Unseen wrote:

Cattle and other animal crops serve a valid purpose. Every creature on Earth is food for something else.

They serve a purpose (food) but they’re also suffocating the Earth, with their greenhouse gases and environmental degradation.

@ Jake

Cattle and other animal crops serve a valid purpose. Every creature on Earth is food for something else. That includes you and me. There’s nothing unnatural about eating the kind of food nature designed us to eat. If a hungry bear attacks and eats me, would we say that the bear shouldn’t have killed me because I’m sentient and therefor I…[Read more]

Let’s fuck ’em up by putting an end to this abuse of horses.

Hmm.

If abuse is the barometer lets compare it to factory farming.

Maybe it is just me but i would rather be treated like gold, brushed and made of in the morning, into my quotidian exercise routine, befriended by a goat and compete against my peers while living la vida loca in tha…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:

Algorithms are ruining horse racing. Syndicates are wagering ungodly sums as the race goes off and killing every underlay or as they say in business-market inefficiency. So wise guys like me who had the average Joe over a barrel at the race track have lost their edge. I am mad as hell and i aint gonna take it no more.

Let’s fuck…[Read more]

Algorithms are ruining horse racing. Syndicates are wagering ungodly sums as the race goes off and killing every underlay or as they say in business-market inefficiency. So wise guys like me who had the average Joe over a barrel at the race track have lost their edge. I am mad as hell and i aint gonna take it no more.

Fellow Unbelievers,

Folks, algorithms are simply a list of instructions which a computer implements when a certain set of conditions are met. Algorithms are, like other inanimate, non-living, non-conscious, non-rational, amoral objects, only as good or as bad as the purposes towards which living, conscious, rational, moral agents put…[Read more]

@ Jake

We legally limit algorithms in various contexts. Here are some areas where legal restrictions or guidelines may apply:

Intellectual Property Laws: Algorithms, especially if they involve unique and innovative methods, may be subject to intellectual property laws such as patents or trade secrets.

Antitrust and Competition Laws: In some…[Read more]