[HN Gopher] Sort by controversial a.k.a. Shiri's scissor (2018)
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       Sort by controversial a.k.a. Shiri's scissor (2018)
        
       Author : appwiz
       Score  : 32 points
       Date   : 2021-02-15 21:12 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | bananabiscuit wrote:
       | Big if true.
        
       | redisman wrote:
       | Are there any examples of such scissor statements? This reads
       | like fiction and would be easy to prove by showing us one of
       | these
        
         | lmm wrote:
         | It is fiction, it's meant to make you think. The specific
         | scissor statements would be specific to a given
         | forum/company/etc. in any case.
        
         | [deleted]
        
       | captainmuon wrote:
       | It's a fun story, but we should remember machine learning is not
       | magic. It's not going to produce a Basilisk, and we are not
       | helpless marionettes manipulated by advertizement agencies and
       | social media. And if somebody was gaming your political system
       | via Facebook and Twitter, then maybe your system is not resilient
       | enough and has to change.
       | 
       | OTOH, I really wonder what would happen if you tried to train an
       | adversarial neural network to produce pictures that make somebody
       | angry, or horny, or to provoke some other very primitive
       | reaction. I guess it doesn't work or people would be doing it
       | already.
        
         | edflsafoiewq wrote:
         | Reminds me of BLIT:
         | http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm
        
         | apsec112 wrote:
         | MuZero is a basilisk from the perspective of Go players.
        
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