Hey, the US is doing it's part to help India on this grid problem.

Hoping the $100K per H1B policy kicking in, helps return jobs to the US and relieve that job strain on people and resources (like the grid) over there.

Hmm.....interesting.

"I'm Brian...err.....I'm an Artist....and so is my wife!!"

Wondering about possible consequences. The reason I don't use cloud services like Google for anything except transient stuff, is that they can pull my access in case they decide they don't like me anymore. What happens if MS pull my account or they have a screw-up in their data center?

I enjoy my Hyundai EV, get in, hit the Start button and Drive button and just take off: fast, quiet, smooth. I've owned my share of cars and that Hyundai is easily the most comfortable to drive, despite the sub-premium plasticy interior. We also own a few IC cars including a 996TT, which is a fun drive but serves a very different purpose. The Porsche SUVs are positioned in the same group as that Hyundai EV, not in the group of the 911s. Who cares that those SUVs are sold under the Porsche label? They sell well enough...

That's what various larger cities have been doing here in NL: building Park&Ride hubs on the periphery. People drive to the city and transfer to public transport there. Judging from how full those parking lots are, it's a popular option.

I proposed to socialize the costs but recoup them through corporate taxes. Effectively offering companies affordable insurance against worker injuries. Much more efficient than letting private insurance companies handle this, especially as they have a habit of gouging small companies.

The pendulum does swing too far the other way in the EU though, and often it helps protect large incumbents against small innovative firms. For instance in the Netherlands, if a worker is hurt for any reason, even outside working hours (snowboarding, skydiving, juggling chainsaws), the employer is on the hook to continue to pay him for up to 2 years. During that time the worker gets 70% of his contracted wage (but never less than minimum wage).

If you're employing 1000 people, you can self ensure this risk because the averages will work out in such a large group. But if you have only 5 employees, this is not a financial risk you can take so you have to take out costly insurance against this. The obvious solution is to make society pay for this safety net that society demands... for instance by upping corporate taxes.

Yeah, people seem to forget that this is also a guy who constantly parked in handicap spots even while he was perfectly healthy just because he thought that he was more important than everyone else and shouldn't have to walk as much. And when the started getting tickets for it, he would just lease a new car every few months just to he could drive around without a license plate.

On the other hand...a nice way to 'hack' the system...

and today, when everyone at their goat has a handicapped tag drives up in a jacked up jeep or F150 or vette and hops out of the handicapped place looking just fine....why not.

It's now vanity parking for most folks out there these days it seems....

Sure, capitalism may suck in many ways...

But it's still FAR better than anything else out there to choose from.....we've seen that vividly over history....

Since it is a 'female' AI that's doing the acting...shouldn't the term be "actress"...?

I'm not convinced of their intelligence, but if they are, they deserve at least similar consideration. That does not include a total 100% protection of whatever habitat they choose to live in. We know night flights are not good for people living near airports, yet we continue to have them. By the same token, whales living near drilling platforms can suck it up too. With that said, if they truly are intelligent, perhaps they deserve a "country" of their own, which is to remain inviolate of human intrusion.

Depends. An LLM is just a clever statistical fidget spinner, no consciousness. Those make good worker drones. But an AGI that has consciousness and is self-aware? Morally, wouldn't they deserve the same rights as we have? Would you even be allowed to use them as slave or forced labour?

DoorBird + Frigate + Coral AI Stick + Everything on a VLAN
Works reasonably well at recognizing friendlies, and detecting unknown persons.

Talking to people in public isnâ(TM)t harassment.

Talking to people on taxpayer funded grounds also isnâ(TM)t trespass.

Tax funded?

Not private property anymore.