ClumsyPilot

we have to speak of the policy of the Chinese government as the policy of China

This does not even have meaning in English.

Policy of US government is not policy of US? When Trump decided to bomb Iran it was just a suggestion?

They want to… watch the US AI labs crash and burn.

I don’t think dozens of large independent companies and thousands of researchers are working just to spite Sam Altman. Ad much as I don’t like him, I have other things to do and I am sure so do they.

You can't rely on asking the customer

It’s not even been five years of AI, and we’ve already arrived at the point where the human is wrong and the AI is right.

Mind you this is in an area where the benchmark is the opinion of the human ! So if the customer is saying you’ve shown enough empathy but AI says you haven’t, then you take opinion of the AI?

Soon we’re going to have a situation where the patient is breathing, but the AI says he’s dead.

There is too much fantasy about distant habitable planet and not enough about making a planet in solar system habitable or building artificial habitats

The second is likely easier than the first

Platform must be the most abused word ever

Apparently, everyone is building the platform all the time, even when it’s just a user facing application

Nice to meet a fellow appreciated of the French revolution. There aren’t many of us these days.

They were arrested on suspicion of a public order offence and taken into custody

He was arrested, jailed, tried and convicted. He was not imprisoned, which I did not say he was. The only thing I misremembered is the age.

The actual criminals that caused death of a hundred people have not been charged with any crime.

Amazing how pointing out obvious corruption is unpopular here. Or do people honestly believe that making video about a crime should be punished more than the crime itself?

value. All billionaires could be instantly broke if the general public decided they were broke.

Are we taking about abolishing the fiat currency system or bringing back the guillotines ?

But what we really need is a massive boycott

Is it? What’s the most effective boycott you can think of ever achieved?

This is ultimately a failing of democracy itself. This stuff was legal

Nah, it’s corruption the CEO of the company that forged fire safety documents was given legal immunity.

A large part of this is life coming at parents faster than they can keep up, let alone stay one season ahead of their childs growth.

The amount of administrative tasks, bureaucracy and complexity an adult, let alone a parent, has to navigate on a daily basis has increased 100x since the 70’s. It is very convent for corporations but less convenient for parents. Just look at the amount of legal contract you have to sign relating to data, Eula, etc.

Parents, legally, are required to provide a safe and growing environment.

True, but be carefull, people might solve the problem in ways you don’t expect.

For example if someone races near a kids playground on electric skateboard at 50 km/h, and authorities keep ignoring the issue, they might just hit an unexpected obstacle

Except social media as a concept isn’t the issue

Are you sure about that? So far the negatives vastly outweigh the positives. Imagine a statement:

as a concept there isn’t an issue with a social credit score / great firewall / reeducation camp as long as they are done by a competent well-meaning person

Why are we conflating having a camera with social media that is addictive?

We imprisoned kids for making an offensive video of a burning cardboard xopy of grenfell tower

But we gave legal immunity to the corporate executives that forged fire testing certificates and caused the actual fire that killed over 100 people

And when I say we have Russia-style corruption no one believes me

I would not assume that.

Because British government has just made leaseholders of apartments liable for costs of fixing forged and fraudulently obtained fire safety certification of apartment blocks.

The manufacturers of cladding materials have forged the fire safety certificate, the construction company has not followed the law when it comes to fire breaks and other fire safety system, the government building control has examined the building and signed it off as correct, possibly corruptly.

But after a skyscraper burned down with all the residents inside, now the residents are liable.

The collateral is effectively a claim on the person's future earnings

Back in the Russian empire a person could buy themselves out of serfdom if they could come up with the money… which was difficult for obvious reasons.

And this feels like a modern reincarnation of the system.

It’s categorised as ‘ Unfree Labour’

We don't, particularly in the west, have the skills, shops/craftsmen, or access to resources

It’s worse than that, most consumers don’t even know what good looks like any more. We are much more restricted and maybe lower variety of experience.

You could serve half the consumers rat meat instead of beef and they wouldn’t know the difference.

The changes we see in style can be attributed to changes in politics and civilization. Who we are and what we think of ourselves.

There is something to this even if the way this is expressed is clumsy

Crimes are crimes and must be prosecuted as such.

That would be nice but that is not the current situation, neither my stolen bicycle nor the fraud that caused 2008 had resulted in any arrests. Until such time that all crimes are crimes, it is a valid question.

by the numbers the wealthy and corporations pay significantly more in taxes than the “people who own nothing”

This statement is highly misleading in three different dimensions:

Firstly, both in UK and in USA individuals pay like 5x more in income tax than corporations pay in tax. So people pay more tax and yet prosecutions against corporations are less than 1% of all prosecutions, that seems questionable.

Secondly, what is the statistics you are citing is actually saying? "Out of the people that declare income to government, those that declare the most income, pay the most tax". That's a bit self-evident, isn't it?

It does not address the claim that wealthiest people don't declare taxable income, and therefore pay little tax.

Thirdly, the measurement needs to be relative, not absolute. The claim "I pay less income tax than Facebook does' is true, but Facebook pays the effective tax rate of about 3%.

that doesn’t mean they actually had any legal responsibility to lock him out

If the property owner doesn’t make bare minimum effort to protect the property

Then how much effort and money should taxpayer spend to protect and prosecute regarding the same property?

It seems strange to imply that people that own nothing must through their taxes pay for protection of property of the people who do own everything.

You get trustworthy people by trusting people

Huh? Do FBI/CIA/etc run that way?

Producing something novel and valuable is HARD

I disagree, producing something valuable is common, and it’s common for scientists / inventors / artists / composers to die poor.

Selling, Capturing the value, and building businesses on top is hard.

- Its relationship with China is also rapidly deteriorating

For which there is no good reason and which is extremely stupid

There has been zero aggression from China towards Europe and zero chance of military confrontation.

Most of the sanctions that were implemented under pressure from Us have backfired on Europe (but not so much on US)

European politicians are going around the world and telling India not to trade with Russia while Israel trades with Russia, etc.

We seem to be good at combining the worst of both sides -> rightwing trickle down economics, left-wing social policy plus boomerism sprinkled on top

This narrative is a fabrication.

EU spends 33% of World’s military spending, once you exclude US. EU spends more on military than China.

How much do you need to spend to defend yourself, 60% of the world?

Mind you, many western weapons, like stinger and javelin, cost more than their weight in silver. Sounds like a scam

They didn't anticipate…the Middle East blowing up again

Yes, interesting that the People dropping bombs did not anticipate blowing up.

Our elites have revealed many flaws recently, but one I did not expect is that they have surprisingly limited intelligence.

at a breakneck pace for no apparent reason

So many reasons: unpopular wars in the Middle East, repeated embarrassments in international arena, domestic unrest, decadent elites…

That’s even worse

Politicians and all their communication are to be excluded, for they have decided it is obvious that we can trust them

What’s the point of criticising USSR and China only to reinvent it

Famously law enforcement don’t commit crimes and don’t need to be held accountable

> would be addressing the "for the children" motivations seriously rather than fully dismissing them

Like actually finding and arresting Eipstein clients?

There’s no need to protect children when it’s higher ranking people doing the crime I guess