"consider that possibility" 99% of people everywhere consider exactly one possibility about any topic at all. From their keen observation of their immediate surroundings, they can accurately and in exquisite detail predict the outcome of stuff like this fully years in advance. Why consider alternate possible realities whenever one can see this one so clearly?

As a relatively active StackExchange user, I think I can say with some authority that this depends crucially on the *volume* of such posts. Honestly, on StackOverflow, the volume of "low quality posts" that the community and mods already deal with is not a full order of magnitude away from "critical mass" of making the site a total cesspool of garbage. "Plz fix mai code plz" type questions with no useful content are just barely at a manageable level already. If this sort of content were to, say, quadruple, I truly worry that the sieves would clog, and the existing moderation would become a "what's the point?" sort of endeavor. As long as the AI is kept to a level that is significantly less than human users, this shouldn't be a problem.

And your solution is to sneak code into your software so that it indiscriminately exterminates Germans instead? It seems like you're the one failing to grasp the ethics of this situation.

The minimum wage in China is about $3/hr. This is the #1, #2 and #3 reason companies don't invest domestically.

I'm sure they will happily repair/replace the implant on a cost basis. They've clearly been looking for funding anyway. Hopefully the patients have a few dozen million dollars stuffed under their mattress.

While this is true, you seem to be using this statement to insinuate that the government is incapable of or would have great difficulty regulating this. However, there is precedent going back centuries of governments successfully regulating gambling in some form or another. Furthermore, these days, gaming regulations are widespread, and enforcement is very effectively offloaded onto the gaming institutions themselves, freeing the government of essentially any involvement whatsoever, except for having to make the law in the first place. When you walk into a casino, after passing by all the kitschy shops, the first thing you will encounter is a bouncer checking your government-issued ID. This bouncer isn't hired by the government - they're employed by the casino! All the gov had to do was enact the law, and the market materialized a solution. Frankly, this is probably a prime example of how government regulation *can* sometimes magically solve problems like so many people believe.

science \ s-n(t)s \ n := "knowledge about or study of the natural world based on facts learned through experiments and observation"
-- Webster

Now, if you have a better way to generate knowledge about the world than by actually observing it, we're all open to suggestions, because lemmetellya figuring out how shit works via observation is effin TEDIOUS. Frankly, I think we'd all be much better off if figuring out how things worked wasn't such a huge PITA, but it looks like this is the situation that we're stuck with.

Anyone who stands up and tries to tell you that they've figured out how to describe the workings of complex systems in the world without *actually observing them* or by doing observation in one of the zillions of crappy ways to do observations such as e.g. ignoring the observations one finds inconvenient is the one who is the fortune teller.