The Jerusalem Post reports that Dr. Lev-Tov and the doctors at Haifa's Rambam Health Care Campus have all fallen out of a very high window, along with the single computer containing all of their research.

Sincerely, The Tobacco Industry

If history shows us one thing, it's that humanity is remarkably capable at recognizing and avoiding unsustainable practices.

The researchers would like to thank Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Netflix for their generous support and funding.

A 50% stake is arbitrary, indefensible, and dumb.

How about a non-voting stake commensurate with the revenue linked to job loss?

If the AI models are trained on/made from the illegally hoovered intellectual property of countless American (or global) intellectual property owners, then distribute the ill-gotten gains among the original rights-owners. The AI companies can take their middle-man share.

I agree. Putting a hard estimate of 2% (or whatever) on a single event just serves to make one seem less credible to people who understand probability and statistics. It's a manipulation tactic to make one seem like a credible expert to people who don't.

Even if the estimate seems reasonable, it's absurd to claim a specific probability for complicated future outcomes like "nuclear war".

Not to mention all the extra labor and effort it takes to sell a $200 ticket than a $100 ticket. So their 15% addon fees will scale with ticket price instead of with their actual costs, since they have no competition to motivate them to do otherwise.

I think it's more likely they invented a cover story for how they actually found the pilot. Why would the CIA advertise this tech, otherwise? In this case, maybe they just replaced carrots with "quantum".

This.

Does Caprica count as prior art?

One of many such quirks which are absolutely, definitely not intentional nor contributing to widening the economic class gaps or tax burden shouldered by those with the least.

I agree with the engagement motivation hypothesis. Including the meta-engagement, like this thread. There's profit to be found in the long tail!

Our customers are distracting themselves from the distractions they are buying from us.

Idiocracy was prophecy, not fiction.

In the next issue of Dystopian Adventure Stories...

I'm antinatalist, but I haven't seen evidence of most educated people being so. I'm curious if there is data to support this claim.

Right after Fire, The Wheel, Religion, Art, and Cryptography.