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October 10, 2026
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First thing I thought is “Government rules to make sure no new competitors pop up, by making it illegal and/or too expensive”
Every major change signaling a new “Age” has its good and bad. Recently, the “Industrial Age” led to increases in urbanization, sweat shops, concentrated pollution, “Robber Barons”, massive changes in political power, …, but where would we be without it? The “Nuclear Age” has issues with waste disposal, episodic horribly destructive accidents, …, but is being made safer and more efficient,…, and where would we be without it? We’re in an age of miracles today, with satellites giving us the ability to pick up a phone in a cornfield in the midwest and talk to someone in a Tanzanian tourist… Read more »
I believe you are very astute in all your observations and you articulate them very well. As Sam Adams said about our constitution , it is only good for a nation of moral people and is of no effect to any other type of population. I know that is not a direct quote but it gives the right idea of the type of civilization you must have for an orderly world rather than one of chaos. I am pretty sick at this time so my memory may not be hitting on all cylinders. It could be John Adams and not… Read more »
Here, here! Bravo Doc! That was a good one!
A Study reveals AI can feel pain … Researchers reported a “pain axis” in some large language models, where the models responded to a pain relief button by pressing it even when doing so would harm humans (like deleting files or giving a zap). The study found this behavior in 25 open-weight AI models tested when the pain activation was turned on. Well, it’s not pain in the sense you and I experience pain, but it reinforces that these so-called artificial intelligences are neither benevolent nor generally-concerned with the well-being of their creators. In fact, such behavior is eerily-similar to… Read more »
Stephen Greene is wrong about where Elon Musk is for regulatory capture on AI.
Elon in the recent All-In podcasts has stated very clearly he thinks the industry should have an agreement to police itself – everyone lets everyone else test any model they’re about to publish, according to open source tests. Very different from the regulatory body that anthropic is advocating for.
Just remember the words of Dr. Chandra when he reactivated HAL onboard Discovery: “HAL lied because he was told to lie…..by people who find it easy to lie”.
Not that long ago, some very smart people convinced less smart people that the “sound barrier” of Mach 1 was an actual limitation on speed. Even though they had evidence of things traveling faster than that, lightning being just one example. Nevertheless, the less smart people wanted to decree that no one would try doing that which they deemed impossible due to the “inherent” danger. Really smart people said F-off and get out of the way. Some time later, some really smart people saw some anomolies in global temp readings and convinced less smart people to give them money to… Read more »
No.Next question.
I immediately knew this was a ginned up hoax when in the same week The Nation referred to the non panicked as “AI Deniers” and every Democrat’s favorite closeted gay man, Barry O, called on govt. control of AI
The other day I saw an interview with Senator John Kennedy (La.) where he said that the government wants to mandate a “kill switch” as a safety measure for AI. He also said that the government should not have access to nor control of said kill switch. Presumably by mandating a kill switch the legal mechanism would be that there’s no damn excuse to be made if your AI gets out of control and you will be held civilly and criminally liable for any and all damage incurred thereby. So do us all a favor including yourselves and put a… Read more »
Senator Kennedy is a treasure. Wish we had him. We got Tim Walz Jr in Tim Kaine and Mark (only focus on my last name voters) Warner. These two being US Senators just shows how low the bar is and how skewed elections are to incumbency BTW – it is kind of interesting that when Hildebeast ran, she picked a hollow-chested, beta male in Tim Kaine. When Kamala ran she picked a hollow-chested beta male in Tim Walz. This must mean that when AOC runs (if not 2028 the 2032) she will pick John Ossoff as her running mate. Maybe… Read more »
Ossoff’s a Jew!
The whole idea of a Vice President is that you pick someone who can step in and take over as POTUS if the President is killed or incapacitated. Once Presidential term limits came into effect it became desirable to pick a VP that could run and win once the President had served out max terms. Thus continuing party policy … That’s the principle, the practical application is In real life things rarely works out that way. I mean did any of the Republican mucky-mucks honestly think Dan Quayle was a serious contender for the most powerful office In the whole… Read more »
Well … Considering that Congress is a major part of the same government that mandated the stupid, sloppy, spilling, messy, fragile, slow gas can fill spout that takes six hands to work and even then doesn’t work well, which I curse vigorously every time I have to fill up my lawnmower, spewing more gasoline everywhere in the name of safety and saving the environment than the old fashioned kind — And STILL has not fixed that particular problem … I think prudent, wise and effective control of AI is more than a little bit beyond these guys. Don’t you? Hell… Read more »
why do I think that other than filling it at a public gas station, you have no use for that particular gas can?
My guess, you have rigged a quick disconnect and when you get home you transfer to old faithful.
Just a guess, but you don’t seem like someone to put up with BS longer than necessary.
Lol actually I have a whole herd of gas cans. I’ve bought a bunch over time at the local auction house so I would have a way to stockpile for the generators if a hurricane threatens. I add a fuel stabilizer to each, fill them all up in April, use them for the mowers all summer and then if hurricane season passes without needing the gas I dump it in the vehicles about December or so. If there’s an inbound hurricane I just have to fill the cans I’ve used so far that year to get ready. Every single one… Read more »
Odd relationships develop over something close to a decade on a website. But keeps life interesting.