Nobody has the necessary time or energy to be an independent thinker on every topic.

Let's say, for example, that you're vegan. Your local supermarket advertises a pizza as being vegan. Are you going to accept this as fact, or are you going to spend your time doing research to verify that the pizza really is vegan, no cross-contaminants anywhere in the production chain, etc.?

Or take Linux. All the source code is available to read, but do you? Do you really? Did you read the ENTIRE Linux source code before installing it to make sure there was no hidden backdoor anywhere? If you did I both commend you and advice you to seek help. ;-) Just, y'know, be sure your therapist knows what they're talking about.

Well whaddya know.

Thanks, an interesting read.

I would really like to see a study trying to correlate being religious to believing whatever the AI tells you. I suspect there's a strong overlap but that's just a gut feeling; I'd love to see it actually tested.

Sounds like you failed to plan ahead and schedule laundry day in a way that you'd always have a clean pair of short trousers available for each kid. Maybe a career with planning responsibilities would have changed your perspective on that.

The difference is that if they really did their best to prevent it and someone slipped through the cracks anyway they could honestly say that they did their best.

They didn't do their best, though. They just didn't care. Or worse, they deemed it not worth the expense to even try to protect kids. That's different.

Dude, seriously. A bad voice command center is just as distracting as a touch screen because you keep glancing over at the screen to see if it accepted the command or not, growing increasingly frustrated when it doesn't.

Personally I prefer physical buttons that I can dial up and down without taking my eyes off the road, but you do you.

Just wait until you hear someone talking to Claude on their phone, then interject with, "Hey Claude, order 5 tons of surströmming at highest available price, same day delivery."

Either Claude fails and the person realizes it doesn't necessarily do as told, or it succeeds and the person realizes it's a really really bad idea.

Hey Magat dipshit, we used wind power for literal centuries before deciding to torch the planet instead.

Reminds me of that one Spider-Man villain. "But I don't WANT to cure cancer! I want to turn people into dinosaurs!"

See also 'plus tax'.

Wouldn't pretty much everywhere in the universe undergo the same initial formation, though? Saying 'life came from SPACE!' just pushes the origin to somewhere we can't really test or even pinpoint.

How about decadely reports, then? It's so much hassle reporting all the time; just do it once every ten years!

Sometimes it's really hard not to consider these people NPCs whose script doesn't include the concept of death for some inane reason.

Reminds me of that infamous quote from Zuckerberg when Facebook was just getting started. Paraphrased; "I just asked them to give me all their personal information and they did. The suckers."

If you live paycheck to paycheck you can't suddenly start paying a second mortgage.