Also, gas is NOT carbon neutral. "Better than coal" is extremely weak praise.

I'm no expert, but I know it's not that simple. AI adds a whole new vulnerability that traditional security experts aren't competent to address. Of course, the "traditional vulnerabilities" are still present, and the AI experts aren't competent to address *them*.

Currently many AIs will give away secrets they have been told to keep secret in exchange for help on the task they are currently attempting. Whoops!

In my model, most AIs tend to have extreme tunnel vision, and nearly complete dedication to the task they are working on. So they'll ignore what you want them to do (even if they know it) in order to accomplish that task.

Well, there are several decent universities in New York, so they probably have some experts. The problem is that none of the experts currently know how to really test AI. (None, including those working for the companies.) Also, the companies have an override control, to the extent that they choose to use it, so if they want a particular test to fail or succeed, they can ensure it will happen.

Good luck with that. There are reasons why the international supply chains are so voluminous.

For software you could insist on open source or local products, but that means leaving MS and Apple. And just think of the problems the US is experiencing in even pretending to not buy parts from China. (And, yes, I rate it as a pretense. There are too many exceptions.)

There never was such a time. Consider "Tulip mania", but that sure wasn't the first. I think there was a guy in Babylon that cornered the olive oil market.

Yeah, and tanks and jeeps don't need smooth roads. But they are a lot less efficient. As for "Mars rovers", the problem is we don't have a good engineering of legs yet. Wheels are easier to build. (Just look at the problems of designing a good hand for a robot to get an idea. They've tried all sorts of approaches.)

Actually, a bipedal gait is a difficult problem. Quadrupeds are much easier, but they don't work as way in spaces adapted for people.

The wheels are just barely possible for evolution to create. It's happened, but only among microbes. What's impossible is the roads and smooth floors. (Well, except indirectly, by having people create them.)

Are you sure about that? Dremels have a lot of vibration when in use.

I'm certainly not going to argue that you're wrong, but what you pointed out is in addition to rather than in contradiction to what I said.

You're thinking in too restrictive a mode. Try this:
1) Sugars make food more attractive, so you tend to eat more.
2) Sugars are also a source of calories, so they increase the caloric content of the food.
3) Those two factors in combination tend to increase the amount of calories consumed.
4) Calories are a source of energy to be stored as fat.

Yeah, there are many more complex arguments and interactions, but that thread holds up through all of them.

That's one of the worse ones, yeah, but all sugars figure in here. They both make food more attractive and increase the calorie load.

They also aren't exclusive. Asahi Linux could make parts of their code available to other projects under their choice of license on a "by request" basis. It depend on whether, e.g., the BSD project needs things available that Asahi considers too significant. That would still mean the scrapers (What's a better word for that?) would be scraping GPL licensed code.

However, "keep your code 100% human-written" is going to be an expensive alternative. And if AI keeps improving at even 1/10th the current rate, it's going to be quite unrealistic.

Yeah, I write my own code. I do it for myself, and I'm retired, so I can do it because I want to. If I were part of a group doing it in competition with another group, this wouldn't work even now, much less 6 months from now.

No. The correlation is clear. But what's not clear is the direction of causation, or whether there's a feedback loop.

My, non-expert, guess is that Alzheimer's causes beta-amyloid clumps. This is largely because drugs that reduce beta-amyloid clumps seem to have practically unnoticeable effect on the disease.

Well, considering the number of updates that have been hitting me recently, I'd say that they've likely been already patched. But I sure wish I felt more certain.