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New comment by foolin in "Bernie's AI bill proposes to sentence AI developers to 20 years in prison"

foolin — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 09:45:01 +0000

I didn't say the challenges would be the same.. You just indicated they were worthwhile for anyone who believes the anthropic principle is why they haven't seen a world with no nuclear treaties decades later.

New comment by foolin in "Bernie's AI bill proposes to sentence AI developers to 20 years in prison"

foolin — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 09:12:14 +0000

This is relative to something like every nation owning nuclear weapons by 1960 and civil wars usually beginning with a nuclear strike by a standing government.

New comment by foolin in "GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released"

foolin — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 22:41:24 +0000

A huge overlap in two groups would obviously be at most 100% of the smaller group.

New comment by foolin in "Tesla killing Solar Roof is leaving installers with six-figure losses"

foolin — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 23:31:23 +0000

Huh? Bad innovation ideas is an entire market that creates secondary markets. When the outcome is larger than an article in science direct and can only be described as inevitable then there is a conglomerate with some weak decision makers.

New comment by foolin in "If a Tesla Cybercab fleet were profitable, Tesla wouldn't sell you one"

foolin — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 16:48:19 +0000

Uber doesn't buy its own cars because it isn't profitable given the depreciation and originally the higher risk of getting someone declared an employee. If they are choosing a car and losing money on it they are an entrepreneur. (Also Tesla doesn't want you to rent your car as that reduces their market so they want to sell another one in a fleet.)

New comment by foolin in "Trump homeland security chief says ICE agents could be sent to polling places"

foolin — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:42:43 +0000

Voters had better show up naked which may counteract the attempts to limit the vote to the christian right.