It’s not “other people had to go through it,” it’s “the stipulation of the contract she agreed to as playing as part of the WTA Grand Slam tournaments requires press conferences.” She agreed to play in the tournament, but then decided to not meet the conditions of play on the tour.

I’ve often felt that people have no regard for athletes’ mental health and this rings very true whenever I see a press conference or partake in one.

I think it does matter. If it was a biosecurity failure, the world needs to know it because next time it could be MERS. There needs to be far more oversight/regulation if human error was able to kill millions of people & destroy the lives & livelihoods of millions more.

But “giving kids a say” and listening to what the kids have to say are two very different things. At 9 years of age, my daughter would have loved to spend more time with her father because he plied her with sweets, had no rules or boundaries and was generally the “fun” parent. He also spent his time either stretched…

I think it’s expressly because we won’t be able to develop a sense of self that it’s a threat. The one thing we’ve consistently shown as a species is the inability to grasp the ramifications of technological leaps. At some point we’ll lose track of something, and the program will just do what it’s been told.

While I agree that super-intelligent AI is not currently a threat, I think it’s dangerous to start pretending we know how far away it is - It may very well be “centuries”, or it may be decades. Humans have never been good at predicting their own future technological progress; a mere two centuries ago, the idea of…

You’re actually describing a harder problem than intelligence: it’s not clear whether consciousness or self-awareness is necessary for intelligence. Those parts of human intelligence are certainly far off, I agree.

I don’t see humans creating AI sentience. I could see AI becoming self aware in the future, and humans initially missing it because it doesn’t look or act like anything humanity has seen before, thus a Turing Test would be useless. And I don’t see this as centuries away. My prediction is within the next 20 years. A…

If we could make an aware machine I would actually feel better about it. It’s all of these increasingly complex AI algorithms that are unaware that scare the hell out of me. A well programed algorithm that thinks it is doing exactly what it set out to do - completing all those patterns - to the detriment of unintended…

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Maybe I still have some lingering naivete, but I actually think Biden, of all people, may be catching onto the grift. When Republicans came with their joke of an offer on COVID relief, he swatted it away and pushed it through with only Democrats. And while I’ve been frustrated he’s been playing the “bipartisanship”…

Also, is his take that only things that haven’t happened yet can be investigated? Because that’s fucking insane. 

Let’s review what happened here. Kevin McCarthy, the number one Republican in the House, delegated authority to a member of his caucus, John Katko, to negotiate on behalf of Republicans. Katko did well; Nancy Pelosi and Democrats, despite having a majority and public sentiment on their side, caved on nearly every…

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Well, that makes sense. Remember, McConnell was an outspoken critic of investigation into Benghazi due the past-ness of the events. Very consistent indeed.

I mean, if it truly was a bunch of antifa people, pretending to be Trump supporters, storming the Capital, wouldn’t you think Republicans would want to get to the bottom of that?  Oh wait...

Oh FFS

Yeah, my first reaction was “how could anyone possibly hate this completele innocent game enough to attack it like this”, but the answer of “this guy wants more LBP” makes even less sense.

but then also doing stuff like applying generalised traits to every member of that “race”, which borders on mirroring the prejudices of real-world racism.

These people must have literally nothing to do if they can’t fathom doing anything else but this garbage.