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In ex-USSR that would mean just having the judge either be part of the gang offering protection or have the gang "talk" to him/her for a potentially additional fee. A subscription type of fee was more common though.

politicians protecting them by "feel good" policies always are and are getting more and more radical

In 90-ies, when police and courts stopped doing whatever they have been doing during USSR collapse, the vacuum of "law enforcement" was filled with criminal gangs. So businessmen would pay some gang for their business protection. Specifically, a landlord, hotel owner, etc. would be paying a local gang so that they enforce "laws" and resolve disputes.

LA has a bunch of gangs/cartels operating in it already. Is this something that is already happening? What prevents them from offering a "service of getting rid from problem tenants"?

USA (and yes, I know they are building some here already). Maybe UK as well.

Why there? Germany has some crazy labor laws, they will be in for a surprise long term.

that's the point. Nobody even has a good enough definition of consciousness and intelligence.

Despite very real and impressive progress with LLMs towards general conversation agents there has been near zero progress in understanding and recreating consciousness and agency which even insects posses.

Real Open AI lab.

how do you decide who is a scientist and who is not?

yeah, time to give up on Firefox because Mozilla can't seem to focus.

Yes. They must regain their "innovator" status. Current CEO is a PM not an innovator.

so, nothing is available right now. Why make this announcement? I can play with ChatGPT now, nothing similar from Google yet.

In November 2014, California voters approved Proposition 1: The Water Quality, Supply, and Infrastructure Improvement Act. The $7.5 billion bond dedicated $2.7 billion for the public benefits of new water-storage projects.

But no new reservoirs have been built. This may or may not be changing now [1].

[1] https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/02/10/opinion-voter-approve....

yeah, and then there is a "little" asset like Superchargers network which makes Tesla ownership, at least in US, much more attractive.

Edit. I'm not implying that Tesla is fairly priced, underpriced or overpriced. But this whole situation reminds me a time when I invested in Tesla IPO after reading lots of "Don't DO IT!" articles in media.

yeah. But some are apparently working at Livermore Nat. Lab still. Also, I feel like there is a bunch at SpaceX, Tesla, NASA, DeepMind and OpenAI

off-topic, but related. Ulam's "Adventures of a Mathematician" is an excellent and very inspiring book.

I would love to see "fusion Manhattan project", this planet is well overdue for new gigantic R&D projects such as Manhattan and Apollo.

this is a great idea. Many (most?) killings by police are justified that by the "threat to the officer's life". With robots won't we have opportunity to minimize killings by police. The robot's well being is clearly not as important as that of a suspect.

China is also where most of the solar panels are built

"Nuclear is likely to be 9% to 12% of generation in 2035" - this is absurd. We should have much more aggressive targets for nuclear. Because it is the cleanest, safest and most reliable source of 0-emission power.

France gets 70% of its electricity from nuclear now.

holy cow! what could possibly go wrong

not all homeless are the same.

No amount of housing will help those doing drugs and defecating on the streets. They need mandatory treatment if they are public nuisance (which they absolutely are).

For people "out of luck" but willing to get on their feet there should be socialized housing, not necessarily in SF (since that area is super expensive).

yes. But on the other hand we are spoiled with choice in tech. So take advantage of that.

Apple

exactly, imagine them being legit and building ML pipelines there with their data.

I remember I was very excited about leaving Microsoft for Theranos when they were on the rise (before WSJ publications). I thought it would be a great opportunity to apply my expertise (machine learning) to their application.

But then I researched them and saw war criminal (Kissinger) on their board and total lack of people with domain/business expertise in the area. I decided not to join.

Always do your research on potential startups before jumping on board.

No. read my message again. As I said, we should assume good intention first until proven otherwise.

But we should have better tools to test for biases/toxicity. Perspective API is great tool for toxicity detection. But I'm not aware of any "propoganda" detection tool.

Given that Yandex is a crucial part of Russian propaganda arm, we should consider the whole range of possibilities from:

* Good. This is great researchers helping community by sharing great work. (which is what I'd like to assume before I have any proof of the contrary)

* Bad. This very expensive training has been approved by Ya leadership (which is under Western personal sanctions) because they've secretly built in RU's propaganda talking points into the model. Such as "war in Ukraine is not a war but special operation" etc.

can't parents and grandparents, you know, get vaccinated to protect themselves?

how there can be any skeptics about nuclear after Germany's fantastically disastrous decision to abandon it and instead become servant to and funder of 21st century facism is beyond me.