I am going to make a dangerous assumption and assume that does not mean "we think we should use the written word to train our LLM" as that isn't actually anything that requires consensus. So presumably, the "team" discussion was about how to acquire said books. That the "consensus" answer was "through shadow libraries" sounds an awful lot like "conspiracy to commit commercial copyright infringement" and appears to be a rather shortsighted argument to be making.

Wait, "some other company" can replace Falcon in "a few years" but everyone is "20 years behind" a design that has only been under active development since late 2018? Your math ain't mathing, dude.

"The US is escalating"?
That's a rather specious viewpoint, isn't it? Or did you intend to lie by omission?

The Soviets/Russians have had space based weapons platforms in orbit since the 1960s
The Chinese have had weapons aloft for at least 10y.
Honestly, if the US *doesn't* have functional, effective orbital weapons already up there, they're fucking incompetent.

And, if investors don't like it, they can walk away, can't they?
Isn't that how the free market works? Convince people to invest in you, great. If you're an asshole or do stupid things, they take their $ away.

Look, I get it, slashdot despises Musk for many, many things (some even have to do with actual business or technology). But this is up to investors and their choices.

SpaceX IPO $160 today $162. Not really compelling unless one believes in their mission.
Tesla 1y was $442, now is $385. Not very compelling.
 

I can understand ( if not sympathize with ) building data-centers/LLM factories in West Virginia. They have lots of coal. So while the supported AI corrupts human minds, so the coal power plants will corrupt your lungs. < Les oiseaux de mauvaise augure >.

You describe a race-to-the-bottom; your betters are not impressed.  The wealthy still wear hand-loomed silk suites and dresses ... sail hand-fitted wooden yachts ...  grouse-hunt with  hand-bored shotguns ... and have their man-of-business do their trading. Factories can't compete. Maybe you need to save-up for a week to buy that hand-built & sharpened paring-knife; splitting goose-berries for cobbler really takes  thumb-against-blade. 

You speak as if gun-barrel-supported "laws" were required to define human behavior. But, humans were self-organizing, negotiating  and exercising self-discipline for 10s of thousands of years before the first Sumerian codex. Perhaps a Bible-reading culture could do W/O lawyers entirely.

...would somehow also cause Slashdot to seethe in fury.

You guys are hilarious.

It was probably the other O'Neil, with one L. He has no sense of humour at all.

I could understand bots and mailing lists. The thing I never understood with LinkedIn was how many real people (usually recruitment agents) had apparently spent the time to read my profile and send me a personalised message, yet still thought I'd be interested in a job paying half the market rate for someone with my skills and experience.

Generally speaking ..."Against the GP: the plan IS to have robots do those sorts of things. And there's real progress being made." ... replacing human labor with machines is no progress. The wealthy have ALWAYS understood this ... for example ...  butlers, tailors, men-of-business, lawyers , secretaries, chauffeurs . Against the GP: the plan IS to have robots do those sorts of things. And there's real progress being made. Wealthy engage an entire class of personal , human assistants .  OTOH grifters,  strivers ,  hustlers and wanna-Beez pretend silly machines can substitute -- a humanist inhuman touch  like  self-driving autos OMG -- and consciously try forcing all to the same pretense. More honest and more "agentic"  leaving  "service"  to your betters  while practicing DIY tasking.

It took sixty years to move from comics to reality. Magnus, Robot Fighter 4000 A.D. first appeared in 1963, published by Gold Key Comics.

Who says I'm NOT outraged by that? Why the simplistic binary?

Personally, I believe that anyone getting a dime of government $ should be banned from voting / donating politically due to conflict of interest.
This includes the welfare poor BUT ALSO the management (c-suites, I'd guess) of ANY company with
- federal contracts
- using public resources (ie oil companies on federal lands)
- in-law tax benefits.

I also believe corporations should have escalating tax rates for owned dwellings; that is, like people they can have that single homestead property, but the next is full-tax, the next 150% tax, the next 200% etc.

Make no mistake, yes, I do object to LONG TERM free ride programs for the poor as an alternative to sorting their lives out. But I'm even MORE aggressive about taxation of corporations that want to enjoy the upside of capitalism but be fully socialist on the downsides. "Too big to fail" is bullshit; capitalism REQUIRES companies to die like forests need fires.

So....no answer, confirmed.
I have read about UBI, extensively, because its advocates never tire of begging for other people's money.

Which is pretty funny, since the only major difference between the two these days is "Is Google spying on you, or is Microsoft?"

I mean...the people who have for decades fought long and hard to inform people about the catastrophic threats facing corals should be DELIGHTED that there is a serious, significant prospect of improving their survival.
This is, very clearly, a pure, intrinsic good.

Right?

Because if they're not delighted then one might question whether they really were that concerned about the corals themselves in the first place. One might even speculate that 'teh coRalz are DyIng!" was really about just a useful poster-child for an ideology or something less salutary....