So every website on the Internet ?

about $100B revenue by the top 5 companies. It's amazing, Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta and Oracle have raked in billions since 2022. And all they had to do was spend about $1T to do it.

So if you want to get into an amazing investment opportunity, I can help you turn $10 into $1 without the use of AI. Without needing to build data centers or boil the oceans. Simply mail me any amount of money you wish to invest. And I will within 5 business days send you the profit back. Up to 10%!

Methodology to determine causality varies (that is, did the person die from the jab or something else), but for the set of COVID-19 vaccines specifically and taking data back to 2020 the number is dozens to hundreds of deaths. Not millions.

Both death and life-time disability are possible outcomes both for infectious disease and for vaccines. It's an exercise in statistics to attempt to do the least harm. MMR vaccine deaths are very low for example, but infant mortality is high for measles, mumps, and rubella. With complications in children such as loss of hearing, loss of sight, and intellectual disability. And for adults a very high risk (70%+) of developing arthritis. Where as the MMR vaccine does not carry these same complications.

We've been applying this technique to other species on a large scale and world wide for 60+ years. Everything we do has some consequence. We should only do it when the benefits outweigh the consequences. And the models of what the consequences of SIT (sterile insect technique) might be are treated very pessimistically because we know that we don't know everything.

SIT is at least superior in many ways to how we currently control mosquitos in areas of the US that are getting a surge of West Nile virus (like my neighborhood). My local ecosystem doesn't need non-native mosquitos that spread disease, here we have Aedes aegypti (the yellow fever mosquito) and Aedes albopictus (the Asian tiger mosquito). Usually county spends out a truck spraying a larvicide such as Temefos. Of course spraying pesticides all over where your children play and bees work has risks too.

Before being publicly traded they were privately traded. Any start up that IPOs already has a board and shareholders. And often even shareholder elections, at least for the voting class shares.

Having a practical way to cash out is what being public means. And unfortunately that can also lead to management (board or non-board) playing fast and loose with goals and reporting in order to pump up a stock price. So that employee and executive alike can bleed off some of their holdings as a tidy little bonus. Even at the expense of business interests. (I'm not saying Anthrophic will do this, but I've seen it happen elsewhere in the tech industry)

nobody has any idea what AI is going to need 5 years from now, let alone 20 years. Don't tack garbage onto DNS that is bound to be irrelevant, I don't even want to see an IETF RFC in the listing on AI because these documents are meant to be for long-term use. Anyone designing for AI today is not forward thinking.

Beats another holodeck episode.

The current state of AI for this (I recently started working on a new project), is AI can find and summarize topics. But it has poor temporal understanding, it doesn't understand that documentation is out of date or that old Slack discussions or Confluence comments that were never incorporated into the documentation and code are irrelevant. Using it as a tool to sniff out potential trails seems to be about all it can do. From there, you as the human being have to investigate AI's claims and resolve the conflicting information.

That's moral relativism. It is neither right nor wrong to ban porn.

Personally, I don't feel strongly about it. It doesn't affect me, I don't make money selling it. Yet, I don't want to pay taxes so a bureaucrat can regulate it.

Given their performance during my lifetime, the CIA isn't capable of decent counter intelligence. Perhaps to save its own skin from its own country would be different.

Did not detonate. But it was an explosion.

No True Scots man would say this.

The gap between the haves and have-nots is growing.

Big Tobacco knew cigarettes were harmful when they published A Frank Statement to Cigarette Smokers in 1954.
They harmed people. And published misinformation campaigns to cover it up. The industry used its money to influence elections and hire lobbyists that frequently used bribery schemes to sway politicians.

If someone believes in absolute freedom for corporations to do business as they please, then perhaps all the above just seems like a smart business strategy.
If for some strange reason you believe that the government is answerable to the people and not to which ever business has the most money, then the above is probably very troubling to you.

If society is harmed by people that exploit people's weakness. Then why shouldn't we band together to restrict such activities?
What's the point of being in a society if not for mutual benefit, including protection?

If weakness included not locking your door, then by extension we shouldn't prosecute burglars. Obviously nonsense.

Nobody forced Meta or advertisers to hack the human mind in order to extract what they wanted from them. And demanding personal responsibility from children and the elderly is nonsense, like squeezing blood from a stone. People's susceptibility to being manipulated isn't going to go away just because you think they are weak-minded.

Needs to be fired. It's simple, if you don't vet people hired into a senior position of a federal agency, then you ought to be terminated as well. Actual qualified people apply for jobs and are skipped over to hire conmen. The process is broken and people should be deeply disturbed, both in terms of violating the public trust but also for the implications to national security.