looking forward to the stories about employees being pressured to take their salary in Fakecoin, getting small punishments when they don't, etc. It's going to be way more fun if it really is completely optional and employees just do it for no reason hoping to get in early for another bubble You're going to get the same Medium posts later on as if they got pressured
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Jun 7, 2019 18:01
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Uber has already satisfied the audience for driverless cars with the "I don't want to make small talk with the driver" button. Only thing that's left are mandatory robot prosthetics to wear
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luxury handset posted:in other places - the american south, for example - it is common for people to habitually go more than ten miles over, and you have to stand out quite a lot for a cop to give you a ticket for speed (for reasons other than the speeding being a pretext to stop brown/black drivers). Can't help but imagine techlords solving this by implementing a race setting in the driver's profile Tesla Model S P90 with Caucasian Mode
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In the first Watch_Dogs climax the behind-the-scenes antagonist taunts you from behind a plexi wall in a room devoid of electronics; you then disable his pacemaker remotely. Every critic called that scene dumb and unrealistic 
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We've been laughing at Silicon Valley reinventing buses, but really, if that's what it takes to even have mass transit, why not let them have that win? Call it UberPool+ or whatever, just keep burning that VC
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so how do I get a job stalling for time pretending to code Blockchain AI for the air taxis is there like a secret phrase to use in interviews
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Wallet posted:The mind-melting part of this is how poo poo they are at it.
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https://twitter.com/jessiedotjs/status/1162364434846822401quote:I joined Google because we were the good guys.  just say it was the money. All the Google goodness examples given are generic corporate community outreach programs
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 wow thanks for the insider insight Aramis posted:As a consequence of that, it's really easy to look at a bad decision and get the impression that it's a bad apple's influence that managed to bubble to the top and exculpate the leadership. Ruffian Price fucked around with this message at 17:14 on Aug 17, 2019 |
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How often do you even see YT's homepage, it's either opened from links or your browser's search baranonumos posted:Set up Family Link. Also clear his history and police his follow list.
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Aug 21, 2019 03:06
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With a window for the Apple logo and you have to line it up every time
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Jesus, executives are just incapable of relating to anything on a human level. I can imagine layers of workers snickering as they implemented this.
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How is it disruption if it's gonna work the same?
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mediaphage posted:I’ve seen them but never used one because lol paying for air if you aren’t in medical need. I feel like they became a popular this-is-a-ridiculous-activity on tv shows for a while. Hope those got disclaimers that breathing pure oxygen can be toxic
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