Automatically “block” people in images using a pretrained neural network

>I have not watched the dystopic thriller you mention

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Christmas_(Black_Mirror)

Netflix link: https://www.netflix.com/watch/80073158

Worth a watch, and the series is not chronological so no worries about prior knowledge.

tl;dw: the concept has been toyed with in a number of episodes:

Imagine the death penalty was replaced by a simple "ban" from everybody else's perception. Instead of being put to death, you just appear as an outline filled with static and your voice appears as garbled noise.

Alternatively, imagine "parental controls" for a child's perception that automatically filters out "unsafe" content like sex, violence, hobos, hookers and hate speech.

Or imagine altering a soldier's perception to make enemy combatants appear less human so empathy doesn't get in the way of a clean kill.

I’d like to see an opera extension to remove all the politic and pathos from the internet. If someone able reads this, thanks in advance for supporting opera too!

You can't. But you can choose not to be part of it. I refused politely an interview with google and facebook for the same reason in the past.

The world is what you make of it

People keep saying you can't change the world. That you can't do anything about it.

Well yes you can. Don't be part of it.

Oh yes, there is a price to pay.

You can absolutely work to redefine what “progress” means, who technology will serve, and how it’s bounty and harms are distributed.

If you live in a Western democracy, you’re reaping the benefit of a series of such struggles from the 17th century forward. The Enlightenment, various democratic revolutions, labor organization, etc. The fatalism, the “unchallengeable trajectory” solipsism that categorizes so much of the thinking around tech is the thing that’s new.

I was in awe while also being completely terrified. It didn't take Black Mirror or a viral ad to convince me that autonomous weapon systems are bad. I grew up watching Terminator and RoboCop. My first thought when seeing BigDog was "this is awesome but also we're all going to die".

When people didn't get it, I just showed them Petman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFrjrgBV8K0

The age old justification of "if I don't do it, someone else will". You can justify many things with that.

I happen to think this particular technology is cool and it's silly to be afraid of it, but no need to employ that justification.

It only gets built if some over-zealous nerds build it. That's the point.

Or, https://github.com/DmitryUlyanov/deep-image-prior

I'd imagine it'd be relatively easy, they both seem to depend on a mask outlining the part of the image to replace.

This is cool I remember trying to build a chrome extension for something like this a while ago for detecting and blocking images of animals people had phobia's for (e.g snake, spider and e.t.c) and I tried using pythons dlib object detector and shape landmarks predictor and it was a very stressful exercise in futility. Now I will have a look at mark r-cnn as it might help solve my problem and my few minutes of total brain fuckery after unlucky seeing a picture or a video with any kind of snakes in it, the big one's are of course worse.

Depends. In TNG the outlook tends to be far more rosy than in DS9 or DIS. There were a few episodes which hinted at darker tendencies in Starfleet but those usually turned out to be corrupt individuals or some kind of alien influence.

Having grown up with TNG my impression of the Federation was much like what the US was pretending to be prior to 9/11 (i.e. prior to "world police"), a beacon of liberty, equality and hope for mankind, but with all the ills of real-world USA eliminated by scientific progress and a more idealistic and altruistic society.

The show had a few militaristic undertones initially but they mostly went away in season 2 and later, except for the ranks. The ranks and offensive capabilities are lampshaded a number of times but Picard and other characters frequently prove that those are just born out of necessity and for self-defense, never to attack. The Borg represent such a threat exactly because they are not interested in diplomacy and Starfleet has to fight an all-out war to survive them -- unlike the Romulans or Klingons who even at the worst of times mostly didn't outright attack them.

Not exactly “intended”, but rather, for want of a better quote, the person you’ve replied to, chose Ghost In The Shell reference, based on a J.D. Salinger quote.

The “author”, meanwhile, wrote the article we’re discussing in this HN thread.

I thought of that too, but I didn’t know a quote I could use.

Thanks! That helped.

It's always a "fun" party trick at the office to show people that you can't scan money.

Or animals that frighten you.