GreenBeard

Sure, I’m up right now. I don’t expect to stay there. I’m a millennial. Money is fake, and it will be gone when you need it most.

As someone who watched their retirement go up in smoke once because of a global financial implosion, I promise it won’t matter as much as you think it will where you stuff that cash.

Tell me how that works out for you when the AI bubble pops.

You say that like most of us are ever going to see a dime of that money.

There’s downsides to most solutions. Over-the-air reporting is another possible answer, but then you get into massive risks to privacy and data harvesting. It’s easier to mandate trickle chargers have Over-The-Air reporting than to have the car do it. Logistically there’s going to be complications no matter how you assess the taxes.

See, annual inspections make it to visible. You get the bill for your road taxes all in one hit when you take your car in for maintenance, people are going to go a) Lose their minds at the price tag, b) Hit up black market solutions to “fix” their numbers. Being illegal is only a deterrence for getting caught breaking the law.

As far as the variety of efficiencies, I don’t see that as a downside. That just incentivizes higher efficiency systems if you assume the median efficiency for tax purposes.

That said you do make a valid point about non-standard charging set ups. I’m not entirely opposed to the odometer method, I just find most proposals for implementing it a barrier to adoption.

How about just metering charging infrastructure and taxing by the kilowatt hr? Power consumed is directly proportional to the weight, distance, and rate of travel. A simple mandate that all home charging stations have to have a wireless or remote-readable meter attached, and all public fast-chargers are taxed by KWh. Easy, simple, and nearly frictionless.

I call it “Turing’s Revenge” where, once the bot can pass the Turing test, we find out the hard way if humans are intelligent… and we appear to have a lot of failed models, mostly in management.

Not to minimize the horror of this, and it is awful, but sexual violence is always used in war. Always has been, always will be. That’s not to say we should not tell the story of the innocent victims, we absolutely should and we should condemn the perpetrators, but we should also keep in mind this is a part of war. Property is destroyed, innocent lives are lost, survivors are often maimed, and people are sexually violated. Women, men, and children. It’s part why there’s no such thing as a just war.

As an IT guy, I can confirm, it’s a trap.

Hypothetically a stable orbital structure with a consistent dark side could use heat pumps in conjunction with Curie point radiators that could potentially radiate fast enough in a hard vacuum. They’re impractical on a vessel that’s intended to do a lot of accelerating, decelerating, and changing direction but something with a relatively stable position they’d have some potential.

It’s a sad state of the world that this man isn’t being publicly …disciplined… for his crimes against humanity.

I’m sorry, unless I’m getting paid to use AI, I’m not using AI, and we can discuss my fees for using these things. These aren’t a consumer product, they’re a job. I’m not getting paid to bag groceries either, I’m not paying for the privilege of working for Google.

Why not both?

What they want, is to eliminate us entirely. They don’t want to use us. They have no use for us once their god-machines are built. They intend to create a world where human life, human labour, humanity in general has no value at all. We’re too messy, too complex, too fallible. Humans are fundamentally irrational entities capable of limited rationality when absolutely necessary. There is no utopia coming. They want us gone, by any means necessary. And if they can get us to lay down and die without a fight, all the better.

On the contrary, if consumer uptake is too shallow, their big gamble on AI comes crashing down. While the fallout of THAT catastrophe will not be gentle, it’ll be a whole lot less catastrophic than the alternative. I will continue to avoid using AI as much as I am legally able, which right now is a lot, and steering any company that I consult with that demands AI into losing massive amounts of money on bad AI decisions. “It’s not me, the AI is quirky like that. Sorry, but I did warn you it was unreliable.” Let it burn. Let it all burn.

You probably can’t. He will likely have to hit rock-bottom before he realizes he’s made a mistake. You’ve tried intervention, and you can leave the door open for when his plan all falls apart. You can’t really do anything more than that.

You suffer from the illusion that congress as it currently exists represents humans. Congress represents corporate persons and special interests. There are two categories of corporate persons, a) those with just enough foresight to still be mildly afraid human persons will catch on and do something to overthrow them (Democrats), b) those who don’t care what you cattle think, because they have the psychological tools to manipulate you into doing whatever they want (Republicans). At no point is your opinion relevant because neither party actually cares, they’ll have their public relations team tell you what you’re permitted to care about closer to election day. AIPAC, the special interest group representing the Israeli government funds both, and so extracts favors as they see fit. It’s not at all crazy once you recognize the underlying structure. Evil, but not crazy.

Corporate treason has been not only legal, but encouraged for hundreds of years. This is not new, nor will it be addressed.