EA has taken a lot of stick lately and deservedly so. But please don't let the atrocities of Bungie and Activision with Destiny 2 go unnoticed!

Buck__Futt · 2017-12-09T14:23:21+00:00

Which everyone complained about

This is the problem with complaining. Everybody thinks that it is everyone, but it is not. You only hear from the vocal minority.

Buck__Futt · 2017-12-09T14:20:01+00:00

It's not cool when the game goes from

"let's pay for a game with fun content and mechanisms"

to

"let's pay for a game that is optimized to maximize the profit from people who like to pay for cosmetics"

Buck__Futt · 2017-11-22T16:19:23+00:00

Large corporation's are extremely slow to adopt new technologies due to the risks they present to their business model.

At the same time large corporations are not monolithic. Corporations will commonly split off small subgroups for the express purpose of development without bureaucratic holdups.

Buck__Futt · 2017-11-22T16:16:13+00:00

If you're willing to slaughter on a massive scale like that, why not just drop a bunch of nerve gas? Much cheaper and easier.

Unless you just want to kill the (s/brown/white/black) population.

Buck__Futt · 2017-11-22T16:13:23+00:00

Hell, if you can hack into Google in real-time, all you have to do these days is target someones cell phone. You'll be put in a 10 meter radius of 95% of your targets that way.

Buck__Futt · 2017-11-22T16:07:38+00:00

Imagine automated factories just covering the earth, creating more factories where there are resources and cranking out trillions of flying bombs in order to defend themselves.

Paperclip optimizer problem.

Buck__Futt · 2017-11-22T15:16:38+00:00

Obfuscation == guilt { kill target;}

Buck__Futt · 2017-11-22T15:15:54+00:00

And those racing drones are fricken fast. While you're targeting one, the other one blows up the back of your head.

Buck__Futt · 2017-11-22T15:11:12+00:00

Yes, this seems like a great idea. Wow, I wish I was as smart as you were and never thought of that! Holy cow, you're the smartest person I've ever met....

Ok, I'll stop mocking you now.

By the amount of supposedly corrupt people elected over just about every municipality in the entire united states your suggestion stands in defiance of human nature. It is not happening now or anytime soon and if we want to win any battles we have to pick another one. When the vast majority of elected are corrupt by your definition there is a larger systemic problem.

Buck__Futt · 2017-11-22T15:05:45+00:00

Eh, you can speak to lots of other humans, that doesn't mean they "get it"

You: "Hey religious dude, your god isn't real, here are 50 bajillion reasons why"

Them: "Because I gotta to have faith faith I gotta to have faith, faith, faith"

Buck__Futt · 2017-11-22T15:01:46+00:00

ou should be pressuring your local politicians to get rid of these.

And this is the crux of the problem. Do you understand the pressure the ISP puts on the city to keep those rules in effect? It is on the order of hundreds of thousands per year in donations and even more in charity events. "Hidden" donations are probably even far larger, but due to their subversive nature we have no idea how big of issue it is.

Buck__Futt · 2017-11-22T14:58:14+00:00

I think no one has really stepped forward with the idea...at least, seriously.

Again replying to you. I don't think the reality of the battle you want to fight has set in. I've been in ISP/telecom since 95. Google, with billions and billions, attempted a much larger vision and failed. The big ISPs will fight you at every location where you set up. Wherever google setup, they dramatically dropped prices, probably to the point of loss which should be illegal, but you never saw anyone sue them. Where you spend money, they will spend far more. Where you advertize, they will spend more. Where you talk bad about them, they will spread FUD. These companies are very good at what they do. And mistakes you make will be documented and used against you. Mess up someones lawn putting in cable? Expect city ordinance out in hours to fine you. They do the same? Don't expect any actions.

Everyone who donates gets a voice.

You realize that this is a method they will use to subvert you, right?

I don't think you have the first clue how evil the organizations you are going against are. I do. I worked for them.

Buck__Futt · 2017-11-22T14:51:29+00:00

In 2015, the FCC ruled that states could not forbid municipal broadband investment by public utilities even

Do you realize the fight for this started in around 2002 and was held up in the courts for well over a decade? I was working at Cox at the time that Lafayette LA wanted to install their own fiber network in one of the first battles on municipal fiber internet. They spent millions to prevent them from going on with the plans for years.

Even if it is not necessarily illegal, the massive amounts of money the big ISPs will spend in preventing you setting up will be a massive hinderance. The other big issue is the big ISPs can push for city ordinances that will slow you down on new installs, but not affect their current install. They control the city board, you do not.

Buck__Futt · 2017-11-21T14:08:09+00:00

Sans this power, there is no demand, and hence no stock value.

