cryoshon

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by cryoshon 10y ago
what if we made a superintelligent AI that was our Socrates? superintelligence of a military AI is worrisome, but superintelligence of a cantankerous thinking is quite reassuring...
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by cryoshon 10y ago
it's the economy, stupid. americans of generations X and Y got raped out of their money by the looter economy comprised of high-interest big-sum debt, decreasing wages, increasing rent, increasing cost of living, and few jobs. this sto
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by cryoshon 10y ago
>are insiders who leak carefully and strategically creating better public policy outcomes than the indiscriminate leaks that IT people have been generating? the insiders aren't effecting policy outcomes whatsoever. they're gett
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by cryoshon 10y ago
>Your response actually agrees with the author the author is a milquetoast analyst paid to be a "thought leader" on this topic... the thrust of my response is drastically different than his: i suggest that it is time to tear do
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by cryoshon 10y ago
>What's really really scary to me lately is all of this talk about "fake news", which originally referred to outright lies that were part of click-farms, but is now being talked about as if CNN and MSNBC are somehow the on
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by cryoshon 10y ago
a long and bloviating article, complaining essentially that hackers refuse to wear ties, and that they really should wear ties because the computer engineers of the old days wore ties. instead of "ties" we're talking about ni
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by cryoshon 10y ago
>and before you know it you've helped build a police state. this actually happened, as you know. "politics aren't my problem" should be called out as effectively authoritarian, as it's an admission that they&#x27
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by cryoshon 10y ago
Just passing by this thread to register intense negativity against this plan. HN shouldn't be a "safe space". Shutting down discussion of "politics"-- the methodology of distribution of resources within a society--
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by cryoshon 10y ago
try to enforce the passage you quoted onto them here is a tip: you will need men with guns to get anywhere
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by cryoshon 10y ago
we have surpassed 1984; you are too late to act. we tried to warn you
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by cryoshon 10y ago
the russian civil war had multiple competing factions with a bevy of foreign influences onto each.... a little "funding" has an impact that works out to be a wash, considering that most of the combatants in the war had obsolete we
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by cryoshon 10y ago
hey look, we're the most impoverished generation, and so, we require help from our parents. thanks, student loans!
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by cryoshon 10y ago
this whole "fake news" narrative arc needs to be fucking murdered, and here's why: stories which detail items of unpopular fact surrounded by biased opinions which threaten the status quo are being lumped in with stories whic
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by cryoshon 10y ago
really? no qualms about secretly editing user comments to say something different? have you ever heard of how slippery certain slopes can be?
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by cryoshon 10y ago
though I think that the pizzagate group are largely crazy, you did forget the cornerstone of their theory: the podestas as well as the pizza shop in question have multitudes of disturbing art featuring children in sexual and vulnerable situ
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by cryoshon 10y ago
Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard Zuck: Just ask Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS [Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one? Zuck: People just submitted it. Zuck: I
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by cryoshon 10y ago
>the NYT published a written apology for their role in popularizing the invasion of Iraq i also remember how it was widely thought to be a bad idea at the time by millions of people, yet, somehow they managed to pick the wrong position.
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by cryoshon 10y ago
>What exactly is being pushed on the American people?' what about that time the NYT pushed the iraq war or that time they pushed hillary clinton or that time they pushed (insert whatever their paid PR "article" of the seco
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by cryoshon 10y ago
>The headline might as well as be mass propaganda techniques no longer working. HALP! i read the opposite: the propaganda technology known as "clickbait" has become so widely disseminated that truth or factual information can&#
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by cryoshon 10y ago
i've been interested in something similar for quite a while, although my conception of it was more along the lines of a browser extension which would identify weasel words, unsourced statements, and alert the user about "experts&q
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by cryoshon 10y ago
>I think a lot of countries in the near future will see the Internet as essential to their national security and thus try to limit foreign influence as much as they can with varying degrees of success an alternative: weaponize critical t
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by cryoshon 10y ago
agreed a thousand times! as a CTY alumni, my fond memories of being at CTY are of the first time in my life where i was surrounded by equals! it was such a positive experience for me.
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by cryoshon 10y ago
it's super easy to read. all of the figures are well explained, and the core concepts are hammered to death over the course of the book...
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by cryoshon 10y ago
yeah, i left science for the reasons the article outlined. it's a big weight off of my shoulders. i tell people who are thinking of going into science not to do so, now.
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by cryoshon 10y ago
wow. on my best days (which are rare) i hit 5k...
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by cryoshon 10y ago
as always, the question is how to locate the niche...
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by cryoshon 10y ago
>But the police actually knowing someone is who they they think they are might actually be a net positive in terms of public safety public safety will soon be crushing dissent further then we will wish they did not have records of what w
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by cryoshon 10y ago
okay, so when do we see police departments getting sued for unauthorized searches of members of the public? when do we see police departments sanctioned for tracking people not suspected of any crime? when do we find out that the police arr
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by cryoshon 10y ago
>They're coming on thick and strong with attempts to discredit the source because the source is seriously lacking in credibility the way they could do this correctly is to contradict assange's claims with evidence... do that, a
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by cryoshon 10y ago
this seems like pretty good proof that the dirt on clinton is real, legitimate, and devastating... why else would there be such a sudden and intense effort to shut him up (push ecuador to cut off his internet) discredit him, shut him down,

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