The studies were not considering jailing people for life for speeding, they were considering real world penalties. They found the certainty of getting caught and punished is far more powerful a deterrent than how onerous the punishment is. Even a life sentence wouldn't stop people from speeding if no one was ever ticketed for it.

But that doesn't mean appropriate penalties don't matter at all. The problem with speeding tickets is they are just another cost. If you impounded people's cars when speeding a lot fewer people would speed.

Great example!

ICE doesn't arrest people for crimes. They detain people for deportation. From the article:

Of course she wasn't escaping "justice". She had been arrested and her crime was being handled by the criminal justice system. So why the claim she was trying to escape justice for a crime she had already been charged with?

"was he "faking"? I have no idea, but neither does the ICE spokesperson. Having witnessed seizures, the fact that he was perfectly normal moments later would not be unusual.

People are drowning in propaganda and, like you, they can choose to believe anything that confirms their world view. Or, like me, not believe it if it doesn't.

If the company has sold you a more expensive saw would it have made any difference?

What information isn't? Only information for sale is available to most people. And you can't sell boring information.

So how do I monetize that?

That is an idiotic statement. People still speed and drive drunk despite penalties. It could be applied to any penalty for any crime. People still rob banks so penalties putting people in jail for bank robbery "are not having a deterrent effect?"

The flaw here is the same with any crime statistic, you only know about the reported problems that someone noticed and reported. Maybe what's needed is an AI legal review program that identifies fake citations. And yes it will make errors, miss some and report others that are its own hallucinations.But it will "deter" the use of AI for legal briefs.

Misdemeanors are prosecuted.

These are monopolies with so much concentrated computer power that they can only compete with one another. They need to be broken up.

Because almost all of the information they have is filtered through the lens of capitalism. Is there much money to be made exposing it? Not really. Just some entertaining titillation.

Well yes. Because its showing that if you don't need people to produce goods you don't need people to consume them either. And sociopaths who don't care rule the world. Or at least their inventions do.

And yet most people don't run out of gas all that often, even in the middle of nowhere with no gas stations. Humans are amazingly adaptable to reality, which is why we notice when they aren't.

Precisely. Algorithms don't have a moral compass.

I don't see much evidence of that. I think they are fighting over the other 90%. Henry Ford made cars and needed consumers to buy them. NVIDIA makes chips and needs AI to buy them.

That is one of those "Goebbels truths", a lie repeated often enough becomes the truth.

The point was the company doesn't care, they are just trying to make a buck. Their success does not depend on your happiness. So this is not always true:

And if that harbor freight saw had broken mid-project you would have been miserable.