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.

No, I'm not. I'm just not so debilitated by Trump et al. that I can't see past his relevance in US politics.

No, it's not, because it will be selective bullshit. The favored will be immune. The ebil ones will get the shit end of the stick.

I get the tightrope they're trying to walk. Completely agree with you there. Thing is, it won't work out the way their naïve techbro geek brains think it will work.

To normal people, this all looks heinous. When something inevitably happens beyond the confines of openaianthropichuggingfacewhomeverf's little sandbox and fucks with something normies actually understand, the reaction isn't going to measured and deeply cognizant of all the techbro nuance and balancing act. It will be a big fat banhammer swung with enthusiasm and great force. Politicians will make it their issue and lines will be drawn. "Experts" and regulators will spring out of the woodwork with all manner of shackles and limits.

They can't stop talking about it: they're making new headlines daily for the same incidents. They think they're simultaneously white knighting about "dangers" and also promoting their work as sci-fi next level powerful. All they're really doing it engendering a massive backlash. They'll get it when lawmakers figure out how to persecute the people responsible when LLMs attack. How many hours until an LLM is used to compromise the email/phone/whatever of some senator and all hell breaks loose?

That may have already happened....

Why would it even need to be "guaranteed"? That is a really stupid standard. If it usually does better, that is quite enough. And it usually does better. Anybody denying that has simply absolutely no clue about the tech.

Same. I did think about skipping COVID late last year, but I noticed my that many of my students were down for 2 weeks or longer and some told me they had a "really bad flu". Probably COVID going round again.

Lies, lies and more lies. And no, 2 days is _far_ too short for a Covid shot to kill. You either die immediately or weeks later if the vaccine is the cause. You need to make up better lies.

Yep. One wonders whether they bomb Iran because they are _envious_ of the regime there ...

I disagree. Critical thinking is not natural for most people. And I doubt it can actually be taught to most people. But we have about 10-15% critical thinkers in the human race and they crop up in the most unlikely places, like people born into a cult, with no outside contact, that manage to find out what is actually going on and leave. That would indicate that for at least some people it is quite natural.

That is a really difficult question. We do not know enough.

Most or all dementia variants qualify, for example. As soon as it is more like kognitive incapability, maliciousness, narcissism, etc. it gets very murky, because Science still has no clue at all how a human mind works and why it is even possible.

Well, COVID does not kill that many people anymore, also because we know how to treat it now. What was true back when is that the COVID deaths (and deaths of others needing intensive care) go through the roof when you run out of intensive care experts and ventilators. And also remember that being on a ventilator for a longer time leaves pretty bad damage, the less the experienced the expert is, the worse the damage. Dying is not the only concern.

Yes, that is far too complex for the MAGA idiots. I guess they are also very surprised or outright deny the measles outbreaks. Or that they apparently still have not managed to find out where the explosive diarrhea comes from. Sack experts, stop tracking and you get far longer times to fis things like that. Apparently also too complicated an idea for these people. I wonder what medical disasters will be next.

I would say that, but many of them have children they inflict anti-vaxxing on. That is more like attempted manslaughter. On the other hand, especially the MAGAs seem to be perfectly fine with child abusers, so maybe that is part of their belief system?

Same. I am usually down for half a day after the classical shot. And the improved effectiveness is also very welcome.
Now they need to start working on the common cold as well. Would not mind at all getting rid of that one.

While COVID was horrible, one of its good effects is that vaccine research got restarted. Vaccines for humans had stagnated far too long.