The term ultra-processed foods is one of those "I'll know it when I see it" definitions so far. Until they can actually define what that term means and use that as a meaningful way to identify foods that have common characteristics that may be bad or good under what circumstances, then anything someone says about his dangerous they are is full of shit because there is no category.

they will be liable for 'errors' because of their guarantee policy. they don't want to deal with it, and I don't blame them. but this rule can't stand for long. once the market is full of only automated agents, they will be missing a market opportunity that others are taking advantage of so I see this as a temporary legal reprieve for ebay.

they aren't criminalizing anything. they are establishing a category of tort (a legal liability for which you can be sued by private entites) and establishing the initial boundary in law. this is a common practice.

this actually helps protect musk because it puts the tort on the user who actually does the thing instead of the company that makes the bot. you are grossly misunderstanding the issue.

Rather than blaming the tool maker for what people do with it, expose the offenders themselves (the person who makes and uses the image, not the person who makes the program that made it possible to make the image) to legal tort. Problem will eventually be solved.

Credit card companies will have to write down their outstanding debt. Even if not in full. It will blow a hole in balance sheets, cause a panic on wall street. contagion is a risk.

If everyone thinks it's their 'right' not to have to pay back the fees they have racked up, banks will have to write down all the consumer credit debt. Just watch.

I agree.

I've actually been tracking this! In 2016, it cost me $40, with tax and tip, door to door for 1 large pepperoni + 1 extra large cheese + cheese bread from papa johns. In 2020 it was $49, in 2023 it was $53, and in 2026, last night, the same order cost me $67. (I tip 20% the entire time.)

the bots have trouble now for sure, but look back 5 years and tell me you thought any of this was possible back then.

Writing Software: which if you aren't familiar can do pretty much everything knowledge related and produce any ditigal artifact. Still more: software can generate control instructions for physical media - like a fork lift - just as easily as it can crank out a PDF, and we have Language models that can already generate the code for that. So think bigger.

Yeah, for example, the copy writing example of TFA: Instead of the interns doing copy writing for a column or two they will be in charge of operating ChatGPT to write 10 of them at a time, or similar things thereto. The scale of work possible by one person will increase, the thought processes will move up one level of abstraction, but many of the same tasks will take place as before. We will just be able to do things we didn't think were practical before after completing them all. Think of how cell phones and ubiquitous internet changed our lives. This will be like that, except for all the grunt work. Entry level just moves up a level of difficulty, but it's ok, relatively speaking, because the new crop of employees have AI to help.

I know I'm just one person, but I'm sure there are many more like me: I ONLY buy audiobooks anymore. (And yes, I do use the accompanying PDFs when I need them.) I have purchased almost 600 books from audible over almost 2 decades now. I just can't take time to sit down open a book, but i definitely can blast one over headphones when I'm on the mountain bike trail, driving out of town, folding laundry or whatever. It allows me to fit reading into my life where I otherwise would not be able to. So, far from just converting users from print to audio... I think audio is expanding the pie of readers in general to those that couldn't afford the time.

My wife laments the downfall of ThinkGeek, because she used to know that if she couldn't find a gift for me at the store then a random desk goodie from ThinkGeek would always work. Now, it's once again a struggle.

I don't want any administrations having this kind of say. unless they can technically define 'monopoly' and all of its legal criteria, they have no business enforcing it. We should know before we do something whether or not it will be considered illegal based on black and white criteria. none of this 'I will know it when I see it' crap. That's how you get graft.