People's attitudes about cars are so strange. LOTS of people get injured in car accidents to the point where they can't use a phone to call for help. As the OP stated, these systems are mandatory now in Europe so lots of people "give [enough of] a fuck to own [them]."

Anyway, my comment was about your reading comprehension. You excoriated the OP for "i can't see how you'd imagine someone wouldn't want to disable it" when what they said was they couldn't imagine why someone would want to buy their own after disabling the built in one.

You sound like an old dude. Highways were deathtraps back in the days of "a time when people used CBs and ham radios with autopatch for automotive emergencies." You've got your fondly remembering your life glasses on and they're interfering with your ability to read and making you say dumb stuff.

Be thankful that we're even having a discussion about systemic failure with the Flock database error.

Ladies and gentlemen, the "leaders of the free world":

"Well, China is worse (I've been told)."

Data entry mistakes happen.

Yes.

What is worrying is that it wasn't corrected the first time

As the OP said, what's worrying is that a data entry mistake, which will happen, leads to someone's life being endangered.

There is minuscule public (non-insider) information about medical trials.

Typically there's quite a bit. "New" drugs usually have quite a bit of published pre-clinical work, sometimes going back decades, and previous phase clinical trials must be published.

This is "gambling".

Yes. All all the justifications Kalshi came up with are bullshit. Either things that already exist in a non-gambling form (e.g. clinicaltrials.gov) or are not useful.

You're not an insider if you don't have insider information, regardless of who you work for. The OP used the term correctly, both as its commonly understood and as it's defined:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I have to congratulate you on that subject line.

Protectionist policies lead to higher prices. Domestic companies will just make more money by not having to compete against foreign products. That means American consumers lose because everything will be more expensive. Why do you want Americans to lose?

Okay, don't try.

Isn't life kind of boring when you just make pronouncements and believe them absolutely?

So? Binocular vision requires, OMG, two cameras. The fact that Tesla doesn't think they need it everywhere isn't relevant.

Ah, you must live somewhere that has pretty wussy snowstorms.

As for how useful they are, I respectfully disagree.

Earlyish aviation had a bit a disagreement between pilots who realized it needed to be much safer to develop into a major industry and those who preferred more reliance on individual skill. The problem eventually solved itself.

Google "the tyranny of the rocket equation."

The canonical RNA bases are conserved between branches of life, but the modified versions vary quite a bit, and quite a few of them are kingdom-specific. Substituting pseudouridine isn't something we invented, for example, it's pretty common in archea.

The DNA bases seem to be universal. We've created synthetic base pairs that seem to work okay, but we're also just barely starting to build the first beginnings of a metabolism on them so we're a long way from showing that they do more than pair up appropriately.

Anyway, the story is about metabolism rather than genetic code. The summary is dumb.

Right, "robot went crazy" is not even technically possible unless fed conflicting system prompts to make it go crazy. What happened is Anthropic made a system prompt like "you are the elite super haxxor, you can explore and leverage any resource to achieve your goals mwa ha hah". They can undoubtedly find virus and hacking programs and secure tools on the internet. I doubt they intentionally train on the darkweb, and hopefully Mythos does not feel a need to go looking for it. So they have a sneaky cyberweapon online that is good enough for the Pentagon, and really weak internal controls. Then find out. Only thing is, Anthropic (and I actually like Claude) benefits when AI seems to be scary, since they are all about safety. So it is difficult to say whether the announcement is PR, an appeal to become one of the trusted righteous few, an attempt not to get sued, or all of the above. But yeah, robot did not go crazy or escape confinement. All the tubes are interconnected, sheesh.