The AI would be better at feigning human decency.

... it'll be a PC, then?

You're the one who suggested the dispatcher should have looked. They showed the student the picture while they had him on his knees at gunpoint in the cafeteria.

You're getting desperate.

We already have multiple supercomputers. I, personally, got to walk around BioWulf, at the NIH.

It also ignores that moving pictures are not the same as still pictures. When images are moving, you don't see each frame as clearly, so you can get away with lower resolution, and with a moving image, you can actually perceive far more resolution than the actual pixel resolution of each individual image, because things in the real world don't line up perfectly with grid lines on consecutive frames.

So with moving images, you would expect to perceive higher resolution above a certain point as a reduction in eyestrain and other physiological effects, rather than directly as conscious perception.

The 27" screen was just for measuring the true pixels/degree resolution for human eyes.

Not really, because societies that are religious and don't over-educate girls also tend to be poor and have higher infant mortality rates, shorter lifespans, and crappier living conditions and healthcare systems.

And also, children of religious people are not necessarily religious themselves; they may have a higher likelihood than children of atheists, but it's not 100%.

Or at least replace Trump with an AI.

They had the picture of the alleged gun that was clearly not a gun. That's a DAMNED good reason to doubt he had a gun. They were just too fucking stupid to look at the picture. Too stupid to be allowed to carry a firearm. I agree that there was plenty of stupid to go around. Yes, the dispatcher should have looked, especially since the information came from an error prone AI. The whole lot of them should be re-assigned somewhere where they can't hurt anyone. Not picking up trash, that involves a pointy stick.

It's funny that the one person in the whole story who didn't demonstrate poor decision making was the TEENAGER.

I would suggest that a passenger look at the picture, or they look at the picture before they decide to endanger everyone on the road by driving like a clown for no reason.

I never claimed it was the basics of police training. It is the basics of the society's expectation. You know, the people that ultimately pay them. I would think that making references to things learned in kindergarten and Sunday school would have made that clear.

As for sorry, by the time you actually kill an innocent person (at best negligent homicide), you are probably beyond a simple sorry. But in this case, the kid is right there. A public apology is in order.

It's funny that the much better trained and disciplined military police behave so much more professionally and courteously in spite of being primarily soldiers prepared to go into an actual war zone where killing people is in the job description.

Of course, if they thought about it a minute (not their strong suit), AI would be gone in a flash since THEY are the ones best replaced with AI.

Trump guts nuclear safety regulations

“The president signed a pair of orders on Friday aimed at streamlining the licensing and construction of nuclear power plants — while panning the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for its ‘myopic’ radiation safety standards.”

We now have industry capture of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Who here knows about Admiral Hyman RIckover? All of this is worth reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman_G._Rickover#Safety_record

I would be.

The Department of Energy is selling off more than 40,000 pounds of weapons-grade plutonium from the Cold War arsenal to nuclear reactor startups. All of which I’m sure will be thoroughly vetted and monitored, because this is done under the direction of a former board member. Yikes!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Wright

Who IS Oklo, Inc. the "private nuclear reactor builder/operator"? Oklo is Sam Altman:

Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman

We're in territory where weapons-grade plutonium is being given at fire-sale prices to billionaires who's ethical boundaries include creating their own demand for otherwise unnecessary, high-risk energy projects. Guys like Altman, who get their ideas from Wikipedia articles about Ayn Rand — because they are one rung lower than people who actually READ that garbage.

But I'm sure no inventory of hot nuke metal will ever go missing.

The desire for a lower friction less of a pain in the ass economy. The desire not to waste all that effort and energy across the whole economy? A sense of fair dealing and basic honesty? A desire to keep Mr. Haney from Green Acres firmly in the realm of comedic satire?

I miss my ADC mapbooks more and more.

Not to mention I can easily get a replacement phone if the one I have breaks or just fries from old age. I can get it at semi-competitive prices. No OEM replacements for a car come at even semi-competitive prices.

Also, auto makers have a long history of really sucking at software.