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But that's not the straw man that the comment I responded to was attempting to construct.

It's widely known that non-critical care is a postcode lottery. But in the few times I and others have needed the NHS in life-or-death situations, they have been nothing short of amazing.

Not sure what reality you live in, but NHS Emergency care is among the best in the world.

Oh, I'm sure it might have been marginally effective in some very specific circumstances.

But that was far from the norm. In the hope that you might actually go and educate yourself somewhat on the topic, here is the Times report on the last public execution ever carried out in England, that of Michael Barrett on 26 May 1868.

https://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/Timeline/Execution.htm

It certainly sounds like it had the effect you claim it does, doesn't it?

And people flocked to watch executions - for entertainment.

Capital punishment has never been about deterrence, nor has it ever been an effective deterrent.

It's preparation for the inevitable nano-texture cloth you need to buy from Apple to wipe the screen with.

The most efficient aircraft are gliders.

so use your phone?

Ook.

He is a bit of a Cnut, to be sure.

Your pipeline is then effectively nothing but an expensive flowchart.

This is what an operations engineer or first line support does.

An SRE goes and fixes the cause of the recurring alerts.

Cooperative online shared worlds, even adversarial ones, are a wildly different use of time compared to spending hours staring at short-format video after short-format video.

Glorious.

Make the physics of this make sense to me, please.

Advertising is an irritation. AI is a threat.

I read this as the year of "Infernal" tools.

> Baffling how voters fail to recognize

Bread and circuses, mate

not just cost-per-hour of the crew, but also rest schedules. A more economical flight-path is all well and good, but it's useless if it means that the crew will breach their permitted duty hours.

It's carmine all the way down.

nothing rouge either, I suspect.

if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck...

I feel like potential suffocation is not what I'd be most concerned about if I were in an atmosphere with high concentrations of gaseous ammonia.

"most of" being the key words.

Now show me an AI coming up with General Relativity, or Integral Calculus, or Chopin's wrong note Etude.

AI builds on what comes before. Humans have an uncanny trait for creating things that are truly new.

> But also humans can not provide that. Every bard, every writer, every poet, every band rises every morning to compete against the beatles. Most of them loose and thus abandon the craft to win bread elsewhere.

Most, but not all. For every 99 who give up and go and do something else, one transcends.

AI cannot create. Humans can. Most do not, but the possibility is always there that they could.

Actually, the third possible state is Bloody Furious.

Not just Greenland. I imagine a lot of people here in Blighty will not take well to the US meddling in the sovereignty of the Falklands.

I do wonder if the sudden noise is due in part due to to Peter Thiel's move to Buenos Aries.

> Genuinely, what is the legal framework here

He who controls the Spice, controls the Universe.

Will there be cake or Velociraptors?

The sign of an area with a dense population where people operate within close proximity to people-squashing-machines, and the people have rightly decided that reducing the severity of any potential people-vs-people-squashing-machines incidents is worth far more than the modest reduction in travel time for the occupiers of the people-squashing-machines, most of which never spend much time at 60km/h anyway due to congestion.

Frankly, anyone driving at 60km/h through narrow streets isn't driving with due care and consideration for the surroundings anyway.