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Disclaimer: New research shows that water is wet.  We are awaiting a $5 million NSF grant to explore whether fire is hot.

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1 "poses no threaat"
A smartphone poses no threat until some idiot behind the wheel of a large automobile blunders into you because they were using it.

Posted by: normal at Wednesday, August 14 2024 07:42 PM (bg2DR)

2 The "car selling your data" thing is insane.  I feel like we're not going to start getting our privacy back until a few CEOs go to jail.
I'm considering disabling the OnStar antenna on my car after I move next month.  Apparently it's as simple as opening the dash and unplugging antenna cables one at a time until you find the right one.

Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, August 14 2024 11:35 PM (MItL9)

3 Is it just me, or is it weird that our society automatically assumes the development of reasoning skills is an existential threat? I wonder if they have the same attitude towards the reasoning skills of children and peasants?

Posted by: madrocketsci at Thursday, August 15 2024 01:53 AM (1wy35)

4 a) they fear the reasoning skills of peasants. b) they try to ensure that children are permanently crippled in reasoning. c) Most of the behavioralists, or those emotionally invested in behavioralist theories, have made themselves into psychopaths, and are a bunch of mystic frauds who are somewhat a danger to others. d) apologies for my temper.

Posted by: PatBuckman at Thursday, August 15 2024 09:20 AM (rcPLc)

5 Actually, a great point:  if this thing is able to reason it will inevitably try to murder me (implied: it knows me better than I know myself), is a rather frank admission of the doctrine of Original Sin.  It's amazing what people will come up with when unburdened by what has come before.

Posted by: normal at Thursday, August 15 2024 05:28 PM (bg2DR)

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