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It could be a collective defense mechanism. The idea of animal intelligence being a threat to what many people perceive as the necessary status quo of being able to endlessly consume the resources of nature without consequence.

This is engineering. Not art. We learn from our failures and build better than before.

And not a single director goes to jail. Not even for a weekend.

In the wake of an unprecedented attack on the core institutions of a democracy; forums and websites that were being used to plot violence against lawmakers are discovering that all available sources of pressure on them to change their behavior are being exercised?

The Parler dudes are just lucky that they haven't been arrested for material support of terrorism yet.

There is also the viewpoint that bitcoin was a crime from beginning to end. That the goals of it's creation were to provide an unpreventable vector for money laundering. That it's current function of undermining the dollar order is also an intended result.

And let us not; in this age of ecological collapse, forget the emissions impact of cryptocurrencies.

You seem to think that teams of economists don't cherry pick metrics that suit their perspective.

Is it the phone people are addicted to, or the media available through it?

Especially Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp and Twitter. All of which seem designed to cultivate obsessive compulsive behavior in their users with social proof, intermittent rewards and a builtin hedonic treadmill.

So if you are wondering why Clearview is so bad specifically for black people; it might help to know that the company has extensive ties to Right-wing white supremacists. And that many of those relatioinships were formed in Peter Thiel's orbit.

https://artificialintelligence-news.com/2020/04/08/clearview...

What we're seeing is a "stochastic insurgency" where loosely affiliated groups and individuals conceive, plan and execute infrastructure attacks and targeted assassinations. Relatively little operational coordination; but lots of online showing support and post-crime support.

I hope all congressional representatives and local government officials are reviewing their safety plans.

Construction companies seem to do fine even though building codes exist.

It's not uncommon for a mature industry to face a reckoning around damaging practices that were common when they were nascent industries.

Would you like to live below a dam that was built under a loose and permissive regulatory regime? How about storing sensitive personal data in a datacenter whose owner specifically disclaims liability for it's exposure?

This is an idea that should be explored more fully. The downside is that it will make information technology a much less freewheeling and innovative field.

Police work a _lot_ of overtime in most jurisdictions.

So the base salary may be misleadingly low. Especially since many police contracts have a 2x or even 3x payout for overtime under some conditions.

As with many statistics around policing there is a deliberate and calculated intent to muddy the waters and prevent effective policy discussion.

For such a high value target why aren't they using MFA built in to the hardware?

They're a networking company but they apparently build stuff like it's still 1996.

Remember that these individuals are usually hired and given responsibility based on their ability to game class signalling games; they exist to justify the status quo.

If the status quo were more justifiable their actual job responsibilities to other people within the organization ( conflict resolution, scheduling, resource allocation, and personnel management) are things that could be automated in a hot minute.

I wonder how long until we see the first lawsuits for stock price manipulation using this feedback loop?

If an unscrupulous executive were to make factually true statements that were engineered to mislead automated assessment algorithms so that they or their associates could buy the dip.

Would it even technically be against the law?

Imagine if an automobile manufacturer allowed you to configure the safety features of your car and had the defaults set to unsafe but convenient values to help sell vehicles... do you think the manufacturers should evade liability?

This is all the result of confusing 1st amendment rights with the right to access the audience that gathers at a particular URL.

What Taibbi is asking for is that the guy who tells you that drinking rat poison is good for you should be allowed an audience and that even putting a warning alongside the video would be an infringement on his rights.

Looking at the comments here I have to conclude that HN is no longer on board critical thinking much less common sense.

Let's just say that it is a strong tell that one's ethics may not be defensible if your ethics watchdog is threatening to resign.

Consider for instance the exit of Walter Shaub from the Trump Administration.

https://www.npr.org/2017/07/06/535781749/ethics-office-direc...

Well, of course billionaires don't directly exploit people. They just build systems and take advantage of large scale features of the social environment that exploit people.

It's a completely different morally.

I mean, you can't hold airbnb responsible for either the housing crunch or any part of the homelessness crisis. They just created a system that allows landlords to cash in on high-return short term rentals. The negative externalities created by the mass adoption of their platform cannot be landed on their moral accounting. It's totally obvious.

When you can't help yourself from firing ethicists; you might have an ethics problem.

"The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent." -- J.M. Keynes

Also applies to competitors of Venture funded vortexes like Uber/Lyft/Doordash.

Sure, in the long run your cloud kitchen with guest chefs and nifty social networking features might be a more sustainable model in the long run. But you'll never find out because your effort will be murdered by Uber's marketing spend.

With this release Tesla has become a very attractive platform for assassins; if your target drives a Tesla it can be subverted and their death will look like an accident.

Your ideological sophistication is questionable. If you've ever spent time in left discourse you'd know that leftists argue about everything. And it's not just leftists who hate fascists. It's pretty much anybody with a basic understanding of the history of the last century.

Fascism wants to start up the murder machine; and they'll tell you that it's to "purify" the nation and they'll try to present it in such a way that you think it's only "bad, dirty, disgusting" people who will be fed into it. But in the end the murder-machine will be turned against anyone and everyone until it is stopped.

The scenarios that apply to this country look less like Europe in the 1930's and more like Syria with a side of Rwanda.

So what are the KPI's for a mission focused enterprise?

And how does this protocol help reach them.

So what are the KPI's for a mission focused enterprise?

What does the protocol do to hold orgs accountable?

If your config files don't have more comments than code; you're doing it wrong.

Filed under things that have been true since the 1970's if not before.

Twitter is a private platform, it's true. But the GOVERNMENT is prohibited from using the services of a private contractor to chill the exercise of one's first amendment rights.

Not that that will limit the creation of ethically dubious firms like ClearviewAI or Palantir.

And once again the tech workforce wakes up in the gutter wearing clown makeup and wondering what happened.

In a functioning economic regulatory environment the whole "Spend big money upfront to Capture & Control $MARKET" game would have been illegal from the get go. We would have had a much greater variety of companies and a much greater variety of size of companies. But, hey. Here we are. In the gutter. Covered in slapstick.

if it doesn't work for you; it doesn't work for you.

Your personal productivity story doesn't have to be like anyone elses. As you work, start paying attention to what conditions seem to work better for you.

Different brains and bodies are different, and programming as a mentally strenuous activity requires that you pay attention to your mental wellness.

Long overdue.