Our system of compulsory education does a truly remarkable job of stripping the joy of learning from students early and thoroughly. I'm a high school teacher and at the beginning of each semester, I survey each of my classes to see which students want to be there. Almost none of them do, even the high-performing ones. Making education (or anything) an obligation is very effective for framing it as such, instead of an opportunity.

"He's going to [further] monetize the role of the office of the president of the United States."

Fixed.

I find it darkly amusing that any "Real Steel" robot fight leagues that come out of this sort of thing may be used to both fund and develop the fighting prowess of robots that may later be used jn large numbers by the 0.01% to keep the rest of us under control in a decade or two.

Opt-in is a backup. Opt-out is exfiltration.

I'm sure they've covered themselves from liability deep in a click-through EULA somewhere, though.

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!