woodman

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721.
by woodman 12y ago
Give us a kindly king! We've got systemic issues that need to be fixed. What would you say if I suggested a form of government where you're well-being and happiness is contingent on the wisdom and industry of every other person?
722.
by woodman 12y ago
> ... libertarian overlords ... Ok, go ahead and square that with the operation of the government today. I'm pretty confident you will find it impossible to construct a convincing argument.
723.
by woodman 12y ago
It isn't defeatism when you recognize your present course of action as being ineffective, and look for alternatives. I'd also like to know what, in your opinion, the occupy movement accomplished (aside from demonstrating how inef
724.
by woodman 12y ago
lol, ok buddy - being described as pedantic by a person who just helpfully volunteered the revelation that normal people don't have moats is just too weird.
725.
by woodman 12y ago
> Decisions like that are made in the open. Yes, and rarely. I've spent 5 minutes trying to think of such an example and failed, maybe you have something in mind? > If they want to log RFID tags they have to spend a billion doll
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by woodman 12y ago
What is more likely: I was suggesting that people secure their homes with a moat; or I was demonstrating that, contrary to the post I was responding to, not all security relies upon obscurity?
727.
by woodman 12y ago
> The justification for having them doesn't really apply to self-driving cars anyway. You seriously believe that? You think the government makes common sense decisions? So ok, no more plates. How long until we hear about them log
728.
by woodman 12y ago
You can be sure that if Tor was main stream that would happen, but there aren't enough potential customers right now to justify the risk.
729.
by woodman 12y ago
No. That would be like saying a locked door is security through obscurity, because the cuts of the key unlock the door - not the physical key. The concept requires a great deal of torturing to get there :) Anyway, the whole idea that the
730.
by woodman 12y ago
I've always enjoyed the work of John Young. [0] The eyeball series isn't nearly as interesting as most of the mirrored leaks, but it serves to frustrate such attempts at airbrushing the homes and workplaces of the anointed. [0]
731.
by woodman 12y ago
Knee jerk reactions to anything rarely lead to positive outcomes, transparency is no exception.
732.
by woodman 12y ago
What is secret about a moat, electrified fence or a stated policy of mutual assured destruction?
733.
by woodman 12y ago
Well that would certainly be a preferable situation to where we presently find ourselves, but I don't know that the root cause is addressed in that. The root cause being the fact that one entity (government, class, group, whatever) is
734.
by woodman 12y ago
I remember when NIST was force to release the source code to NBIS. [0] We just need a lot more of that and we'll be good :) [0] http://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/ig/nbis.cfm
735.
by woodman 12y ago
Yeah, and in principle the NSA can't dragnet domestic signals, but here we are. Relying on the honor system has led us to something right out of Gulliver's Travels, with government bureaucrats advancing through a game of leaping
736.
by woodman 12y ago
Security through obscurity? No doubt a great deal would need to change, but we've tried the method of giving a select group of individuals an immense amount of power and hoping for the best. It hasn't worked out that well. So I
737.
by woodman 12y ago
There is no way to reverse this. Trying to cage this with paperwork will just lead to more of the same creative interpretations à la NSA. So the rulers don't feel the rules apply to them, big surprise. With that in mind, the futilit
738.
by woodman 12y ago
> The reductionistic part is in the very belief that there's such a thing as a "finest component of information" in the first place. That seems like a major leap. I've heard people propose that there are limits to hu
739.
by woodman 12y ago
That would only be true if the finest component of information in "modern science" could not be represented in true/false/unknown. I know that back in the day folks working on cybernetics struggled with something kind o
740.
by woodman 12y ago
I'm happy to report that I have zero experience in the postgrad industry. While I'd love to spend most of my time working in pure theory and potentially influencing an entire field, I really don't think I'd be able to p
741.
by woodman 12y ago
You saw my link to the open world assumption above... so I'm not sure why you'd go on about the incompleteness theorem. Can you think of an idea that cannot be represented as true, false, or unknown? Now consider a hypothesis. I
742.
by woodman 12y ago
Wow, I see I'm going to have to break this down Barney style in order to reach you: The silly argument that started this all off was that you have to be an expert in every field in order to examine complex systems or problems that span
743.
by woodman 12y ago
I never said that it would be "concise". Also, there would be nothing preventing the use of stubs in the knowledge graph.
744.
by woodman 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-world_assumption
745.
by woodman 12y ago
> I disagree, this is a "fallacy fallacy" I disagree, this is a "fallacy fallacy fallacy". You seem to ignore the fact that I did not suggest that people can learn everything. I suggested that people learn enough lo
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by woodman 12y ago
> I look forward to the day when you can prove their reasoning wrong in such a reproducible way rather than completely dismissing a conclusion due to some fault along the way. A set of axioms with a reasoner would do both of those things
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by woodman 12y ago
> Right, but someone still has to do the representation... The same people writing papers now. > and how can you ever know that someone is encoding it correctly? Reasoning engine. As new data is entered it is run against prior data,
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by woodman 12y ago
> You both have good points but they really needn't conflict so harshly. I disagree, lumberjack's point is essentially an appeal to authority - which is dark-age style thinking. Just represent everything in a machine readable s
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by woodman 12y ago
I had a very similar experience growing up. We weren't poor, but I was the oldest of 5 kids, so resources were thin. Instead of toys that would be out of fashion in a month, my mother would get junk from Goodwill and the Salvation Ar
750.
by woodman 12y ago
> People casually call the Oculus "VR"... What people? Things I've never heard anybody say: "Can you hand me my Oculus air quotes VR?" "Dude, I spilled deer urine all over my Oculus virtual reality!"

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