SquidMagnet

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by SquidMagnet 11y ago
No, the implication of the post to which you were responding is not that restriction is inherently good, but rather that restriction is not inherently bad.
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by SquidMagnet 11y ago
The GPL is not ouroboros. Restricting the freedom to restrict is not at all comparable to the PATRIOT Act. It is more akin to the Bill of Rights, or other such laws preventing certain types of laws from being made.
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by SquidMagnet 11y ago
How do laws against gay marriage not restrict freedom?
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by SquidMagnet 11y ago
I think it would be helpful to be clearer as to why you disagree with the analogy rather than simply calling it stupid. If I had to guess, I would suspect that your real issue is that you do not find the things being restricted to be compar
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by SquidMagnet 11y ago
Really, the only thing the GPL restricts is your ability to restrict. (Incidentally, this is comparable to restricting the freedom to enslave; it is a restriction on restriction.) If you think the GPL somehow "imposes an ideology on ot
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by SquidMagnet 12y ago
Yeah, I'm not talking about morality at all here. Our technological prowess, resulting from the application of our intelligence, has enabled us to wipe out entire species.
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by SquidMagnet 12y ago
> How can we say that by the time we have such wondrous machines that we as a species will not have found ways to move ourselves forward to a place on equal footing with whatever we create? How can we find ways to move ourselves forward
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by SquidMagnet 12y ago
I see a lot of very opinionated dissent to even discussing the ideas presented in this article. Let me try to paraphrase in a way that hopefully levels the playing ground and maybe removes some biases or irons out some personal wrinkles we
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by SquidMagnet 12y ago
Sort of. 'Bad' here is of course an extremely subjective term. And it may not be the case that the machines do not understand the longer-term consequences of their actions; they could understand full well, but they could know that
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by SquidMagnet 12y ago
1. Machine intelligence, traditionally called artificial intelligence, which surpasses human intelligence. 2. Your category (b) is generally the primary concern in these types of discussions. 3. The anecdote of the progress of humanity. Com
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by SquidMagnet 12y ago
It has been my experience that the more a particular person attempts to understand and control machine intelligence, the more she grows to fear it and its potential.
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by SquidMagnet 12y ago
How do we ensure a proper association between the samples taken and the person in question, in particular as described in the case from the article, especially without some sort of formal framework and authorization before hand?
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by SquidMagnet 12y ago
I am not entirely sure what you are saying here, but the way I have always understood it is: data is knowledge; the ability to apply knowledge is intelligence. Netflix has a considerable amount of data (knowledge) and its algorithms exempli
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by SquidMagnet 12y ago
No, I think "the messed up part about the whole situation" is the inexcusable harrassment she is subjected to.
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by SquidMagnet 12y ago
Oh, man, those sounds! Brings back a lot of memories. Speaking of which, forget how the original port "looked", listen to the amazing things DINTAR816 is doing with his roms.
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by SquidMagnet 12y ago
Just out of curiosity, have you tried StumpWM? It was also created by Shawn Betts; the idea was essentially to rewrite ratpoison in lisp.
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At long last, malware scanning comes to Google's Android Market(arstechnica.com)
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