This just leaves more product for other countries that run by morons, probably reducing prices worldwide. This is why much of Africa had 5G wireless before the US did.

- market is a collection of all people involved, who is better suited to decide on what the value is other than all of the people as a collective vote?

- they are removing the money from the gullible, which may be argued is a better way to redistribute the money (all done willingly even though misguidedly).

- the market has already decided that the parents of heirs were productive enough, that even their heirs can now enjoy the fruits of the labor of the people who made the money.

- dangerous by what measure?

Milton did not do a rigorous analysis -- he was speaking off the cuff. With many more decades of data it is clear that a literal handful of notable failures are offset by hundreds-not-dozens of successes. Libertarians are like (and very often are) the Dunning-Kruger champs, listening to one fringe theory and putting fingers in ears when conflicting data comes to light.

It most certainly does. I did say "adequately trained".

Citizens United.

'Nuff said.

In Stargate, that's pretty much how Asgard ended up dying out. Genetic engineering/cloning, at some point made them unable to reproduce completely many generations down the line. Even being super advanced technologically, still couldn't solve that problem.

It is a game changer, just not the way it's being used. The accellerating advances of robotics are almost all from the use of AI trained in specific tasks. ChatGPT couldn't operate a robot, but neither could the AI that runs Boston Robotics' Spot converse with you.

It's akin to the cops' Thin Blue Line, the judge is also a lawyer, he doesn't want to upset his coworkers.

If it fixed the leak? Why not? Especially if it enabled them to fix it faster and/or cheaper.

Just FYI, AI is in use in the construction trades already, most people aren't aware of that. For your example a draftsman can feed the plans of a building into an adequately trained system and map out the most efficient routing for plumbing and cabling. AI is operating excavators, scheduling contractors, driving inspection robots, recognizing bad concrete pours from drone images, and the list keeps growing. In China there are entire mines being worked by only robots driven by AI, and AI powers their "lights out" factories.

I don't see any issue with an AI creating legal citations, **IF** it's adequately trained specifically on legal documents with the guard rails in place to only use cases that actually exist and which actually pertain to the topic in question. Obviously ChatGPT and its kin are not up to that task, but they're trained in everything under the sun, and the old rule of GIGO goes into effect. A legal AI doesn't need to know anything about running an excavator, how to feed a goldfish, or the Kardashian sluts' sex lives, including crap like that into your training is going to produce garbage output.

You keep saying that, but I don't understand why you think so. LLMs have been in use for over a decade in robotics and they work very, very well. AI is why Atlas can do a backflip and Kuka robots can paint 10,000 quarter panels without a single drip, the system rechecks its work for errors before committing to the machine, and then checks again afterward to ensure that output was what was expected.

Kind of makes one wonder about the Libertardians' belief that their social construct would be maintained by incorruptible judges, honest lawyers and juries with the wisdom of Solomon.

Fake references have a long and disgraceful history. Cram 30 or 40 citations into a filing and the judge might look at the first few and assume the rest are more of the same. IIRC this has occurred even in case filed before the Supreme Court, where the last citations were actually cases which pointed in the opposite direction that the lawyer wanted but no one bothered checking for quite a long time.

I'm just glad that cops tend to be too computer illiterate to start using chatbots to file their cases (so far). There's at least some slim chance the Bar may rule against one of its own, but the Thin Blue Line routinely covers up crimes as serious as murder and drug running so there'd be no hope from that direction.

I didn't say that builders didn't use F-150s, just that a monster truck with a 6 liter diesel isn't necessary. It's far more a macho thing than anything else. If you need to haul a horse trailer or an excavator or something, then yes, otherwise it's excessive.

Hee, hee. My dad was a fanatical fisherman on the Great Lakes. I remember looking out on the whitefish grounds on Grand Traverse Bay one winter and seeing one black dot on the ice, which we knew was Dad, and an ice breaker with the oil company ship behind it. The reason that I had looked is because the ships were blasting their horns at him to get out of their way. Stubborn bugger that he was, he didn't and eventually the ships had to go around him. When we asked him about it he said, "The fish were biting, and I'll be damned if I'm going to move when they're biting!"