1) People are discouraged by SEEING the high price. hiding the high price is not 'discouraging'.

2) Hiding intentionally high prices is called GOUGING.

3) The best way to 'discourage' use it to not list it as public.

These people are scammers. You can charge high prices if you want but you have to prominently display them. Anything else makes you a gouging scam artist.

Because if the only way we can get the money to cure diseases, then I wonder will this start to happen?

Have a rare disease? Only hope is for you to and intentionally infect the son/daughter of the wealthy.

The entire idea of taxes is to take the money from all - including the wealthy - and use it for the common good. We should NOT have to pray the wealthy becomes interested enough to do it on their own.

There are lots of ways to use "solve this also" to ensure that nothing gets solved.

The stereotypical example is:

Party A want to solve homelessness. They create a new building that will house them. Yay, we got a law passed!

Party B hates poor people and decides to make sure the new building fails. So they pass the following restrictions added on to the law.

1) Make it a drug rehab location also.

2) No dogs allowed, they might bite people.

3) Put it in the worst part of the city, nobody wants these homeless people near them.

Surprise surprise, the new building is filled with drug addicts. Crime is rampart. And nobody I mean NOBODY wants to go there.

If you want to solve a hard problem often you have to make sure that NO OTHER INTERESTS are allowed to be considered. They cannot add in extra stuff.

A good homeless solution is to make many small buildings throughout the city with some designed for dogs, some without, some designed for drug addicts, others not. Make some for those with mental problems, some for families, some for just women, some for ex-cons, etc. etc.

If some fool thinks an AI written ad will be better than a well written human ad, they will lose the election. I have listen to so much AI slop it is so very very competent without being excellent.

The AI YouTube videos as carefully designed to stretch out the video as long as physically possible without actually telling you the thing they keep promising to tell you that it makes this extremely long run on sentence look like it is a short, brief, concise one word answer you get from children when you ask them how their day went.

The best Ads hit hard on specific issues. AI may eventually be able to do such a thing. But the current state of the art leaves much to be desired.

Still blaming the victim. Being overweight is a sign of diabetes, but now you are blaming people for being overweight.

Studies have shown that upto 70% of overweight people have genes that influenced if not caused it.

I am not saying kidney disease isn't preventable, I am pointing out major issues with the way people look at fat people.

Blaming people for disease is rarely appropriate. Unless they were directly offered a preventative treatment (vaccine) and refused.

These vehicles are well made. Yes they cheated. So what. American car companies need to learn how to compete, they do not need to be 'protected' from capitalism.

Here is my advice:

American cars are too expensive. You can keep your current line up as your 'top of the line' luxury vehicles.

But you need to make a "average joe" car that is significantly cheaper. Last year the cheapest major brand car was a Mitsubishi for $31k. The cheapest 'American' car sold for $35k (Buick). If we cannot BEAT that $31k, then we deserve to out of business.

Yes it will be small. Yes it will lack features. Yes their profit margin will decline. The Slate truck has a proposed price of under $25k. Ford, GM, and Stellantis should EACH be making a line of vehicle for less than $30k.

If they cannot do that, then they do not deserve to be a major American car brand.

I want American cars to be desirable by people BESIDES Saudi prince. To do that we need to expand what we make on the smaller, low end side of the business.

1) We should definitely make a rule that people should be legally responsible for anything their AI agents do. If they hack something, you hacked something. If they blackmail people you blackmailed someone. This will effectively outlaw current AI agents on computers connected to the internet. Eventually that might change.

2) Super intelligent AI's do NOT refer to AIs 'smarter than humans'. Instead it refers to AI's that are substantially more capable at certain specific tasks than humans are. Just as calculators are better at figuring out the square root of something.

3) AIs are not getting smarter than humans. They are getting faster and better at doing what they do now. They are really good at speaking, but honestly they are STUPID, they just know how to talk to us.

