That’s not their view. It’s just something the leaders say because it’s politically convenient and the rest just parrot the line. If anything with a heartbeat was really so important to them, they’d all be vegetarian.

Time to rename it XXX.

The thing never understood my local dialect and speaking to electronics like you’re speaking to the king in your most polished language is never gonna happen. It usually gets even worse with multiple languages. Ask the assistent in English to play a French song and be horrified what it actually comes up with. It might have improved, I haven’t tested this in quite some time, but I can’t be bothered with it.

Don’t feed the troll, diplomatic edition.

So they want autonomous AI machinery instead? What could possibly go wrong?

Europe is actually having its “lawyer up and hit the gym” moment.

A better place for him and his pals. The rest of the country gets thrown under the bus, as usual.

In a previous company, they roled out their update every few months. Every time, it closed all the ports we need to actually work. Make ticket, wait until IT got around to it, tell people no connection means no work. Those were the days to update documentation.

Yes, quick check says 57 per week, so more than that train crash each week.

The share of USA movies and television is slowly getting smaller in the rest of the world. It’s still big but competition is rising.

Russia takes Alaska. Mexico takes the West Coast. Canada the East Coast. Denmark the South.

Like a human body has maybe 2 years worth of calories

I thought it was closer to 1 year. In any case it’s something of that magnitude. That’s been a trope in Hollywood for a long time. Soylent Green (1973) has the same “eat people” thing. It would mean every 1 of 2 years, one half of the population would have to eat the other half.

And if they have a kill switch. In case of a conflict, disabling large parts of transportation and logistics is a given. Take Musk disabling Starlink in Ukraine as an example, or the F35 startup password thing.

best behavior right about now …

… towards the rest of the world to make trade deals and build a wall to keep the muricans out

I like the alternative better, where human brains were used for processing power. The battery stuff makes no sense, except it’s an easy visual thing when Morpheus explains it.

The difference between theory and practice, is that in theory there is no difference between theory and practice

It’s why with robot training, they add small random variations in the simulation otherwise things don’t work in practice.

And they can’t afford to stay behind in their opinion. If there’s a chance general AI works and they’re not using it when it kicks in, they’re going to be left behind in the dust.

Of course this would also shake apart the labor market, the remaining taters of the social fabric and the economy, but that’s a problem for next quarter.

Yes, they were a rich minority, and the rich part that is most interesting for trade is shrinking.

And that’s why the EU made sure there is now the Mercosur deal with South America, Canada free trade deal, deal with Australia, the deal with Indonesia and probably some I forgot. We all knew this moment would come.