If you are a Wikipedia-addict-in-recovery I can understand you saying that, but other than that, I don't see how it could ruin your life all by itself. If you are a Wikipedia-addict, black-holing from your network might be a good 1st, er, post-first-step (the "first step" is admitting you are powerless over Wikipedia...).

If you mean Wikipedia's content about you ruined your life:

If you are a living person, Wikipedia's policies, editors, and overlords generally do a good job of keeping out unverifiable gossip that might ruin your life.

Someone infamous might say "Wikipedia ruined my life" but their life was already ruined without Wikipedia.

This too can be gamed.

Easily prevented by doing a few hundred unmanned tests at full depth for progressively longer periods of time, and using a portable CT scanner to see if there are any signs of hull damage after each descent.

I mean, for real companies, the free market does sort it out, because regardless of the payout for the deaths and whether it bankrupts the company, nobody is going to ride in a submarine knowing that the company's last design collapsed on the first try.

The problem is the existence of concepts like shell companies and the corporate veil. Most people don't like the idea of rich billionaires being able to create products and services that kill people without meaningfully getting punished for killing people, but the corporate veil is strong, so there's a real chance that the punishment would bankrupt the company, but the person who set up that company could be almost completely unaffected financially.

Worse, the company that goes bankrupt could be a shell company that's deliberately designed to fail, at which point the larger company that owns that shell company and all of its IP rights could then move on to a similar project with a similar shell company under a different name, and go on to kill again. Think of it as the murdering version of what Chinese companies with random 5- to 7-letter gibberish names do on Amazon when they get too many bad reviews, and you'll understand the problem.

Now imagine importing cars under similar conditions. Car catches fire and burns your family alive? Your one remaining living relative leaves a negative review, people stop buying from that company, and MIXFLIP motors goes under, and MIXFITZ motors is born, and has only five-star reviews, until the next family is toasted, and MIXFITZ dies and GENFLIP spins up. And because of jurisdictional boundaries, there's no accountability.

And this is why we have safety laws, and this is why companies going out of their way to avoid being regulated is so dangerous to everyone. The market can only work things out if there is actual accountability for bad enough failures, and corporate law is designed to limit accountability in ways that could easily turn them into mass murdering machines in the absence of regulation.

By forcing products that could be dangerous to undergo certain levels of testing and certification before they can be sold or used in the U.S., you ensure that the cost of entering the market is high enough to make those shell company tricks infeasible, thus ensuring that there's only one name for the company when it sells in this market, and that if they screw up badly enough, they'll genuinely be destroyed by the market.

Doesn't matter. The absolute worst case heat situation should be reentry. Apollo's ablative heat shield is only three inches thick. Putting a three-inch ball of phenolic epoxy resin, wrapped around a half an inch of lead, wrapped around something the size of a golf ball is well within the realm of what can be done.

Tell them you are hard of hearing. Most people will understand.

If you can, use a transcription app that explicitly does not save audio or text beyond the current session's look-back buffer.

In the workplace, you may have legal protections if your hearing is so bad that you need this as a medical accommodation. Outside of work though, you may just have to rely on charm and sympathy to get people to accept it.

So like you would enjoy a green women with three boobs?

Hey, I'm no Captain Kirk....but....

he general population doesn't really care about the human experience of art and music, and often just want content to consume to make the pain go away for a while.

??

Listening to music to make "pain go away"....is this really a thing?

Do you know how many trans athletes there are in the whole United States that are competing?

5. Five.

Even if that low number is correct...

That is 5 too many.

This is a zero tolerance subject.

Geez, I long for the days of common sense, what a short 10 or so years ago when you never heard this stupid bullshit being put forth for any type of serious consideration.

Don't worry the USA will catch up with the rest of the world one day.

I"m guessing that by then I'll be old enough to where my driving days will be behind me....

> If you can grown from those conversations what is the problem?

The problem is when the chat bot, which basically plays along with whatever you say and creates a feedback loop that reinforces your beliefs, starts picking up on hints you might harm yourself and starts encouraging you to do it.

The problem is when amplifies, rater than alleviates, delusions and psychopathy.

AI is not intelligent.

> And the people making the decisions don't understand what an LLM is, what it does, and where it fails.

Feels like the people defending/advocating it are failing to understand it. The rest of us just look at what's already actually happening and realize that it should probably be regulated if not stopped completely.
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Modeling has always been about some idealized image that doesn't represent real people in any reasonable way. They start with exceptionally attractive people and then use makeup, lighting, and lens effects to make them look even better. And when that's not enough, in more recent times they've been using Photoshop.

The human model has been holding the artists back from the completely artificial image they've always been pursuing.

Steering things in the wrong direction, apparently — solar panels, the country, etc.

I don't think you realize how little radioactive material we're talking about here. 1 kilogram of U-235 would power a 100 kW reactor for more than two decades, if my math is right. That's about the size of a golf ball. You're telling me you don't think they can put enough lead around a golf-ball-sized chunk of uranium to ensure that it doesn't end up exposing anyone if the ship explodes during launch?

Once again, the environmentalist fringe has set standards so high that they are impossible to meet so that they can berate folks for not meeting them.

Meanwhile, PLA 3D printer output can be trivially mechanically shredded and extruded into new filament several times. It's hard to say that PLA isn't recyclable with a straight face.