Let me guess, you bought a house 30 years ago and it has tripled in price since.

Notice how all of the luxuries have dramatically come down in price, while the cost of essentials like home ownership and healthcare, has become unreachable for many. Appendectomy for example, costed about $400 in the 1950's, which is about 30 days of income. Today it costs about $20,000, which is closer to 80 days of average income.

You're also not being completely honest with some of the characterizations. Lead paint was common, but not because they couldn't afford better or safer paint. They simply thought lead paint was better. We might find out that some of the things we use today, such as non-stick pans, are very harmful as well. It has nothing to do with affordability. A uncoated stainless steel pan is the same price.

What matters is not when we understood the problem scientifically, it's when the public understood the problem and viable solutions exist.

1988 was when most Americans learned about global warming, while solar electricity became consistently cheaper than natural gas and coal plants in most countries around 2020. Before 2020, we signed the Paris Climate Accords, we mandated gas mileage, and we got off coal. Things that were possible given to technology at the time. Then between 2020 and 2024 under Biden, we made huge investments into renewables. So it is 100% Trump's fault that since 2024, we canceled those investments and are moving back towards coal.

There doesn't seem to be much to this story. As far as I can tell, they haven't done any scientific or even casual tests to clone open source or closed source. It's vapor ware.

Then why is the Kim family still in power in North Korea?

The types of neural networks used in these classifiers are not LLMs. The expense and difficulty of collecting an image set is going to far outweigh the compute time used to train them.

We are questioning whether the AI is creating something new, or whether it's just copying the original.

It's a question because the AI was trained on the original. Clean Room Design is a well-known engineering technique. It's not a problem when cloning closed source if the AI wasn't trained on that closed source code.

It's relatively easy to setup VPN over SSH, that might work if you need it at some time in the future.

OK, so your viewpoint is a little more clear now. You don't have a problem creating and killing animal life.

What about stem cell embryo research? Or sperm research? Does that bother you?

That's what you do every time you eat. Are you monstrous?

Only Jainism opposes it.

There's basic engineering concepts such as "separation of concerns" and "redundancy", which the average Slashdot reader should be aware of.

That's a small price to pay when 90% of people are not going to notice the extra $1 tacked on. You only need to screw 2 people to make up for the cost of the cashier's time, and you'll succeed a lot more often.

99% of people will not bother.

Intra-day price changes for consumer products should be banned.

I would be very surprised if someone had that argument when the car was invented. You're really stretching for this one.

Waymo might have done the right thing here. If the car had sped away and accidentally run over the person, that would be a very different story.

The guy in the car was annoyed for six minutes and then it was over. I have some sympathy but not really.