Interesting Links for 26-02-2019

[andrewducker]

Never push systems to their limits. Particularly when the system is you.

(tags:systems mentalhealth )

Can the UK extend the Brexit deadline?

(tags:uk europe doom )

Labour backs second referendum: Is this really happening?

(tags:labour europe uk referendum hope )

Military draft: Judge rules male-only draft is unconstitutional

(tags:usa military gender )

Suicide instructions spliced into kids' cartoons on YouTube and YouTube Kids

The whole point of YouTube Kids is that it's safe. If they aren't vetting the content then what is the point?
(tags:youtube suicide OhForFucksSake children )

Hands on with the HoloLens 2

(tags:augmentedreality microsoft video )

'Austerity, That's What I Know': The Making of a Young U.K. Socialist

(tags:UK politics economy austerity )

Humans Who Are Not Concentrating Are Not General Intelligences

(tags:intelligence ai language )

Wage Stagnation: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

(tags:economics wages inequality )

Comments

Humans Who Are Not Concentrating Are Not General Intelligences

[jack]

Yeah, I thought something pretty similar, although they are a lot more specific about it.

I'm not sure if there's two specific levels, or just a big hierarchy. Like, tracking from sentence to sentence is harder than just skimming. But lots of arguments need you to track between paragraphs, and sometimes people do things like mathematical proofs I'm not sure I'd have long enough to grasp in my lifetime. On the other hand, I don't know if the same techniques programs like that already use could be extended to those larger correspondences.

I don't have much hope for "people will be more careful" though :(

Suicide instructions spliced into kids' cartoons on YouTube and YouTube Kids

[jack]

Holy fuck :( Yeah, you'd think they'd react a LOT more seriously to something like that. Lots of platforms have been shut down completely at the thought that that sort of thing can be there.

I'm also like, this isn't advertising or propaganda, who is MAKING those videos? Do they have something to gain, or are they just being malicious to see if they can? :(

[cmcmck]

A young UK socialist?

Hey! I was one of those too! :o)

[ninetydegrees]

With this and the other article you linked to in a previous post, one does wonder how many humans are involved in monitoring what goes live on YT. It seems to me they entirely rely on unreliable algorithms and a mostly automated trust/report system but that at no point someone sits down and watches the content they allow on their platform. Companies like Google are right now busy expanding by buying land everywhere to build data centers and other infrastructures while still avoiding paying taxes or employing a significant number of people that are not programmers, system admins or involved in R&D and PR. Most countries let them do so without ever questioning how this benefits the people exactly.