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Re:Common Voice – Mozilla's initiative to help teach machine... by cco on Thursday October 17, 2019 @09:29AM (#21281804)
Why do you view this as admirable? I view it similarly to creating a large cache of explosives and munitions and then giving them away for free. Sure a lot of people might have some fun with them on the weekend but the largest impact of this technology will be used against people, not for them.
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Re:Common Voice – Mozilla's initiative to help teach machine... by staktrace on Thursday October 17, 2019 @12:29PM (#21283700)
With your line of reasoning, would you prefer a world where all the munitions were held by megavillains, or a world where both megavillains and regular people had access to the munitions?
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Re:Common Voice – Mozilla's initiative to help teach machine... by minikites on Thursday October 17, 2019 @01:13PM (#21284163)
The latter strategy doesn't seem to work out that well for the USA because it results in regular people using the munitions on other regular people.
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Re:Common Voice – Mozilla's initiative to help teach machine... by zenography on Thursday October 17, 2019 @02:38PM (#21285093)
To defend themselves, hundreds of thousands to millions of times per year.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3194685

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Re:Common Voice – Mozilla's initiative to help teach machine... by williamdclt on Thursday October 17, 2019 @04:47PM (#21286219)
> indicate that defensive uses of guns by crime victims are far more common than offensive uses by criminals

That's literally the worst case scenario. Victims escalating the violence.

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Re:Common Voice – Mozilla's initiative to help teach machine... by zenography on Friday October 18, 2019 @10:53AM (#21291878)
Are you saying that people defending themselves is worse than killing?
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Re:Common Voice – Mozilla's initiative to help teach machine... by rpmisms on Thursday October 17, 2019 @10:58AM (#21282717)
Many of the people here are optimistic about the use of tech for the betterment of mankind.
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Re:Common Voice – Mozilla's initiative to help teach machine... by RussianCow on Thursday October 17, 2019 @10:47AM (#21282610)
> the largest impact of this technology will be used against people, not for them

How so?

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