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by nooneelse 13y ago
Yeah, and we learn to finger-paint very early, it being quite intuitive and all... but then we grow up and the overwhelming majority of people learn to use writing implements (and other such tools of numerous sorts). I haven't been abl
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by nooneelse 13y ago
If information from the inside is never whistle-blown, how will the people know to be upset about something, and who/what to vote, protest, bear arms for/against?
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by nooneelse 13y ago
But I (and probably no one) trust(s) all my friends about every topic or type of product/service. So better to show me the ad and which friend(s) gave the review so I can determine if that is actually a mark against the ad or not.
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by nooneelse 13y ago
So perhaps someone should enable a layer of plausible deniability in the form of a program which makes it look like your machine(s) has been compromised and controlled for a long time now.
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by nooneelse 13y ago
> ...just have it log findings and generate reports. And send you a text if it thinks it sees a Hornworm larva on your tomatoes, so you can rush home.
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by nooneelse 13y ago
I think it a pretty good argument that the voting age should be less than the conscription age by enough that the person conscription has had a chance to participate in the voting that led to the government which is conscripting them. It se
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by nooneelse 13y ago
Perhaps the cultural pendulum has swung a bit too far into elevating the voices of those with traits of psychological neoteny. How could we insert a counterbalancing force of support for mental gerontomorphic features in online discourse?
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by nooneelse 13y ago
How much slower would someone drive if they knew they had a good shot at 2000 healthy years ahead of them? Would the airline industry be able to survive and still use jumbo jets? Perhaps the long-lifers would pay to ride in pods with parach
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by nooneelse 13y ago
> In fact it's quite hard for something random at that level to have any noticeable [to a human] effect at all. So basically all the multiverses are identical. If and what particular type of tissue damage and/or cancer(s) is ca
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by nooneelse 13y ago
> Unlike governments, companies like Facebook have never morphed into tyrannies. I largely agree with your overall point, but this particular sub-point could do with a bit of modification in light of the history of company towns/sto
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by nooneelse 13y ago
Almost every time I see a really big political event held outside, I wonder if it will be the one that starts a wave of automated drone assassinations. Then again, really big events might have a Centurion C-RAM or two secretly parked nearb
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by nooneelse 13y ago
Could a Leap be mounted on the side of a laptop looking sideways at whatever table surface happens to be there (if there is one), so as to functionally give the laptop a big touchpad off to the side?
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by nooneelse 13y ago
How about this as a starting point... Terminals with access to the DB and analysis tools in every city hall. Accounts and access for all citizens of good standing (make a new security clearance level for this to codify the notion - revoked
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by nooneelse 13y ago
> ... and nearly no-one re-writes an academic paper afterwards for it to be more understandable. Survey papers would seem to fill that role. They are a useful step for information moving from being on the research frontier to being in a
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by nooneelse 13y ago
Having an international inspection system to watch for the development of nuclear weapons would seem a much easier task than one that would be needed to monitor for the development of robotic warrior/weapon systems. The pieces needed
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by nooneelse 13y ago
Instead of pills, what about little wet-wipe like rags bearing germs in packaging labeled with the age at which one should have one's child play with the rag (or wipe it on their favorite toy) in order to safely, effectively expose the
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by nooneelse 13y ago
For a good long while, starting in 2002, I tried to convince people to adopt and promise to use the term "criminal mass murder conspiracies" (CMMC) in lieu of "terrorism". Dinner parties, discussions in bars, whenever th
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by nooneelse 13y ago
There is an important distinction to be made, though, between employees at Google having access to read the contents of emails and them being able to run text analysis on those contents for ad-able words and phrases (what I was trying to ge
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by nooneelse 13y ago
So if the bank weighed each box before and after our access, and wrote the weight of what we stored there on the outside, made some guesses about what might be in there, and/or maybe sold some ad-space next to that info on the box to o
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by nooneelse 13y ago
Whenever I've watched this, I've stopped it several times and just tried to think of/like the people in the audience. What were they thinking? What previous and familiar techniques and technologies were they using as the le
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by nooneelse 13y ago
Last I read up on such ideas, the better design was to use a sail in front of the ship to catch the push from each explosion, then you only need the one radiation shield. I think it also allows for making a larger surface to catch the explo
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by nooneelse 13y ago
Indeed. If the objection is that people drop off the easy to see communication systems and start having more shielded communications as they radicalize, then the objection carries within itself a description of very pattern that one can use
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by nooneelse 13y ago
Why just from withing the one party? Why not have two wings and field primary candidates in both parties? That way, if ever a sufficient density of such candidates make it into office in some part of the nation, they can switch over to th
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by nooneelse 13y ago
> A government that is so efficient that it is basically impossible to even get into trouble with these kinds of administrative things can be a very good thing, as long as it is sufficiently good-natured. Indeed. One route (the one that
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by nooneelse 13y ago
I'm not in the domain, so this is probably naïve thinking, but it seems to me it could lend itself that direction. Considering that many skeuomorphic designs involve a layout which spatially mimics some particular object. One can'
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by nooneelse 13y ago
If the system has enough lag, clever cats might dart in and out before the shower sprayed for a brief bit, so as to get some fresh water (which they like more).
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by nooneelse 13y ago
Another scenario, Google constantly runs a system looking at tweets, texts, and news stories. Anytime something happens that is criminal and significant enough for it to notice, it turns up the logging for all the Glass devices in the area
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by nooneelse 13y ago
Right, and it can be a smart intervalometer, with a little pop-up, "taking a picture in 5, 4,... (to skip taking a picture this time, tilt your head to the left)". Or, "you seem to still be sitting in that waiting room, skipping the timed
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by nooneelse 13y ago
Why would it have no sensation and experience? Give it some from a simple simulated environment and body. Assuming it takes a freshly dead brain, vitrified, ultra-microtomed, and scanned in to be reconstructed for simulation. The mind wa
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by nooneelse 13y ago
Does a license plate, legally speaking, have to be visible when the car is parked? If not, then covering it would be a stop-gap against cops driving through a parking lot and collecting the info on who is in that area.

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