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Comment Re:I feel like with AI there will be no winners (Score 1) 54

The problem is that the context of the pre-2020 works will become continuously more dated. I can't stand most Victorian fiction, even Sherlock Holmes is weak outside of the short stories. Historical fiction really needs to be written from a viewpoint assuming the current context...which means it becomes dated. And this also works, though less powerfully, in the realm of fantasy.

Comment Re:A weapon is a tool tools use. (Score 1) 59

That one can probably be handled (temporarily) just by using a longer key. Which can give you time to do the switch.

The problem is that there's a lot of stuff already recorded that can't be protected that way.

That said, what quantum computers should really be good at is material design, quantum modelling, etc. But they need to be quite a bit stronger. (OTOH, DWave sells a specialized quantum computer that's reported to do a decent job in it's particular niche. It's just not a general computer. IIUC, it only handles relaxation problems.)

Comment Re:Global Warming is Hitting Florida Hard (Score 1) 126

However, Florida is a small enough part of the global problem, that what they do locally will have essentially no effect. They couldn't fix the problem with local actions, and they also probably can't make it measurably worse.

Note that the US is not such a small part. That's a large enough fraction of the problem to make a measurable difference. Scale is significant.

Comment Re:alito barrett and thomas dissent (Score 1) 86

I might well agree that the current administration is worse, and scale does, indeed, matter. But judging scale when one side is crippling state governments and the other side is removing individual rights isn't clear. The events are too different.

One can say that "morally the crippling of state governments to enfranchise the disenfranchised" is better, but it's still a centralization of control.

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