an LLM is not anywhere near human enough to be granted anything resembling human rights or constitutional protections.

I look at it from the other direction: the union of an LLM and its human owner isn't inhuman enough to be spared the usual consequences of their speech.

You don't need to write a bot to follow me around and spam me; you could do it yourself. And you'd get in trouble. When you told the judge "freeze peach," the judge and I would agree with you that, yes, you did have the right to accrue the civil liability that we're discussing here in court.

And If Congress had passed a law that you didn't have that right anymore, you and I would be standing right next to each other, firing our muskets at those Congresscritters. Your right to free speech shall not be infringed, whether we're talking about just you, or you with the aid of software agents working at your direction on your behalf.

But be careful what you do with that. You might rack up quite a bill!

if .. your goal was efficient use of capital

Take that to the extreme, and the conclusion is: the only thing factories should ever make, are more factories.

That's not an export issue, though. As long as DRM remains in use, piracy will remain the only serious option for getting conveniently-playable media, whether you're inside or outside the US. The US has lots of people who don't want to make needless sacrifices when it comes to quality and convenience.

no State or political subdivision thereof may enforce any law or regulation regulating .. automated decision systems

Pretty sure I can make an "automated decision system" out of a couple NAND gates. And now, to get around municipal building codes, I can use inflammable materials when constructing that daycare center. The NAND chips make it legal.

(Why did I use inflammable materials? To avoid the flammable ones!)

Yes, but they're saying that if you retire drivers for doing things like that, you'll be mistakenly retiring 99 humans for every replicant.

Notice there's no kernel level anti-cheat systems in single player games?

Not anymore that I know of, but shit like that has happened. If people stop being wary, it could happen again.

But as an EV, it comes with all the associated political tribalism baggage

90+% of people won't even know, though. If the owner is one of them, they win (a few people snickering behind their back, but the owner has no idea what the issue is, or that there even is a problem at all).

And if the owner does happen to know it has tribal connotations, they still have what, maybe a 15-30% chance of guessing which tribe? So they'll notice that some people hate them, and they'll correctly attribute it to the truck, but the tribes might match, making things extra confusing.

Which, I guess, is indeed a downside. So there really is something to your complaint, but even so, for most people, the tribalism will pass by unperceived and unsuspected.

While it provides your privacy, it would also make you stick out, would it not?

Not if lots of people do it.

I've always assumed everyone considers the number one dumbest individual that they personally know, to be smarter than Trump.

I suspect they won't actually tax all that much. The income from tariffs will likely raise so much that...

It sounds like you're saying they've raised taxes on "ordinary people" so much, that they won't have to raise taxes again.

From looking at everyone's reaction to this, I wonder if maybe people might support a constitutional amendment to make funding research hospitals become one of the government's powers/responsibilities.

Curing cancer, and many other health-related things, e.g. preventing spread of bird flu, are popular and people generally want that. Unfortunately, the constitution doesn't (at least not anywhere I can find) authorize the government to work on that.

We could try hacks like calling it "interstate commerce" or maybe even "national defense" but even if you win a court case on that, it's forever vulnerable because another court would see it a different way, and we're in a New Age where precedent is generally thought of as irrelevant (e.g. Dobbs). You can try to look it those ways, but it could be taken away at any time.

Should this be changed? Make health research and monitoring explicitly among Congress' powers? I'm not even sure how to phrase such a new amendment to include the right stuff but not be too open to abuse.

It wouldn't be surprising if NSA still has access, but we should always keep in mind that Snowden is over a decade out-of-date now. Not that NSA has likely scaled down, but it's at least possible that defenders have successfully tightened up since then.

I'd really just like a small gfx device with a consistently low power draw, low need for active cooling, made with quality components that don't give up the ghost after two or three years of use, and with quality FLOSS driver and source code support.

You might want to check out IGPs. Both Intel's and AMD's have been pretty good in recent years.

And when Xi finds out he'll have to download the Equifax torrent to get SSNs instead, he'll be discouraged by the risk of getting caught seeding. Discouragement all around. That's how you win.

Yes, tomorrow they're announcing their "Wear Granny Down" bot.