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Being the US government, one might question whether this is actually for national security or just trying to skew competition to reward friends and/or punish enemies

We might look at what has happened to wealth inequality recently because it’s getting worse*, and identify what things might have caused that acceleration. *in the US, at least https://apps.urban.org/features/wealth-inequality-charts/ It’s not going to be one thing; the policies, strategies, legal findings and legislation have had a cumulative effect

You should include a link to a news article

Yeah, whatever. It’s the economic system described in the most detail by the Constitution, along with the power to regulate commerce.

Fuzzy and grainy is probably why these are unidentified, because better information makes it more likely you can make an identification. It might be instructive to view reports for sightings that were later identified to see why/how that happened and compare to reports that remain unidentified

I guess technically the main fault is human nature, but since that’s not going to change any time soon you have to adapt the system to rein that in. One might say that the problem is the “unfettered” in unfettered capitalism. We need fetters.

There’s a certain amount of a “they were bad to the right people” attitude that holds up with fewer and fewer people, but as we’re seeing (in the US these days, at least) that if you want to rectify the situation it very much matters who’s in charge, since they can hamstring efforts to change things.

One solution is that a situation is not a “thing” to which the conditions apply. Physical objects as opposed to concepts. The issue with concepts, as npts2020 alludes, is that we can imagine impossible things. Another issue is these concepts being too vaguely defined, leaving way too much wiggle room.

That would be an example of the kind of shielding that I mentioned. The US, at least, heavily favors automobile use to anyone else on the road. Indeed. I can’t think of why there should be one, but there are lots of examples of corporations lobbying their way into being shielded from accountability

We’re in a discussion of legal liability, so who is responsible when the accident occurs. Is it the AI company, or the non-driver? If it’s the latter, then people are going to have to be convinced that it’s worth assuming the liability. When governments use AI and the AI errs and violate someone’s rights, they aren’t really in a position to pass the buck

It’s not nebulous that a human is involved somewhere, making a decision - turning on a machine, etc. The legal responsibility is nebulous when the law doesn’t exist that holds people accountable. That’s why we need laws and legal precedent, as some of us are discussing. Unfortunately the law is sometimes absent or written such that it shields the people who are morally responsible.

His name is off of the Kennedy Center https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/06/13/trump-name-removed-kennedy-center/90524528007/ They started on Friday but missed the midnight deadline; I’m not sure if the delay was because of last-minute legal shenanigans or safety issues stemming from thunderstorms (or something else) Maybe Trump just didn’t want a crowd cheering while it happened on camera edit: they put up a tarp to hide the removal, so that’s probably it. Gotta protect his ego as much as possible https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/13/trump-name-removed-kennedy-center-facade

The rules say you can’t just give us the same argument over and over again (2.8) “Discuss points, don’t just repeat them”

Halupedia, a resource comprised of AI hallucinations https://halupedia.com/

I missed the 10^20, but you’ve got Te-128 at 2.25 x 10^24 You didn’t mention 10^40, to my thinking. “Another 10^10 years” suggests addition, not multiplication.