[ExI] favor for a friend

[Adrian Tymes]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 6:01 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
> Of *Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] favor for a friend
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> On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 10:24 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> True.  BUT DON”T DO IT!  Giovanni, don’t do it man.  It’s illegal!  Or if
> not, it’s highly unadvisable.
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> Some images are illegal, such as some types of pornography depicting
> minors for instance, and there are an infinite number of possible such
> images one would imagine, so all of those would be considered illegal, and
> all strings of bits, regardless of how long, will eventually be produced.
> Therefore… that pi-calculating algorithm will eventually produce child
> pornography.
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> >…Merely generating the bits is insufficient to violate the law.  One must
> also isolate the bits, identifying them as a discrete thing.  So long as
> the bits are unknown in a string of data, they have no legal meaning - and
> thus, are not illegal in that state.
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> Of course.  But that is why I went on to talk about evil AI.  Your pi
> calculator generates one of those bastards, in there with the offensive
> images, starts sending them to your boss
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Someone - AI or otherwise - would have to identify the images within the
string in order to separate and send them.

Please stop overlooking this step.  Doing so ruins your attempt at a joke.
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