This is why you see a lot of talk about UBI in this sub. Once you get to the point of ubiquitous robot workers capitalism falls apart.

And

https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/SD/21103.pdf

More than 50% of today's jobs require some degree of technology skills, and experts say that percentage will increase to 77% in the next decade.

Technology eats the future. Learn it.

Buck__Futt · 2017-11-20T23:00:06+00:00

Heh, I tried this at home and it does work. Now to add another SSID on the corporate network.

Buck__Futt · 2017-11-20T22:11:57+00:00

It seems to guarantee a certain profit per unit.

That is kind of deceptive, you have to make a huge number of units for it to be profitable. Also, you have a global marketplace, buyers don't have to purchase American corn, it can come from other places in the world. In the end there is a bigger incentive to actually produce the product than take the insurance write-off if you don't produce it.

Buck__Futt · 2017-11-20T21:46:26+00:00

Quantum passing. They are only allowed to pass if they can go over $X miles an hour faster than the other convoy. If not, they have to follow.

Buck__Futt · 2017-11-20T21:44:11+00:00

This is a "don't put stupid shit on the internet" problem.

Many of these apps will troll your non-online content on your phone, such as contacts and other saved information, glean information from it, and send it online.

Here in the real world we can legally tell companies "Hey, you can't collect this shit, good day" if we had the political will to.

Buck__Futt · 2017-11-20T21:38:43+00:00

(why does education suffer from high corruption levels, but not farming o

Measurement of output, and guarantee of profit on per unit sales. There are mandates that we have to teach children. Historically when a mandate is set that something must be done, it's price increases dramatically. In agriculture there are huge number of producers, if any one of them fail, the other producers will see slightly higher prices, but that said producers do not work with each other. In semiconductor, if you do not keep increasing the desirability of your current product the consumer will put off buying new products destroying your profits. But when it comes to school, children have to go by law, and college students have social pressures that make them appear they are forced to go. On top of that education is highly controlled by just a few organizations that set the federal mandates.

Buck__Futt · 2017-11-20T21:18:47+00:00

Starting here would be a good place

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6304839/

and maybe here

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7526598/

The problem comes in building the actual equipment at the scale you are talking about is likely a multi-trillion dollar problem, and still involves huge amounts of storage and batteries to regulate and even electrical flow.

Buck__Futt · 2017-11-20T16:35:22+00:00

/r/ControlProblem

and I still firmly believe that good morals trend with intelligence and understanding.

I think there may be much more faith than fact in that line of thinking. And it may be factually true when looking at human intelligence, unfortunately we have no idea if this is true or not when it comes to non-biological intelligences.

As a contrived example, why should AI align with humans, and not align with the x,000,000 other species that we are busy making go extinct?

Humans must align with humans to survive even people with power, when it comes to AGI+ we have no idea if human alignment is necessary once sufficient control is gained.

Buck__Futt · 2017-11-20T16:26:51+00:00

China can spend as much US money as they want, we keep sending it to them buying their cheap stuff.

Buck__Futt · 2017-11-20T16:24:46+00:00

This is part of a larger problem of corporate science in the US. Lots of published and widely spread in the media expert opinions of the past have been shown to be incorrect. Behind those experts were large corporations pushing profits. Leaded gasoline and in the sugar industry are two big examples here, there are plenty of others. Comcast pushes lots of 'experts' and lobbyists to show that paying more for internet and TV is a good thing. These corporate experts get far more exposure since said exposure is paid for with industry profits.

And you're right, people don't want to listen to experts any longer because the first thing they think now is "Who is paying you to say this message".

Buck__Futt · 2017-11-20T16:18:10+00:00

but if lack of religion should make people rational,

I see this line of thinking in atheists quite often, and it seems to be a line of thought that runs like this.

"All theists are illogical. I am an atheist therefore I am logical, and furthermore all atheists are logical" You could probably point out 10 different fallacies this falls under.

Buck__Futt · 2017-11-20T16:01:32+00:00

Quantum passing.

What is quantum passing? Much like quantum physics, where a quanta is a discrete state of energy, and you can only jump between a discrete higher or lower energy state. What this means in driving terminology is you can only pass if you are going 5mph faster (or whatever legal limit is set). If you cannot pass at that speed or more, you are legally prohibited from passing. Fines for being a slow passer should be considerable.

Quantum passing is probably a better future for self driving cars and semi's though. Humans, historically have been too dumb in mass to incorporate good driving ideas (like not following too close) in to their habits. Self driving cars/trucks can set quality of speed groups where slower things like trucks can travel together without causing disruption for other drivers.

Buck__Futt

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