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Considering that’s a healthy portion of a salary for an additional employee per person, the fact they’re slashing spending sure makes it look like AI wasn’t even a 2x multiplier at minimum.

It serves an important structural purpose for them. Similar to corals.

It’s good to see real cartoonists have nothing to worry about yet.

It’s “don’t tread on me”, not “don’t tread on all of us”.

I can definitely believe it. According to every audiologist I’ve been to, my hearing is normal for my age, though on the lower end of the expected range for some frequencies.

However if I’m in a noisy restaurant it always seems like everyone else at the table can hold the conversation just fine but I can’t hear a damn thing they’re saying. It’s very isolating. I can’t understand how they do it.

My father uses hearing aids but even with them I can see him sort of just receding from a conversation sometimes.

Somebody worked hard; it wasn’t the rich guy.

The capital owner risks his status, the laborer risks his life.

Yes, Iran’s problem was they didn’t develop nuclear weapons.

The lesson all countries will take from Ukraine, Iran, and North Korea is: develop nuclear weapons.

Ukraine and Iran both don’t have nuclear weapons and they were both attacked by countries that do. North Korea does have them and they are apparently in no danger of being attacked.

I believe the constitution says otherwise.

It’s public, but that does not necessarily imply that I will be surveilled at all times by the state while out in public.

I find it concerning that your recorded movements by mass surveillance devices can be used as justification subject you to a search.

Which humans? Many people are simply not that good at Hearthstone. Are the bots regularly achieving high legend ranks?

It’s also the least impactful. What’s the worst that happens, you don’t play video games? Oh no.

There are many games that don’t do things like this. In fact I play many games that the developers encourage you to modify and cheat.

Because competitive games with a cheater problem are dead games. I understand the desire to prevent cheating, and I think most players of those games are okay with it.

Or it’s not enabled by default.

That doesn’t contradict anything I said.

Because we have free will and choose to subject to morality. We have what we have today because of morality (in some form), not in spite of it.

Without some moral system, we would live like every other animal, and don’t mistake that for a judgement.

We do not employ public servants. The government, which governs with our consent, does. They are paid with our tax money, but we do not employ them.

Working for the government and wielding power over the general public is a privilege and comes with higher expectations than a private employee.

It is, and sometimes you can use those failings to your personal advantage.

I think the introvert vs. extrovert thing has become almost a meme. I would definitely describe myself as “generally introverted” but I still very much enjoy many “extroverted” activities. I get the same sense of satisfaction and enjoyment out of throwing a party for people as the OP described. I will not be the center of attention at my own party, but I still enjoy the act of making other people happy. In fact, most likely what will happen is once everything is running smoothly and people are having fun, you’ll find me out on the back deck where it’s quiet talking to only one or two other people.

“Throwing a party” is not an introvert vs. extrovert thing. What you do at the party is.

The difference is one works for the public on public dollars and the other works for a private entity.

Your mistake is thinking public and private are the same.

How is that related?

They are free to resign at any time.

I remember lobbies in StarCraft for maps that used some best match algorithm to recreate porn images with map terrain tiles such that the image would appear in the maps mini map. It was quite a lot of work to view a single, tiny image in all the wrong colors.

Sounds like a great deal, but that’s quite a lot of space required to store them, no?

I believe that they believe what they are doing is good.

I don’t believe them. I don’t believe that they are truly concerned about much beyond their own self interests.

There’s no paradox present, just one person’s misunderstanding of the arrangement of celestial bodies in 3D space.

So either they’re full of shit or we need to stop them by any means necessary.

I’m well aware of why people do it, that doesn’t change my feelings about it or my opinion of it.

Developing the more heinous weapons before the other guy is the pragmatic thing to do, but it doesn’t give you the moral high ground.

> (Point in fact, we know of several governments currently trying to achieve nuclear, aerial, and AI superiority today.)

And why are they doing that? To get it first since others will do it anyway.