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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>Imagine some mentally ill person decides he wants to be at one with nature on your property... Imagine some mentally ill person decides he doesn't want to be one with nature on/as your property. https://en.m.wikip
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
Arbitrarily defining someone as mentally ill in order to take away their chosen way life is an age old strawman.
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>That assumes they would sell to absolutely any group including terrorists, hate groups and sanctioned countries. Shell companies and fronts are a great workaround for that. How do you know who they sell to? And then, after it's b
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>And we're not even beginning to think about what this can be used for by authoritarian regimes "Big data" was crucial to the operational efficiency of the Holocaust https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM
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Indeed, however, the impact of such breaches has yet to be made explicit. It seems only a massive cyber attack would show the public what is possible with such information
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>Personal information is like hazardous chemicals. Big data is munitions, ammunition that is loaded into algorithms which are like machineguns that can fire at the speed of light millions of times across the world in under a minute.
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
Like it or not (I don't), he was expressing his political opinions, albeit in a tactless way. Social media is overrun with much worse garbage and people are not banned for such.
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
Reading this reminded me of S.M., thr woman who literally cannot physically feel fear https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M._(patient)
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
It seems most every discussion here on HN about political censorship devolves into flamewars, mass downvotes, and mass flagging. That in itself seems quite indicative.
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How many examples do you require? Conservative comedian Owen Benjamin being banned from Twitter for life is but one: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wehNVE7_G24
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
I recently noticed this with Google News in Chrome. The recommended stories in my feed were creepily relevant to my current location and interests. And yet, the top 2-3 results were not at all -- they were about some ridiculous political ru
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
Can't you read reviews about a psychologist on the internet before you decide whether or not to go into their office?
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"Our life is what our thoughts make it" -Marcus Aurelius
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The difference is it's much easier to choose not to walk into a bad psychologists office than it is to completely forsake using the internet, where nearly everywhere is overrun with advertisers tracking your every move and adding it to
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
Faceless corporations have aggregated psychological profiles rivaling those of psychologists on billions of people. Why shouldn't this information have the same, if not more, protections as HIPPA?
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Education?
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
If controlling and isolating variables is crucial to objective science, and using our own consciousness is a requirement to test/observe consciousness, is it even possible for us to objectively test consciousness?
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
Perhaps I missed it, but I did not see anything about controlling for the potential effects of those persons with ASD having taken drugs to mitigate symptoms. Couldn't the biochemical effects of ASD drugs themselves be the primary indi
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
Have you actually been to those places before, or are you just assuming they're all saturated with bigots? Austin is known for being a very liberal city.
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At what point does a state become a "surveillance state" in your opinion?
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That's one of the reasons many people voted for Obama. It didnt work.
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Could using tor for the signup process work?
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>Their motto was never "do no evil" - that's a far harder standard given that undesired side effects happen for most actions. One's capacity for evil indeed grows greatly when one is given too much power. Likewise, as
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>can only be something we collectively should be proud of not afraid of If AI is used for mass murder of the human species, should we be proud? Humility, rather than hubris, is existentially important when it comes to wielding the most e
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
If we always followed that logic we'd still be using first gen OS from the 1970's, or perhaps we'd still be using the Code of Hammurabi. Reevaluating legacy systems in the face of paradigm shift is a crucial part of natural e
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>It is THEIR job to understand these issues and take the correct stance. I mean, this is literally what they are paid for. Perhaps they are paid more by their donors to pass laws written by corporate lawyers
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
Thought crime/punishment seems to be increasingly prevalent and strongly enforced by internet mobs and corporate censorship bots
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>In addition we have companies that are building the necessary infrastructure which then probably can be used by a surveillance state. "Probably can"? Definitely can and is being used.
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If someone is planning on killing you, wouldn't you like to be informed beforehand, so as to defend? It would seem silencing such voices is like putting your head in the sand.
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>They also write the rest of the OS you know, if you don’t trust them to render your friend feed then I have bad news for you about your SMS, call history, location data, not to mention you’re carrying around a microphone they can access

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