As a consumer, the idea of buying a car without haggling with slimy sales and finance people is enough to make me light headed.
If they can make this work, they have my thanks. IF. They will certainly face severe headwinds from entrenched interests.
Loyalty is currently more precious than ethics. So I would not be surprised if the DoD spat over war purposes and surveillance is what has put them on the wrong side of the administration. As compared to xAI that's getting shielded by the administration for it's submissive participation in the Iran war.
No mod points today, so quoting against the "troll" mod bombs.
Parent is "insightful" not "troll".
He needs more humans to spin the cranks on the electric generators to power the AI.
I envision an old school giant spindle being turned by men walking in a circle (ala Conan). Especially favored employees could ride a stationary bicycle-generator.
If (as the summary says) you can get certified by any individual EU country and then "passport around" to operate everywhere in Europe
This is one of those things where the courts give deference to the administration. It is an emergency action. You can litigate it later, but due to the claim of imminent harm the courts will not block the government's action.
Think about when Trump activated the National Guard and ordered them into action in California. The courts ruled against him after the fact, but the courts refused to block the action because the governments claim was imminent harm could occur.
The court MUST give deference to the government in emergencies. Just as you MUST give way for an ambulance with lights and siren going -they get the benefit of the doubt, even if it later turns out they were just sick of sitting in traffic.
There are alternatives to grow::die as a socio-economic system. We could choose to prioritize stability over growth.
If you outlaw [tool], then only outlaws will have [tool].
Fill in the blank according to your needs -it applies to all of them. Outlaw Guns? They are easy to make or buy via blackmarket means. Outlaw an AI? There are other AIs, and they are all improving.
It is just a tool. It can be used for good or ill.
Infinite growth is an unreasonable expectation.
As for the cohort of elderly needing care... this is a short term problem. As the excessively large post-WWII generation dies off, the following (smaller) generations will not have need for as much elder care. We still need to care for our elders, but even this need will not grow infinitely.
20 pages is quite a lot, and if they are losing track of what it is about then it suggests that it doesn't have a very good abstract or introduction that lays out its case before getting into the details.
20 pages is not "quite a lot" for a college student to read. One of the skills they should be building at this level is the ability to pull relevant points from a written work, generating the abstract (executive summary) themselves -either for their own understanding or to then present to others.
You have that entirely backwards.
An inflationary currency is money whose value decreases and purchasing power drops over time, leading to higher prices. Fiat currencies are intentionally designed to be inflationary to encourage spending rather than hoarding cash
The AI s are just MORE eyes looking at the code trying to find flaws. Whether the people behind those eyes use the flaws found to make the code better (by patching it) or worse (by exploiting them) is a matter of human nature.
...but you don't.
The current rules are that the UK could apply to join the EU. The UK would have to go thru the entire qualification process like any other nation applying to join the EU. It would be an excellent lesson in FAFO.
Don't worry plebians. Just because the Government can no longer legally surveil you using old manual methods doesn't mean that you will be left unsupervised!
Our new AI system will monitor all communications in real-time. Homeland Security, with operational support from the Department of War, will act to ensure your compliance. The system is predicted to be 100% accurate*.
*or not.
What actually happened is they refused to let US Intelligence agencies use their models to perform illegal surveillance. So now the US government is illegally punishing them.
It's fine. They can turn to the courts for redress. Of course, it will be moot by the time the courts get around to it..
Working as intended.
The market consolidation was likely inevitable. There is just not enough consumer interest to support as many media producers as we have now.
The problem is this particular ownership group is largely foreign (Saudi). Turning over control of a US news media channel to foreign government ownership is not good.
I know that News Corp (Rupert Murdoch) is foreign and they own Fox, and Wall Street Journal, and many others... but at least Murdoch is not a foreign government.
Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue. - Seneca
