j_k_eter

Denying the existence of God (or a higher organizing intelligent power, if you like) until I was 45.

Plz tell your dad if he ever wants to grab a non-alcoholic beer and vent about you, I'm down.

I'm kidding of course. He and I would be able to talk for days about other things, though. You and I, true to the OP, would probably rate each other not worth each other's time after 5 seconds. This is the inoculation I spoke of in my other comment. It's a powerful mechanism.

"Do you know who owns and controls the station you're watching? Does the truth you know rely on its funding? Does it matter? DOES IT MATTER?!?" --kmfdm

Countless people have seen past the veil and lived to tell about it. Until now, the mainstream of the developed world has provided a strong inoculation against any such views spreading - namely, that it can be safely and instantaneous disregarded as mental illness. No further inquiry necessary.

That's the part that's about to begin changing. Slowly at first, as people like Kanye West come to realize they've been gas-lit. I expect this change to pick up steam though I can't guess the rate right now. HN will be the last dark dominion of Left-Hemisphere-Dominance to be dragged, demanding citations and invoking logical fallacies all the way, into the present.

I find the idea that X won't / can't happen on a 3 month timeline, in this political climate, silly. Is there such a thing as stability bias? Because folks had best recalibrate their expectations for rate of change, starting a few months ago. I won't be taking any bets on Facebook, but the thing I'm replying to sounds like 6-months ago thinking.

I first predicted this tech 5 years ago, but I thought it was 15 years out. What I just said is beginning to happen with pretty much everything. There's a third sentence, but if I write it 10 people will gainsay me. If I omit it, there's a better chance that 10 people will write it for me.

Google has no practical way to address ethics at Google-scale. Their ability to operate at all depends as ever upon outsourcing ethics to machine learning algorithms.