Europa was also one of the early girlfriends of Zeus.
He used to visit her as a bull.
Apparently she liked his BBC or the BBC...
One of those anyways, I'm not sure if they watched TV in those days :/

There's no point in making another overpriced "stealth" aircraft. Drones have proven to be much more successful, orders of magnitude cheaper, and can attack over a much longer range.

The fact that it was finally recovered at all qualifies as a posterior success!

He made a show of stepping away from politics but I don't think anyone is so dumb that they believe he's really doing it

He left the WH because he was hogging the limelight and Trump didn't like it. This is the Trump Show, not the Elon Show.

Elon already turned himself around to kiss ass, but Trump will not forget his lack of loyalty. This tells you two things, Elon is weak, and Trump will definitely try to punish him, because he only ever attacks weak opponents and friendlies.

I hear Steven Seagal is still not dead, and looking for a comeback role that emphasizes his hair transplant....

The other option is to be open to learning and actually grow and become a human being.

Or a Human/Axolotl hybrid with tiny flippers instead of hands, as the case may be!

;-)

Why? The endless user-generated spam is only there to communicate with other live users of the platform. It's a self fulfilling shitshow. Ban everyone who is *not* an AI from the sochul mudia instead!

SmarterEveryDay: I Tried To Make Something In America

Erm. How many trillions of dollars does it take to redo "Google" in your organization yourself, inhouse?

The argument about the value of AI is about if it is superhuman, because only superhuman capabilities justify the fuckload of investor money being thrown into this technology. There is a bubble currently and it will burst, and in the meantime the bubble is causing unnecessary destruction in the economy, by reorganising companies with proven expertise into generic service providers of dubious quality.

I for one welcome seeing the exact same fight scenes frame by frame from a slightly different camera angle, thank you director replacing AI overlords!

A: No.

(this answer works for every one of these queries, btw. Why waste your time asking DIFFERENT questions when the answer is always the same? Type less, enjoy more!)

Don't be so sure! The Chinese can also make expensive goods. They only do the cheap goods because that's what their Western market wants.

I'm just not convinced that AI designer viruses qualify as a major impending threat to humanity. To be more precise: There are plenty of natural biological/virus risks that dwarf this threat already.

The first one that comes to mind is the natural adaptation of microbes to antibiotics in hospitals. No AI required. Just natural selection in interaction rich environments. There are a lot more uncontrolled experiments in hospitals with sick people than lab experiments, statistically it's not close.

Another is climate change. No AI required. The biosphere is in equilibrium. A few degrees more in some parts of the Earth, a few degrees less in other parts and now you have chaotic changes that affect everything: crop yield changes => people migrating => wars, famine => refugees. Here's another: Animal habitat changes => insects, rodents migrating => mutations, new transmission vectors. And one more: higher temperature => fungus temperature adaptation => human bodies get more fungal infections.

Aside from all that, IMHO the doomsday AI designer virus scenarios tend to be overly simplistic intellectual masturbation. They tell you what if someone builds a really dangerous virus and say nothing about how the world would respond to it. They always assume that building it is enough, that nobody will find an effective defence, and that the game is over. Lame.

There was a plague in the late Middle Ages in Europe. No doctors knew how to prevent it => Classic doomsday virus scenario. Did people just let it wash over them and accept their fate? No. They isolated the infected. They killed the infected. They burned everything down. Two thirds of the population of Europe died. The other third survived. No AI required.

That's what happens in a complex system. You can't predict the effect of one player's actions, because that prediction assumes that the other players don't react in any inconvenient ways. But in a complex system, usually the other players change the game.

April and May coincided with Trump Tariffs. People did the math. Either upgrade now or pay twice as much for the same product in 3 months, and that's if the current crazy American government doesn't completely ban all foreign imports and makes the iphone vanish in the USA.

BTW the tariffs are only paused for a couple more weeks... (yes I know about TACO)

lol. The danger isn't AI designing new viruses, it's America refusing to mandate vaccines and quarantine infected people for anything. America was the most important incubation and infection vector in the world during Covid by far. The UK was second.