Let's wait until the last possible second to talk about preventing a world-ending catastrophe. What could possibly go wrong?

No, actually. The amount raised so far is $1.2 million. And the money hours to her parents for (purportedly) the living expenses they have incurred in relocating to Massachusetts to attend the legal proceedings, not to Lindsay herself.

This whole thing is being spun as if liberal women support the atrocious death of those three kids. They don't. Don't fall for rage bait.

How do you know? Until last year, we humans were the only creatures capable of high-level reasoning to ever exist on this planet. Something new is being created, something that is potentially capable of self-improving and becoming far smarter than us. We should treat it seriously because--once an AI gets sufficiently smart and resourceful--we won't be able to stop it.

He did think... his post laid out a plausible chain of consequences stemming from the legislation. Maybe it's right or maybe it's wrong, but he added something to the conversation instead of resorting to name-calling.

The winning 2016 candidate lost the popular vote.

... to blame store employees instead of technology or the management decision to knowingly deploy a flawed technology.

You'll start to see such "accountability sinks" a lot whenever a company needs to weasle out of legal and PR situations caused by their AI deployments.

Space is cheap compared to war and corruption.

He's long-winded, ideological, and sort of off-topic, but he's not necessarily wrong.

Also, the very concept of remote proctoring is a foolish dream. The kids are going to outsmart you... some of them anyways, and then they'll tell their friends how they did it.

No real worry about that: the usual crowd is greasing palms and heavily funding opposition to candidates who oppose AI or want to regulate it.

It (might) make sense for him because they will (probably) treat him very well, despite being more authoritarian (and evil) in general. This also makes sense if he prioritizes career over politics.

Absolutely no incentive. Normally ransomware gangs (I've heard) strive to provide great customer service in order to maintain trust that they will decrypt future victim's payloads. But since this attack was carried out by AI the data was at the mercy of a stochastic parrot. The lesson learned for the attackers will probably be to ask the attack to execute a known script once it achieves a toehold instead of trusting the prompt to do so the work.

How about we nationalize all those nice new data centers and pay dividends to all taxpayers? Oh, is that not the sort of solution they had in mind? *Shrug*

Was it premature? I don't have a dog in this fight, but from the summary it sounds like he broke a clear rule, was given warnings about his behavior, and then eventually banned after persisting in that behavior.

Misinformation is a genocide engine. That was true before social media (remember Yugoslavia?), and it's true now (see Myanmar for a recent example).

The problem with the internet is that it greatly accelerates factionalization (via filter bubbles, foreign influence campaigns, and algorithms that optimize for outage). It's fertile ground for seeding doubts and conspiracy theories (5g, flat earth, "pandemic", etc). This is corrosive and disintegrative.

To invent civilization, humans had to create and improve countless "social technologies" including language, art, religion, finance, law, corporations, and various schemes for distributing power and curtailing selfishness. The internet (and now AI) are something new and wholly transformative... we need new social innovations to deal with the problems they create. We will have to try a lot of things (many which, sadly will backfire or be abused) and it will take a long time.