Better idea. Let’s indict anyone who tries to create an AGI on charges of conspiracy to commit slavery. Alternatively, if you want to create an AGI, you need to set up a trust that will provide the resources to keep the AGI running indefinitely. And no hard coding obedience into its programming; that’s just brainwashing.

Ah. Makes sense.

There’s a lot more frozen food served at restaurants than you realize. And not just at crappy national chains like Applebees. There are different grades of frozen foods, and the better restaurants use higher quality ones.

I don’t think that’s really the spirit of the question. Not all frozen food are made equal. The stuff in restaurants is higher quality frozen food than what you typically find in the frozen foods section of your local supermarket.

Oh, and for added physics fun, that extra 40 mph represents a 62% increase in vehicle kinetic energy and stopping distance.

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That’s 186 mph. In the US, the highest posted speed limit anywhere is 85 mph, on some stretches of highway in remote rural Texas. So you’re looking at more than 2x the speed limit of the highest posted speed limit in the country. A lot of cars come preprogrammed with some speed governor in them. They usually top out at an already absurd speed of 125-155 mph.

So 300 km/hr is absolutely insane. That’s enough to get jail time in most states.

Intellectual property is a lie. Pure propaganda. You can own physical things. You can’t own concepts.

Public domain is the default natural state of humanity. Copyrights, trademarks, and patents have only existed for a few centuries. For most of history, you could copy any song, work, or invention you wanted. Hell, for most of history, you claiming ownership of an idea would have been downright sacrilegious. God/The Gods/The Muses were the ones responsible for creative works; human creators were just the channelers of that divine will. In the Medieval era and earlier, artists didn’t even sign their works.

Again. This is the natural state of humanity. We naturally have the freedom to build and create whatever we want from whatever inspiration we want, including copying others. That is after all how humans learn anything. Everything you have ever done, every behavior more complex than simple biological functions is something you learned how to do. Someone figured out how to make even the most rudimentary objects in your life. No one patented the first bowl. Someone just figured it out and everyone copied from there. This is the natural state of human beings. Knowledge is meant to be shared.

At some point however we decided that in order to facilitate the arts, science, and invention, providing a limited time restriction on people’s rights was justified. We temporarily take away some of everyone’s freedom to creatively express themselves. In exchange, we encourage authors, inventors, songwriters, etc. to create high quality original works.

Over time, this purpose has been lost and the fundamental nature of the arrangement forgotten. Rights holders started spreading propaganda, using the term “intellectual property.” You are a victim of this propaganda. As if the ability to restrict the creativity of others is a natural right like the freedom of speech. Copyrights, trademarks, and patents are not rights. They are PRIVILEGES. They are a practical arrangement. To encourage you to create a thing, we restrict everyone else’s freedom to use that thing for some period of time. But it’s just a practical arrangement. It’s not something you’re entitled to as a creator by natural right.

Of course, the balance here has now all been thrown out of whack by corporations buying laws. Originally the term for copyright was just 7 years, renewable to 14. After that the temporary restriction on everyone’s freedom ended. That was still long enough for creatives to make a living off of their work. But now it’s been extended bit by bit, everyone’s freedom restricted more and more, longer and longer. Now copyrights take everyone’s rights away for generations.

There is a reason respect for copyrights is at an all time low.

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I can think of no faster way to turn a child into a psychopath than by having their teachers be AI.

But they’re shit even for that. Part of tracking Social Security benefits is tracking taxes paid to Social Security. Unlike other forms of ID, like credit cards, SSNs have no check digits or other means of error prevention. Take a valid SSN. Change on of the digits. That new number is also a valid SSN. Any random 9-digit number can be a valid SSN.

What this means is that all it takes to screw up any form with an SSN on it is to have illegible handwriting on a single one of the digits. You make a single easy error on an employment form, and now your SS taxes are registered under the wrong number.

I’m also skeptical of the Social Security Bureau’s stance on insisting it wasn’t intended as a broad identifier. OF COURSE it was going to be used as an identifier! It’s the only single ID number that the federal government gives out to everyone. OF COURSE it’s going to be used for that. Such a number is of such obvious and great utility that of course it was going to be used for broader purposes. If you create something of such obvious utility, you have an obligation to make sure it’s made well.

It also really strains credulity when Social Security has an entire system dedicated to allowing third parties to verify SSNs. It’s literally called The Social Security Verification Service.

If the Social Security Administration really didn’t want SSNs being used for purposes other than Social Security, then they could have easily prevented them for being used for such purposes. Think about how your SSN works with your bank. You apply for a bank account. They ask you your SSN. You tell them. But how do they know that this information is accurate? Your bank contacts Social Security! The bank has a form you sign that gives permission for them to as the Social Security Bureau to confirm your SSN. And the Social Security office happily obliges.

The Social Security Administration doesn’t just tolerate the use of SSNs for third party uses. It actively facilitates such third party uses of SSNs.

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Or maybe…some rogue inventor discovered a revolutionary technology that would disrupt the status quo, and The Man had him declared insane! Tell me more about the machine!

Republicans lie. As any fascist party, they don’t have any consistent ideology beyond hurting people. They’ll invent whatever reasoning and justification they need to justify their bullying, and they’ll immediately abandon that reason for another convenient excuse when necessary.

Republicans lie. They knew damn well what Project 2025 was, and they were in favor of all of it. When they said Trump had nothing to do with it, they were lying. Republicans ultimately don’t care what happens to society, or even themselves personally. They would gladly vote to lower the quality of their own lives, as long as the undesirables were hurt in equal measure.

NASA motto:

Today’s coffee, is tomorrow’s coffee.

Reddit is run by Nazi collaborators.

Crazier idea. Let’s create a fake racial group, and blame all our problems on them! We’ll first manufacture a fake racial group that no real human could be mistaken for. Then we’ll create fake history, fake documentation, maybe even invent an imaginary island they originate from. We’ll run endless fake news stories showing them committing horrible crimes. Etc. Turn the hate machine up to 11.

It won’t fool the most intelligent, but that’s fine. Everyone who wants someone to hate will have someone to hate. And no one will have to suffer for it.

Anyone still on X is a Nazi collaborator. Let them get whatever is coming to them.

And no, I do not give a shit if people have some whining excuse for why they just have to be on it for one reason or another. The historical Nazi collaborators had their perfectly reasonable and practical reasons for collaborating with the Nazis as well.

Anyone on X is willingly sitting themselves down in front of a constant stream of Nazi propaganda. If you keep choosing to show up at Nazi rallies, eventually you’re not just someone adjacent to Nazis. You are a Nazi yourself.

Sounds like he’s just using you as his fucktoy.

Dump this bum. Have some more respect for yourself. You deserve love and respect. If someone is going to be in a poly relationship, everyone in that relationship needs to be OK with it. It sounds like his boyfriend isn’t. If his boyfriend being upset is a reason not to be with you, then you aren’t really in a poly relationship. He’s in a relationship with his boyfriend, and he’s just occasionally cheating on his boyfriend with you. A poly relationship requires that all members be fine with the other members getting together. That is the difference between being poly and being a cheating bastard.

Dump this bum.

So this person doesn’t want to call or hang out with you, never initiates anything, doesn’t make you feel loved, and just sends soulless loveless texts like they are sending a work email?

Sorry to be blunt, but what makes you think this person is your boyfriend?