articwombat

Your response sounds very distant from the reality you are talking about. A civil war means people, many people, dying and the rest being emotionally traumatized for generations. The madness we are in should be solved by more reasonable means before we devolve to war.

I am going to guess you don't have children. I may be wrong, but I would be shocked that a parent would hold these beliefs. When you have an infant it is plain to see how infants use behaviors from the past that get them the results they want. That is what infants do. They are exploring the causal graph. Not to say they never cry because they are scared, or hungry or a myriad of other things. The manner and duration of crying are things a parent can pick up on and your goal is to give the child what they need, not just what they want. It is an arms race!

What is “formal CS training”, if not a degree?

> When you open someone up after a heart attack, what do you find clogging their veins? It's cholesterol. What happens when you eat cholesterol? Your cholesterol serum goes up.

That’s an incorrect oversimplification of the situation. Like most of what is being bandied about here.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you...

"All this means is we get a conservative spin on the question rather than the usual liberal one." You have excellently explained the purpose of comment you responded to.

Statement 2 is not in regards to weapons systems. It is referencing things like self-driving cars. You can see that if you include the next sentence.

"ou should regulate them based on how they perform. You run the experiments to see if the thing’s biased, or if it is likely to kill fewer people than a person. With self-driving cars, I think people kind of accept that now."

Yes, this happened in San Jose during the last bubble, when Firefighters and Police couldn't afford to live in the city.

Who on minimum wage can afford to drive a car for an hour to work each way?