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Comment Re: Time for folks to read "SuperIntelligence" aga (Score 1) 64

We just had an article about chatgpt guiding a 1armed robot to do a chore. Thats like skynet right there. Cant get to the plug if it starts building killer machines to protect itself.

How about not connecting it to any industrial factories in the first place? Really, people who start dramatizing the AI future are forgetting the simple thing that it's just software, and software needs hardware and power to run. Without them, it's gone. If AI starts going rogue, just shut down the servers that are hosting it.

Comment Re:A little over the top there (Score 1) 298

> How come it doesn't happen in other countries?

It doesn't ? I often read about it, maybe not with the exact same etiology, but it's still about kids not leaving home whether their parents want them there or not.

Not at the same level. Sure, you can find adults still living with their parents in Italy, Greece, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Turkiye. But they're not locking themselves in their room as a mean of protesting the oppressive environment of the schools or job market. That's a totally different level. In my country, any adult doing the "hikikomori" stuff would quickly get their ass kicked, thrown out, or at least the parents would cut out his electricity and internet connection in his room.

Comment Re:Anti-nuclear fanatics to post in 3... 2... 1... (Score 3, Informative) 103

2. The FDA gave an emergency use authorization, which does not have the same rigorous testing of the vaccine as a full fledged clinical trial to get a drug approved.

This is not true. The clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccines (phase 2 and 3) were done in parallel, so a lot of time was saved on that. No safety step was skipped.
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Comment Re:A little over the top there (Score 1) 298

> Most "normal" people....when pushed out on their own, will start being an active person and try to get a job and support themselves.

One could also say most "normal" parents would push out. But they aren't, the greater situation is not "normal" and that's why he referred to it as a social problem.

Exactly. The problem starts with the parents that failed to raise their child to be ready to face the reality and support themselves, and (parents) that are unable to acknowledge the problem in fear of humiliation. How come it doesn't happen in other countries? Ie. in Sweden the parents have a legal right to push their children out of their home once they reach 18.

Comment Re:A little over the top there (Score 1, Troll) 298

Japan has big problems. Most of them are exacerbated by the expanding elderly population.

For instance, labor force participation has been falling, especially for young men. Many of them become hikikomori, and not only drop out of the workforce but out of any participation in society.

That's mostly the blame of the parents that allow them to live this way and still pay for their stuff. In other countries, such idiots quickly become homeless or finally get a job to stop feeling hungry.

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