For a percentage of people this would not be harmful. You could identify those people because they would reject it as fake.

For the people who fall for it, it will be immensely harmful to their emotional development. It will confuse their whole concept of life and death. Death is part of life, and so is learning to accept it. Fucking with your mind with charlatan's tricks will only have negative outcomes. This is the waifu pillow equivalent of dealing with death.

This is becoming increasingly common in the USA too, and we also have a social credit score. It's called your credit score, and if it's not good you will have difficulty getting a job, renting an apartment... Except here it's more of an antisocial credit score since the only thing it cares about is whether you've been a good economic citizen.

War's not a problem which can be addressed through language, so what you said is silly. If you forced changes in language somehow which made it less violent, people would just invent new words for violence which glorify it even more.

So you mean they could pass down history in an oral tradition for thousands of years?

You're totally cool with companies using open source code in their commercial products without honoring the license then, I assume?

It's not about getting paid, it's about not getting exploited.
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We need something like Nightshade but for code and text.

Make AI models unprofitable by denying them reliable data for free.
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I recall when the top Google phone was an LG product which was unreliable and unrepairable trash. The digitizer on my Nexus 4 died and the replacement cost was more than buying a new phone.

Naturally I did not buy another Nexus device. Been buying Moto since. No regerts.

If they give it more battery then it will have a longer useful life (as the battery degrades, and the OS updates cause more power consumption) and then you won't have to buy a new product as soon. They are specifically and only targeting sales frequency with their battery sizing across all of their battery devices.

Alcohol is inherently dangerous in at least two ways. One, it's toxic. Two, it reduces inhibitions in exactly the way that the other substance you mentioned (weed) doesn't. That's why it raises accident risk but weed doesn't - people on weed are able to recognize and account for impairment by driving slower and maintaining longer following distances.

The problem with the auto body repair business is that it's toxic AF. Most people don't last long in that environment, sometimes literally. When you spray paint, it's around half solvent. There are water based paints, but they don't perform as well as the solvent-based ones. When unibodies are painted they spray the whole thing and then bake the paint so hot that it reflows, which is how they get a good result even with water-based paints. Body shops can't do that when they make a repair.

Engine repair is much less toxic, but also in much less demand. By the time most vehicles need an engine rebuild, they need a lot of other stuff too. Doing an expensive engine job and winding up with a sloppy old car anyway makes little sense. And the number of people needed is waning as we shift towards electrics; not rapidly yet, but meaningfully. I wouldn't go into that career at this point, it would be exactly the wrong time.

If history is any indication, AI will be overused, then there will be a backlash and it will be underused, and eventually use will seek the middle. It might flop back and forth a few times, too.

It's already being overpromised, so that part of the usual pattern is already being fulfilled.

The kind of processing "AI" does now is clearly only part of the thinking process, the imagining part, or hallucinating as it's commonly called where AI is involved. We imagine a whole bunch of things and then filter out the dumbest ones, hopefully anyway. We can understand the things we've imagined. AI can't, because it's not thinking about them.

There is probably no heaven or hell, though, except what we create here.

So they've found the mechanism, right?

No, they don't. Coal and nuclear plants aren't located near residences either, but we still lose under 5% in transmission in the USA. The losses are higher than local, but not anything you could reasonably call "high".

It seems like you could do it with any decent firewall easily enough. Certainly on any of the popular Unixlikes it would be reasonably trivial.

The sensors are mounted to, and often optically coupled with, the windshield. When removed and reinstalled they are disturbed and should be recalibrated.

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False. I need to change too, but the whole system is set up to make that inconvenient, so I require systemic change before I will be able to do so. For example, I cannot stress enough how much I want to switch every vehicle in our little fleet over to electric, but it's practical for 0 of the vehicles for me right now. I can't charge them, I can't afford them, etc etc.