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INSERT Blake screaming at Alan and MacLeod in Highlander II: The Quickening"Please don't bother, Alan.
Every time you turn that thing on it
just gets printed out in my office.
And yes, yes, yes,
yes, yes, yes, yes' yes,
that includes your little computer"
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The encryption . . . debate is already over – Facebook ended it earlier this year.[...]
After all, if either user’s device is compromised, unbreakable encryption is of little relevance.
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The problem is that if Facebook’s model succeeds, it will only be a matter of time before device manufacturers and mobile operating system developers embed similar tools directly into devices themselves, making them impossible to escape. . . . effectively ending the era of encrypted communications.
I guess FB is one of the more visibly monstrous instances of surveillance capitalism so it works well as an example, but I don't understand why the author is acting as if what it allegedly aims to do is unprecedented. As if similar phenomena hadn't already been happening surreptitiously throughout various other hardware/software for quite a long time.
I was replying to @OedipusRex. The "demanding a key to every lock" bit.
It's funny how the tl;dr of these articles usually just amounts to "Oh, so they're just lazy and overbearing thieves."
"Parasitical Autosync Functionality in AI as Agressive Autoimmune Disease: An Epidemiological View"
> In low-trust societies, you never know. You expect to be cheated, often without recourse. You expect things not to be what they seem and for promises to be broken, and you don’t expect a reasonable and transparent process for recourse. It’s harder for markets to function and economies to develop in low-trust societies. It’s harder to find or extend credit, and it’s risky to pay in advance.
'Bout sums it up.
"Is it live, or is it Memorex?"
Don't forget:
Epistemologically speaking, it may be the 'clinical setting' itself that is disrupting or obscuring the effect.
> Humans still have an edge over non-Hollywood AI in several key areas that are essential to journalism, including complex communication, expert thinking, adaptability and creativity.Bizarre sentence. The phrase 'non-Hollywood AI' reads as if the author were blithely suggesting that humans don't have such an edge over 'Hollywood AI'...
> None of the above are (moral) value judgements, but they’re really easy to get accustomed to
Playing economic limbo with constantly updating 'how low can you go?' data as the stick may be possible to get accustomed to, but isn't necessarily very fun. Especially when gameplay becomes long-term and repetitive.
I'm not judging your list of examples in particular, but I think you may be a bit off the mark as to why threads like this appear at all.
The discussion is probably more relevant now than it was in 2008 re: expansion in the ridiculous 'gig economy' sphere since then.
> If you want to reuse (or test) a functional banana, you don’t have to set up a stateful gorilla to hold the banana first.
...& if you don't want the stateful gorilla?
It's a fun sight when all of the subcontractor of subcontractor of subcontractor recursion chains form a beanstalk into the heavens /peanutgallery
What would the growing tech dystopia be without recourse to some sort of 'zombie pig' threshold at the hardware level?
Failure in loving, failure in living from everyone's favourite pre-quantum either/or philosopher of the 0/1 binary. Let's give it up for Søren Kierkegaard!
The article could have been written ~5 years ago with maybe a few interchangeable variables and would have expressed the same feeling of being frozen in an unchanging dystopian time loop.
Kierkegaard is pretty hilarious too tbqh
Comedy option: every detected object is labeled with the word "noumena"
