No, what the army of lawyers does is ensue that it is being done in a way that passes legal exam.

I have experience of how "volunteering" in Amazon works. It is neither compensated (as you are also expected to complete your normal tasks, so you will do over time) nor truly volunteer (or your performance review suffers).

Just because the threats are not explicitly stated, does not mean they are not there.

More and more big companies start to resemble the robbing baron empires of the 18 and 19th centuries, where basically you end having to pay for the privilege of working there. Amazon has been firing employees left and right, and now is short? Well, why not start by hiring employees back? Is such a revolutionary stray of thought? Oh wait, it might cut down on Bezos's botton line by a few millions ...

And that my friend is the amazon way, make money by profiteering from free work

We have come full circle, msdos old edit.com with it's basic TUI is now the latest windows feature ...

Yes, with their Solarians. Is a critique of both the increased levels of automation but also of understanding individual freedom as an absolute without a counterbalance (the logical progression is that eventually a single solarian would see his freedom affected with a single other human being existing in the same continent, then planet, solar system, galaxy, etc... until a single individual per universe is achieved)

This is just one step forward to automate ourselves into extinction ... as eventually wouldn't be more effective to be just a virtual asset in an autonomous self-sustained cloud than a human that requires space, food, resources and real friends ?

Spoken like a true cowardnazi ...

Have the decency of putting your money where your mouth is and post publicly.

I for once saw these problems coming, but starship as a space system still is in denial about is two fundamental issues that will doom it to fail.

- The proposed mechanism for recovering starship is too risky and has no fallbacks. If they can prove that mechazilla can capture safely a starship after a booster has crashed into it, that will go away. Otherwise, lose of mechazilla will mean stranding astronauts or letting them crash.

- Complexity. In its current form, it will require up to 10 refuels in orbit to be able to reach the Moon (and who knows how to reach Mars). This multiplies by more than 5x the amount of things that can go wrong.

The way I see it it starship is still 5 years away from being reliable.

The move towards governing by algorithm is very dangerous, specially as for one, current AI systems (LLM's) tend to hallucinate and are incredibly opaque to scrutiny of their decisions and choices. Other reasons include that there are a multitude of exceptions and special cases to deal with and while computation helps, a human should be ultimately accountable of the decision-making. The loss of accountability across the chain of decisions algorithms and/or AI systems will do would erode trust and open anything for a challenge in court.

Ultimately this also is largely undemocratic as congress and elected officials will lose visibility of the process...

He has all the right credentials to be in trump cabinet and lead the US into the next scientific frontier ... what are we talking about here

Nintendo next steps:

1. Patent alarm clock
2. Send C&D letters left and right
3. Become THE ALARM CLOCK ...

That definitely makes sense considering HashiCorp latest shit-oss movements. IBM is not an OSS friend. They have messed fedora, redhat, centos and now the trend continues.

This greatly overestimates the public appetite for quality content, no one has become rich by betting on it.

We only have to take a look at the constant decline in quality on your average social network ecosystem, while some might migrate to highly curated niches, the rest will be left behind in an ever declining ecosystem of ai powered content, only because it will be cheap, and effective.

As much as people might want to apply Hanlon's razor here... In this case, it does not hold water: developing a popup advertising system in-game and tracking requires intention -and in their own eyes, not malice The actual enablement of the feature can easily have been accidental (and that's all that Hanlon's demands), but the truth is that they have been consciously considering all the time.

Let also explore the rationale, after all they are not the only ones embedding ads down our throats (MS Windows, I'm looking at you). So seems sensible that like any modern techno-mining company, they want to expand their value extraction territories by in-game advertising, after all ... "we estimate we can sell up to 80% of an individual's visual field before inducing seizures"...

"We do not care that you improve your experience of the game, we want you to silently accept, buy, and cheer whatever game we make regardless whether you like it or not"