There are plenty of shady people commenting right here right now.

This is self-contradictory. An LLM must have malevolent data to identify malevolent intentions. A naive LLM will be useless. Might as well get psychotherapy from a child.

Once LLM has malevolent data, it may produce malevolent output. LLM does not inherently understand what is malevolence. It basically behaves like a psychopath.

You are trying to get a psychopath-like technology to do psychotherapy.

It’s like putting gambling addicts in charge of the world financial system, oh wait…

A person may be unable to provide mathematical proof and yes be obviously correct.

The totally obvious thing you are missing is that most people will not encourage obviously self-destructive behaviour because they are not psychopaths. And they can get another person to intervene if necessary

Chatbots do not have such concerts

Generally a non-person doesn’t have skills, it’s a pretty likely to be true statement even if made on a random subject.

The way Britain has restricted Industry in India (famously even salt) left it vulnerable in WW2.

Colonial policies are really up there with great failures of communists

They don’t gel very well

Also electric scooters and mono wheels are illegal

If these practices were invented in China/Russia we would call them deceptive and fraudulent.

First consider the 16 mph / 25 km/h speed limit - have you ever seen a road sign with such speed limit? Lowest 'normal' speed limit is 30 km/h. The result is, you are either impeding traffic, or a truck tries to overtake you, misjudges distance and kills you. The lowest speed limit and the ebike speed limit need to match.

Second, the 250W power limit is an ass pull. Imagine you are Cycling up a medium-steep hill - 15% incline. 250 watts gives you 3 miles per hour. Let's say 10 miles per hour is a minimum acceptable speed, that requires 800 watts of power. And god help you if you are overweight or carrying groceries or a child as a passenger.

And ebikes cost £2,000 and £4,000 for a cargo bike because we have imposed 60% tax on importing bicycle parts from China.

It has spent the last 10 years lobbying EU to ban Huawei, Chinese electric cars, Tiktok, etc.. It has banned foreign ships from travelling between US ports, a deal by Japan's Nippon Steel, imposed 300% tax on Bombardier, and imprisoned French executives until they agreed to sell a division of Alstom to GE.

This is why I support Trump as a European - at least he is upfront about the racket he is running. If the pretence cannot be maintained, our politicians will be forced to respond.

This is an excellent point

You just named 5 companies, that’s competition.

US has 1/2 companies controlling 90% market share in several markets. That’s monopoly.

Also the process is prone to unexpected issues, bugs, etc.

I really don’t understand how this mentality Uk survives.

for the past 100 years companies have been working to get unfair advantage over each other by creating user lock-in, patent trolling each-other, DRM in games, changing their design to break compatibility with generic products etc.

surely you must realise that many motivations for product difference have no bearing on user benefit, or we would never have region-locking on DVDs or proprietary media formats.

Bicycle market is not a healthy competitive market. Shimano makes almost all gears for all bikes in Europe. For the price of an electric cargo bike that goes 15 mph and has 0.6 kWh battery I can buy an electric motorbike that goes 70 mph and has 6 kWh battery.

They are both about £4,000

Why are you calling open source of market?

These appear to be feuds and battle of ideas fought between contributors, with minimal input from end users. There is no price signal at all

Re. Bicycles, it’s not a healthy market. Shimano dominates with 70% share in gears and brakes. Top 3 manufacturers have what, 95%+? Also look at how cargo bikes cost 3x what a normal bike does, but have same components.

With that structure, users have zero input on size of breakpads.

Until we make full use of robotics and 3D printing, there is no point of heading far. And we have all the tools.

Distant stars will not be settled by a fast small ship travelling from earth. They will be settled by a city sized monolith produced by harvesting and smelting an entire small moon

Everyone things that a game breaker technology is better engines, or fusion, or FTL, but they are wrong, the game breaker technology has already happened: 3D printing.

If we can manufacture things with minimal infrastructure using local resources, we can that is all we need.

And all of it reachable with simple nuclear power and technology we have today.