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Well that doesn't give me a whole lot of faith in the Nobel Committee's judgment. Did she actually do anything to earn the prize, or is this a repeat of the Obama thing where they gave it to someone merely for being the opposition to someone they hated? Not that I envy their position; some...

I didn't even realize the actual winner was from Venezuela... do you think that was the real motivation behind this whole operation?

I wouldn't be too worried about this fall. Trump can piss and moan performatively all he wants about who does and doesn't get elected to other offices, but it's not like he cares about Congress anymore. Anything he wants to do these days, he'll just sign an executive order, and I don't expect...

The question is no longer whether they're crazy enough to try, because we've passed the threshold where the answer will from now on always be yes. The question is now whether somebody is going to step up and do something to stop them in time. And the only person who can answer that question is...

"Hey Grok, generate rule 34 of the Pentagon's current war plans."

I would have stopped after "pedophile." Actually I probably would have used a more blunt synonym for it as well.

It also doesn't treat capitalism as some kind of demon that must needs be slain, the way Facebook Bro was doing. But I don't know why I keep bothering to try having a discussion with someone who's not here.

Nah, I get where Pale Rider is coming from. It's not like greed didn't exist before the advent of the stock market, and it's fundamentally stupid that our well-being is ultimately dependent on self-interested people. But also, I don't know what alternative there is. No matter what system you...

Because you can regulate individual industries into not doing that stuff. People aren't so keen on a communist revolution.

Exactly. When people use AI, they're not actually doing anything they might have the legal right to do; they're giving instructions to a soulless machine that has no legal rights and the machine is doing all the work. The user should absolutely be liable the same way a dog's owner would if they...

A ban on anything capable of making deepfakes would, in effect, be a ban on all generative AI, so no I think this is exactly as strong as the legislation should be.

The joke is always that it's not a joke. That's what makes it satire.

Since when did we have any moral high ground to take? Not since before Vietnam, at least...

"You want to collect evidence that we're guilty of heinous crimes against humanity? Only if you give us money!"

I read it as a sarcastic "I can't wait until our government shuts down our entire internet too." Granted, if they did do that, there would be a full-blown revolution, because it would leave probably the majority of the country unable to do their jobs or buy essential goods. I wonder if...

Just let the industry collapse so we have an excuse to nationalize it already.

I had thought about this, but I didn't bring it up before because it wouldn't explain why she has her own spaceship. I don't imagine they just hand those out to anybody. Why do you think the Enterprise is always stuck shuttling hundreds of passengers around? Same goes for the weapons. Especially...

Adding to that, I'll believe he's lost "their" support when there are more than just a handful even bothering to speak up. There are over 200 of the bastards in Congress; wake me up when dissent on literally any one policy cracks triple digits.

Why bother talking? You don't negotiate with terrorists.

Are those the same people we were also claiming were killed (accidentally, by other protesters)?