Or, the tobacco companies lose those customers, who spend the money on something else like food or rent.

And that is exactly who should be taking the hit! After a while, they get the hint and pull their money out of the tobacco company and put it somewhere else.

Sounds like win-win to me.

But don't you just want to see it kick that robot abuser back?

Perhaps at the quantum mechanical level, but that has nothing to do with human behavior. Human behavior is determined at a much higher level of abstraction that includes ethics, morals and the consequences of our actions.

So now the question is "Is layingMantis a human or an AI"?

Only if you define "thinking" as something that only a living being is capable of. That is the basis of all arguments "in the literature", by which I assume you mean "poncy philosophical literature".

Funny, given that no supposed-AI has ever attempted a real Turing-type test, let alone passed it.

A real Turing-type test would be based on the "imitation game" and would involve a group of people, each told to converse with the candidate AI while trying to convince a panel of expert judges that they are, in fact , a real person while the other is an AI. Of course the AI would be doing the same thing in reverse. At the end of the conversation, the judges would have to decide which one they think is human, and which is the AI. Every time a new challenger was selected, a new panel of judges would also be selected.

This would be repeated many hundreds of times. At the end, if there was any statistical correlation between the judges opinions and the correct answers, then the AI would have failed.

But what if that is not the case? Does that mean that the AI is "intelligent"? No, it just means that the test was too easy. Thus, the most a Turing-type test can demonstrate is that an AI is a failure, but not a success.

And these effects are so rare as to be negligible.
If you don't want to vaccinate your kids, fine. Give them up to some responsible people and go back to your cave. In any case, keep your disease-ridden children away from mine.

Fuck you, my children and I do not "just have to take" that risk so you can live in your Randian fantasy land. And it is by no means rare: people can be infectious long before their symptoms become obvious.

It doesn't need to be 100% effective. 99% is fine.

You clearly know fuck all about infectious disease transmission.

That's what libertarians don't seem to understand: "crony capitalism" the the only form of capitalism.

Damn right, if what they are feeding their kids is inadequate to maintain their health. Malnourished kids are taken away by CPS all the time, and they should be.

Look up "Straw Man Argument", shithead.

And yet in Germany "the socialist shithole" virtually everybody is better off than in America.
Seig heil, asshole.

A truly progressive tax:
Only tax regressive idiots like you.

About $10 on a $2000- $5000 machine.

What are you talking about? The fan is on the inside of the building that the ATM is mounted on.
That way the fan actually improves the flow of cooled air into the machine.