"To say that AI will start doing what it wants for its own purposes is like saying a calculator will start making its own calculations."

That's the very definition of Artificial Intelligence, computers that can think for themselves. You thought you were making super sophisticated computers? You sir do not know what Artificial Intelligence means.

Whether or not AI is even *possible* is up for debate. Make no bones about it, a computer that can become self aware and can make decisions, can make decisions that can be harmful to people.

By selling their cards through a middle man? Yeah real competitive.

So you're saying Rick Perry and George W Bush were powerless to change those laws with a Republican majority in the state capital. Got it...

LMOL I didn't realize lobbyists were constituents. Nice one Potsy.

I know right...what happened to not picking winners....so it's a case of "Do as I say, not as I do."

FTA: "“The mortal threat that ever cheaper on-site renewables pose” comes from systems that include storage, said Amory Lovins, co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute, a Snowmass, Colorado-based energy consultant. “That is an unregulated product you can buy at Home Depot that leaves the old business model with no place to hide.” "

Actually they do because we the people authorized them to do so. When a member of Congress authorizes a federal agency to act in that capacity they are acting on your behalf. That's what a representative government does. You might not like it but it does not mean that federal agency is engaging in an illegal behavior. Now if you want to change what they can do or raise the threshold by which that can do something, you can by working through your representative.

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Because he's infallible and not trying to sell you something? More importantly does he have some peer reviewed research to support that premise or is he just pushing a book? Reading this does not instill confidence that he is making any great insights or than spouting more nonsense buzz words. https://hbr.org/2014/11/how-sm...

Because my computer will boot up 1 second faster? Wow.....performance gains are to be had with memory, size and speed.

Because you're doing what that requires the speed? Boot up? Other than gamers or people who actually use their computers for computing purposes - most users don't care about speed.

LMOL yeah sluggish. Considering how long SSD capacity has been stuck at 320 MB, I would not say they have been progressing fast. Couple problems with HD, the OS not being able to see sizes over 2 TB. EFI was a recent development and not all systems run them. Then there were density issues. Those two seem to be overcome.

Wake me when I can get a 1TB SSD for $70.

They have 5 today as well. Western Digital Black drives have 5 year warranties.

What, speed? That's the only advantage.

Indexing? Think again. The OS does alot of writing to the HD. So depending on how you have you system configured, it could minimal writes or alot.

But HD failure is huge with SSD. Once it dies, good bye data. Regular HD, you can recover data. Long term data storage is not for SSD.