It was an LLM that chose the target.

Yes, the data was outdated. The LLM still chose the target.

Yes, it was a human who ultimately made the decision to launch the attack. They trusted the LLM, which chose the target.

I'm not saying it would not have happened if not for the LLM, but if the LLM wasn't involved there would have been more humans involved, and less trust in the data, and maybe someone would have caught the error in time.

Regardless, my point is that they are already using AI to make decisions about who to murder. That is a fact even the Pentagon admits, and Peter Thiel brags about.
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> Nobody with any sanity whatsoever would honestly suggest that at this point.

They're already using AI to identify military targets.... that's why they blew up a school full of children with cruise missiles, remember?

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Third option: The same person/people who has influence over Trump also has influence over everyone else in the party. That being big donors and foreign powers, mostly.

But in terms of DC politics it's mostly fear of breaking ranks since that'll get you ostracized.
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Given hat innocent people are necessarily going to get hurt, and a successful surveillance state would be much MUCH worse about that, and that innocent people mistakenly caught up will generally receive better outcomes than innocent people intentionally targeted (e.g. getting charges dismissed etc), then it seems like leveraging the flaws of the system to argue against its creation is definitely the better option.

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The money men are the only ones who want this shit.

Better not drive near any normal cctv cameras or ring doorbells then without covering your plates first.

It's interesting that the response to less than perfect license plate recognition is to brag about how a total surveillance state is so much easier to implement in Europe.

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The whole point of plates IS to identify a vehicle and where and when it was. Whether thats done by eye or by machine doesn't make a huge amount of difference so long as in the latter case the data isn't stored if the plate isn't flagged in some way.

Visiting the US and canada I always felt their plates were fairly useless even for human eyes never mind AI beyond a fairly snort distance. The characters are too small and the varying colours and designs of the plates doesn't help either.

The only thing I can infer from your reply is that you do not understand what either (or both) "fascist" and "socialist" mean.

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You're assuming that most politicians care what people want.

That's most important is what the corporations want. The value of a total surveillance state is a great secondary benefit for the fascists currently in power, too. You don't have to imagine being tracked down and harassed, if not outright prosecuted, for protesting or campaigning for the 'wrong team.'

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Turbine blade recycling is a thing now. Perhaps there is still room to scale, but it exists.

Oddly, one of the most cost effective methods is to grind the blades up and feed them into rotary kilns used in cement processing. The resin burns clean providing supplemental heat reducing fuel use offsetting emissions, the glass fiber melts and becomes part of the silica for the final product, and any metals are fully recoverable.

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> 300 gallons PER TURBINE! That's a lot.

It really isn't. That's roughly one full tank of diesel for one semi truck.

> so little fuel most plants still keep all their spent rods on-site

They keep the spent rods on site because they are FORCED to. it takes a few years before the self-heating from radioactive decay lowers enough for them to be handled without active cooling. Until then, they are kept first in water pools (which also shields the radiation) for 3-5 years and then moved to air cooled steel canisters inside concrete casks.

> Your 20~30 year claim seems to be the first result and also in AI-generated answers. It goes against what I've heard from farmers and ranchers.

"AI-generated answer versus personal anecdote which isn't even personal because I'm actually just citing a podcast." Except the 20-30 years is not "AI-generated" but documented standard for planning and evaluation purposes.

If your concern is wasting/laundering money, then that's the nuclear industry in a nutshell. Tens of billions of dollars per plant, with billions in cost overruns, over decades of construction.
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Unfortunately the word "life" is a rather catch all term for what in reality is a range of processes and "what is life" is more a venn diagram than a hard definition. Maybe life requires A, B, C or B,C,D or A,D,E but doesn't need all of them at any one time to consider "alive".

A chemical system that can reproduce via a stored code and copy that code is the hard part of life , wrapping it inside some sort of bubble its probably relatively simple, and given how small cells are and how large the earth is I wouldn't be surprised if once genetics got going it happened multiple times but only 2 lineages made it through.