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by robbrown451 4y ago
Ethical or not, Copilot is sophisticated software, which doesn't qualify as "trivial" by my definition.
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by robbrown451 4y ago
"So if I design a self driving car which kills someone, it's the car that goes to jail?" No but the manufacturer will typically be held responsible. If the manufacturer intentionally designed it to kill people, someone could
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by robbrown451 4y ago
Differentiating between a human and a machine simply because one "is not an algorithm" doesn't make a lot of sense. If it were true, people would very easily game it, by using algorithms to automate the most trivial parts of
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by robbrown451 4y ago
I live in Bernal Heights. Maybe that's why I haven't seen a human poop on the sidewalk in.... well never, anywhere near me. Probably seen it twice in 20 some years living here, and not anywhere close to here. Were you aware that t
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by robbrown451 4y ago
I've tried to use Resolve (on other platforms). I am quite competent in, for instance, ScreenFlow for the mac. Works great for regular video editing (not just screen capture stuff), and while there is a lot to learn, it is quite intuit
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by robbrown451 4y ago
Sure that's kind of my point. The larger the scale, the harder it is to solve such problems. People tend to care first about themselves and their kids, then other family, then about people they interact with regularly. The less they ar
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by robbrown451 4y ago
Do you want people to explain why climate change is urgent, here in a comment? Your links don't say "climate change isn't a problem," they just have a tiny bit of data out of context, that very few people here have the a
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by robbrown451 4y ago
I say cover all land and ocean surfaces with self-replicating robots with solar panels. Instead of the energy going into heat, it generates electricity, which powers the robots, which make more of themselves as well as do other valuable thi
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by robbrown451 4y ago
Strong suspicion you've never studied game theory, or even Adam Smithian economics. "Everybody just agree to what is best for everyone" pretty much never works. People don't work like that. Frankly, it is hopelessly naiv
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by robbrown451 4y ago
Although they'd never be exact....otherwise the full moon would always be the same day of week.
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by robbrown451 4y ago
Weeks aren't subdivisions of months, they are completely independent of months and years. There is good reason for this. Having months alternate between long and short (as they typically do) is a lot better than just having one short m
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by robbrown451 4y ago
Yes it is a challenging problem to do it well. But cool to think about!
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by robbrown451 4y ago
Of course. But I didn't say a photo. (it could be video, it could be lidar, etc) And yeah maybe you need the robot to pick up each rock and look at it from different angles.
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by robbrown451 4y ago
Very cool. Now what I want is something that will scan a pile of rocks and tell me how to put them together to build a wall with minimal space between them. https://media.istockphoto.com/photos/stone-wall-texture-pict..
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by robbrown451 4y ago
I hope you don't design things that other people use, because that sort of attitude is why so many thing suck. There is a lot of point in, if not getting aggravated, striving to do better in the things you do.
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by robbrown451 4y ago
Again, no one took out their frustrations on customer support, so I'm not sure why you keep saying that. They came to HN and voiced them.
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by robbrown451 4y ago
And they have a right to be aggravated. You're talking about something else, their outward reaction, which you are making assumptions about. I'd hope every user interface designer (and yes this is user interface design) also gets
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by robbrown451 4y ago
"But getting upset and starting off the chat with a real person in a bad mood or tone," They didn't say that. They never said they took it out on the employee. They said that the system caused the customer to be less happy th
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by robbrown451 4y ago
Yes I agree. (I think I said "third party")
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by robbrown451 4y ago
They operate as a corporation in the United States and are subject to its laws. They owe what the law says they do. And the laws can be changed. Feel free to vote for people who think companies can do as they please just because you aren&#x
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by robbrown451 4y ago
No, it should not be Google doing the review, it has to be a non-biased third party. This should apply to a lot of things, including app store stuff. Google doesn't make the decision, but they do get a share of the fee (if they don&#x2
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by robbrown451 4y ago
"You have to consider that everything you have on any platform can be taken away at any time for whatever reason and there is nothing you can do about it" Well there is something you can do about it, which is involve courts and&#x
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by robbrown451 4y ago
Again, what does this have to do with this story? Having the police called on you because of something like this is not going to result in the police chasing you, so this has nothing to do with this story. It's just utterly unrelated w
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by robbrown451 4y ago
"but unless we can have truly objective AI, I don't think we will be absent of these types of problems." You don't need "objective AI." In this case, you just need a process that goes to a human when it is cont
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by robbrown451 4y ago
This is how I envision this should be handled in a better world where corporations aren't allowed to just say "you get what you pay for" as they screw over their customers. (and yes, users of ad-supported products are custome
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by robbrown451 4y ago
There is plenty of value discussing it here. You don't need to join in if you don't want to.
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by robbrown451 4y ago
What does this have to do with running from the police? That isn't part of this story.
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Let's hear the other.
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by robbrown451 4y ago
If they raise them in an environment where they have to hunt/forage for food, I don't see it being a big problem. You'd want to establish a population in a sanctuary for several generations before attempting it of course. Dog
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by robbrown451 4y ago
Agree that they haven't offered much in terms of how it could make displays more vibrant. > At the end of the day, colors -- whether in a movie scene or a paint chip -- are ultimately chosen by eye, not by math Well.... math is invo

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