Are you suggesting California is particularly bad for those things? It's easy to look up data, you know.

Here is data on government corruption. Louisiana is the worst with 1.05 convictions per year per 10k government employees. California is better than average with 0.25. The very best state is New Hampshire with only 0.07 convictions per year per 10k government employees.

Runaway government spending is a bit harder to measure objectively, but is government debt a reasonable measure? California is right around the middle of the pack with debt of $2833 per resident, compared to the national average of $2637. It varies from a low of only $356 for Idaho to a high of $9418 for Alaska.

> Once, the one time 5% is spent the state will have to figure out how to do the one time 5% more than once to keep feeding the spending machine.

The money to be raised is already budgeted as a separate fund for a specific purpose. It is not intended to be general funds nor is it intended to be ongoing funding.

Think of as a bond. When the government wants to raise money for a project or investment in the future, they will often issue and sell bonds to raise that money. Bonds mature and pay back with some interest, and are not recurring or factored into the normal budgeting.

This is functionally the same thing, except instead of borrowing via bonds and paying back with interest, it's just a straight up tax on billionaires.

=Smidge=

When Zuckerberg blows $100 million on one employee, China is probably cheering him on. When your competitor is doing such a good job of shooting themself in the foot, why would you stop them?

China wants American companies to spend a ton of money creating the best models in the world. Then Chinese companies can use distillation to create almost as good models at a fraction of the cost and undercut them on price.

If AI makes human workers more productive, it becomes more profitable to hire human workers and the demand for them increases.

If AI makes human workers unnecessary, it becomes less profitable to hire human workers and the demand for them decreases.

The balance is subtle and hard to predict. If you still need humans but they can do more, that leads to more jobs. If you no longer need the humans at all, that leads to fewer jobs. In the near term, we're probably going to see a lot of both cases. Some jobs will increase, others will decrease. It's really hard to predict which ones, or how the total number of jobs will change.

In the long term, the fraction of jobs where humans can be completely eliminated is likely to grow steadily. The number of jobs (at least, productive non-busywork jobs) will shrink. How long that will take is also hard to predict.

Boosters are risking their freedom and even their lives. If it was easier for them to find work then they'd do legitimate work instead of boosting. Selling at flea markets is a job itself, so they're clearly willing to work.

Because the website helpfully provides structured data with tags which make it clear what it is, it's very easy to just use old fashioned and cheap filters to exclude content like that from the training set without losing anything else.

I don't think those things would work. The knowledge of how to create state of the art AI is widely distributed. Tens of thousands of people have the knowledge and skills to do it, and many more could acquire it if needed. The data centers are a commodity. Currently the demand exceeds the supply, making it an expensive commodity, but it's still just a question of money.

If you started killing people and sabotaging data centers, you'd risk going to prison for life and invite retaliation. And what would you get for it? Maybe delay one of your competitors by a few months. Even a sociopathic CEO would see that as a doubtful value proposition.

Protesting something that doesn't happen is better PR for you than protesting something that does...

If you've got 1 bad cop, and 9 "good" cops who are covering for him, what you've actually got there is 10 bad cops.

You have it exactly right. I can see why you didn't post with an identity, you'd get punished by the reich wingers. Wage theft exceeds all other theft combined but maggots are still crying about shoplifters

That's strange. I see cops regularly harassing the homeless, young people, people of color, and anyone who doesn't fit the standard white conformist profile, but rarely see the other "regular" human beings doing so. Where do you live that all the "just human beings" are falsely arresting, fabricating charges against, and ruining the lives of people they don't like and/or that won't kiss their ass?

I said I have known / met them. I didn't say they were my friends. Have you ever heard of police associations? Have you ever been to functions that cater to the police? Have you been in and around the criminal court systems where you regularly meet cops? Do you have any relatives with decades in law enforcement? Do you have a family with strong ties to departments in hundreds of different cities and towns? Did you go to visit all these various departments and meet the officers? Were there over 200 uniformed cops at your father's funeral? You don't know anything about me, so calling me a liar might not your best path to informed and intelligent commentary. Cops are like M$ Windows: the more you know about them the more you realize they should be avoided unless there is no alternative.

I have known thousands of cops including a stepmother who rose through the ranks from beat cop to chief of police, and have been at functions with hundreds of cops telling stories of all their crimes. Everything I said is based on first hand evidence except the additional video proof I pointed out. Further research into you shows that you come from a cop family and are a known bootlicker.

I can assure you that most cops are criminals, that they regularly disrespect citizens who do not stroke their egos, and become dangerously unprofessional anytime they think there is an opportunity to do so. Bodycam footage is a major factor now, but one only needs to do some actual research, for example the Bricks and Minifigs / Reckless Ben case, where redacted bodycam footage normally never exposed makes clear how cops actually behave when they think they can get away with it comes to light. Cops don't become cops because they have a strong philanthropic bent. They become cops because they want power over the people who picked on them in High School, or the people who know what bullies and small minded twerps they actually are when they don't have their fellow gang members to join in their crimes.

The $5K a year just gives you a $300 per person per visit discount. So pays itself back in 15 visits or so.