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Off the Record / Re: Quick Quagmire Poll (Iran,...

Last post by Jacob - Today at 12:45:54 PM

I voted spec ops, but I was torn between that and limited objectives that stay that way.  What pushed be towards the latter is the noise about taking a couple of the mid-Gulf islands that Iran owns but the UAE claims (Taub and Abu Musa).  They're far enough away from Iran proper to be able to defend effectively without more forces, are somewhat strategic in that they're two small airfields in the middle of the Gulf, and would satisfy the Robber Baron in Chief's anachronistic desire to possess something.

Oh interesting. I guess that's an alternative to the "take Kharg Island" potential scenario for how the HEU / Airborne might be used.

* wanders off to look up Taub and Abu Musa *

#2

Off the Record / Re: [Canada] Canadian Politics...

Last post by Valmy - Today at 12:45:47 PM

That's also why you hear so few Canadian CEOs, who are federally regulated say anything publicly. Very few of them are bilingual.

As always, the best and brightest rarely end up in positions of power. A very simple requirement to be able to speak French at a toddler level is too much for these incompetent morons.

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Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by Duque de Bragança - Today at 12:42:20 PM

Conflict in Mali and other parts of the Sahel is ongoing indeed.

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Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by Valmy - Today at 12:15:37 PM

There was a similar rumor and data going around the US. That somehow there was a big increase in Gen Z going to church. I found that pretty laughable. I go to a church and there sure as fuck aren't any Gen Z showing up there. Or any other church I am familiar with.

Granted that is anecdotal but the probability Gen Z are just far more religious outside of Texas seemed unlikely.

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Off the Record / Re: Quick Quagmire Poll (Iran,...

Last post by Valmy - Today at 12:12:21 PM

We'll strike something to show how big our dicks are and get drawn in.

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Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Valmy - Today at 12:11:39 PM

"Simon Buller" 

Yeah I caught that. Painful. I mean if you intended to murder a Spanish speaker with sound alone you couldn't have done better.

#7

Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread

Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 11:45:17 AM

Aside from the errors AI makes in drafting legal arguments, the main preoccupation of in house lawyers these days is how they are going to manage the tsunami of legal issues and legal risks they see coming because of the pressures coming from the executives to use AI, without anyone understanding how it should be used and how to mitigate all the errors it makes.

The only thing "new" about this is using the term "AI".  Automatic target recognition failures have been blamed for tens of thousands of civilian deaths over decades.  Like nearly all the problems "AI" is being blamed for creating, it's once again exacerbating an existing problem.

Something that might be new is the high trust and low verification occurring with the use AI.  Of necessity for anyone pushing the use of AI - if anyone was to spend the time and resources needed to check the work and fix all the errors found, the use case for AI would be dramatically reduced. 

#8

Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread

Last post by Jacob - Today at 11:42:54 AM

The only thing "new" about this is using the term "AI".  Automatic target recognition failures have been blamed for tens of thousands of civilian deaths over decades.  Like nearly all the problems "AI" is being blamed for creating, it's once again exacerbating an existing problem.

Yeah, that's the point the article makes.

And my take on it, that AI is another mechanism for further diffusing any responsibility for the outcomes, and that that mechanism is a separate function from the AI decision making process itself.

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Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread

Last post by Baron von Schtinkenbutt - Today at 11:38:17 AM

The only thing "new" about this is using the term "AI".  Automatic target recognition failures have been blamed for tens of thousands of civilian deaths over decades.  Like nearly all the problems "AI" is being blamed for creating, it's once again exacerbating an existing problem.

#10

Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread

Last post by Jacob - Today at 11:37:57 AM

'I was only following AI' is the new 'I was following orders' excuse.

Yeah, but the systems are set up such that the humans involved don't have any way of questioning the AI. There's no point in the process where there's a human with information to challenge the output of the software.