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Nude Bog Lurker
Jan 2, 2007
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He's a neoreactionary piece of poo poo who should be shot out of hand when he and his fascist friends finally rise against democracy, happy to cleat this up.

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Nude Bog Lurker
Jan 2, 2007
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Conference synopsis posted:

Successful applications of the theory of human computation include von Ahn’s reCAPTCHA, Amazon.com’s mechanical turk, computationally significant games like Fold.it’s protein folding puzzle game, and Google’s Waze platform for monitoring traffic and road conditions.

Tell me more about the brave new world when we are finally free of paying attention to the man behind the curtain.

Nude Bog Lurker
Jan 2, 2007
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McDowell posted:

There will still be markets for industrial vehicles, as well (tractors, UAVs, dumptrucks), and for insurance reasons there will be a long time where a human will be sitting in the driver's seat as a failsafe.

Right up to the point where the actuaries decide that self-driving cars cost insurers less overall, at which point you'll start paying a colossal "human control excess" if you want to drive your own car...

Nude Bog Lurker
Jan 2, 2007
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RealityApologist posted:

My complaint isn't that law is fuzzy, it's that law is disconnected from the actual procedures being undergone by the system being governed, whereas code describe the relevant states of the system as it is being governed. It's a prescriptive/descriptive distinction.

I'm entirely in agreement with Lessig that code should be regulated, and more generally that we should think about the regulation and maintenance of code as an alternative to the existing legislative processes.

So, do you think murder should be illegal?

Nude Bog Lurker
Jan 2, 2007
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RealityApologist posted:

But just last week, families got together all over this country, often with 20 or more people, and potentially with dozens of thanksgiving dinner items to select from. And in fact, they are all responding to an enormously complex number of subtle relations and constraints that are far densely layered than anything close to the abstract dinner problem we described above. And these people were all tasked with the problem of sorting out the food to meet preferences and make everyone happy. And they solved the problem. Easily. Many while raging drunk.

Actually what happens is that you eat what you're given whether you "prefer" it or not.

edit: a crowd sourced algorithm titled Every Else Likes Turkey gently caress You

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