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Reply to comment by Marchello_E in Bill Gates warns that artificial intelligence can attack humans by ethereal3xp

People are the tool to attack.

A crazy robot that kills people isn't much of a threat because it's obvious and can be stopped.

But using people through religion and other political beliefs, that's extremely dangerous and impossible to stop.

We're going to need to teach people to personality double check everything the AI is doing, but we already know some people will lie and apply something they don't understand.

Critical thinking is our weakness.

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Reasonable_Ticket_84 t1_jdv55ay wrote

Reply to Google Groups has been left to die by CrankyBear

Google Groups is used by Google internally for communication....

It's just not a high priority for development.

I also like how the blog post mentions FluxBB as a FOSS alternative, but FluxBB actually is abandoned for 2 years now.

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The reason why these hosted services gain popularity is because hosting your own infrastructure on top of spending your limited free personal time on a project is overloading. There's only so much bandwidth people have.

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beef-o-lipso t1_jdv3zca wrote

Reply to comment by HTC864 in Big Tech is making its stuff slower and stupider — on purpose by treetyoselfcarol

Yes. It's called opinion. See the heading Discourse|Tech at the very top set off by blue, bold type? That tell you it's not news.

So don't expect the same rigor^1 from opinion pieces as you'd expect from content labeled News.

If it were presented as News, the demand for rigor is higher. Of course, good writing and good rhetoric says the author should back their claims, but there is less need to.

  1. I am not stating an opinion on the rigor or lack of rigor Business Insider adheres to.
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HanaBothWays t1_jdv3p06 wrote

Reply to comment by Educational-Ice-319 in The RESTRICT Act: A Potential New Enforcement Tool to Address Economic and National Security Concerns Posed by Foreign Information and Communications Technologies by AlphaWolfDesign

Service providers are also supposed to make sure that their services are running with configurations appropriate to geographical/jurisdictional restrictions as dictated by statutes (or not running, as appropriate).

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Educational-Ice-319 t1_jdv3cey wrote

Reply to comment by HanaBothWays in The RESTRICT Act: A Potential New Enforcement Tool to Address Economic and National Security Concerns Posed by Foreign Information and Communications Technologies by AlphaWolfDesign

Sigh. Let me explain:

Google Analytics is a service. A company based in the EU pays to run it on their platform. The one who gets fined isn’t Google, but the company who uses it in violation of the ban

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HanaBothWays t1_jdv2wcx wrote

Reply to comment by Educational-Ice-319 in The RESTRICT Act: A Potential New Enforcement Tool to Address Economic and National Security Concerns Posed by Foreign Information and Communications Technologies by AlphaWolfDesign

Yes they are. Who do you think Google Analytics belongs to? It’s not like it’s a different company that happens to have a similar name.

And they keep having problems because users in EU countries where Google Analytics is banned keep finding the Google Analytics script running in their browsers anyway because Google is not err on the side of caution when it comes to what browser clients Google Analytics does and doesn’t run on.

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