Drone state of the art puts us closer to such a world every day.

While "the government is very stupid" shouldn't be ruled out, given pattern and practice of government in general, and this government in particular, "Missing nuclear scientists! National Security!" seems like it could serve as legal cover for a wide range of possible abuses.

When a random jihadist throws a firebomb at your house, that's Arson. When a random jihadist throws a firebomb at a billionaire's house, that's Attempted Murder.

These are not incompatible positions if you believe that management is foolish, malicious, or both.

Which Apollo misson was was "fly the talking meat by the Moon in a can"? Apollo 7 was a flight test in Earth orbit. Apollo 8 entered lunar orbit and returned to Earth. Apollo 9 was a Lunar Module test in Earth orbit. Apollo 10 was a full dress rehearsal for Apollo 11. The only Apollo mission that just sent a crew and their ship around the Moon and back was Apollo 13... and even they had a perform a - heroic under the circumstances - maneuver to put it back on the free return trajectory.

Write code that's very inefficient and readily fails but no one cares because there's money to be made has been the status quo for computer programming for quite a while. And in turn, that is just one facet of the modern world's willful ignorance and wholesale rejection of resilience. That ignorance and chosen brittleness are what's going to crash human civilization. Our modern programming is just one self-destructive tool among many.

And you'll be working even harder, because in the end the boss-class will get back all the money they set on fire, and labor will pay for it, one way or another.

It seems largely like an excuse to keep using (and paying for) decades-old shuttle hardware until its gone. Plans for SLS hardware beyond the pre-existing kit seem unlikely to come to pass. And while there's a little science getting done along the way, Artemis II doesn't appear to be anything like the pre-landing Apollo flights, more publicly stunt than dry run for Artemis III.

It's close enough to seem material, but far enough away for everyone to forget that you said it. (Unless, of course, you happen to be somewhere close right by sheer chance. Then you can pull out your prediction and show it off to everyone.) Like when AGI was predicted in 18 months... over two years ago, in late 2023. But hey, something did happen 18 months later - Sam Altman explained that AGI "wasn't a super-useful term". Perhaps a better comparison would be when Mustafa Suleyman, predicted in September 2023, that "Even Inflection will be 100x larger than current frontier models in the next 18 months". [1] Anyone care to share if they think that was an accurate prediction? 1. https://twitter.com/aisafetyme...

A good reminder that ChatGPT and its ilk (including their corporate owners) don't just steal. They also lie.

Because the Mozilla Foundation understands the real problem with the Rebels was that they didn't have enough Sith Lords.

The previous poster already explained - the law is a cudgel the boss class uses when some of the proles get uppity and start doing things reserved for the boss class.

is that I don't watch anything produced by Netflix much anymore, and very little on Netflix at all. My subscription is pretty much running on inertia at this point. Even things that I expect to enjoy, or that I was looking forward to, I typically don't finish. When I want background tv, I put on one of 20th Century series I liked, purchased on DVD and ripped to my media server. This has been a gradual change over the last year or two, but the thread topic brought it to mind.

Just wait until I get my data center full of Cray X-MPs up and running. I'll have a GigaWatt of compute in no time!

The "truth" is that NPR covered a well-documented liar, fraud, and "reality" TV host, best known for wrecking everything he turned his attention to, and treated him as a credible presidential candidate. Honest coverage would have consisted of consistent reminders that Mr. Trump was grossly unfit for office and a danger to the nation. Instead, NPR (as with nearly all news coverage) acted (and largely still acts) as though it has an obligation to present some imaginary median point between the Democratic Party (who would be moderate right in many times and places) and whatever destructive madness the GOP pretends to care about this week.