You left out paying off blackmail.

He said "relatively". Perhaps he just really thinks the blockchain is public. Paypal MAY publicize your data, the blockchain will.

(FWIW, I've no experience with either, but that's what I think his argument is.)

LLMs have no direct perception of the world. They can't even understand in the normal sense. They are a necessary PART of a real AI (that wants to work with humans).

Well...it *is* useful as a model of human language...at least *some* human language. The problem will come if it starts copying the reasoning.

Nah. What it should be called is Gossip. Just like real gossip, but without the need for personal involvement.

You are overgeneralizing from one exceptional example. For many being a slave was a slow death sentence...and not that slow. Most never escaped from slavery. A few did. A very few did, and were later successful.

OTOH, it was less uniform than later "S of the Mason-Dixon line" (and even that was more varied that stories suppose).

You are failing to distinguish between "this particular slave" and "slaves in general". Slaves in general lead miserable lives. A few particular slaves lived quite well.

Slavery is unfair and immoral, but also widespread. It even exists among ants. This is because in many circumstances it is to the advantage of those who are powerful. And decisions are never made with the consideration of the goals of the slave as a primary desideratum. But this doesn't mean that it is never to the advantage of the slave.

That particular slave? Possibly. Slaves in general? ... No way. Ask one of the thousands of child slaves that died in the Athenian silver mines.

That's an absurdly inappropriate use of the word "necessity". "Inevitably" would be a much more appropriate term. And given human nature, I think "inevitably" is reasonably defensible, but the implication of "necessity" is unjustifiable.

"But the manufacturer said is was safe" is not really convincing without a supportive history. I've run into too many cases where one of the terms wasn't defined in the "obviously correct" manner. Or perhaps there are failure modes that aren't covered by "thermal runaway".

The argument about propane tanks is better...but when I lived with an external (butane) tank, it was placed at a considerable distance from the house.

You'd want it outdoors anyway, and separated from your house by a firewall. Storing large quantities of energy is dangerous.

Check out "adverse possession". Whether that *should* be recognized, however, was not what I was considering.

Nah. People have been eating bugs ever since before they were people. Making a dietary staple when there were alternatives would be something new, though.

OTOH, shirmp and crayfish can be thought of as essentially large bugs. And there are those that recommend fresh termites. (Mostly, admittedly, Chimps, but a few of those who study them.)

FWIW, if we didn't eat chickens there wouldn't be so many of them.

Saying that they have "no rights" is flatly unconstitutional. Saying they had no right to stay, or not right not to be arrested would be reasonable. But the first is a stronger political statement.