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He's not going to develop the skills if he doesn't face consequences for his actions

A deeper question: why can they even have these lawsuits? Why don't the judges or juries reject the lawsuit?

In theory, but in practice there are some kinds of knowledge that are hard to develop without a mentor. And there's lots of little things that are so obvious that its not worth writing down, but then years, decades, centuries later those things are no longer obvious.

All of that translating written material from one culture to your own and then implementing it is by no means a trivial task and shouldn't be taken for granted

Well, when the resources and infrastructure to support a technology collapse, then you have to rediscover how to do it the old ways.

And its worth remembering that technologies change us in unexpected ways. They can fix a problem while creating new ones

Socrates is a historical person and the mentor to Plato, but Plato uses him in his works to develop and deliver his arguments. Since we don't have much about Socrates outside of Plato its unclear how true Plato's rendition is true to what Socrates would've argued.

Also it should be noted that ancient writings did not include punctuation or whitespace, and presumably they were meant to be read aloud and listened to. Augustine (354 - 430 AD) mentions someone reading in his head as odd.

I'm thinking more from my context where it probably wouldn't make sense. Small city that's rather spread out and quickly transitions into farmland. And a big culture of driving to neighboring counties for vacations

Which is the difficulty in talking about "America needs to do such and such": we are much more diverse, and when we're talking about one context someone else hears their context or isn't able to imagine a different context. Perhaps these kind of conversations would be better had at local levels than national

This will work for a few cities like New York or San Francisco but not for rural communities and won't be efficient for smaller cities or towns that are spread out. At least not without sacrificing independency and speed, which we're constantly trying to escape from

The requirement is money and connections

Thanks! There's definitely enough blame to share around

Reading the article, I must clarify my question. You said that there was state level movements prior to the UK. Did you mean that prior to 2023 or 2017 there were US state level efforts? Where was that happening? Sorry for not being clear

Ah. I can't currently view the article, and assumed you were making an offhand reference. My apologies; I'll have to save it to view later

Which states? How much? Were these anomalous events that were overturned, or more systematic? These are honest questions I'm having, not trying to argue any narrative

My understanding is that the lack of vowels, word spacing, and punctuation in texts suggests that all ancient texts were meant to be heard, not read. I think it was Augustine, or some other Church Father, was talking about seeing someone reading silently as something remarkable or that he hadn't seen before.

Every time I read Hugging Face, my brain first jumps to facehugger from Alien. I really wish they chose a different name...

It's much easier to blame everyone else instead of trying to change myself

The cynical side of me wonders if some books might be "banned" on purpose to have the distinction of being a banned book. Probably few books are actually that way, but these days it seems like a shortcut to notoriety

Kids like repetition in their media. They often ask to watch the same movie for days/weeks on end, or read the same story every night, or the same story. And if you don't tell it the same way they remind you...

Suffice it to say, repetition isn't the same frustration that it can be for adults

> Perhaps true malice, then, resides not in the monsters themselves but in the systems that classify them as enemies No, malice does not come from the systems. It comes from us who make the systems

Perhaps upgrade to one a few versions out of date but confirmed to be good?

"Wait, those are real people whose jobs I cut? I thought they were just numbers"

And, in weird circumstances, men can lactate. There's even a story about a viking whose name is escaping me who nursed his son after his wife died.

The world we live in is capitalistic. We can imagine another world that isn't, but when we're considering specific pieces of technology, it's worthwhile to judge it by how it will perform or be exploited in the world we live in.

>>Some human still has to be accountable. Someone has to get fired / go to jail when something screws up.

Now I'm trying to imagine a way they could apply a criminal charge against an AI in such a way that it would prevent the AI from being used in official capacity or something

On the plus side, the current administration isn't obscuring the corruption like previous administrations, which is somewhat refreshing.

It's very disconcerting to think that this "innocent" toy or clothing I see my children playing with as "tainted" by this monster. Suddenly he's not just some nebulous monster out there, but in some way the idea of him is here with my children, arousing protective instincts without anything in particular to direct that energy towards.

It also shows him as a human like other humans, which then makes me ponder is that person walking down the street also a monster? Could I become a monster like Epstein?

Such thoughts are very disconcerting

Did not realize I could do that! Thank you!

And have schools stop giving kids laptops or tablets. I wonder how much of the Chromebooks for school incitive was to develop a new market for Google

Everyone thought that we were designing the system, but it's really been the system designing us.

(Only half joking; the medium is the message, and changes us as much as we change it)

I think some of the released documents included images of victims, which where redacted. So it's not necessarily malicious removals

The Sun Eater series is an interesting one that kind of goes both ways. The big alien baddies are basically demons, and humanity gets a lot of love, but all the politicking and whatnot shows humanity to be both good and bad