You're right. Maybe not so much for us, but it certainly did much more to educate our adversaries not to fuck with us.

The watermark is in the pseudorandom number generator that makes the words, genius. You can copy it in purple crayon and it will still show up if the text is long enough.

This is all about getting us to have warm fuzzy feelings for our Flock protectors. Probably so we are willing to report the vile criminals who vandalize them to steal the valuable metals and precious SSD, HDD and memory components inside.

Unless they get some serious competition they can just up the price of their launches and close that revenue hole at their own leisure.

Alternatively they can shut down their production line tomorrow and reconstitute it next year. Because they own almlst all of it.

I wouldn't pit too much stock in prognosticating either way.

Government subsidized red pills...government government subsidized blue pills...government-mandated vascectomies...same thing.

And I have it on good authority that you can legally print all kinds of conspiracy theories in a newspaper's opinion section if in fine print you explicitly state that you're just expressing an opinion.

So a russian satellite sees the sun glinting off high altitude clouds over the US near a known missile silo and signals a missile launch alert. The duty officer says bullshit...no one starts ww3 with a single missile...must be a false alarm...and declines to push the big red button and start ww3 himself.

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The unilateral disarmers spin this story as a reason to unilaterally disarm. The guys who totally don't have all their eggs in the defense stocks basket spin this as a reason to build more and better launch warning satellites.

I spin this the way Heinlein spun it in Starship Troopers: if you build and deploy a widget on the battlefield, you damn well better train your people how to use it properly or all you've done is fielded a magic rock.

Could certainly do with a bit more of a paddlin' around here. Just sayin

Had to look that up. Apparently the journos have been using that term for over a decade amongst themselves.

Not surprising that the chatbots are giving these guys a run for their money. Not the best look when the nominal humans in the room do things like make up their own twinspeak I have to look up. Instead of, ya know, communicating to the public in clear language for the purpose of informing them.

Impenetrable in-group vocabulary as a form of meat-space model collapse?

Subtract out the drunks and the octogenarians who can't see over the steering wheel and compare again.

We know how to take away these people's car keys. For whatever reasons we just choose not to. Taking away *everyone's* keys would certainly solve the problem, but so would using a grenade to kill a single fly in your kitchen...

People can and do get *scary* good at using it to do all sorts of things. But it's still a limited tool compared to a general purpose digital computer.

Oh, you are 100% right There needs to be more mental health for police. The moment a person decides he or she wants to apply for a police job they need to be placed into a mental institution, they are a danger to people around them.

I am fully expecting him to propose renaming America into Trump Land at some point, so he did miss a trick. It should be T & A.

Well, there have to be correct incentives for someone to be in software, I got into it because I liked the idea of being able to control a machine, to be able to tell a computer what to do and it would do it.

Would I have the same interest in it 40 years ago if controlling the computer meant writing in human language that is imprecise and nuanced and receiving back code that I couldn't start to comprehend? Maybe, maybe not, I am not sure actually. If there was still a way for me to do this without the AI I probably would have gone that route but how many people today would do it? I mean people are telling Agents to write their letters for them, not code, just letters. People are telling agents to do all sorts of things, all of which probably saves some time, make some errors, creates some problems while solving others, it is just that none of it is actually understood by the user.

How many AI users understand how any of it works? But that was the point, to understand how the thing works to be able to control it.

It is similar to car mechanics, people who like to tinker with cars, how interesting is it to tinker with a car where you are not allowed to understand half of it and you cannot fix most of it, if something breaks you have to order an entire replacement part because it has a built in computer interface.

Mechanical engineers build weapons; civil engineers build targets.

Take it from someone in the business. Aerospace ain't exactly a magnet for peaceniks.