Doesn't the first law pretty much rule out military use? I think that was a major point...

Of course, he wrote a whole library about what happens when you muck about with shades of meaning.

The infotainment system on my 2017 Subaru (the year before Subaru added CarPlay & Android Auto) had several "current" applications and integration at the time it was sold. I've watched as most havel stopped functioning, including Subaru's own, which was shut down about 11 days ago.

The system which Subaru was comically proud of (and savagely mocked for) at the time - is supported exactly as I'd expect from an auto manufacturer: Absolutely no software maintenance, buy an entirely new car next year if you have a problem.

At this point, the only of the "app" services that still "works" as well as it originally did is Pandora. Even SiriusXM is partially broken - apparently Subaru and SirisuXM blame each other for the problem, and nobody is fixing the problem. Good job, fellas!

AM/FM, AUX port, Bluetooth, and the USB DAC still work.

Come to think of it, I wonder if the aftermarket 'integration'/iDatalink units are better for my car now that a few years have passed... it may be time to switch out head units.

It's not that AI isn't going away - we need to prevent ourselves from developing AI that's smarter than us.

Think of it like nukes: We have them, they're not going away. But we did stop making bigger ones a long time ago.

The number one rule of programmers is "don't trust programmers". We're not mega intelligent computer wizards. We spend half our time cleaning up the mistakes of the developers that came before us, and the other half making mistakes for future devs to clean up. If you're really honest with yourself, you know it's true.

Disaster is inevitable with current software engineering practices. https://xkcd.com/2030/ "Our entire field is bad at what we do, and if you rely on us, everyone will die." isn't just about voting machines. It's about software engineering period. Humanity doesn't know how to do it.

You can try to say it's scaremongering, but it's emphatically not.

Critical systems includes any power source.

Without electricity -- specifically without refrigeration, most of us are going to die very quickly.

That means there is a risk of a "wage-price spiral" where wages chase prices and prices chase wages. Breaking that spiral can be very ugly in economic terms and very difficult for the Fed to accomplish.

Egads! What do those employers and workers think this is? A free market economy or something!

It's not so simple as re-using it. "Plain" water itself is part of the nuclear reaction, so injecting radioactive water changes the equation ever so slightly.

It's a matter of "which is actually safer for everybody," and letting the experts who are actually qualified to make decisions make the call.

The hard reality is something *will* fail soon, and waiting really isn't an option given the volume of water involved - something's going to fail. A planned water treatment and controlled release is likely a better option than an unplanned, untreated, and sudden release when a tank fails.

So, people of Earth: pick your poison, because you're drinking one. The UN approved one.

There are already at least two uncontained nuclear reactors at the seabed, and their effects haven't been world-ending.

Sometimes there's no happy ending, just one that's less sad.

I'd argue against Deans Ultra as there is no shield of any kind for the male pins. (Yes, they're supposed to be unpowered; unless of course they are partially inserted.)

These days, there's no excuse for a contact that's exposed from the side when partially inserted.

"cold, dead hands" I think they call it...

I just... what!?! The inner workings of the human body are driven entirely by chemistry; the drugs doctors prescribe are chemistry, substances patients ingest, inhale, or apply to their skin are chemistry.

I've never known a single good doctor that wasn't good at chemistry. My brother is a dentist and his other major area of study is O-chem. My own dentist is the same. My physician knows chemistry backwards and forwards, and my Gastroenterologist is pretty impressive with her chemistry knowledge too.

Saying a medical doctor doesn't know chemistry is about as sensible as an engineer that doesn't know math.

Nah.

There is a paradox of freedom: that pesky matter of other free agents deciding they're free to slowly feed you to a wood chipper, for example.

There are boundaries; the only matter up to debate is how to maximize aggregate freedom for all, and whether feeding people to wood chippers is a freedom or not.

Is a pocket-switch really fake though?

Which is safer? A green piece of paper or a really big prime number backed up on 70,000 different computers? People gotta keep score somehow.

Of course... Don't forget we got that qubit count ticking up almost every day. Can crypto-currency keep pace with the digital arms race?

This would be a little bit like the "bottom" falling out of the real estate market. (which only happens in some parts of Central America, dern sink-holes)