Readit Newsxaedes commented on EU’s plan to digitising travel documents might affect you edri.org/our-work/how-eus... · Posted by u/type0
1. Again, that's your opinion, others like me disagree. Either cover WHY you think that is true you are sort of saying "I don't like it and I don't have a reason"
2. This is about the smallest imaginable amount of your life being added to the digital realm. All the data in question is ALREADY in there, on government computers when you get a paper passport and that is what is actually used at border crossings. No one cares about the paper passport except as a receipt for a DB entry. So nothing is actually being moved digital. We are just turning off some printers...
That official identity documents requiring a smartphone is the "smallest imaginable amount" is questionable. With this proposal I can not even go on vacation without a smartphone.
Maybe I am old-fashioned, but I still think humans should be able to do basic life actions without a smartphone.
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xaedes commented on Turmeric’s unexpected link to lead poisoning in Bangladesh stanmed.stanford.edu/turm... · Posted by u/coopernewby
I seem to remember that it was also a switch to a different citrus fruit which had way less vitamin C in it so the processing was much mroe important.
However, since the switch corresponded to the rise of steam power (ship trips were much faster), nobody noticed that that they weren't protected from scurvy anymore.
It wasn't until the artic expeditions that scurvy protection got tested again.
They believed the scurvy protection came from the sourness of lemons, so they switched to lime which is even more sour than lemon, but contains less vitamin C.
xaedes commented on All EU Members are committed to achieving full climate neutrality by 2050 ff55.info/about/... · Posted by u/doener
Europe has a much more fleshed out freight rail system and the vast majority of European countries have ocean access, so long range haul can be done by the cheapest form of transport of all, boat.
It is estimated that the full electrification of all railway tracks in Germany will be completed not earlier than 2070.
But maybe I am confusing "Deutschlandtakt 2070" and the electrification of the tracks.
Unnecessary. In my view, the immediate answer to this is to let AI train in the real world, for instance surveillance footage, microphones in public locations that will be able to hear and transcribe entire conversations with humans in the “wild”, environmental/satellite sensor data, AI controlled drones with cameras that the AI can “explore” with etc. Additionally, humans interfacing with the AI is also going to be a source of data especially if an AI can “interview” people.
If anything, I can see a future with a push to further erode privacy laws with the ultimate aim of getting more access to human data in the real world to train AI. I’m sure the smartphones in everyone’s pocket is a rich source of sensors and data…
If we can get to a point where AI can reliable seek out, filter/normalize and incorporate data from the real world into its model, that’s when it will probably start approaching the singularity.
Maybe we need to integrate the AI golems as persons into society, so they can learn and interact with us as individual persons, like us.
But remembering Battlestar Galactica, cutting the interconnectivity was the prominent defense against cylons.
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In Germany they decided to make the EPA (electronic medical record) opt-out starting by 2024. Managed by "gematik GmbH", a company with limited liability. Because why should the entity responsible for all medical records have some liability. It is a joke, a bad one.
They don't even say how to opt-out.
xaedes commented on An IBM computer learned to sing in 1961 tedgioia.substack.com/p/h... · Posted by u/isomorph
Eery, this song performance reminded me of the ending song of Portal.
- unconscious incompetence
- conscious incompetence
- conscious competence
- unconscious competence
At first you are unable to do something, but you don't even know it. Then you learn about your incompetence and begin to work on it. Eventually due to conscious effort you achieve conscious competence. Doing it long enough you don't need to spend conscious effort to be competent - you just do it, and you do it well.
I think this unconscious competence is very similar to Wu Wei.