rusk

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Transcybernetic Humanist Systems Programmer Homo Ludens http://rusk.ie/
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Comment · 18 days ago
If a child’s actions are ultimately going to get them hurt in life restraint is support.
Comment · 18 days ago
> not uncommon for certain trouble makers to be placed in rooms, or in a broom closet

That is shocking to me and I went to school in the 80s. Sounds like there was good cause but the pendulum swung too far. Now it’s coming back and things are settling.

It’s funny because you normally think of the Nordics as being so far ahead in things like this but I guess we all have our blind spots.

Comment · 26 days ago
Cries in dystopian
Comment · 1 month ago
Wait til you hear about how digital circuits work at die level
Comment · 1 month ago
> they are an order of magnitude or more off where they need to be to justify anything

Would you let them near your bank account? I’d be cautious about letting it near my photos and it’s much harder to back up a bank account.

I think the days of this stuff managing serious stuff is at least 5 years off and I don’t believe the economy can keep the current wave of technology afloat for so long.

The tech is there so likely there will continue to be progress in focused areas much like with the web c 2003 but by the time it comes around again there will be an uphill battle for hearts and minds. The social effects could extend the next AI winter long beyond technology readiness.

Comment · 1 month ago
I can see a pan European project like CERN or Airbus where sovereign nations with aligned values pool their resources, as being useful here
Comment · 1 month ago
Did an AI do that on its own though? I heard it was human mathematicians using a sophisticated machine as a tool.
Comment · 1 month ago
You would need institutions to do this? What do we have besides global megacorps with the resources for this? Universities perhaps training models for their local catchment?
Comment · 1 month ago
It's ineptitude. Of course it is. Otherwise it would be indefensible.

EDIT in which I clumsily express my weariness at hearing some of the smartest people in the world claim they “didn’t know” because they have arbitrated foolishness against liability

Comment · 1 month ago
You need a system that does gait analysis, which requires upgrades across the board. All those sunk costs on pervasive facial recon systems. Sucks teeth.
Comment · 1 month ago
As Phil Zimmerman might opine, it’s not so much about defying every attack, it’s moreso about making it more difficult en masse by increasing the unit cost. Though perhaps in the 90s surveillance tech wasn’t quite scaling as quickly as it is now.
Comment · 2 months ago
It’s not. Try pulling updates after a rebase. Very much not the same as piping arbitrary disembodied text into your shell.
Comment · 2 months ago
Precisely the reason is to give breathing room for big players to invest in development of technology so they can capitalise exclusively for a period
Comment · 2 months ago
Pharma and Healthcare was the implication I believe. The US approach to these things has a bad reputation internationally though I am informed that it’s an amazing system if you’re rich.
Comment · 3 months ago
At least they’re allowing their colonies to have elections

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