Re:How Elon Musk and Y Combinator Plan to Stop Computers fro...
by navait on Friday December 11, 2015 @08:08PM
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Let's not overblow the threat. W was known to have done cocaine in his youth, and he was still elected, and I would expect statute of limitations to apply.
Re:How Elon Musk and Y Combinator Plan to Stop Computers fro...
by tn13 on Friday December 11, 2015 @08:45PM
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I am not over-blowing the threat. We would not know if government simply blackmailed people using such evidence. Many times you don't have to convict a person for the crime merely spreading a credible lie in media is enough. Obama has already used IRS to harass conservatives and we know what watergate was all about.
Snowden like episodes have shown us that we should not trust our government. The government does blatantly illegal things, lies when confronted and in many cases kills or jails our own citizens just because they are exposing the government. I am more scared of government using this AI to oppress its own people.
Imagine this, a person who is 18 years today becomes a potential presidential candidate or major activist in future. Some clerk at DC would simply run a computer program that will bring up the fact that this guy sent a sext to his 17 year old girlfriend in past, smoked weed when 19, bought beer when he was 20 etc. Such government would them implicate him in various court cases and jail him or even worse simply blackmail him to shut up.