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by manux 6y ago
The Culture series by Ian M Banks has an interesting take on this, if this kind of sci-fi interests you!
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by manux 6y ago
Self-censoring is part of the frontal cortex's normal function. I only hear this word 'self-censorship' brought up as a boogeyman. If people have an axe to grind against some part of mainstream culture, why not just say it o
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by manux 6y ago
I think you're missing the point I'm trying to make, which is that developing "fair" algorithms, is not about developing algs that are e.g. pro-white-black equality, it is about developing algs that have option of equa
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by manux 6y ago
No, you're wrong. Ethics and morals do exist. Money exists. Ideas exist in our brain, functionally. Are all these things _ideas_? Human creations? Sure. The universe is absolutely indifferent to us. But these _ideas_ have real-world im
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by manux 6y ago
> if you're saying i'm a racist I wasn't, sorry if that's what you interpreted. > The status quo however should be changed by people,not people with machines I'm not sure I understand what this means. People&
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by manux 6y ago
> It's very easy to build a fair image recognition system by representing all demographics. I wish it was easy. Unfortunately, reality is more complicated, as it tends to be [1,2,3,4]. [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/
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by manux 6y ago
> Pushing technology that enforces your ideology is a horrible idea. But that's what we're all doing. By being "against AI ethics", you are effectively pushing technology that enforces _your_ ideology. Your ideology s
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by manux 6y ago
> you don't need AI ethics research to solve these issue. what are you talking about? This is exactly the kind of research that's classified as AI ethics. "Solving these issues". > instead of focusing on real issue
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by manux 6y ago
> AI ethics focus on esoteric problems that don't solve any real world problems I'm not sure now what you think AI ethics research is. Do you think systemic discrimination is not a real world problem?
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by manux 6y ago
> Do you see any VC investing in etichs in ML startups? Perhaps you should pay less attention to VCs and more attention to governments and academic institutions, who for example in Canada are investing 10s of millions of dollars into AI
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by manux 6y ago
> Otherwise, why not go further and also ban knives (or go after supermarkets that sell them) to solve knife crime? That sounds like a very slippery argument, but no, the way to solve knife crime is not to ban knifes, it's to unders
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by manux 6y ago
If a car has parts that are easily hacked/broken into, leading to injury to its user while the user "chose" to drive, shouldn't the manufacturer be at fault? This is what happened with CA and Facebook's API. I'
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by manux 6y ago
Yeah, this whole "people are stupid" argument is incredibly dismissive. Not surprising of tech people's giant ego. Do people really want their doctor to invest several hours a week understanding the latest shenanigans and dan
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by manux 6y ago
[Not an expert on this, just my opinion as well] Well, for one afaik mortgages and auto loans are regulated and have been for a long time. They're also simpler to understand for _most_ people, since most people interact with money dail
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by manux 6y ago
True, but until these regulations exists, I'm not sure why we shouldn't hold Facebook accountable, at least morally -- and in the example you give, why we shouldn't hold browser extension providers accountable.
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by manux 6y ago
> Facebook is allowing people to grant access to their data to third-parties and Facebook should somehow be faulted for that. It's not clear to me that they shouldn't be faulted. How many people read terms and conditions? How m
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by manux 6y ago
Which isn't necessarily a bad thing. The first link seems to heavily imply so, but that's not obvious to me. > Academics aren’t supposed to withhold negative data until they can suggest antidotes to their findings. That seems i
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by manux 6y ago
> Don't let an improvement not being perfect prevent any improvements from happening. I strongly agree. I often hear this type of argument and it appears to me as just another kind of Nirvana Fallacy. https://en.wikipedia
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by manux 6y ago
> Are there any publications or results that show what she accomplished as a research scientist at google? Yes. [1] > Had she accomplished something of great distinction in this field prior to google? Yes. [1] [1] https://s
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by manux 6y ago
> improve the world in objective ways Not to get all relativist, but "improve" and "objective" in the same sentence is quite the oxymoron. Ask any two randomly picked people in the world how to improve said world and
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by manux 6y ago
> scientists who can be bought off for nothing and blackmailed easily. Bought off by who? I presume the "elite families" you mention. So either way we are ruled by the wealthy in this model. There are other options of course an
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by manux 6y ago
First of all, from this link: > was a militant anti-fascist organisation, emphasis mine. People who self-identify as anti-fascist nowadays have little to do with communism. Why not link this page? https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by manux 6y ago
From the known risks, yes, but the unknown risks seem to possibly include biodiversity collapse and other terrible things. I think we can remain cautious either way, keep using plastic for food where it is necessary and reduce other plastic
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by manux 7y ago
What's wrong with the city/state having properly paid employees doing the cleaning? Why the need to create _more_ precarious typically underpaid jobs? I really don't get it.
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by manux 7y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't SpaceX benefit from the knowledge gained from (the failures of) NASA projects? Knowledge doesn't start from scratch each time one starts a new project. I find it hard to argue that that mone
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by manux 7y ago
Not being selfish?
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by manux 7y ago
> with Minneapolis’s warmest month shooting up from around 80 degrees Fahrenheit on average to more than 90F in 2050. They're saying it's the warmest month, not the whole year. I guess that makes sense, the mean might increase
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by manux 8y ago
$3.7 billion a year is a lot. There aren't that many politicians to bribe.
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by manux 8y ago
> I fear a child who hasn't learned to cope with technology for 13 years and is then suddenly introduced to it will struggle far more. This is also one of my bigger fears. There is a strange mix of people in my generation (born 1990
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by manux 8y ago
100% agree with you, but I think for a lot of people who voted for Trump it might definitely have been an act of "tearing down" what was perceived as the corrupt establishment politics by these voters.

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