Probably a sign of the Decline.

Watson made assertions that he could not support or prove. As a scientist, he refused to put up or shut up, and lost a great deal of his reputation out of his own stubborness and philosophically anti-science behavior.

Goes to show that nobody is perfect, and even with great genes you can be a useless tit.

Kind of ugly and dumb. I miss the wilder side of computing, back when we were rebelling against mainframe business culture.

Can't he afford to lease a building in town that is zoned for this use and has proper support for increased traffic?

Ultimately it's the taxpayers that pay when roads need to be repaved, widened, signs added, and signals installed.

Or you could have just one bank nationalized and let the rest compete against that as a baseline

Yea, we used to be kind of a big deal.

Most bubble economies output little CO2, since they are fake and built on hopes, dreams, and sweet little lies.

Surely one of these are going to fuck up and kill us all.

Hindsight being 20-20, we should have built guillotines the next year.

Consequences. The word you're looking for is consequences.

The race to surveil and market every human being on Earth. This only works at scale when we dedicate massive computing and energy resources to this bullshit. And governments and billionaires agree, this is what they want for us.

You as the target of this AI gets no choice. You don't get a say in the company board, as you don't hold voting shares. You don't get a say in your government because you didn't pay for a million dollar plates at a Mar-a-lago luncheon. And you don't get to refuse as a consumer because you're not buying AI or marketing services, you're the product.

Welcome to the new feudalism. Your just a peasant that is bought and sold with the land. It just happens to be virtual land now, and they call you a user instead of a peasant because it sounds nicer. But what rights do you have? In a way fewer because your peasantry status is not even generally recognized. Denial is a powerful tool for warping reality.

If a strong basic income is the right answer, we will try every other conceivable option first before getting to that one. The people in charge will wage a literal shooting war on the working class before agreeing to a slice of the profits, control, or property.

Say what you want about Biden, but he isn't the President anymore. So, at least my side didn't elect a senile old man for a second term.

We don't see a lot of blame placed on a 4-20mA, not because it's rare but because it's quite robust.

We're carefully refining our estimate of our level of ignorance.