The NSA’s machine learning algorithm may be killing thousands of innocent people

Re:The NSA’s machine learning algorithm may be killing thous... by alanwatts on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @12:34PM (#11111558)

Could you provide some notable examples where violence has resolved issues in the long term and did not lead to more issues/violence? This thread is in relation to the religious wars currently going on in the middle east. The Jews, Christians, and Muslims have been trying to use violence to resolve their issues in the middle east for thousands of years now to no avail.

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Re:The NSA’s machine learning algorithm may be killing thous... by spacehome on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @01:42PM (#11112098)

A few notable ones off the top of my head:

WW2

American Revolutionary War

The Roman-Carthaginian wars

Genocide of the Ainu in Japan

Genocide of the Neanderthals by Homo Sapiens in Europe (Maybe; it's theorized at least)

The Gombe Chimpanzee War

I'm sure I can come up with more if you like.

The primary reason Jews, Christians, and Muslims are having trouble solving their problems using violence is that they're not using enough violence.

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Re:The NSA’s machine learning algorithm may be killing thous... by kafkaesq on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @03:10PM (#11112780)

American Revolutionary War

Which led to the perpetuation of slavery for another 90 years (which the British were in the process of abolishing throughout their holdings), among other "issues."

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Re:The NSA’s machine learning algorithm may be killing thous... by Houshalter on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @04:30PM (#11113261)

That's irrelevant, and massive hindsight bias. If the British still held the South, they might have kept slavery too. And if they did try to abolish it, the civil war/revolution probably would have happened anyway and they might have won.

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Re:The NSA’s machine learning algorithm may be killing thous... by spacehome on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @09:01PM (#11114648)

Wut?

The American Revolutionary War resolved the conflict between the two parties rather satisfactorily. I did not claim that it ended all violence.

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Re:The NSA’s machine learning algorithm may be killing thous... by kafkaesq on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @12:17PM (#11119386)

Could you provide some notable examples where violence has resolved issues in the long term and did not lead to more issues/violence?

Was the original question. The point is that while it solved one conflict, it deferred and prolonged another (quite major) one -- which might well had been resolved had the colonies not seceded from the Crown.

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Re:The NSA’s machine learning algorithm may be killing thous... by spacehome on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @09:52PM (#11123333)

There were also a lot of other conflicts on that list with a promise I could provide more. OK, how about this:

The execution of John Wayne Gacy.

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Re:The NSA’s machine learning algorithm may be killing thous... by redblacktree on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @01:40PM (#11120141)

Sure, and with the vague definition of "issues," you can move the goalposts all day long.

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Re:The NSA’s machine learning algorithm may be killing thous... by kafkaesq on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @01:52PM (#11120234)

90 years of slavery that very likely would have been severely restricted in 1807 and abolished outright in 1833 (based on certain major events relating to slavery in the British empire, which I'm sure you're aware of) might sound "vague" to you, but most likely it wasn't to those affected.

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Re:The NSA’s machine learning algorithm may be killing thous... by YeGoblynQueenne on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @04:53PM (#11113405)

>> The primary reason Jews, Christians, and Muslims are having trouble solving their problems using violence is that they're not using enough violence.

The problem of those groups is that they can't prosper in peace. Violence is not a solution for that. Rather, violence is the essence of their problem.

Basically, if you want to be realistic there can never be "enough violence". Reasonable people prosper because they understand this and seek to solve their problems in a peaceful manner rather than to escalate the violence until one side perishes.

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Re:The NSA’s machine learning algorithm may be killing thous... by conceit on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @05:04PM (#11121837)

They prosper(ed) rather well despite these minor problems. If that means to you they were using enough violence and a lot at that, I'd agree.

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Re:The NSA’s machine learning algorithm may be killing thous... by alanwatts on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @06:08PM (#11113849)

>If we look into History we shall find some nations rising from contemptible beginnings, and spreading their influence, 'till the whole Globe is subjected to their sway. When they have reach'd the summit of Grandeur, some minute and unsuspected Cause commonly effects their Ruin, and the Empire of the world is transferr'd to some other place. Immortal Rome was at first but an insignificant Village, inhabited only by a few abandoned Ruffins, but by degrees it rose to a stupendous Height, and excell'd in Arts and Arms all the Nations that praeceeded it. But the demolition of Carthage (what one should think would have establish'd it in supream dominion) by removing all danger, suffer'd it to sink into debauchery, and made it att length an easy prey to Barbarians.—England Immediately, upon this began to increase (the particular, and minute causes of which I am not Historian enough to trace) in Power and magnificence, and is now the greatest Nation upon the globe.—Soon after the Reformation a few people came over into this new world for Concience sake. Perhaps this (apparently) trivial incident, may transfer the great seat of Empire into America. It looks likely to me. For if we can remove the turbulent Gallicks, our People according to the exactest Computations, will in another Century, become more numerous than England itself. Should this be the Case, since we have (I may say) all the naval Stores of the Nation in our hands, it will be easy to obtain the mastery of the seas, and then the united force of all Europe, will not be able to subdue us. The only way to keep us from setting up for ourselves, is to disunite Us. Divide et impera. Keep us in distinct Colonies, and then, some great men, in each Colony, desiring the Monarchy of the Whole, they will destroy each others influence and keep the Country in Equilibrio. [1]

-John Adams

So yes, empires do rise and rule for a time but in the end they grow weak from over reliance on luxuries and having no real competition to fight. In the end these empires based on war always collapse.

But let's take WW2 for example. WW2 led immediately into the Cold War, and the Cold War led into the War on Terror. It is also worth noting the arbitrary national lines drawn along tribal boundaties after WW1 and WW2 and their direct contributions to the enflamed tensions in the middle east today.

>The primary reason Jews, Christians, and Muslims are having trouble solving their problems using violence is that they're not using enough violence.

That is M.A.D.

What exactly is the issue here, what is the end goal that is achieved through violence? It's survival, right?

If we are to ensure survival amidst such increasingly rapid technological proliferation, mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

[1]http://www.masshist.org/publications/apde2/view?id=PJA01d005

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