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A lot of engineer types forget that the law is not code, and reductionist arguments almost never actually work in practice because it's a human interpreting the law.

Just wait until you hear about the underwater turbine that can do far more than generate electricity! https://energiesmedia.com/texas-turbine-under-water-more-tha...

I also took the tour this year and I came away with the impression that he would have fit right in with today's "genius" entrepreneurs and CEOs for all the reasons you stated. He c…

But this isn't about banning those things, it's about banning endless scrolling. edit: I get that you're trying to provide counterexamples to be able to say "here's something that …

But we're not talking about banning addictive algorithms, we're talking about banning endless scrolling. You're trying to straw man by bringing in completely different examples. Ed…

Ok, but you're just talking about a completely different law. How is that comparable to what's being proposed?

Is your argument that unless we can make a law that is perfect and covers every conceivable use case of coercive design, then we shouldn't bother to make a law that covers any of t…

I'll bite, how's Seattle doing that?

This is all depressing but I had to laugh at "Tolliver Chevrolet"

Huh? Just because you're not going to become the next graphics programming legend you think it's not worth getting into graphics programming at all?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect

Well, call me when any of those things happen and I'll happily eat crow.

Presumably there would be a legal definition of what constitutes public transport, and I would expect it wouldn't include those. But I'm neither swiss nor do I speak any swiss lang…

Because it's pretty evident that all these data centers are primarily intended to eliminate jobs and make more trillionaires and destroy democracy, and the positive stuff (like sol…

Hoo boy, welcome to the history of the United states.

Er, there is an excess of teachers because they are paid so poorly. Teaching (like nursing) is absolutely a labor of love and so they are heavily undervalued and underpaid in this …

The WSJ's target audience is high income earners, so it's more about making a story that appeals to them.

I was being very roundabout, but my point is that AIs are still built, not grown.

I can't predict the outcome of an RNG but that doesn't mean it grows the numbers.

Huh, I wonder what happens when people stop making real music for AIs to train on, then.

What does that have to do with "power begets power"

Why don't unions seem to have that problem in pretty much all of Europe then?

Always?

Nothing I said has anything to do with homogeneity.