He can’t remember his name either, memory got wiped.

So what do you propose for the narrow subject of speed limits or other rules of the road? It seems enforcement of them (which btw is very lacking otherwise people wouldn’t speed so much) is off the table since that’s a violation of privacy in your opinion. So honor system?

I agree with you on a broad scale, privacy is more important and government doesn’t belong in many places. But using a speeding post to bounce that off of is a weird take. There are many rules and regulations written in blood, and road laws are included in that. And without someone enforcing the laws (but not using that enforcement as a way to abuse power) it’s a free-for-all.

We could certainly discuss the details of traffic stops, speed trap designs and motives, and of course abuse of power. My little comment was simply that if you aren’t speeding, and there isn’t that abuse going on, why would they pull you over, and why would you care if they are watching for others who are going too fast?

Ron, you know there’s reasons why you should be monitoring emissions…oh, right, you’re the anti-science guy in a state that has long been affected by the very thing you don’t want to talk about. Dumb ass.

The opposite of woke is still asleep, regardless of its use. Close your eyes, Ron. That’ll help.

I can see different degrees of this. I agree that I’d rather have a visible presence in traffic monitoring that helps remind people they are being watched for adherence to the rules of the road, and give people who are pushing the limits an opportunity to fix it rather than catch them. So speed traps for money quotas or a door to gain access to vehicles to find or “create” issues (usually based on profiling) is the problem here. As well as abuse of the power to be able to speed and ignore the same rules when an emergency isn’t pending, or escalating a traffic stop beyond what it was originally for again because of the power trip.

My response to the typical complaining about speed traps isn’t usually first to focus on the police, but to ask, “well, were you speeding or driving recklessly?” When someone gets mad from that question, then the problem may not be (just) the police.

I’d disagree with Rogue One as a first intro to Star Wars simply because there’s a lot of assumptions of knowledge of things explained at a minimum in ANH. If anything, ANH first, then Rogue One to cover the stolen plans story that is mentioned all throughout.

The only benefit for seeing Rogue One before ANH is to explain why Vader is so pissed at the princess.

Might have seen it if it wasn’t followed by “zones”. I read it the same way. The brain fills in context, sometimes without looking close.

I think Meta and others went open with their models as firewall protection against legal action due to their blatant stealing of people’s work to train with. If the models has stayed commercial and controlled within the company, they could be (probably still wouldn’t be, but could be) forced to shut down or start over properly. But it’s far too late now since it’s everywhere there is a GPU running, even if models don’t progress past current state.

That being said, not much is getting done about the safety factors. Yes, they are only LLMs and not AGI, but there’s commonality in regards to not being sure what’s going on inside the box and if it’s really doing what it’s told to do. Now is the time boundaries and research should be done, because once something happens (LLM or AGI) it’s too late. So what do I want to see happen? Heavy regulation and transparency on the leading edge of development. And stop the madness of more compute being the only solution with its environmental effects. It might be the only solution, but companies are going that way because it’s the easiest way to throw money at a problem and reap profits, which is all they care about.

Critical hit, then AOE damage from the batteries igniting.

Front fell off too. That is typical, mind you.

effectively shutting down eumelanin production

And brain cell production.

LOTS of radiators.

To phrase a Monty Python firing squad skit, “You MISSED???”

Free market. Oh well.

Because that’s how tariffs work. Said everyone when he first did it.

They would certainly have a trifold mirror setup at a minimum, if not a mirror on the other side of the room. Character creation is the most crucial part of playing a role.

I think of it as them being polite. Like the guy at the car rental in The Mexican. All smiles and friendly tone while thinking “you stupid, stupid American”.

For clarify, that’s the Brad Pitt movie, and the scene is the “Do you have anything more…authentic?” “How about an El Camino?”

He’d just divert to Moscow to get new orders directly.

At one point years ago my work finally caught up with the 21st century and allowed creation of passwords longer than the fixed 8 characters it had always been. So I said great, made up something that was around 12 or so that I could remember. Until I logged into some terminal legacy programs we were still using and wouldn’t take that length. So yeah, I went back to 8 characters that wouldn’t break things. They eventually migrated away from such old programs and longer passwords became mandatory since they’d work everywhere, but I thought it was funny that briefly I tried to do the right thing but IT hadn’t thought out the whole picture yet.

Money grab. They don’t want to interfere with the profits, even if we rush headlong into stuff we have no clue about. Government is always slow in needed regulation of emerging technology, but they want to shut regulation down completely because it might stop what’s lining their pockets if it’s deemed dangerous to society.

Even the credit shop isn’t buying it anymore.