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Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 23:18:06 -0500
From: JC Cantrell <jc@cantrell2.org>
Subject: Re: 99 smartphones ,,, (RISKS-31.56)

I smell a small business opportunity here.

Got too much traffic on your street? Waze leading others to contribute to
your traffic headaches?

Hire me! I have the wagon, can get the old phones and, for the right price, will walk your streets at rush hour! Guaranteed to reduce traffic by 10, 20,
or even 30 percent!

Now I just have to subcontract this, but being in California with recent independent contractor classification troubles, let's just call the whole
thing off.

Another one of my grand schemes shot down.

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Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2020 11:40:31 -0800
From: Mark Thorson <eee@dialup4less.com>
Subject: Re: Artificial intelligence-created medicine to be used on humans
for first time (RISKS-31.56)

AI assisted with a small part of drug discovery, not quite the breakthrough suggested by the press.

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/01/31/another-ai-generated-drug

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Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 16:07:52 -0800
From: Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com>
Subject: Re: AI-created medicine to be used on humans (Stein, R 31.56)

Perhaps they should run the first tests on another AI.

"Typically, drug development takes about five years to get to trial"; here "trial" means the first class action suit.

Remember the principle: "An AI for an AI".

[Richard Stein replied:

Henry -- A good aphorism. Nothing like algorithmic retribution --
recursive payback. I favor "Dog Fooding" in this case. Would the
pharmaceutical company's investors or employees subject their children
to the clinical trial if they qualified as candidates? RS]

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Date: 4 Feb 2020 17:43:54 -0500
From: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
Subject: Re: Election Security At The Chip Level (SemiEngineering, RISKS-31.56)

Where I live, they have the info you provided when you registered which includes your signature and usually height and eye color which the election officials check. (I used to be one.) The officials are mostly retired local folks, and often know who you are anyway. Very low tech but pretty
effective.

Despite endless disinformation to the contrary, in-person voter fraud is not
a problem and never has been. If you think about it for two minutes, it's about the worst possible way to steal an election, one vote at a time with
each vote subject to challenge. Sensible people steal an election by
bribing the officials so when the polls close they stuff the box full of
enough ballots to ensure that the correct candidate wins.

For an excellent discussion of this technique, read Robert Caro's "Means of Ascent" which is mostly about how Lyndon Johnson won the 1948 primary that
put him in the Senate. It includes a long interview with the guy who had
the ballot box.

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Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2020 22:22:53 -0500
From: Gabe Goldberg <gabe@gabegold.com>
Subject: Re: Should Automakers Be Responsible for Accidents? (Levine,
RISKS-31.56)

And parking tickets imposing automaker liability:

Sorry sir, we've remotely disabled your car, now that it's legally parked in your garage. Please complete the attached agreement committing to better behavior, so that we may restore your driving privileges at the end of next month.

On 2/4/2020 5:07 PM, John Levine wrote:

In article <16.CMM.0.90.4.1580237212.risko@chiron.csl.sri.com7592> you write:

What a strange scheme:

Automaker enterprise liability would have useful incentives that driver
liability law misses.
https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/regulation/2019/3/regulation-v42n1-1.pdf

I can hardly wait:

"Sorry, sir, you've had three moving violations so we'll have to ask
you to leave the showroom now."

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Subject: Abridged info on RISKS (comp.risks)

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