No, but we do need someone overseeing the production and usage of lightbulbs to ensure that they’re not fire or health hazards. Which they are if they’re not used, designed, or handled properly. And the Republican party sure as shit isn’t going to lift a finger to protect the public if they can’t use it as a cudgel to…

To be fair, a robot apocalypse isn’t the part about AI that concerned him. What concerned him was a deep fake of him making a speech he never made. He was apparently confused or flustered by it. And, yeah, if someone had not been paying attention to the deep-fake world, I could see how that might slip their attention…

That was my point: if it’s used simply as a stop-gap measure to buy us the time needed to implement broader, more long-term solutions, that’s fine. We’ll only need it temporarily. What we don’t want is to become dependent on it. The idea is to fix the problem, not mask it. After all, would you *REALLY* trust these…

“Well, you see, mods rob us of the opportunity to sell all these things that players have made. We simply cannot permit that loss of potential profits.” — Capcom

That would only work temporarily, which the various social democracies around the world are starting to experience. You see, like everything else before it, the people who have ‘more resources’ will invariably use their greater means to warp the system into serving themselves ahead of everyone else. And they can do it…

People only have so much disposable income. When everyone is asking for more money and nobody is paying people more for their labor, those people are forced to cut their discretionary spending. They’ll put off replacing an existing vehicle years longer, cancel non-critical services, go out to eat less, etc, etc. All be…

It’s weird it’s this close to the movie and we’ve barely seen or heard anything from it! Blame the AMPTP!

If we were to use it solely as a stop-gap measure until we get our shit together? Okay, sure. But that’s not how it’ll be used. It’ll be used as a substitute for actually getting our shit together. Humanity has a *REALLY* bad habit taking the path of least resistance when faced with choices or challenges. As soon as…

Yeah, AT&T tried that whole ‘you can only our authorized stuff on our systems’ schtick. How do you think that went, Microsoft? I’ll give you a hint: the FTC and DOJ got involved.

...to determine how AI is used in sentencing, parole, and pretrial release, as well as in surveillance and predictive policing.

Do you know what they call ‘borrowing’ without the owner’s knowledge or consent?

There’s no such thing as a sandbox that’s too big. It’s that there’s not enough sand in it. And in Starfield’s case, the sandbox is practically empty.

So Elon Musk is a hypocrite. An incompetent, arrogant, ignorant hypocrite. I’m shocked. Shocked, I tell you.

The Skynet scenario is far less likely than the wealthy using their AI-powered murder bots to eliminate most of humanity. The wealthy have already shown the sociopathy necessary to make that kind of decision, and the AI systems at their disposal are certainly capable enough of executing it without any ‘self…

The ultra wealthy, who own all the AI systems, will get together and decide that ‘saving the world’ would be a lot easier with ~8 billion fewer people on it, and proceed to use their AI-powered murder bots to annihilate everyone not under their thrall, ‘saving’ the world and humanity.

The early seasons of TNG weren’t all that great regardless. It suffered from the “Everyone is figuring out how all the pieces are supposed to fit together versus how they’re actually fitting together now that everything is actually in motion” problem, like so many shows before and after it. DS9's first season…

First, ESO is a completely different team in a completely different studio. But second, that’s kind of the problem. They went from a team handling a single major IP to a team juggling three major IPs, with very little structural changes to the team itself. So while they are still releasing a new game in roughly the…

I don’t know if unions can legally do something like that — striking for each other — in the US. They definitely can’t in the EU, for example.

No, what’s scary is that they *ARE* sending their best. Fascist, misogynistic, sexist, racist, bigoted, hate-spewing, violence-inciting, democracy-killing, theocratic-tyranny loving, corporate-welfare supporting, anti-education, anti-science, anti-society, etc, etc. That *IS* the Republican best. And it has been for…

And these CEOs and AMPTP actually demanded that the union not disclose the details of their meetings. Yes, really. One of the previous negotiations with the AMPTP included a non-disclosure stipulation for SAG-AFTRA union negotiations. Which SAG-AFTRA is still honoring, even thought AMPTP clearly isn’t.