gibberfish

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   by gibberfish 9y ago

   Except the overwhelming majority of Europeans alive today, including those in power, have come of age at a time when their country's colonial efforts were already a thing of the past, so it's hardly fair to throw them in with thei
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   by gibberfish 9y ago

   Still doesn't mean this clump of rock has any kind of intentionality.
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   by gibberfish 9y ago

   Not so unlikely if you consider survivorship bias.
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   by gibberfish 9y ago

   The comment you originally replied to points out all the ways in which the deep learning "interface" is not relatively simple, at least not if your problem has any sort of deviation from the most simple use cases. For a user, ma
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   by gibberfish 9y ago

   There's ongoing work in adversarial examples for neural networks. This could conceivably be used to exploit self-driving cars, making it see things that aren't there.
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   by gibberfish 9y ago

   That argument applies to the general population maybe, but that doesn't mean it also applies to the population of Google employees. Everyone there passed their hiring standards, so everyone has proved their individual merit already.
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   by gibberfish 9y ago

   Also, looking at accidents per distance driven hides hides the fact that more time spent on the road is a societal choice that also leads to more fatalities.
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   by gibberfish 9y ago

   Also, you can fit just about anything to two points.