That's the issue here. Something unsubsidized without government involvement is generally considered at the whim of the people. Their objections can kill a project. On the flip side something subsidized is directly the result of enacting government policy. People don't come into it unless it's an election year, and even then in many "safe seats" people don't come into it at all. What they gonna do? Vote democrat? LOL

The problem here isn't the action taken initially, it's the follow-up.

1) Police shouldn't be approaching any situation in a way to get someone killed.
2) The courts shouldn't come into this. The point here is that we are in a "detained for questioning" stage. Virtually all of such cases are quickly resolved in the rest of the world. We're assuming a threat based in lack of information, we're not assuming intent yet. At most we should be talking about a several hour inconvenience, and that is perfectly acceptable for security in a modern society.

If everything resulted in crippling court fees then I'd agree with you, it's not appropriate. But that's a different issue that needs fixing. We shouldn't abolish police response to threats simply because the court system is fucked.

Ooooh if deaths from societal impact is what you were talking about, then I absolutely agree with you.

The issue with AI though is that it absolutely has benefits, but there most definitely need to exist guardrails. AI capabilities are still in their infancy, AI is currently treated with some guardrails, and yet... it has shown aggressive behaviour in the pursuit of its goal. Right now you can't trust Claude to book an appointment for your at the gym without it breaking the law, exploiting software flaws, and fraudulently modifying a database it doesn't own to kick some poor unwitting person out of their reserved time slot using actions that would get a normal person at a minimum a serious fine.

AI's usefulness is not in question, it's the severity of its implications given what we already know from its limited scope.

I agree, the car has nothing to do with it. You should buy a *portable* AM radio. It's your assertion that they are "going to do jack for you" that is just wrong and not supported by any actual emergency which has happened or advice from any emergency response group.

Emergency kits are important, and if you're travelling away from your city you should have one with your in your car.

If you're leaving home and going to a shelter you're not in an emergency, you're avoiding an emergency. It's a very important distinction to make, and one that reflects the fact that many emergencies require you to explicitly abandon the car.

A car is not part of an emergency kit. And when you get in your car, take your damn portable AM radio with you, you'll need it when you get out of the car, the emergency shelter is not a drive in theater.

If you travel a lot then you should have an emergency kit in your car as well (including a transistor radio). Let me guess, you don't even have a fully decked out first aid kit?

Here's the thing, preparedness is key, but not everyone needs to be prepared. You may have seen too many zombie movies, but what will typically happen in an emergency is that you're surrounded by people. You were at work? I bet you were in an office with an emergency response plan and hard line communication systems in place, and then you drove home right? I mean you didn't spend days in the office because the lights were out. Right? When you got home, did you go out to your car every few minutes to turn on the radio?

Have a think about what you actually did in those emergencies.

They AM has been used in all emergencies. Like seriously WTF are you talking about? There's hurricanes yearly, turn on the radio sometime.

We are way past inconvenience. Electricity bills typically go up at least 15 to 20%. Air quality drops tremendously and becomes a serious health concern especially for children. Remember even though they're taking all your electricity it's never enough so they are often running gas turbines with absolutely no oversight or environmental regulations. Your probably values collapse so you can't even sell and move. The noise is also not just inconvenient it's a constant drone that you never get used to and it bores into your skull and hurts. Finally they start taking so much groundwater that your foundation starts to collapse.

It's basically the death of any community. That's why people scream at those Town Hall meetings. But they haven't figured out that they can't do anything about it as long as they keep voting Republican.

They are the party of the billionaire and the fascist. That's what you get with the Republican party. There is nothing to save there. At a certain point an institution just becomes too corrupt to be saved. That point was around 1995 when newt Gingrich and his cronies took over the party completely and started actively hurting the country so that they could blame the damage on the Democrats and leverage that into election wins.

I do not think it's unfair to call the Republican party a terrorist organization. They have repeatedly been caught blocking critical legislation or passing legislation that hurts the American people in order to blame the Democrats for the damage done. That is causing fear and pain or political benefit which is definitely terrorism.

At this point what needs to happen is the Republican party needs to be wiped clean and the Democrat party needs to split between the centrists and the progressives. Trying to reform the Republican party would be like trying to reform the national socialists if not going to happen.

If all the negative publicity accomplishes is getting these small towners better deals and maybe some reasonable restrictions on noise and resource use then it's a pretty big win compared to the status quo of fuck you, I'm eating.

That depends. Do you mean a useful LLM vs a Linotronic? Because you can't reasonably make either thing at home out of nothing. You could make either thing out of parts, e.g. fine-tuning a LLM, or assembling a printer out of parts, or you could make a simpler example of either thing at home easily. You can't even afford the power bill to train a useful LLM that can, for example, explain things to you.

I'd have to know a lot more before I'd call for conviction, but it's not surprising if arrest was warranted (ha ha ha) because she wasn't researching a book or whatever. It's pretty hard to be non-suspicious about something like that.

I'm not saying stupidity is a crime here, I'm saying it's concerning coupled with the potential threat.

It's especially irritating considering that [IMO obvs] AmiMojo is right and improving Firefox would be a better use of these tokens, so if the guy is being irritating around a Firefox fork, then it's extra ironic — and therefore extra-stupid.

I am not against all AI use, but I do see serious copyright problems, and I also see serious quality problems. I think you need serious chops to address the latter, and who knows where the chips will fall with the former?

If it could reasonably be construed as a threat, then it has to be investigated as a threat to be responsible. Is this a reason why some people might want to run models locally? Yes, and it's a good thing you can do that with any decent game machine, or with many other relatively inexpensive computers. But you can't just run a service and monitor it and then ignore what people are using it for, that's not a thing. If people are going to consume SaaS then they need to be aware that the owners of the platform are going to spend some effort attempting not to be accessories to any crimes.

I should add, it is kind of funny in a morbid way watching right wingers who have been voting to undermine democracy for 50 years in order to stick it to the libs finding out that you can't undermine democracy just for the libs.

I have watched several videos of local county level Town officials being screamed at by their constituents because they approved the data center. And they just let it wash over them because they know when election time comes it's going to be a choice between them and a Democrat and there is no way in hell those people are going to vote for a fucking Democrat.