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Re:YouTube’s Rabbit Hole of Radicalization [pdf] on Sunday December 29, 2019 @01:02PM (#21907332)
You also have to think about the people who use Youtube to listen to musics. I assume music tastes don't differ that much.

But honestly, the moment they decide to make arbitrary decisions about what videos should be played next they are going to make some miscalculations. Some times they just made worst calculations than average.

Unless its open source and everyone can contribute, decentralized enough that everyone can set up their own networks, then its just another company trying to make long term investment in their company I am not going to trust Jack, any company, on any single person on anything.
Re:The Lesson to Unlearn on Saturday December 07, 2019 @07:57AM (#21730032)
What about socializing?
Re:ISOC sold the .org registry to Ethos Capital for $1.1B on Friday November 29, 2019 @10:43PM (#21668380)
Really...what the hell do they do to deserve a 1.1b$ evaluation? Are they manually checking the validity of .org domains? What do they do??? Christ, this is just blatant corruption its so depressing

Why do they need to make a profit in the first place?? Do everything needs to be profitable??

You make human sound too grandiose. Human are still driven by the ape inside all of us. We filter facts that don't comply with our predetermined conclusion.

Just consider the fact that everyone thinks they are above average in compassion or intelligent and stuff that like that. Even if you scream in their face that "HUMAN OVERESTIMATE THEIR PLACE IN THE AVERAGE!!" they will still claim that they are in the 51% percentile.

If anything, technologies and networking have made human a lot more stupider in that its harder to climb against all the misinformation.

Re:A new treatment promises to make little people taller on Monday November 25, 2019 @07:04PM (#21634312)
> If everyone affected by dwarfism in the future were diverted into normal growth via treatment, in a few generations there would be no one left who is affected by it physically.

Why would it? Unless the changes are made at the genetic level nothing change. Well, some things will change.

Re:AI is mostly about curve fitting (2018) on Saturday November 23, 2019 @12:02PM (#21615060)
They are both a problem, people do think human are somehow exceptional. We all agree that we are apes but none of us want to admit when we get horny in public.

But ML, AFAIK, is so simple; its literally a glorified polynomial functions. The only thing it get going for it is the large data set that we can train it on. It cannot "learn" anything from a small data set and extract any information out of it without a human imposing his/her knowledge on it.

For instance, take the concept of an even number. This simple knowledge is so powerful in solving algorithmic problems. But, its very hard to make a machine learn of this concept in general.

I think the problem is really overestimating how "intelligent" human are. We are only as intelligent with respect to our imagination. Its possible that there is an entire class of intelligent outside of our imagination that we cannot fully grasp its intelligent. Similarly, I am only conscious with respect to my own consciousness, but there may be another class of consciousness that is unimaginable to this monkey's brain.

Re:How the Great Pyramid at Giza Looked in 2560 BCE on Thursday November 21, 2019 @10:14PM (#21602120)
That's why I can't fathom what they were thinking or how. They must have had a completely bizarre and alien way of seeing life, their place in the universe and what will become of themselves. We already have this kind of gap between religious and non-religious; but this is on completely different level.
Re:How the Great Pyramid at Giza Looked in 2560 BCE on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @05:11PM (#21589143)
So did it just stood there in the middle of the desert or were there cities and busy streets near it? I can't even fathom what they were thinking when they decided to build these massive monuments...