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Re:Facial recognition: It’s time for action by pixl97 on Friday December 07, 2018 @03:50PM (#18631484)
No snowflake is responsible for the avalanche, therefore I must pile on as much snow as possible -- The modern developer.
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Re:Facial recognition: It’s time for action by vallavaraiyan on Saturday December 08, 2018 @03:53AM (#18634500)
But the snowflake doesn't know that it is falling on a mountain slope.
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Re:Facial recognition: It’s time for action by ben_w on Saturday December 08, 2018 @05:11AM (#18634666)
Individual snowflakes are not capable of abstract reasoning.

Can we make it a requirement for ourselves to limit our power to our ability to keep that power safe?

I think that’s a superset of the problem of incentive alignment in AI safety, so probably not... but we also shouldn’t let the perfect to be the enemy of the improved.

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Re:Facial recognition: It’s time for action by Nasrudith on Saturday December 08, 2018 @09:36AM (#18635403)
The analogy works better than you think - gravity is responsible for the avalanche. They are all responding to irresistible forces.
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Re:Facial recognition: It’s time for action by whatshisface on Friday December 07, 2018 @03:52PM (#18631509)
No individual litterer is responsible for a trashed park.
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