The wolves are building the hen house.

Yes, the effort you put into posting "Don't care" definitely shows the kind of hard work you put into your apathy.

I can't imagine any other occupation where a lack of experience is seen by some as a positive note. All that would happen is even heavier reliance on bureaucrats and lobbyists to write legislation. It's like insisting first year med students would make way better doctors than someone with 20 years under their belt. It's absurd, and demonstrates the nihilism and idiocy of populist politics.

All green of skin... 800 centuries ago, their bodily fluids include the birth of half-breeds. For the fundamental truth self-determination of the cosmos, for dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.

So either crypto is facilitating crime or it's directly a crime

The best way to determine people aren't goofing off is to create meaningful metrics of productivity. If the only thing you've got is a glorified Henry Ford era punch card tracking when your physical body shows up at the workplace and leaves, then you've just built an environment for more artful dogf---ing.

Got to keep pumping the scam

Which, of course, is how you do things when you don't care about externalities, and you figure some other group of people will pay the bill. In the case of not reducing emissions, that pretty much means the classic case of privatizing profits and socializing losses.

Robots taking over the world is pretty much *the* AI trope dating back to the very first robot story, Karl Capek's R.U.R. in 1920 (that, along with Fritz Lang's Metropolis created the modern concept of a dystopian future). Heck, push even further back and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein envisioned pretty much the same trope in 1818. It's probably not even much of a stretch to see ancient myths like Prometheus, Pandora's Box, the Garden of Eden and the Tower of Babel as antecedents; in that creators see their creations rise up and challenge their authority.

It suggests that the fear of our creations supplanting us is a very ancient archetype, and every advance from the carucca (the heavy plow) onward has portended massive social changes that could supplant the existing societal order. Killer robots and god-like AIs are simply the latest way to express that ancient anxiety.

And honestly, I don't think there's an answer. HAL 9000 is such an extraordinary character because it really does sum up the potential risks of AI; not in capability, but in what role we ultimately choose for this technology. But the one thing I think history does tell us is that once a technology is developed, it's already too late to prevent what happens next. Someone at some point is going to make a fully autonomous system for some specific purpose, and a failsafe will fail, as they always do. We can try to regulate it, but it feels to me like another ancient story is apropos at this point; Canute demonstrating that even he, as a King, had no power to stop the tide.

Nothing is unambiguously good. The Industrial Revolution led to a period of destabilization that did cause large-scale social problems, and forced governments to create labor laws to protect workers, not to mention that the need for raw materials fueled colonial expansion and all the abuses that went along with that. And the Industrial Revolution is where pollution and anthropomorphic GHG emissions began to seriously ramp up as the world transitioned into using fossil fuels to produce the ever-increasing amount of energy needed. In the long run, this latter effect threatens the very standards of living that the Industrial Revolution created.

I've used ChatGPT to do a merge of two reports that would have been an absolute pain in the ass, taken at least a day or two, and still required a final edit at the end. I managed to create a draft in an hour, which could then be edited with new information and a few fixes here and there. It likely cut the work by at least 2/3s.

It's a tool that can be abused, just like a hammer or nuclear fission, but if used appropriately and sensibly, can aid productivity.

Are you saying wind and solar are on the Communist "wish list"? I had no idea energy generation technologies had any particular political alliance.

It's entropy, plain and simple. Sooner or later, no matter how secure an organization may be at any given point, skip ahead a few cycles, and attention to detail wanes. Managers stop asking questions, project leaders reprioritize thinking the problem is solved, staff do a "monkey see, monkey do", and then new gaps open up, get taken advantage of, management go into a state of denial, project leaders can't get their teams to give a damn, and then the inevitable breach or audit reveals the extent of the vulnerabilities, and management sends out the big press release that's always "We're reprioritizing security because we take security SERIOUSLY!"

Rinse, repeat, endlessly until the heat death of the universe shows entropy is always king.

Well, we all have retroviral genes in our genomes; so in one way there certainly has been "mergings", at least at the genetic level. But the nature of the two organelles being referred to; mitochondria and chloroplasts, in indeed different. Mitochondria originated as free-living Alphaproteobacteria that could, apparently, produce ATP through oxidization. Chloroplasts are the descendants of cyanobacteria, who could produce ATP from photosynthesis.

Both mitochondria and chloroplasts weren't merely enveloped by more primitive eukaryotic cells, they're division and reproduction is timed to that of the host cell, so that when the host cell divides, so do to these organelles. Additionally, both mitochondria and chloroplasts have lost a lot of genes over the 1.5 to 2 billion years that they have been incorporated into eukaryotic cell lines. Another critical aspect of both these types of organelles is that their genomes are not merely honed down to what look like the essentials for producing energy, but that those genomes are very conserved even as compared to the host cells.

If this is the case, even it's early in the evolution of this endosymbiotic relationship, it is a significant discovery.

Or even abuse it seems.