Daleks in San Francisco

2017-12-19 Thread Morlock Elloi
Just in case that someone missed the first application of autonomous AI+heavy machinery against humans on US soil, by people who love animals: https://boingboing.net/2017/12/14/bbq-sauce-countermeasure.html "The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals bought a "security

Re: The magnificent bribe

2017-12-19 Thread Brian Holmes
On 12/18/2017 11:01 PM, Morlock Elloi wrote: This assumption then leads to conclusion that VCs pouring money into these data taps knew from the start what the end game was. This, in turn, implies some serious centralized long-term (15-20 year) planning. Is there any evidence of such

Re: The magnificent bribe

2017-12-19 Thread Vincent Van Uffelen
Morlock, while I don't believe that there was a single mind or small group of multiple minds that planned the app based information society I do believe that the US military does exceptionally well in the discovery (invention?) and subsequent kick-start of "potential". Furthermore, I do