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Came here to say this. It takes political will, but money is certainly not the issue. It's just like with healthcare, free healthcare for all costs much less per person than privat…

Oh, thank you for clarifying! That is entirely believable, and i'm also one of these people then. I just didn't understand what you meant. I thought you meant people hated AI for b…

Sorry for misinterpreting your original comment. I'm not really convinced there's people who don't like AI "because of what it is". I mean, because of what it is, beyond any social…

You are being overly dismissive of a mindset you obviously don't understand. Of course being anti-AI is about decent living conditions for humans. Most of us don't believe in singu…

I don't think it was less, though only future historians will come up with actual numbers. It was less public, though. Most of the world never tolerated it. Even when western gover…

I didn't hear about this french legislator, but that's funny given the level of rampant corruption in french government. Nothing new (see also Pasqua, Foccart, etc), but in the pas…

Unfortunately, i don't know of a complete reference resource. I'd be interested if you found one. A quick research later i found this CFR resource [1] which probably underestimates…

Assuming you're from the USA, your two main parties are exactly like that. The appearances have changed, but Obama drone-assassinating random children on the other side of the worl…

> Does this also mean only using "standard" parts? Or does the manufacturer have to over-produce the parts for, lets say 7 years Why not? I don't understand how it's legal for manu…

That blog post was definitely not anti-tech. Maybe you're not familiar with this term. The post was critical of technology from a social/political perspective (with arguments), as …

Most of humanity has lived without police for most of its existence. It's not an inherent part of life. And in many places, the police is a very recent (few centuries old) inventio…

Correct! My whole point was that whether that's a flip or a flop also depends on the legal environment and whether the law is actually enforced. Which is also applicable to AI and …

Uber is a very bad argument. In many parts of the world, the only reason they're profitable is because they're breaking the law. There has been much debate about it here in France …

There's fallacies with your argument: - it's technically illegal for me to do that here in France, even if i'm the legal owner of the woods - it could be a choice to live low-tech …

Of course i'm biased (though probably not like you mean), but that "both sides" depiction was fair and rather neutral. I'm personally very happy Khomenei is dead, and so are my ira…

Hello,i don't mean to be dismissive but i think lawmaking definitely needs less AI and less pretendly-neutral summaries. It's already a problem when researching a law proposal that…

That's not a fair assessment. Context: I hate Trump as much as Khomeini. A "both sides" treatment would be: US & Israel illegally assassinate Iranian leader in bombing campaign, ca…

> what reasons do your friends give? In my (arguably not very representative) circles, unlike the big Facebook->Instagram migration, which was motivated by "i don't like that it's …

Well, corporations are destroying our planet, whatever our individual consumption patterns are. I could be living in the woods and that would not change. I'm not denying we have a …

Well it is very hard to believe they're guilty, at least to me. Too bad the news report does not provide any actual information about the case and the evidence (actual journalism b…

Correct. I simply placed it for historical context on Microsoft being hostile to competition, interoperability and free software for much longer than OOXML has existed.

I'm sorry you were not convinced. Of course a "file format" could be anything. I personally am convinced that a standard file format (filed for ISO) should have proper semantics th…