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Which park?

All physical artifacts older than 5 years should be destroyed and their memories wiped from all human brains. Comrade.

It does. But it's nothing special. This isn't "software engineering applied to a physical system". This is just software (and some hardware) engineering. This is just engineering. Making things to do things. You want to do something and you make a machine that does it.

Potential? The Holocene Extinction is already the sixth mass extinction in Earth's history, and that's pre-climate-change.

The usual empire lifecycle is caused by questionable policy choices.

Wait, they don't own US TikTok? Who does?

And their repeated refusal to either implement CUDA or reimplement everyone's CUDA libraries on their own platform. They say that AMD never misses a chance to miss a chance.

IMHO these signals have more to do with the market than AI. They aren't finding AI to be have less ROI than before - they are requiring higher ROI than before, because there is less money remaining to be invested.

Managing the total amount of money so that investment bubbles peter out before they get excessively big is supposed to be the central bank's job.

Do you actually have customers spread throughout the globe, or just in North America and some in Europe?

Uhhh, they have it right now, and they are currently being evil by blocking a lot of people from accessing a lot of websites.

The expectation with scraping is that you won't cause excessive server load. The "AI" scrapers are not respecting that. But there are plenty of other scrapers that do.

Here's some stuff on Adversarial Interoperability, which is an incredibly good thing that can reverse enshittification if it becomes more widespread: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interopera...

It kind of is, where do you think Big Tech gets its money from? essential products and services are more expensive because of the waste. Like a can of Coke (or packet of rice) is more expensive because they buy ads through Google and Google wastes that money.

Turnstile already does the "You are a BOT!!!" thing btw, if it thinks you're a bot, which is quite rare as it seems much more permissive than systems like reCAPTCHA.

I don't know the exact process but I don't see why they couldn't do that. Parliamentary supremacy means that Parliament is supreme. What they say, goes. It's a dictatorship of elected MPs, hopefully kept in check by the need to be elected.

In other countries, cops may carry guns, but if those guns are ever fired, there is an investigation to ensure it was fired for a very good reason. Those places still have cops.

They also have months or years of cop training, not weeks.

The UK has "parliamentary supremacy" which means legislation passed by the parliament overrules everything else. If the court determines the legislation has a problem, it goes back to parliament to make sure parliament intended a certain interpretation, but parliament can either change the law, or they can say the court is wrong and the law stands.

He is wrong, by the way. Most animals multiply until they exceed carrying capacity, then die off in massive numbers, then repeat. They may find a long-term equilibrium. The current boom in human population, and a subsequent die-off that has not yet happened, were predicted back in the 1970s.

Actually, Wikimedia Commons has a category for pornographic videos.

browsers are so mutually compatible.

Not really, there's just only one browser (Chrome). Firefox has declined so low it's a rounding error, and all other browsers are Chrome forks.

The regular voting system is not enough because there is no downvoting for articles.

For example, you could teach them things. But why is funding the education of the next generation the only possible contribution to society?

Countries collapse very often. The land, cities, and people remain, and organize into new countries. Democracy was meant to pre-empt this with a regular controlled collapse and handover, like a controlled forest burn, but a democracy itself can also collapse.

From a legal perspective, right and wrong are decided by a coin flip most of the time.

That isn't the type of scraping being discussed here.

The x87 FPU implemented transcendental functions in microcode. Most instruction sets don't implement them. Mmicrocode is actually slower than software, since it doesn't get the benefit of things like branch prediction.

scraping, however, is not intrinsically a scam.

Why is tax payment the only possible contribution to society?

Why does the government have to provide the loans?

This isn't common knowledge. This is something people (non-experts) are starting to infer, because we're seeing it with Long COVID - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48877214 - but there's no reason to think this is something special about SARS-CoV-2 - it could just as well happen with all viral infections but we weren't looking.

It reminds me that we didn't look at vaccine efficacy at the individual level until SARS-CoV-2. People were getting upset that SARS-CoV-2 vaccines only have a moderate chance to stop you getting the virus, and usually lessen its impact if you do get it, and calling this an ineffective vaccine. But the truth is, we have no idea whether every previous vaccine was also like that, because we only ever looked at the population level: when lots of people get the vaccine, the virus dies out.

If it's economically advantageous shouldn't the private sector be able to fund it for a profit already?