A little bit of finesse and you can cause a massive loss of face. That will get a chinaman's attention.

Yes, all of those things should be legal. Prostitution because the alternative is "white" slavery, drugs because the alternative is massive nation destroying violence and people who harmed no-one spending their lives in jail (ie more slavery), and child pornography because the alternative is increased rates of child rape, as has been shown in Japan and even in the West where such pornography was perfectly legal until the 70's, and was produced professionally under strict supervision for the benefit of the actors, who had a good time and were paid exorbitant sums.

Then you should worry. They are primate level on some if not many tasks already. Thing is, they don't have to be the SIZE of a human brain to match humans, as most of our brains are used for serendipitous crap like breathing and sexual arousal levels. An insect brain is plenty to process images at primate level, if devoted entirely to that task.

"are talking about AI that we are not even remotely close to building"

This assumes linear speed of progress, which hasn't been the case for well over half a century. Exponential progress means you are barely making any progress at all then you are suddenly done.

...depends on the size of the set.

They provide deterrence to certain behavior by providing negative consequences.

It can't. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.

Very well. There's still violation of a couple of department rules concerning preservation of emails and the scheme may also illegally obstruct FOIA requests.

Just like gravity causes two objects to attract each other, right up until some fellow shows the force sometimes repels.

Yes.

Here's the cliff notes version:
EPR = ER is true if Podolsky equals 1.

You don't understand Karma.

The victim deserves whatever you do to them. For actions in previous lives. They are at -1 to start, because Karma.

But in that case, what's the advantage of implanting it?

It gives the powerful yet another way to assert their dominance over the less so. And because the powerful are only so because of a system that backs their baseless claims of superiority, and can only continue as long as the powerless keep buying the lie, new ways to propagandize are always needed. All the little ritualistic humiliations society is so fond of, from drug tests to getting groped by the TSA, ultimately come down to the same message: "you are nothing and must obey your masters."

It's a sick, if fascinating, game. It's also one that can't go on forever, since effecively crippling people cripples their society too, yet that society still contains a very strong cultral leftover from feudalism. So what we really have here is a narrative of equality fighting a narrative of hierarchy, leading to very confused people doing completely irrational things - like wiretapping everyone in the name of freedom - without really understanding why.

A bunch of us who actually manage systems tend to disagree.
Hundreds of DOS ini files, having to compile things instead of just modding a script, and not being able to step through a startup or shutdown process is not what we all consider easily manageable.

If it really were easily manageable, it would not have caught so much flak.

Sometimes you're the octopus, sometimes you're the girl.

Pink Floyd's first studio album is close to 50 years old. Bootlegs of their early gigs are often included in unauthorized box sets and some of them are now 50 years old. Yes, many old recordings are still bringing in buttloads of revenue.