Isn't that exactly how Putin got Trump elected? Carefully releasing leaks on Hillary, all true and carefully cherry-picked, even if obtained illegally.

Are there any unintended consequences? For example, am I allowed to replace the chip on the credit card with my own, however crappy, design, and all payment processors must accept it? Would that open the door for credit card cloning and/or fraud, if payment processors are banned from requiring any specific secure chips? Is a nuclear power reactor plant allowed to buy replacement parts off the internet marketplaces? Are cars forced to accept any accelerator pedal, vs. one that is safety certified to not launch the car into your living room? All those examples may be hyperboles, but I can seriously see some unintended consequences. Perhaps the likes of Tesla will simply log the fact that customer is using a non-Tesla accelerator pedal or motor controller, so if it does end up killing people, they can point at the owner as the responsible party for installing non-OEM parts. Not sure who, other than the lawmakers, would be responsible for credit card fraud perpetrated by a rogue device forced to be accepted by payment processors.

I suspect your question was meant to be rhetorical, but there is an answer and it's quite simple - because lobbyists spend money on politicians via various "donations" to campaigns or organizations, which benefit the politicians.

Perhaps the real reason they got banned is "they didn't donate enough" rather than "they didn't attend a meeting".

Summarizing the financials:
* They raised $3bn
* They borrowed/owe $0.5bn-$1bn
* Their assets are worth as little as $1bn, but could be worth $10bn if they got lucky during liquidation
* They are not solvent (hence chapter 11 bankruptcy)

Sounds very much like crypto startup financials, FTX baby sibling perhaps? Is there a Thrasio coin?

What happened was even the non-religious just invented a religions of their own. Whether worshipping a deity, money, wokeness, or whatever, so many groups are just acting like cults nowadays. Internet and social media helped all these cults, grow their membership, and then radicalize them. Nobody talks anymore, you are either ultra left or ultra right, anyone in the middle is just attacked from both sides. No enough people willing to be moderate, open to civil discussions, agree to disagree on some things while not forcing their own values on others. Humans are animals, and they evolved to live well in villages. Sadly, this doesn't work when the village is the size of a continent or a planet, shrunk by speed-of-light information (true or made up or anything in between) exchange.

Neh, NASA should just offer to store embryos in their freezers for IVF customers from anywhere, then collect government assistance from the state of Alabama as foster parents, since each embryo is a child. Could be a good source of revenue.

If you're on welfare, you should be able to collect government assistance per child. If you have a hundred of them in the fridge somewhere, even if you make good money you would still qualify for government assistance, give you legally have 100 children you take care of.

For charging, the government is incentivizing expansion, but completely ignoring reliability. Collecting reliability numbers as a future plan is still not tying them to the incentives. The charging network EA recently admitted they didn't even plan for maintenance in their past budgets. Think how much more effective the government incentive would be if it was per KWh delivered - some guaranteed schedule for incentive per KWh delivered varying by location, determined by where expansion is most needed. Inoperable charger does not dispense any energy, so does not earn any incentives. Maybe then the companies which take the incentives would care more about charger reliability and effective charger speed (so many chargers operate at reduced speeds nowadays).

On the EV purchase incentive front, the government is also screwing things up, politicizing the EV incentives into trying to incentivize not just EV purchases, but unions, domestic manufacturing, international policies, pandering to their voter base. It used to be simple, based on battery size/range. Today the rules are so complex even the government cannot quickly tell you which cars qualify for whom. I've been driving EV's for over a decade, but recently bought some ICE cars again as the government incentives made buying EVs more expensive - an unintended consequence of all the politicizing of the incentives I'm sure, nonetheless, I no longer have just EVs in the household. Based on old rules, I would have bought EV's.

Considering academics today mostly just regurgitate each other's papers, which almost nobody else reads, I completely understand their fear. That is something AI is really, really good at, devaluating their skill. Perhaps the world will move back to academia actually making progress in their fields, inventing new things, useful to society vs. just for another academic to regurgitate into yet another derivative, or to pontificate about to other academics. They should be using AI as a tool to help them, but if their entire skill is what AI does, well, they will become obsolete.

How do we differentiate real deciphered content vs. AI hallucinations? Can we validate that in fact the deciphered content is what it originally was intended, or just an AI interpretation akin to people seeing object shapes looking at cloud formations?

Reminds me of the academics and politicians proposing backdoors for all encryption technology, or limiting web browsers to 128-bit encryptions. Worked out very well, didn't it? Kill switches, backdoors, etc. for dual-use technology are more of a liability than not having them, since they can all fail and/or be used for nefarious purposes.

Legal precedents apply to all, not just corporations. Also, it's not that hard to start a corporation - have the "legally separate entity" AI start one before buying the ticket if it's needed.

If Air Canada argument was to hold up in court, this would be a great precedent to take advantage of. Someone would start offering a downloadable AI which would order AC tickets online using your credit card, the give them to you in exchange for your time filling out a survey. After using those tickets, you claim fraud on the credit card, AI is charged with fraud, it turns out AI died of natural causes (it exited after a period of inactivity), Air Canada gets a chargeback, case closed. Next trip, new instance of AI is born, but as per Air Canada argument, just because you spawned it and gave it your credit card information and where you'd like to fly to, doesn't make you liable for what AI does with this information.

Actually, had Apple not signed the agreement with Google, I was going to start a search company which would provided search results to Apple and the rest of the world, should have a market cap near google now. I think I'm owed some compensation here, I figure I would have owned about 12% of the company by now. I'll take 12% of Google as a settlement. I know, I will have to pay taxed on that settlement vs. had I just owned shares from the get-go no taxes till I sell, but I'll swallow that in exchange for a quick settlement.

Want to put those scientists to work eliminating racial discrimination in the world, great idea. Birds named after a name of some scientist who first cataloged them or some significant person in their lives is not racism.