Inglis has obviously never read a single one of Asimov's robots stories, or he would never have uttered that statement. Every single story was about how the 3 Laws fail to work, often in ways that endanger humans.
Ideology vetos reality, news at 11.
This is really no different from many other areas in which you can have conflicts of interest. For example, sports! And the answer isn't to ban betting, it's to ban betting by people who have a conflict of interest. This is well-trod ground.
I'm not particularly a fan of Kalshi or Polymarket and don't really care if they exist or not. My point is just that this isn't really any different from anything else.
The biggest clue that he hasn't read the books -- or maybe just doesn't remember them well -- is that all of the books and stories were built around demonstrating ways in which the rules failed. The 0th rule is only one example, and far from the clearest.
A lot of people behave pretty ghastly when it comes to money.
AI is, and always has been, exclusively nothing but exponentially-increasing requirements for logarithmically-plateauing results.
Any mathematician will tell you what that means in the end.
All of those potential "solutions" require more power. And what does it take to produce power? That's right: water. And lots of it for nuke, coal, gas and geothermal.
Solar + Wind + Battery doesn't require water, and that is what Google is planning to use. I did some searching and found that they've funded additional buildout of a large renewable generation plant (solar + wind + battery) in Gujarat, plus transmission lines to bring the power the 1100 miles from Gujarat. The Gujarat plant is already in progress, the government is investing $70B in it, and it's a particularly good area for renewable generation because the seasonal wind cycle is exactly opposite the seasonal solar cycle, so as the days get shorter and solar generation declines, the wind ramps up, and vice versa.
If this is accurate, this suggests that abiogenesis is easy once one has a stable, watery environment, since it happened twice on Earth.
That was my first thought too. (Assuming the article is correct - all kinds of stuff gets published that doesn't hold up in the longer run.)
One potential conclusion about the Fermi paradox [...]
Remember that time is also big. Suppose that there have been 1000 interstellar civilizations in our galaxy during the past 5 billion years, and that each one lasted a million years before collapsing. How many would be active right now?
Frankly, I don't consider it a paradox at all. We've explored approximately 0% of our galaxy and found nothing. That doesn't tell us much.
Doesn't he know he's supposed to play the fiddle while he destroys his country?
I would certainly not trust a Waymo in most cases
I see you've never been in one.
The fuzziness is intentional because they don't want to be on the hook for accidents if they can possibly avoid liability.
Google and Waymo have explicitly and repeatedly said that they are fully liable for accidents caused by their vehicles.
I have the Euro variant, which is legally required to have a lot of nanny function. Eyes on the road or it beeps, exceeding the speed limit it beeps etc.
Remember Darwin; building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
