The winning 2016 candidate lost the popular vote.

... to blame store employees instead of technology or the management decision to knowingly deploy a flawed technology.

You'll start to see such "accountability sinks" a lot whenever a company needs to weasle out of legal and PR situations caused by their AI deployments.

How 'bout if I buy now and pay after I die?

Space is cheap compared to war and corruption.

sounds like the plots of a cheap SF movie.

He's long-winded, ideological, and sort of off-topic, but he's not necessarily wrong.

Our system of compulsory education does a truly remarkable job of stripping the joy of learning from students early and thoroughly. I'm a high school teacher and at the beginning of each semester, I survey each of my classes to see which students want to be there. Almost none of them do, even the high-performing ones. Making education (or anything) an obligation is very effective for framing it as such, instead of an opportunity.

They shouldn't be trying such a desperate solution without trying chlorox and ivermectin first.

Just don't leave the country after you participate.

For that matter, you may suffer remote retaliation even if you stay home. I would leave this to the military or other government branch.

Also there is the question of legality, government operation or not. It sounds to me like vigilante justice. And countries who like their anti-American cybercriminals will certainly treat it as illegal. (Hence the advice not to leave the country.)

We certainly need a way to stop cybercrime, international or otherwise. But this doesn't strike me as a good way to go about it.

Finally a prediction: in the not too distant future, one or more offshoots from this will turn into unmanageable domestic criminal organizations.

Even Batman's job is threatened by AI.

It's just ET trying to phone home. Probably dialed the wrong number.

Ideology vetos reality, news at 11.

A lot of people behave pretty ghastly when it comes to money.

That was my first thought too. (Assuming the article is correct - all kinds of stuff gets published that doesn't hold up in the longer run.)

Remember that time is also big. Suppose that there have been 1000 interstellar civilizations in our galaxy during the past 5 billion years, and that each one lasted a million years before collapsing. How many would be active right now?

Frankly, I don't consider it a paradox at all. We've explored approximately 0% of our galaxy and found nothing. That doesn't tell us much.

Doesn't he know he's supposed to play the fiddle while he destroys his country?