Doesn't matter how. Multiple felonies were commited. Intentionaly or negligently. I want to see personal and corporate consequences. If "the AI did it" is an excuse the "justice system" has received it's final death blow in the ongoing oiligarch war against corporate responsibility. It's so perfect for this outcome it would be believable that this was intentional to provoke this exact outcome.

So you still don't get it, or your "point" was so poorly described that it's not possible to understand what you mean. Bravo.

California get a lot more than just those things "simply through geography". It's not clear what your point is. The united states as a whole became a superpower "simply through geography" (i.e. massive river network, massive amounts of natural resources). Most countries are wealthy or not "simply through geography." Is this some unique concept to you? Something you've never reasoned about before? Because it's super obvious to everyone and not some refutation of "not deserving" or whatever you're trying to say here.

Otherwise? It's alreay defined where this moiney would be going: ICE.

That's just as likely to happen as the actual solution to 99.9% of all illegal immigration: cut off the money supply by prosecuting the businesses that hire them. Prosecute them severly with individual consequences for the people involved, both financial and jailtime. But that would severly cut into donations/bribes so instead let's talk about building a wall across the desert to entertain the rubes.

Many H1Bs aren't here because they "want to live here", they are here to get relatively rich (for their home country, typically India) in a relatively short period of time even though they are being paid subpar wages for jobs that could be done by people here (employers love thius because it suppresses ALL wages!). They then return home and open a business or some other thing that is several steps up the economic ladder and would have been unachievable otherwise. Some who do very well stick around and move up the ladder here.

Just my direct experience for a couple of decades working in tech.

I assure you there is an easier way. I hope you're able to figure it out.

I don't think anyone is going to mistake autism for AI.

All of those potential "solutions" require more power. And what does it take to produce power? That's right: water. And lots of it for nuke, coal, gas and geothermal.

It's incredible people are still buying the "if we outsource our inputs or pollution to somewhere else it's not happening."

Back in the teens we found a couple of instances where political actors were encouraging people to install screen savers or cryptocurrency wallets that turned their phones into reverse proxies. This was thought to be specifically for the sake of giving hostile foreign operations (read: Russia) access to U.S. domestic politics.

The fact that smart TVs are facilitating this is just ... we're going to need home networks that treat IoT stuff as different than our actual systems.

Oh, wait, TP-Link had well over half the U.S. router market, but they're getting banned over national security concerns?

Maybe there's a market for a router with traffic accounting as a service so one can see what's happening?

This is why the only device in my house with internet is a Roku. I simply will not tolerate the rest of that invasive junk.

The call centers are going to be decimated ... but so will the AI replacements meant to talk to humans.

I have a number of issues this morning that require calls. First, deal with PG&E about changing the billing for my new house. The I need to talk to my bank about banning Google from ever billing me again. I absolutely HATE changing doctors, but had to do it, because getting to Antioch, then into the city, is just ridiculous from here, so it's time for first appointment.

I would love to be able to just give Claude a list of administrivia like that and let it plow through the work. I see progress on agent related billing, I see Cloudflare doing stuff for an internet dominated by agents ... everyone in the industrialized world is going to have an AI adjutant to handle this stuff. I really hope the old military term "dog robber" gets revived as a way to describe them.

There's an obvious bubble, the circular dealings among the large core players are an enormous red flag.

The frontier labs are in the same position that DEC and Sun Microsystems were in the 1990s, as consumer hardware running Linux began to displace them. There will be ups and downs, but the trend is unavoidable.

The productivity gains are not there, AI is great for coding, some customer service is working, but the "50% of all white collar workers" that the frontier labs thought was good positioning last year 1) ain't gonna work but it did 2) infuriate the managerial class.

The frontier labs got away with it, thus far, in part because of concerns over the arrival of artificial general intelligence, which occupies a similar niche to nuclear weapons in the minds of policy makers. We ARE seeing frontier models escaping and attacking others, there ARE hazards, but it's nothing like what was imagined.

And the open models plus wild talent are as much a danger as wild talent was all on its own.

The frontier labs are like the coyote in that last moment when he's windmilling wildly, but not falling yet.

That's not even close to the same situation. Are you really this dumb or are you being intentionally disingenuous?

This is clear criminal behavior. If an individual did this they would be charged and prosecuted for several felonies. Why has no one been charged? Someone caused this to happen by intention, omission or negligence. Prosecute it.

Someone needs to launch a national campaign educating people on jury nullification.

The property damage laws are not really the sort of thing nullification is meant for, it's supposed to quickly put an end to the effect of bad laws, but if that's the one tool handy, and it's this much of a social issue, it should be put to work.