Correct. They indeed do this in the name of security as announcing they do it for profit would probably be bad PR.
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MV3 specifically forbids remotely hosted 'code', which apparently filter lists are.
long yes, run-on no.
WHAT? No KYC? what are those banks?! I have friends in South America who would pay really good money (cash) to know
The rest of the empire was too feudal and too religious to dabble into advanced technology. And the other players (the BG, the Tleilalxu, the Guild) were against it as well.
What good are drones, except as weapons of assassination? Can't use them in an conventional war, there are shields. And they're very expensive, remember, the Great Houses don't have advanced manufacturing capabilities (that's IX). And, finally, there are no great wars in the empire, most houses keep to their planetary fief; the Baron's attack on the Atreides' forces on Dune was an exception. It was also mindbogglingly expensive, 80 years of spice profit.
This implies their technology is unfathomably complex, too complex for the human mind to understand. Doesn't seem to be the case.
>Seems like if it was adopted as a policy, there would have to be many gray areas where people pretend that they aren't really using AI - the ship's computer is just a domain specific finetuned version, after all, etc.
Ships are using Navigators, who are trained in "higher mathematics" and are also prescient. They have no need for AIs, nor do they wish to court destruction if they are found out (I can only imagine the BG will have the Spacing Guild by the balls if they knew).
> Why would the dangers of an incomprehensible machine mind be worse than the dangers of a transhuman being that was bred and optimized for generations? Who solved the alignment problem for these superhumans?
The books address these questions, especially the one about a certain God-Emperor...
no, the Bene Gesserit doesn't have prescience, the opposite maybe (postcognition)
>Spice melange, which can only be found on the planet Arrakis (aka Dune), is the drug that enables this enhanced mental cognition
no, for anyone not called Atreides spice just prolongs life; some mentats take sapho juice, but they don't need drugs. .
Very informative and a very enjoyable read.
>But the Luddites themselves “were totally fine with machines,” says Kevin Binfield, editor of the 2004 collection Writings of the Luddites. They confined their attacks to manufacturers who used machines in what they called “a fraudulent and deceitful manner” to get around standard labor practices.
>“They just wanted machines that made high-quality goods,” says Binfield, “and they wanted these machines to be run by workers who had gone through an apprenticeship and got paid decent wages. Those were their only concerns.”[1]
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-the-luddites-rea...
You: They were also very clearly on the wrong side of history.We would not be better off if the Luddites had won and forced us all to be doing manual labor all day without the help of those evil machines they were destroying.
HN sophistry of the highest level. It's shit like this that made the sophists deeply hated back in the days (today too, i would add)
Am I getting this wrong?
also people: 2h average a day doomscrolling on tiktok
this is not true. the IBAN alone is insufficient to authorize a direct debit.