Betteridge again. Not a chance. It's just the old line isn't working so well any more. Turns out people don't fancy being sold a future where everyone not named Altman is a feudal serf fighting for water.

If you want to destroy the AI industry, just accept their ludicrous claims that AIs are conscious beings 'just like us' and therefore require the same level of protections.

What's the point of testing an AI model in a non-prod environment anyway? What does that tell you other than on a particular day at a particular time, it didn't wreck anything? How do you know it's going to behave like that tomorrow or the day after?

And I did not speak out,
Because I was not trans,
Then they came for the autistic,
And I did not speak out,
Because I was not autistic,

...

Then they came for me,
And there was no one left,
To speak out for me

UK council selling the farm (and the fire station) to fund ballooning Oracle project

The people signing off these contracts have no idea they're about to get eaten by sharks and we all pick up the tab.

35 years prior, tens of millions of people were busy slaughtering each other in WW1. I imagine that might've impacted the number of 65 year olds around.

Strange article. Can someone point me to a reference that says HawkEye Live uses AI? I don't believe it does, at least I can't find reference to it (For example this article https://www.independent.co.uk/...). It uses a bunch of cameras to track the trajectory of the ball and calculates whether it was out or not. I can't see an AI use case there. The problem seems to be some goon had turned it off, not the technology itself.

Neither Italy nor Germany were the dominant political, economic or cultural force when they turned to fascism. I don't think we have a template for what happens when the most powerful nation state in the world goes rogue.

I live almost in the centre of a reasonably large UK conurbation and mobile coverage is garbage. The infrastructure is a bin fire fuelled by grasping companies overpromising and underdelivering. Still. At least it's not railways, or water companies or...

I must say, I'm struggling to understand the source of your animus. I'm simply suggesting that shifting priority from treatment to prevention might be politically difficult when so many appear to see obesity as a moral rather than policy failing. Perhaps political influence on healthcare services is less of a concern where you are.

How much cheaper would it be if we fixed this when the fat person is in their 30s than treating diabetes, heart disease, and joint breakdown in their 60s?

Enormously, but doing so is politically toxic. Interventions are expensive and complicated, and ask awkward questions about agency, responsibility and society. Good luck to anyone wanting to make those kinds of nuanced arguments in this day and age.

It's worse than raptors, it's teenagers...

This country is an absolute and irredeemable shambles. The Conservative party recently spent weeks engaged in a leadership contest and found Liz Truss, a person so badly out of her depth that within a week of her effective premiership, set the nations finances on fire.

Having then selected the least appropriate prime minister we've arguably ever had, they now want to install the loser of said contest. Jesus wept. The entire nation is now effectively held hostage by the collective mental breakdown of the 'natural party of government'. With no means to force a general election, us mug punters have to wait two years for an election while whichever ineffectual toad 'wins' their unwanted unpopularity contest clock watches until the bell tolls for their grotesque parody leadership. The mother of parliaments. What a joke.

Our entire economy is built on ever rising house prices and infinitesimal interest rates. If we build enough houses, house prices go down. People who own houses vote more than those that don't. People who own houses also vote for those who prevent that happening. Thus, complex planning rules suit everyone. Except, of course, those who don't own houses.

Pretty soon you'll be lucky if your high-gain antenna points anywhere...