The third party costs of oil are staggering.

Armadas have had some defeats in the past.

Republican outrage is always hypocrisy. That rule has never failed me.

My wife uses museum putty for everything. :-)

Felt it. So did the chandelier

You also look at your resume and realize how many places and people you used to work for have gone to the dark side.

The laws that have been passed for AI regulation are so mild, so inexpensive to comply with, and so far below what I think a reasonable AI developer would want to do just to be able to sleep at night.

Here's the thing: Any person with a shred of decency would make sure their chatbots do all these things, all the time. Mine do, and they're not companions and not aimed at children.

That there has to be a law is gobsmacking. That Sacks and Trump want to preempt this law is evil. ...

The circumstances are (a) it's a "companion chatbot" and (b) it can be used by children.

What are the requirements? (a) it says it's not a human, (b) it refers them to crisis resources if they express suicidal or self-harm thoughts, (c) avoids exposing minors to sexual content. ...

There's a whole world of developed-country, top-tier, universal coverage medical care systems out there we can steal ideas from. Opponents like to pick Canada or UK as their straw man, but those are just two of many approaches.

My god that's a ton of work you did!

So many people who share the blame for this, and yet so little contrition.

Right-wing media was pushing hard on this long before the debate...

I have no idea how they plan to get around that.

I would be better off if I *owned* a factory.

Do I need to bring a passport to get in to Yosemite next year?

Of course there are differences. For example:

When the dot-com crash happened, the federal government was running a surplus (under Bill Clinton). Then we got Bush and federal finances have never been so good. ...