You don't need to spend $400k on AI tokens to make a movie. You can do it all in Blender, and it's free.

it seems silly to ignore technology that improves law enforcement and saves money at the same time.

Even if it harms a few innocent people?

And they were lucky that SWAT didn't come after them. That can get a person killed for doing nothing wrong.

"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer." --William Blackstone

As the literary community undertook a closer read of Nazir's story, many criticized its language and metaphors as nonsensical, wondering how the Commonwealth judges could have seen any merit to them.

My coworker used AI to write a document, and it spat out buzzwords that nobody here uses and so the document as a whole didn't really make sense but it sounded eloquent enough to impress my other coworkers. I suspect the same thing happened in this literary contest, because the LLM can have a strong influence on the weak-minded.

Maybe you have no expectation of privacy in public, but I expect not to be tracked in public. Photographed, yes, even videoed, but not tracked.

We have a law saying that if there are five or more people behind you, you must pull over at the first safe opportunity to let them pass, same.

In many areas of California, pulling someone over actually increases the danger for everyone due to the heavy traffic and the dangerous impact of unexpected slowdowns on the expressway.

That law doesn't apply to the expressway, only "On a two-lane highway where passing is unsafe". And note that it says you only have to pull over at a signed turnout or "wherever sufficient area for a safe turnout exists".

This gives people more time to become addicted to the dopamine rush from using AI and to bond with their chatbots. Anthropic is like the drug dealer who gives out free samples to get more customers.

AI is the performance enhancing drug for tech workers. Someday we'll realize that we need to limit AI time just as we try to limit screen time.

And transparent. I, for one, welcome more transparent clothes!

France decided long ago to build a large fleet of nuclear power plants as they have very little in fossil fuels, not much in hydro, and so on... There's only so far that buying solar PV, electric cars, and such can go in reaching energy independence. It would be impractical to run a nation on only wind, water, sun, and geothermal.

Or nuclear. Even France does not run on nuclear alone.

Who is suggesting any nation get 100% of their electricity from nuclear? I certainly made no such suggestion.

Fair enough!

Another reason to have doubts is the recent Iberian power outage...with an over reliance on renewable energy as the primary suspect as the cause.

False. "The key conclusions are that renewable energy sources were not to blame, although they can provide more support if required by the operator; that a system with greater inertia would have faced the same problem; and that there were issues with voltage and reactive power regulation. Regulations must be updated and there must be greater coordination between the active players in the electricity grid (as well as aligning the response of the protection systems); the electricity grid is a reliable and safe system according to the parameters and models used (planning and operation); and that the procedures implemented were those established".

If it were that simple to run a grid on 90+% renewable energy then I would expect some nation would have made it work by now. Wind and solar power isn't new, it's not like there wasn't time in the last 50 years or so to make that happen.

Solar has been cheaper than nuclear for less than 10 years. Give it time.

It would be impractical to run a nation on only wind, water, sun, and geothermal.

Or nuclear. Even France does not run on nuclear alone.

But it's practical to achieve 98.8% on renewables alone. Nuclear can help to fill the remaining 1.2%.

If your vehicle can go a certain speed and you're riding in traffic along with cars, you're no longer a bike but a motorcycle.

At what speed does Lance Armstrong going downhill become a motorcycle?

Or by favoring for immigration those who cannot reproduce due to age or sterilization. This would be just another factor for consideration in addition to existing factors such as skills, education, and so on.

Traffic is mostly caused by parking spaces, just as mosquitoes are mostly caused by standing water!

How much track have they laid for the $231 billion?

"You've raised this pig since birth and how many pounds of pork have you harvested so far?"

Only $13.8 billion has been spent so far, not $231 billion. Here is a list of structures (bridges, viaducts, etc.) that have been built, and most of the land for the initial operating segment has been acquired. The reason why it's taking so long is because the funding is trickling in very slowly.

Vinegar works well on broadleaf weeds, not so well on Bermuda grass and certain other weeds. And it works best in the summer. So, YMMV. But give it a try.

I'm a fan of propane flame weeding, not to burn weeds but to wilt them and stop photosynthesis.