Lennart4711

Re:In Germany, 27 are in 'preventive detention' b/c they might do clim... on Monday September 11, 2023 @02:47PM (#37471821)

German here. In the article it says the law is there to prevent terrorism. But 9/11 isn't such a big deal here in Germany (except maybe for traveling). The problem is that those people can be detained for "bevorstehenden Begehung oder Fortsetzung einer Ordnungswidrigkeit von erheblicher Bedeutung für die Allgemeinheit" - "imminent commission or continuation of a misdemeanor of substantial public concern." So they are arrested to prevent misdemeanors which only come with a fine or a super short jail time.

IMO the real reason for this is to protect the automotive industry which is a large part of the German economy

An argument against AI-rights

Posted by Lennart4711 on Monday May 01, 2023 @07:04AM
from the self-post dept.

The topic of AI-rights is heavily discussed in films, debates and other media. Some conclude that ethically the right thing to do would be to ascribe rights to AI. Whether it is ethically right or not is not something I want to discuss here. My argument is directed at the practicality of AI rights, if one were to choose to do so.If in the future a state were to ascribe rights to AIs, this would...

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Ask HN: Book on Number Theory and Cryptography

Posted by Lennart4711 on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @06:57AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I am searching for an introdutory book on number theory combined with cryptography. So a primer on prime numbers, generating them, algorithms like extended Euclidean, Miller-Rabin and so on. Preferably with a German translation but that's not a must.

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Re:How much of the tech world is bullshit? on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @06:30AM (#32923077)

I think (but have no data to prove) that most is not bullshit. I assume that, because building something costs money and nobody is going to spend money if it has no use. Except for scammers and/ or overhyped technologies that are not actually necessary but used because managers like buzzwords like crypto, meta verse, AI ...