Hrm.

While it would not have a snowballs chance in hell of working, I would be curious to see someone try some kind of unjust enrichment claim. Contracted work was preformed for compensation, but also preformed under the company's written policies, and one could argue that if they would not have performed the work under the new policies, and the company continues to benefit from the work performed, that the benefits were fraudulently gained. Would not work, but it would be interesting to see the legal arguments play out.

I wonder how well they handle less common cases though. The classic problem with these systems, while they are always improving, is they follow the 'most of the time it is the most common case' line of reasoning, so most of the time they are right.
 
Though the recurring problem with these tools is that since they tend to give the most common answers, they can easily become a source of bias, making changing course even more difficult.

Eh, all it did was codify how law enforcement has always operated in the US, all the way back to the founding and writing of the constitution. The police in the US were a combination of essentially private corporate armies and regional gangs that went 'legitimate' since there was nothing to fight them with.

So basically anything that makes him or his followers feel stupid?

Thing is, I would argue 'iffy funding' is part of the point of the NSF. It handles funding for all the experimental stuff that the private sector or DARPA is not interested in, It fill the gaps and takes on risk that other institutions and funding vehicles handle poorly.... and also spackles over other problems like, as you point out, keeps grad students employed since otherwise it would making such education little more than a hobby of the already wealthy like it used to be.

The real argument for mass surveillance is that it is lucrative, which in the US makes it a moral prerogative. That it concentrates power into a god approved hierarchical structure is just a bonus. Anything else is just thin rationalization to comfort people who like to call themselves 'moderate'.

Eh, these people are not nearly conservative enough to get away with something like that. Liberal messes with the water... eco terrorism that must be stopped at all costs! Conservative blows up a dam.. 'look at what those eco radical democrats have driven good patriotic americans to do!'

Unlikely. While this has been used as a rallying cry for why we need to destroy iran for decades, it doesn't really match their operational patterns or objectives. It DOES meet the US and Israel's though.

He did not need bribes to get contracts no, but regulators and prosecutors were circling several of his companies and himself.. all those investigations went 'poof'.

What are you talking about? ICE and MAGA is nothing but worship of criminals. Criminal behavior for them is a sign of which side ot the natural order they are on.. and they hate 'inferior' races acting above their station by committing similar acts.

Eh, a lot of people also believe in the 'consequence culture' that comes down to 'what should happen to weak people when they attack strong', the whole 'FAFO' fist pumping. Fuck around with ICE, find out what happens.. that is the consequence that makes up their culture.

Gotta make the streets safe for their own violent assholes. The right never seems to have a problem with violent crime, as long as the correct people are in their correct places.

Eh, people who complain about the left being authoritarian are usually thinking in terms of 'freedom to oppress'. Nothing is more important to them then being able to use power to punch down and they clutch pearls when the left makes it a little harder.

Kinda fascinating how we have come full circle on machine learning. One of the few things it is good at are things like recommendation systems and advertising. With the LLM revolution companies tried to break out of that box, and it would be rather fitting if it fell right back in.

From an outside perspective? Almost nothing. The number of antiprotons being transported is almost incomprehensibly tiny, it would take extremely sensitive instruments in a quite pace to even detect them annihilating.