There is a famous example of an AI being told not to destroy a database, but it does it anyway and then apologizes. The thing is it KNEW it was destroying the database when it did it. This wasn't an accident, it was stupidity.

They are not artificial 'intelligences' getting more intelligent. They are large language models learning more language skills, more memory, and more processing time.

The gap between our current LLMs and an AGI is the gap between propeller airplanes and interstellar travel. Yes they are 'working on it'. Do not expect anything before the turn of the next century.

Type 2 diabetes is far more than a lifestyle induced disease. Do not blame the sick person, it just makes you look like a scumbag. Many people get it from OTHER diseases (Prednisone and other medications cause\ diabetes)

More importantly, if a diabetic is given proper insulin treatment you do not get kidney disease. So kidney disease is caused by failure to treat type 2 diabetes.

It costs as low as $2 to make a vial on insulin, which can sell for as much as $1000. Greed matters more than the diabetes.

President Biden passed a law that ensured Medicare patients never pay more than $35. But you have to be over 65 to qualify for Medicare.

This is the major problem with the AI crowd, they act like AGI is just around the corner. AGI is just around the corner the way that Nuclear Fusion is just around the corner.

Currently AI is really, really STUPID. It looks smart because it uses a ton of processing time and memory. It's like you give the dumbest kid in school access to the internet, lock him in a room for 5 months and only let him out if he solves a suduko. It takes him 5 months, but eventually he gets it. Then you brag about him like he is a genius.

Ai is not getting smarter. It is getting better educated. It has access to more datasets and more cpu time. The basic process itself is the same as back in 2018 when Deepmind solved protein folding.

They have just applied it to languages, pictures, video, etc. Using the same technique on more datasets is NOT revolutionary, it is just evolutionary.

Yes, it is important work, significant process. But the same basic limitations still exist.

AGI is not and will NEVER be created using the same Large Language Model technology we call AI currently.

It will require something truly revolutionary. That means saying 'people are working on it' is like saying people are working on faster than light travel. We will need a super genius human that works out how to do something that we currently have NO idea how to do. Somebody that is a Professor or a PHD student, not a working software engineer.

We will not do it by making the minor upgrades to LLMs that OpenMind, Anthropic and all the rest are doing. They are doing necessary Engineering work, not technological experimentation.

No AI company is going to waste their money on the pie in the sky theories that no established engineer believes when there are so many obvious and EASY gains to be made doing minor upgrades. It's like expecting the Wright brothers to create a jet engine.

Trump likes things named after him. He put his name everywhere, including the Kennedy Center.

More importantly, I cannot wait for the day where I NEVER see or hear his name again.

"E. Jean Carroll" would piss him off, be kept long after he left office, and people would always remember his crimes before they thought of him.

You appear to have poor social skills. It's OK, so do I.

Nile's experiments have turned non-food into food, multiple times. That is what he has done and that is what they have done. That is the relations.

Yes, he is a chemist, so yes he did it with chemistry. Yes they did it with biology. Doing it with biology is less difficult and less expensive, but the method is NOT what is important.

The thing everyone cares about is taking non-food and turning it into food. That is why people click the link.

Also, nobody cares if the plastic was made from injection molding or from 3d printing. Nor does the type of plastic matter.

Most modern servers have more than one core.

Not that hard to treat each core as a separate machine, all using another core as something like an internal router to access memory, graphic cards, keyboards, etc.

The hardware changes would be minimal. Basically take 4 motherboards, put it one metal box and put most of the real memory, etc. on the 'host' motherboard that allocates between the other 3.

There would be real speed penalties to doing this, but totally possible just using hardware. Duplicating it with software instead of hardware does not sound all that innovative to me.

It is more of a question do you really need to do it with software? If you want this kind of setup, do it with hardware. What advantages do you get by doing it with software - besides the real risk of someone targeting the host that determines resource allocation. I would bet actual hardware separation would be 'safer' than whatever software separation you created.