Missed that, but I left NL in 2020 - did he take lessons from our Cum-Ex-Olaf?

I already despised that slimey fucker when he was PM of the NL. His “Breef aan de Nederlanders” was the most disgusting and pathetic attempt to fish for racists votes ever.

These bases won’t be operational for years, by which time we’ll likely be rational again.

You think? I decided I won’t go to Fascistan ever again in my lifetime, about 10 years ago. Neither for missions nor for holidays. Lots of bridges are burnt and it will take more than a lifetime to rebuild trust. By which time Fascistan and Putistan and Europe will likely be irrelevant because China and India etc…

Only for people who have never opened a geography book.

It’s not a joke though.

Actually it’s safer when the human comes afterwards in the process to review and verify.

So you really get off on the thought of getting people killed. Got ya, and e.o.t.

If you think people make unpredictable mistakes all the time, you shouldn’t be driving a motorized vehicle. Because you clearly do not know what to anticipate. Do unpredictable mistakes happen? Sure thing. But they are the rare exception, and almost all the time an aware driver will be cautious about situations so as not to get caught unaware.

You don’t understand the basics of safety rules.

Using bullshit language like “super human behavior” doesn’t make your point any less stupid.

Diagnostics are a valid application of machine learning - as a second check, after a qualified radiologist has reviewed the images. Not instead of the human, nor even as a first step, because it will impact the effort a human puts into a review if they already get a pre-analysis.

With your attitude, you will kill people.

Human drivers: people die due to reckless driving and human mistakes - and in most situations a good driver can anticipate a lot of dangers and avoid them. ML “assistants” getting control over cars: people die of unpredictable mis-assessments of inputs vs. outputs, and there’s no way to anticipate any danger or try to avoid it.

People who advocate for non-deterministic systems taking control in cars are irresponsible and have blood on their hands.

“noticably better” than what? You need to ask yourself that question. Machine learning solutions should never be in control of any irreversible actions. Slowing down a car due to perceived danger? Okay, worst case driver has to accelerate again (emergency braking decisions must not be made by such a system either to avoid being rear-ended). Swerving to avoid an obstacle? Absolutely not!

As I said in another comment: There are driving assistants that work deterministically. Anything else can give visual or auditory clues but shouldn’t be allowed to control much if anything else.

The question of how good an ML system is, is irrelevant as they are non-deterministic by nature, and their legitimate use cases are elsewhere.

Yes but none of them should be let anywhere near decision making. When we talk driving assistants that actually work, those are driven by a hard set of rules, with deterministic decision making.

Better drivers than the average human driver. Take male drivers out of the equation and it tips. Women drivers may be less secure at times (compared to male overconfidence) but they are far less likely to be reckless or cause lethal accidents.

Signed: a male :p

Bullshit. They are bad because EU legislation is written by incompetent and/or corrupt (pick one) morons and accordingly full of loopholes. It would have been trivial to order web sites to respect browser ‘do not track’ settings.

I don’t think it is common at all - I think we need to make it common, by asking all the time - especially those of us that are less easily replaced.

Woosh.

Well - we have a saying in German: “Fragen kostet nichts” - asking doesn’t cost anything. At least you tried then, worst they can say is “no”. Expect that, and who knows, maybe you get a surprise.

Maybe they’ll let you work with a “technical device” that you administrate yourself, while for access to company resources you still have to use the corporate vanilla computer.

Pull them all.

This here. Although I also save spiders and all kinds of critters. And I do occasionally eat meat, but not with a clear conscience. I avoid most milk products, but still haven’t managed to let go of cheese. :/

To be fair, people have become more stupid / subservient, to the point I can see why someone would think “let’s try that again”.

In any case, I am a software engineer and have never had the ability to negotiate my contract to that extent.

Have you ever tried? This kind of negotiation unfortunately typically requires a job change, employers are really really bad at understanding how valuable it is to motivate employees at little to no cost to them.