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Comment Re:Is vice signaling the new virtue signaling? (Score 1) 110

... compared to the taxes and employment they give of, I can't think of something with lower impact.

What taxes? A lot of these things are being built on sweetheart deals that exempt the owner from taxes for long periods of time.

What employment? The construction jobs are for skilled tradespeople who would have no shortage of other jobs to do in the absence of these projects. And there are only a handful of jobs at the finished data centers.

And then there's what they're being used for - AI slop generation and mass surveillance, mainly. We'd be better off paying all these people to dig ditches and then fill them in.

Comment Re: Another tool in the toolbox. (Score 1) 82

Basically, people speculate that maybe there's something special about the brain that a computer can't do

That something special is the ability - or inherent tendency - to want. To form objectives. To decide how one wants to spend ones time. To take joy in the unexpected. To hope, to dream, to feel. Yeah, these are hard, or even impossible, to test objectively for, but that doesn't make them not a real distinction.

Comment Re:In other news (Score 1) 197

In fact, following someone in person who does not want to be followed by you is considered harassment, and is illegal. For example, Minnesota statute 609.749.2, specifically (c)(2):

(c) A person commits harassment under this section if the person:
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(2) follows, monitors, or pursues another, whether in person or through any available technological or other means;

Just because you think it is not illegal does not make it legal.

Comment Re:But why? (Score 1) 197

Opportunity to further destroy America's credibility with the rest of the world?
Opportunity to put us in a position to be unable to assist allies such as Taiwan or Poland should they come under attack from our rivals?
Opportunity to unleash utter chaos on a region that has disproportionate economic impact on the rest of the world?

Some opportunity.

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