Yes, it's not quite the same. One time update vs everyday bombarding with ads and popups and making it so that large percentage of WWW sites doesn't work with anything but Chrome.

Is amount of money in someone's bank account a subjective trait? IQ has been shown to correlate with income.

That correlation could be very easy to explain by a confounding variable.

confounding variables can't be quickly and cheaply measured, that's what IQ is - measuring all the confounding variables.

In fact, bias in statistical models has existed long before AI. For example, credit scores are biased, they will on average give lower score to a black person. So what is the politically correct solution here, to multiply credit scores by a certain factor based on race so average scores of all races are the same?

That‘s not a solution a bank will buy or pay for, because the bank would do worse on average.

The solution is to still have humans in the loop who can make reasonable decisions.

Apartment managers see credit score below X and reject an applicant. If they were to make their own decisions, it would be a legal liability. If they reject based on credit score and other non-protected criteria, they can't be sued.

That's the same argument as weapon developers use, and weapon development contributed much more to fundamental physics than particle accelerators. The majority of funds after the WWII flowed to physics thanks to the nuclear arms race.

So what's your point? The weapon developers are correct of course. But the difference between weapons and super colliders is that super colliders are designer to help humanity instead of destroy it.

I can assure you weapon developers also think they benefit society. They usually say: WWIII did not happen only because of nuclear weapons. The question here is, what would benefit society more, spending said $21B on virology research or on a collider? Or maybe if you spend $21B on AI research, the computer will solve all the remaining theoretical problems of string theory in 0.21 s.

Of course weapons benefit society. I didn't say they didn't...

IE had 95% market share at some point, Chrome is nowhere close, thanks primarily to Apple with its Safari browser. But the trend is worrying, with more and more sites working only in Chrome (or another Chromium derived browser), and many software developers testing only for Chrome.

Lol, snowflakes, coffee doesn't taste the same ... try living in poverty, in war, like hundreds of millions of people live every day of their life.

I am old. Back in 1995 web sites loaded faster with 14.4k modems than some of them load today with 200mgps connection.

That's a pity, I use RSS to forward feeds from many news sites to my telegram.

But you can download an .EXE file from anywhere and run it on your Windows computer (don't try that at home!). No any Store required. Hell, you can even write a program yourself and run it, completely free, imagine that!

Exactly. It's so obvious.

“Anonymous” journalism is a great way to feed disinformation into the West, right and left fringes.

See also, QAnon, Steve Bannon, 4chan, etc.

I run a diverse set of acquaintances. Whenever my far-left and far-right friends suddenly share their (identical) opinions I take that as a sign of something.