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Or the realisation that WE are that corrupt and inept bunch. It's not like government workers are a 'special elite' class...

Information asymmetry sometimes defines an entire market (like salaries!). When you take away that asymmetry you change the market.

I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing, but I assume that is what the GP is getting at.

Right but the same logic applies. Rather than 1 single point of failure you now have millions of mini power generators. The impact of one going is significantly less.

This is similar to the alternate reality counter proof: If alternate realities exist, and we can get to them from this reality, then they are no longer an alternate reality. If we cannot get to them, then they cannot "exist" as our reality is a prerequisite for existence.

You can say the same for a changed personality :p

There is vastly more generic similarity than difference... racism is never about genetics, it's always about shared (or not) culture.

The genetic arguement is completely bogus, shouldn't you be removing all the dogs first before you start splitting difference between humans?

I'm confused about your reference to Australian Aboriginals. The majority of them were decimated by disease and out right violent attack from whites... how are either of those scenarios relevant here?

I know, do you reckon Facebook engineers are sitting awkwardly in a meeting with this comment page up:

"Why didn't we think of this!!!?"

The video you linked has competing companies all taking about how good it will be to integrate (valve included)... you are right there is no line like "it will be an open platform" but they heavily imply it will be an open platform

Are you shallow? Or is Google's "Intelligence" deep?

But isn't that a pretty common use case?

Do people on chat with their nearest and dearest? Or do they chat with a mix of people who they may like or even dislike.

I chat and am "friends" with a whole bunch of people don't really care about. If Google cab automate the pretense of a friendship then great, I can spend more time on my actual friends.

Should we now have an existential crisis when the smart reply is exactly what we were going to say? Should we type it anyway just to teach the machine it was right?

Should we save our outrage for something more then a feature in an announced chat app?

But you are conflating two things. The data companies collect on me without me knowing is not related to the data that can be googled on me. Because I know about the later and have a level of control over it.

... what does your point have to do with allo ?

... but there is no downside for the vast majority... so, winning?