At least that’s how I understood it, maybe that’s not actually what he meant.

Anyone with half a brain can understand that there’s a difference between an individual citizen with a single camera on their own property and a government global surveillance panopticon.

2. There are many other ways to help salmon and their habitat. If the goal is to help them, California’s massive budget could be applied in many more targeted and effective ways to helping the fish.

3. There’s no evidence that this specific piece of regulation will help salmon in any way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itamar_Ben-Gvir

How is a member of the Israeli government not considered to be a representative of the government of Israel? It's tautologically true that he represents Israel. And yes indeed many of his opinions do represent a huge portion of Israeli public opinion.

https://archivegenocide.com/

Anyone can just go and read Ben Gvir's tweets saying Lebanese mothers must weep and calling for literal extermination.

>All of Lebanon must burn!

>In the Middle East, you don’t win with measured responses and restraint—you need to go berserk. To obliterate.

https://x.com/itamarbengvir/status/2067865510281170957

Nobody believes that this is Israeli's "will to live".

John Carmack: "Elon is definitely an engineer. He is deeply involved with technical decisions at SpaceX and Tesla. He doesn’t write code or do CAD today, but he is perfectly capable of doing so."

Tom Mueller: "Elon is a super smart guy and he learns from talking to people. He’s so sharp, he just picks it up. He is leading the development of the SpaceX engines, particularly Raptor."

Eric Berger: "Elon is the chief engineer in name and reality."

Andrej Karpathy: "Elon has an incredible ability to reason from first principles. It’s very rare."

Robert Zubrin: "Elon Musk is a brilliant engineer with an extraordinary ability to cut through nonsense. When I met him it was apparent to me that although he had a scientific mind and he understood scientific principles, he did not know anything about rockets. Nothing. That was in 2001, by 2007 he knew everything about rockets – he really knew everything, in detail. You have to put some serious study in to know as much about rockets as he knows now. This doesn't come just from hanging out with people."

Yann LeCun: "He’s a very smart guy and I’m in awe of some of his projects."

Garrett Reisman: "He’s obviously skilled at all different functions, but certainly what really drives him and where his passion really is, is his role as Chief Engineer. That’s the part of the job that really plays to his strengths."

Josh Boehm: "Elon is both the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer of SpaceX, so of course he does more than just some very technical work. He is integrally involved in the actual design and engineering of the rocket, and at least touches every other aspect of the business. Elon is an engineer at heart, and that’s where and how he works best."

Kevin Watson: "Elon is brilliant. He’s involved in just about everything. He understands everything. If he asks you a question, you learn very quickly not to go give him a gut reaction. He wants answers that get down to the fundamental laws of physics. One thing he understands really well is the physics of the rockets. He understands that like nobody else. The stuff I have seen him do in his head is crazy. He can get in discussions about flying a satellite and whether we can make the right orbit and deliver Dragon at the same time and solve all these equations in real time. It’s amazing to watch the amount of knowledge he has accumulated over the years."

Billionaires can hold the global reserve currency in a different country/state with lower taxes and less bureaucracy. e.g. Marc Andreessen can move to a different state or country and start incentivizing companies to form in that new jurisdiction. We are seeing this already with many corps relocating from California to Texas.

>lots of free money

What do you mean by free money? Who's getting free money from whom?

Airplane exhaust has a real measurable impact on the atmosphere, curious why people choose to target satellite debris instead of plane exhaust as their topic of environmental concern.

It seems like that just supercharges brain drain by incentivizing all the smartest and richest people to just move away to a place with lower taxes and less bureaucracy.

One person's definition of harm is completely different than another person's.

>The argument that words can harm has also been used to justify institutional efforts to prohibit certain language. In 2022, the Stanford University IT department launched a program entitled the “Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative,” which proposed removing from Stanford's websites a set of words considered to be biased or discriminatory, including “blind review,” “handicap parking,” “OCD,” “victim,” “immigrant,” and “American”

>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019188692...

What happens when we get an administration that decides a platform which allows "discriminatory" language should be punished via this new "oversight" mechanism?

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/police-make-30-arr...

There will be enormous pressure to misuse any kind of oversight system to shape public opinion.

They are doing more than search insofar as they are:

1. Reasoning about your question and trying to identify intent

2. Doing the search and accessing multiple search results for you

3. Formatting a response based on your intent and in the way you specify

This is collapsing many steps that humans used to have to do on their own. It's more ergonomic, and gets to a better answer, faster.

Sweden's gun homicide rate has increased by 400% since 2010 due to nothing other than demographic change.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_Sweden