Maybe.

I've never seen an advertisement for meat, and I've bought meat online. So maybe.

Your idea is that America only has an airforce and can't do anything other than bombing?

I don't know where you get this idea, did you stop reading the news? Did you see that they conquered Venezuela in three hours?

The current task for the US military is to open the straits of Hormuz. How much of a ground force will be necessary (if any) is unclear, but we will see. Incidentally America is the only military in the world that can currently do large scale combined arms operations.

The US military won the Iraq war easily. The problems came when brain-dead politicians made bureaucratic decisions that were completely disconnected from reality, as dramatized by Matt Daemon. If America fails in Iran, it will be for the same reason. Given Trump's tenuous connection to reality, that's a real risk.

in the free market businesses form and compete for consumer money with other businesses, it is the competition that is pro consumer. Unions, like any other political formation, exists to protect special interests, preventing businesses from competing to the best of their ability and pushing prices up - anti consumer.

Five years ago when I bought a car in America the manual was roughly $1000 cheaper than the automatic.

That is believable. A sole developer at a law firm will have random tasks (like, "find out what is in this dbDOS PRO database we found during discovery"). As such, a lot of your time is spent figuring out how to do things that will only have to be done once. Traditionally, you would have spent time in search engines or StackOverflow trying to figure it out. Now AI is acting as a type of advanced search engine for you.

So your work is like the ideal use case for AI.

That's not really true. Science is a tool for testing hypotheses. It doesn't really care where the hypothesis comes from. In this case, the hypothesis is that the human brain can be perfectly simulated by a Turing Machine, which is a reasonable hypothesis.

If they just accepted that as true, it would be unscientific. But if they actually test their hypothesis, it's not unscientific.

At the time when he said that, the number was closer to 90% than to half.

Now it's easier to target, and easier to figure out which advertising is wasted.

A random generator will eventually create the works of Shakespeare.

A current LLM will never create the works of Shakespeare.

Businesses are pro-consumer by definition, unless they are government subsidized. Being anti-union (as I am) is being as pro-consumer as possible. Unions push prices up, consumers want lower prices, unions are anti-consumer.

wtf I had never heard of Zizians, they claim to be rationalists but seem completely insane.

NASA already has this. No need to wait 10 days.

Welp, I can assure you that when I question authority, I am not doing it to gain my own power. I am anarchist to the core.

Yeah that's true.

You are vastly underestimating the power of the US military. An occupation would be easier than Iraq OR Afghanistan, because there won't be outside funding for an insurgency, and because the vast majority of Iranians already hate their government.

Bush was worse.

I was wondering that, too. Linus is vulnerable to intimidation, we saw it when he was forced to accept a code of conduct.

Theo, on the other hand, is not beholden to anybody. If only there were more people like the Rat.