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Isn’t this basically the situation in Europe? It seems like that just supercharges brain drain by incentivizing all the smartest and richest people to just move away to a place wit…

It's extremely difficult, and as I said it will be easily abused by any government which is looking to manufacture consent among its population. One person's definition of harm is …

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Many examples of “liberal” governments being extremely illiberal WRT freedom of expression. More people are locked up in the UK for speech than in many more conservative countries.…

Who defines "mentally healthy"? There will be enormous pressure to misuse any kind of oversight system to shape public opinion.

Well I'm saying that asking Claude is a much better experience than the old Google search style of looking at 10 blue links. They are doing more than search insofar as they are: 1.…

For most people talking to Claude is a much better experience than doing a Google search.

Mexico has gun laws which are significantly more restrictive than the USA. There is only one legal gun store in the country, they must all be permitted, calibers are limited, and o…

This is the same concept as "separating art from the artist". i.e. can you appreciate the creation without associating it with the personal foibles of the creator? If you went arou…

I don't think this is a straw man, a huge number of people in my life (non CS people) think AI is a dead-end, that it's just a stochastic parrot, that it'll never be able to do man…

What happens if some social media site hosted in another country becomes popular and refuses to implement these age verification measures? Is the EU going to create a great firewal…

Seriously, if Fable or even Opus was this fast that would be a real game changer.

Building a contagious disease is already illegal, there are already things like KYC laws for plasmids. Trying to gate keep knowledge of biology is paying a huge societal penalty fo…

>I want to self identify and interact with other people who also self identify. You can do that already, Facebook is pretty close to exactly what you're talking about. They do a lo…

Make it a web app and host it in a different country? Probably also depends on the mechanics of the game though as well..

How would banning them even work anyway? Like would they say that possession of one on your computer would somehow be illegal? There’s nothing the US gov can do to stop a Chinese c…

I think this is a little bit oversimplified and I don't know that it's even true at all. It's basically the opposite story of what's told by "Bowling Alone". That book was written …

This is an Israeli company and all the data is almost certainly being sent back to Israel. Texas has a specific law against boycotting Israeli products as well. https://gov.texas.g…

Why would it be illegal? There are virtually zero drawbacks and huge advantages to these satellites. They are not rendered to scale either, in reality they are minuscule compared t…

>The government paid for that by awarding contracts. Only about 20% of SpaceX's income is government contracts, and for that 20% the government receives an absolute bargain. Compar…

The space shuttle was laughably bad compared to SpaceX’s rockets and they were not really rapidly reusable. They required an extensive refurbishment which involved disassembling th…

Before SpaceX demonstrated viability of reusable rockets nearly every single government industry expert on the topic dismissed the idea of reusable rockets as impractical and infea…

>State regulations tended to help with that. A law banning certain types of regulations at a lower level I would not call “state regulation” I would call that deregulation. I suppo…

>Why do we need to let this be a monopoly This is the opposite of a monopoly, Blue Origin and Rocket Lab are both planning competing constellations. Eventually there will be many c…

>The government could have absolutely done all of this Yeah they totally could have, so why didn’t they? World governments have had massive budgets for space agencies for like 70 y…