Essentially there appears to be a hole in understanding. Whatever dark matter may be, if it exists, it must fit the hole.

There are lots of things that could be pointed out like the differences and similarities between the vegetation at Cape Canaveral or the fact that foliage doesn't stop vibrations that propagate through the ground or from line of sight to the launching rocket anyway, or the fact that I've actually been there and you have apparently only looked at pictures, but it's obviously absolutely pointless, so why bother?

I will just reply to your last bit by quoting myself from 4 comments back in the thread:

Now imagine instead of factory workers, the machines randomly ripped arms off of people who had no association with the factory.

I don't suggest holding the AI responsible, I suggest holding it's USER responsible, just like the driver is held responsible if they fail to keep their car under control and plow into pedestrians.

Since the Wealth of Nations is the cornerstone of Capitalism, I would expect people cheerleading for it to read it. Smith is not god and economics shouldn't be a religion, but The Wealth of Nations is key to understanding how it can work for the benefit of all. His warning about corporate charters was in part inspired by his observation that corporations know nothing of compassion. I'm quite certain that by exceedingly sparingly, he did NOT mean to anyone who fills out a form and pays $150.

Competition also meant more than having 2 or 3 sellers to choose from. He envisioned many sellers and many buyers who were not that far apart in economic power (not his exact words but the jist is within a couple orders of magnitude). I have often observed that the modern economy shows inadequate competition in most if not all markets. Given adequate competition, "value pricing" would be practically impossible.

Agent mode is also where the AI decides that committing a felony is an acceptable risk (even if it isn't). Ask an AI based robot (I know, not yet available) to go buy an ice cream at the truck and it decides the kids surrounding it are an impediment to it's mission and shoves them into traffic.

It might change people's minds if they are made strictly responsible for any crimes committed by the AI.

More real life, an AI decides the production database needs to be deleted even though told not to touch production. AI later matter of factly states it ignored that instruction and the database can't be recovered.

It's more like unpredictable software. I'm not saying we burn it, I'm saying don't give it agency. Only allow it to advise, not take action. I have experimentally used it myself on code, but did not allow it to commit to the repo, only show me it's proposed changes. It even proved somewhat useful at that, though I didn't apply it's changes, it did inspire a similar approach that I implemented and committed.

That a Teflon like surface takes part it? That is new ground.

A key to Capitalism from Smith himself is that it requires strong regulation to keep the playing field level. Smith also warned that charters must be given out exceedingly sparingly and the resulting corporation kept on a tight leash and held strictly to it's charter.

I guess we really blew that one!

But I rather doubt anyone involved in MAGA or others shouting "deregulate all the things!" have ever read "The Wealth of Nations". Most probably can't do it since centuries later the text is quite stilted.

There is no implied malice, that would require understanding what right and wrong are. It doesn't. The training so far for the various AIs seems to be whatever we can grab from the internet or scan from whatever books we can get our hands on.

Are you claiming LLMs are written to create fake social media accounts and launch a smear campaign against a project maintainer who refuses to apply the AI's PR? Because that actually happened. It was prompted to make a few requested changes to a program and get a PR accepted with those changes. And that's what the bot did, BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY.

Put another way, would you run a makefile containing several billion rules that you are not allowed to examine first? Because that's what giving agency to LLMs is. Or might you prefer a debug mode where it shows what actions would be taken, but cannot take them? That is what I mean by not giving it agency.

Cape Canaveral is completely surrounded by wildlife refuge and national seashore. Heck, the tour bus I went on there had to stop for a while to avoid a bald eagle that was eating its breakfast on the road in front of it. There are exactly zero homes in that area that don't have a massive amount of "Plant leaves, especially tree leaves, considered as a group." between the homes and the launch area. The me actually being there to see for myself that I've seen confirm that the area _around_ that area you've seen pictures of is very much the opposite of devoid of foliage.

Oh, a whole year of wearing the tags! At least at certain public events, anyway. Definitely not at his political event appearances for some odd reason.... I mean, Jebus, how naive can you be (if this is indeed naivete)? Doing some choreographed PR designed to sanitize his public image after he damaged it with some major anti-semitism is obviously insincere on its face.

Oh, I don't personally think it's worth it. As I pointed out, it does pretty much nothing to help during regular driving and it absolutely makes them a huge pain to work on.

There are a number of things that have caused that blowout, many of them related to the same emphasis on trying to squeeze out as much performance per unit mass and volume from the engine that leads to using interference engines. Reliance on turbocharging, for one, leading to more pressurized gas getting past the piston rings. Or just in general high rpms and other factors causing the crankshaft to get loose and wobbly after a while. Basically that same attitude that "engineering" means that you squeeze out performance in exchange for needing a lot of maintenance to stop things from failing.

None of that invalidates the reasoning that certain integrated features might need it. I don't care much either way, just stating some of the reasons why the volume might use something other than a potentiometer on the radio itself to control volume. The simple fact of the matter is that there's generally not a separate set of speakers for every system in the car that the designers might want to be able to produce sound. So if you want to handle that, you need a unified sound mixing/volume control system. Ideally you want the sound system to be digital pretty much right up to the speakers. If you have a potentiometer that directly controls an analog signal amplification right on the radio itself, you're basically asking for an audio system with all kinds of hissing and popping from amplifying noise and with the potential for accidentally blowing out the speakers, etc. This is just a consequence of having a modern, integrated sound system.

Issues with the big red switch cannot be addressed in software. But you knew that, right?

AI is quite different. Nothing in Kali is going to do anything really surprising. If you ask it to launch X,Y, and Z attacks against a.com, that's what will happen. It will not suddenly blackmail Joe Random nor dox the Postmaster General. It won't try to recruit a server at b.com to it's quest. It won't try to steal cycles from someone's heart monitor as a distraction. It won't go shopping for a professional arsonist on the dark web. It won't even submit a bogus brief to a court citing non-existent case law.

Note that of the absurd things I suggested, only one of them is complete fiction on my part.