LarryMullins

> I think what Apple’s afraid of is an app like Facebook tricking/forcing users

Apple treats their users like a nursing home treats senile people.

Hit them where it hurts: Ban all family members of anybody in Indian government from entering the US for any reason. Not for school, nor a job, nor even a short vacation to visit other family members. Limit this ban to Indian politicians and their family members; most Indians should be unaffected.

> 5-10 years before they lose their collective minds, and everyone wonders when the state "went bad".

This timeline checks out with your example.

It's bitchy, vindictive, bitter, holds grudges and is eager to write off others as "bad people". Yup, they trained it on reddit.

How long until some human users of these sort of systems begin to develop what they feel to be a deep personal relationship with the system and are willing to take orders from it? The system could learn how to make good on its threats by cultivating followers and using them to achieve things in the real world.

The human element is what makes these systems dangerous. The most obvious solution to a sketchy AI is "just unplug it" but that doesn't account for the AI convincing people to protect the AI from this fate.

If previous world wars are anything to go by, a war with China would come with a shift into a wartime economy. Luxury consumer goods like iphones and cars would be an afterthought at best.

Probably the same machines, but not the same attention to detail from the workers and management.

> He also suggested that Apple, too, will need to adapt – especially when it comes to dealing with the bureaucratic government.

I can't imagine how a bureaucratic government could be the cause of a 50% failure rate for these components. More likely apathetic attitudes is the cause of both.

I think it was his move to spotify that was the inflection point. I used to watch a handful of his podcasts on youtube each year, whenever I saw that he had interesting guests on (and not just his unfunny comedian friends or MMA fighters...) But since he moved to spotify I haven't seen a single one of his interviews. I'm not installing some dumb app to watch a dump ape a few times a year.

It would need to move at about 15 km/h at the equator, and slower at other latitudes. That's surprisingly reasonable.

Don't fix it if it ain't broke. Despite Elon Musk behaving stupidly in many other aspects and areas, SpaceX is still working well. Whatever dynamic Musk and Shotwell have between them, it's obviously working out well. So don't "fix" it if it ain't broke.

> Are we expecting Bezos just to continue to drop billions of $ into Blue Origin for unlimited amount of time?

To be fair, he's been shoveling money into this unproductive dumpster fire for more than 20 years already.

> a permanent marker

Or better yet, an exacto blade. If the "black and white" photocopier is actually grayscale, then you could get text leaking through the marker if you play around with the image contrast.

I believe this is often done to avoid corporate surveillance on the computer that might record the screenshot and exfiltration.

It sure does seem weird that something as fundamentally efficient as trains are supposedly so hard to run economically that treating workers properly just isn't economically feasible.

Of course it is feasible, but the transit corps are only interested in maximizing profit and the government backs them up. They could run these trains with 10x the crew, with full top-tier benefits, and still turn a sustainable profit. But right now these companies are being run as paperclip maximizers and merely sustainable profit isn't good enough for them.

It's certainty a fitting username for somebody who thinks the government should keep people in the dark.

> "In general, there's no particular need to make the list of chemicals public."

Exactly this. Nobody claiming this shit is safe will put their lives where their mouths are. Nobody in this thread moaning about people not trusting the experts will consider moving their families into this town to show the rest of us how trustworthy they really think the government is.

Both are.

Are you really a pilot? You should know better than to treat blame as finite and indivisible.

Airline accidents kill hundreds of people outright. The media gives those stories tons of attention (If it bleeds, it leads) and accordingly the airline industry knows it must take safety seriously to protect their profits.

Meanwhile the chemical industry kill the gods only know how many thousands of people over the course of decades with a steady trickle of statistically correlated illnesses, but the media doesn't cover it and the consumers of chemical goods feel insulated from harm which seems very abstract and indirect to them. A consumer buying a chemical good is not directly imperiled by the chemical industry in the same way as an airline flier is threatened by airline crashes.

It doesn't take a genius to figure out why the airline industry is better at safety than the chemical industry.

> In general, there's no particular need to make the list of chemicals public

Fitting username, I didn't realize you were a novelty account.

We need a return to WYSIWYG principles. Any metadata stored in a file should be shown to the user in some way, to make them aware of that metadata existing. And if the metadata is incomprehensible to the user, then maybe it shouldn't be stored at all. There shouldn't be any surprises. If a file has an embedded thumbnail preview of itself which could become out of sync with the main image data, both should be shown to the user so they have an opportunity to notice it.

Avoiding that sort of collateral damage is why they've developed the AGM-114R9X, aka the "sword missile". It has no explosive warhead, instead it has 6 blades that unfold right before impact. It can turn anybody in one specific car into hamburger meat, while leaving bystanders on the side of the street unharmed.

These have been in use for a few years now. You can tell when they're used from pictures of the car wrecks they leave behind. A very distinct 6 pointed star shape cut through the car roof: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-39109438

It's the plot of quite a few animes. At least a few episodes of Patlabor and Ghost in the Shell SAC. Although in these cases it's AI controlled tanks or mechs.

> Torpedoes can only be fired at certain things.

Yeah, the humans program the torpoedo to discriminate enemy ships from others, and then entrust that classifier to make autonomous kill decisions. How will autonomous drones and missiles work any differently? They're going to be precisely the same; classifiers engineered/trained by humans entrusted to make decisions to kill. They might shoot a city full of civilians, and a CAPTOR torpedo might shoot a ship full of civilians too. It's nothing new, it's more of the same brought to a wider scope than before.

The US does need landmines. Obama and Biden both committed to reducing America's use of landmines, but both made an exemption for use in Korea.

Neither the US, Russia nor China has signed on with the Ottawa Treaty.

> The military always claims they will have a human 'in the loop' to make kill decisions. That promise will go out the window just as soon as

The promise is already a farce because autonomous weapons that sense the environment and make unilateral decisions to kill have already been in use for decades now. From low-tech landmines to high-tech ship-classifying CAPTOR torpedoes which fire themselves, a weapon sensing its surroundings and deciding to kill is nothing new.

"The fault" isn't some finite and indivisible thing that needs to be assigned to only one group of people. Politicians are at fault for not cracking down on scammers, and the scammer contractors are also at fault for being scammers. One does not diminish the other, stop thinking of fault as zero sum.

For starters, you could acknowledge that a train explosion is already well outside normal lab conditions for vinyl chloride. Don't pretend you know what compounds were formed in this accident. Modeling this incident as a low exposure (see: your dismissal of the carcinogenic nature of vinyl chloride) to the pure substance is absurd.

Put your life where your mouth is and go live there.

> The sound of cracking knuckles is actually a release of gas in the joint

That's only partially correct at best, because joint cracking is not a single phenomenon. For one, there is disagreement over whether the sound comes from the formation of the gas bubble, or the collapse of the gas bubble (cavitation). It is likely that both are partially true.

Furthermore, it doesn't explain the sort of joint cracking in which people can crack a joint repeatedly with no cooldown. I can crack my wrists and ankles by twisting my hands and feet around in circles, cracking once per rotation as fast as I can turn them around. 60 cracks a minute easily; neither of the gas bubble hypothesis can explain this, it is almost certainly a matter of ligaments or bones moving around against each other in a way that creates a snap sound, like snapping your fingers makes a crack sound by slapping your middle finger against the base of your thumb.