Maven is the name given to it by the DOD.

Google backed out of the project early. The actual LLM is by Palantir.

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It was an LLM that chose the target.

Yes, the data was outdated. The LLM still chose the target.

Yes, it was a human who ultimately made the decision to launch the attack. They trusted the LLM, which chose the target.

I'm not saying it would not have happened if not for the LLM, but if the LLM wasn't involved there would have been more humans involved, and less trust in the data, and maybe someone would have caught the error in time.

Regardless, my point is that they are already using AI to make decisions about who to murder. That is a fact even the Pentagon admits, and Peter Thiel brags about.
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> Nobody with any sanity whatsoever would honestly suggest that at this point.

They're already using AI to identify military targets.... that's why they blew up a school full of children with cruise missiles, remember?

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Third option: The same person/people who has influence over Trump also has influence over everyone else in the party. That being big donors and foreign powers, mostly.

But in terms of DC politics it's mostly fear of breaking ranks since that'll get you ostracized.
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Given hat innocent people are necessarily going to get hurt, and a successful surveillance state would be much MUCH worse about that, and that innocent people mistakenly caught up will generally receive better outcomes than innocent people intentionally targeted (e.g. getting charges dismissed etc), then it seems like leveraging the flaws of the system to argue against its creation is definitely the better option.

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It's interesting that the response to less than perfect license plate recognition is to brag about how a total surveillance state is so much easier to implement in Europe.

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The only thing I can infer from your reply is that you do not understand what either (or both) "fascist" and "socialist" mean.

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You're assuming that most politicians care what people want.

That's most important is what the corporations want. The value of a total surveillance state is a great secondary benefit for the fascists currently in power, too. You don't have to imagine being tracked down and harassed, if not outright prosecuted, for protesting or campaigning for the 'wrong team.'

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Turbine blade recycling is a thing now. Perhaps there is still room to scale, but it exists.

Oddly, one of the most cost effective methods is to grind the blades up and feed them into rotary kilns used in cement processing. The resin burns clean providing supplemental heat reducing fuel use offsetting emissions, the glass fiber melts and becomes part of the silica for the final product, and any metals are fully recoverable.

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> 300 gallons PER TURBINE! That's a lot.

It really isn't. That's roughly one full tank of diesel for one semi truck.

> so little fuel most plants still keep all their spent rods on-site

They keep the spent rods on site because they are FORCED to. it takes a few years before the self-heating from radioactive decay lowers enough for them to be handled without active cooling. Until then, they are kept first in water pools (which also shields the radiation) for 3-5 years and then moved to air cooled steel canisters inside concrete casks.

> Your 20~30 year claim seems to be the first result and also in AI-generated answers. It goes against what I've heard from farmers and ranchers.

"AI-generated answer versus personal anecdote which isn't even personal because I'm actually just citing a podcast." Except the 20-30 years is not "AI-generated" but documented standard for planning and evaluation purposes.

If your concern is wasting/laundering money, then that's the nuclear industry in a nutshell. Tens of billions of dollars per plant, with billions in cost overruns, over decades of construction.
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> Tacking them on where?

Annual or registration fees. An extra $150-$200 per period in many states, with some of them charging more based on weight.

For example, New Jersey charges an additional $1080 to register a battery electric vehicle, which is four years worth of the $270/yr fee they will start charging you on year five and beyond.

> I've been thinking about swapping a worn out ICE in a classic car with a Tesla crate motor.

Tesla doesn't do crate motors, and Tesla drivetrains are traverse axles which are not drop-in replacements for classic cars. What you may be thinking of is some third party solution?
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From another source it sounds like the plant's SCADA system was compromised and shut down/disabled, causing some plants to go offline.

The immediate consequence is they would lose remote control over the pumps, fans, and valves at these facilities and either default to some safe state or just shut down entirely. Someone would have to drive over and manually reset/control everything, which is exactly what they did. Addressed promptly enough most people would even notice something was wrong.

The long term consequences could be that they end up getting incorrect status information about the facility's operation, causing a longer disruption until complaints start coming in and they have to run around trying to figure out what's wrong. Loss of water pressure, distribution of untreated water, distribution of over treated water, depletion of reserves are all obvious problems a bad enough attack could cause. Physical damage to equipment is also not impossible, which would be the worst case scenario.... you're not fixing a broken well/system pump or AOP reactor in two or three hours, and it you lose a bunch of them at once you could be at reduced capacity for months.
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Not legal advice, but lying to police generally is not illegal. You are only subject to criminal charges if you lie about your identity and a handful of other specific circumstances. Giving an "incorrect" password likely would not fall under that, and if it does do to court he can simply claim he misspoke, or that the police entered it incorrectly, or any other number of excuses to create plausible deniability.

He was not under oath, so it's not perjury. He was not under investigation - the phone was seized without a warrant - so it's not obstruction. He did not make false allegations of criminal activity. He did not try to falsify his identity.

His lawyer should have an easy time getting any charges dropped, *especially* with how incompetent the current US DoJ is these days.
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The frequency of ocean waves does not vary a lot, because it's largely driven by the physical properties of the water which also does not vary a lot. Ocean waves are mostly in the 0.10 Hz to 0.50 Hz range.

Amplitude, however... almost nothing to 30+ feet/10 meters peak to trough.
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> It's a nice idea, but who equips their trailer with this to save money for the stranger hauling it around?

Fleet operators, where they don't have strangers hauling around their trailers; e.g. USPS, Amazon, FedEx, UPS.

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