While I completely agree with your sentiment, the realities of the US legal system and corporate laws paints a significantly different picture. At least, if the ‘you’ in this case is a corporation. Then the ‘responsibility’ is often less than pennies on the dollar or nothing at all. American corporations kill…

The deorbit burn-up is the standard ‘retirement plan’ for old space equipment. But if the stuff getting sent up there is of sufficient density that it *doesn’t* reliably burn up during re-entry, that’s definitely going to throw a wrench into future plans. Weather forecasts are going to have to start adding ‘Chance of…

Ships don’t magically suffer catastrophic power failures for no reason (let alone multiple failures). It happens because ‘someone’ wasn’t taking proper care of the ship. That ‘someone’ is the owner of the ship.

“Gee! I had no idea that appropriating people’s money without their knowledge or consent and then giving it to myself, also without their knowledge or consent, was illegal!”

Possibly. Or it could be that fire extinguisher manufacturers are pushing back on an encroachment to their captive-market products and disingenuously pushing for bad-faith testing to remove the competition. That’s how this sort of crap usually gets started. It’s not about ‘safety’ or ‘product efficacy.’ It’s about…

Hey, it got to the moon and landed in one piece! What more could you want??

AI still has some pretty hefty consistency issues, ie getting it to produce the *same* character, on demand, in whatever form, attire, pose, etc that the scene or panel requires. So even though it can create animations of a character or a group of characters, it still can’t reliably create another animation of the…

While season 2 still suffered from the same meandering efforts to both pad episode count and ‘flesh out’ the universe that season 1 did, it wasn’t nearly as egregious. And yes, the ending of S2 was much more in line with what one would expect from Halo. But that really doesn’t fix past problems. And there’s no reason…

Killing people has *ALWAYS* been ‘profitable.’ There’s the money made creating the weapons used to kill people, and dead people can’t stop you from taking their stuff afterward. And really, that’s both of the core driving factors of war since the dawn of civilization.

The average Republican voter is stupid. The average government operative for Russia or China is not. Guess which group understands the difference between meaningful, effective legislation and unenforceable, performative bullshit?

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Guess what Blue Origin has provided none of....

We need to start holding for-profit pet breeders to task for recklessly producing young animals to sell, and then discarding any that don’t sell within an acceptable time frame, only to repeat that process several months later. They’re actively sabotaging efforts to control populations of non-native animals in places…

Agents of Shield, Lost in Space style, hopping through alternate realities. They already set up the groundwork for it before the end, so it’s not like some sort of big leap in the story telling or format.

Because it’s costing tens (possibly hundreds) of billions of dollars and isn’t turning profit anywhere. That’s why there’s this desperate desire to shoehorn it in anywhere the ‘investors’ of this tech think they can get away with it. They’re thinking ‘short term, profits now.’ They don’t care that it’s nowhere near…

Why do people believe aliens are on or have visited Earth? For the same reason(s) people still believe in God despite overwhelming contradictory evidence — the truth is more than they’re willing or able to grasp or accept. We want ‘answers’ we can understand, answers that make things ‘make sense.’ That’s why invented…

“...and rob communities and economies of human capital.”

There’s something wonderful about great actors finding success at their passion, and Pedro is definitely in that category. But there’s also something equally alarming and disturbing about how largely random it is for any of them to achieve that success, regardless of their skill or perseverance. I’ve lost count of how…

The problem with all these AI-focused ‘demos’ is that they’re still wildly behind the curve of what it takes to even come close to replicating human effort. They’re like the childish (but brilliant in its deliberate simplicity, so don’t misunderstand me) Up-Goer V poster from XKCD. These AI systems lack the necessary…

What’s cute is that you think the billions of dollars they’ve spent reinventing a glorified phone service to hail a cab is somehow new and revolutionary.

Correct. The problem is that Uber and Lyft are nothing more than over-hyped taxi services. That’s an industry that has had decades to squeeze every last drop of efficiency possible out without compromising rider or driver safety or that whole ‘making a living wage’ thing that ‘disruptive’ businesses seem not to give a…