swansont

But trading KE and PE is true in a two-body system as well.

How would the energy vary at all? It’s a conserved quantity. The KE or PE individually would vary, but not the sum.

So how can be that it “was never known”? What, pray tell, is a registered entity?

As studiot notes, it’s not really this. Entropy tells you about how useful your energy is, i.e. what can be done with it. Time isn’t a physical substance, so I don’t see how something vs nothing applies to it. And we are aware of time right now, no how could it have never existed in the future?

I think they aren’t as smart as many mythologize them to be, plus the issue being emotional rather than rational, and there’s a certain psychology of always wanting more. Like the Doc Holliday quote from Tombstone, “A man like Ringo has got a great big hole, right in the middle of him. He can never kill enough, or steal enough, or inflict enough pain to ever fill it." I don’t wonder; the messaging appeals to emotion by stoking fear, and largely fueled by lies. Another quote, this time from The American President “Bob's problem isn't that he doesn't get it. Bob's problem is that he can't sell it! We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious people to solve them. And whatever your particular problem is, I promise you Bob Rumson is not the least bit interested in solving it. He is interested in two things, and two things only: making you afraid of it, and telling you who's to blame for it. That, ladies and gentlemen, is how you win elections.”

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