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They will eventually, but they should really be in lockstep already with November just around the corner. This is some June behavior, when everyone differentiates themselves with some popular but brave populist stance they never plan to follow through on, not late September.

The ends justifying the means was always an open question from TNG, it was just they were on a sliding scale that started from “no you cant execute Westly for messing up some flowers”, all the way up to Die Hard with a baryon sweep. But it didnt even start there. Theres this analysis didnt start with Kirk, cause he was settling those ends with a phaser rifle personally.

And For the Uniform: How can anyone say the ends dont justify the means after that. Oh lets just poison this whole planet full of civilians for a thousand years, but its ok because we caught someone who hurt Sisko’s feelings and everyone can just move to another colony, plus someone else did it first. No court martial, no permission, no consequences, no bad vibes, no guilty concience. So much worse than anything in Pale Moonlight.

No its really very simple. Do you have a legal department: y/n.

They arnt hitting the same notes all the time by accident. The people receiving this are on a spectrum that includes the unaware, the people making it are not.

In the early days of the pandemic I sat down with the numbers that were available. They were not great, even then when no politicians were trying to fuck with them. Any doctor or coroner with a body could make that death vanish from the national statistics for years, without breaking a single rule. It was always a game that was counting on the system having a decade to catch up, and with the medical system itself holding to a gentlemen’s agreement between doctors.

I suppose that sums up most of the problems with the modern world, and the real anomaly is that we thought medical issues were in some way special.

It seems like some people are maybe thinking of the 80s here. Console games were big business, popular, and widespread from the NES onward, at least among younger audiences.

You didnt see many scalpers mostly because there was less random zero day hype. You got your video game ads in a magazine, so if a game had big hype it was because the publisher had spent big on marketing, which meant they had printed a shit ton of launch day copies, and there would be pallets of them sitting at your local Best Buy, Walmart, Circuit City, etc.

All Trek is like this, but Voyager was a particularly blatant offender. Their writing quality was generally not great, and there were quite a few cases where they would run the same premise multiple times in a season, which just highlighted the implausibility of the crew having to make the same mistakes twice in a row.

So I can actually think of a few reasons: Preprocessing vast amounts of super high resolution satellite imagery to save bandwidth, and jurisdictional black site processing data some countries would want to steal or arrest you for having or processing, particularly if you were hiding it from internal audit. You would be paying an extreme premium over ground based for ever FLOP, so, the customer base of practical customers is limited to a handful of very well funded intelligence agencies or scientific projects in very niche use cases.

The only way to get him out of the CEO chair is for him to retire or die. He never gave up voting control during the IPO and controls more than 50% of the vote.

Ok, but a cash register isnt a paywall. A paywall is a specific thing with an actual definition.

Yea but thats not what a paywall actually is.

There are already AIs you can run on your computer or even your cell phone, they are just really really specialized or dumb.

Even if you could magically network every desktop, laptop, workstation and cell phone in the world and run them all full power 24 hours a day doing nothing but powering this network, you are probably an order of magnitude or more behind even current data center capacity.

Partly, the Chinese are distilling closed source models, and OpenAI and Anthropic’s attempts to stop this have only succeeded in making their outputs less transparent. Partly, the actual frontier of AI is currently mostly vibes and marketing, as everyone’s cheated the tests so badly that the only way to stay in the running is to cheat. Partly, that weve passed the point where even an honest evaluator could say which general purpose model is better than another, since their performance fluxuates wildly from task to task.

This is probably one of the few issues you could really get grass roots bipartisan support on these days. It would have to be marketed right though. Maybe something like “DEI cameras”, or “6G posts”.

No, you have to go after the local politicians who keep approving these systems. Electorally of course, you psychos. Your local city council rep is going to feel much more pressure from an angry letter from a voter than your senator would.

Thats not true at all. The US is about 43%, and Qatar about 33%, Russia about 9%, and China less than 2%.

Many of them were veterans of a war against France. France was their ally at the time, but they wouldnt have any problem with the concept of shifting alliances and loyalties.

The reason these MBAs are billionaires and IT people scurry around putting out fires is the realization that constant disasters just encourage customers to spend more money.

And ironically, AI fixes almost all these problems. Just pull up Deep Seek, drop in whatever the console throws at you and you can get back the answer free of charge. These days the hardest part of bash is remembering that Ctrl+V should be Shift+Ctrl+V.

Building, maintaining and launching rockets is actually not great for the environment either!