On 10/23/22, grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote:

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https://www.theverge.com/23409716/signal-encryption-messaging-sms-meredith-w...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith_Whittaker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Google_walkouts

I dunno what this thread is about but I clicked this next link:

Project Maven https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence_arms_race Project Maven

And read this, and have comments below: Project Maven is a Pentagon project involving using machine learning and engineering talent to distinguish people and objects in drone videos,[48] apparently giving the government real-time battlefield command and control, and the ability to track, tag and spy on targets without human involvement. Initially the effort was led by Robert O. Work who was concerned about China's military use of the emerging technology.[49] Reportedly, Pentagon development stops short of acting as an AI weapons system capable of firing on self-designated targets.[50] The project was established in a memo by the U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense on 26 April 2017.[51] My comments: - Nowadays, in 2022, automated person and object identification and tracking is widespread and publicly available (in source code, research papers, and demos). I would worry less about automated weaponry and more about: - privately discovered new automated research, like physics or exotic engineering - hyperintelligence - advanced "malware" that targets systems nobody has before had a need to secure - mind control at a distance - hypersurveillance - prediction of the behavior of every person on the planet - etc But, today it is your opportunity to make an AI that improves itself and discover these things above on your own, and share them with your community before somebody bans AI like nukes, turning everybody else who has one into an elite despot. We need to form hyperpeace or something rather than turn our civilisation into a fractalised cold war. We're all bored of the latter.