Have you ever seen the commercials from late 1800s where there is the word "electricity" in everything. Electrotherapy for every ill and electric solution for every type of drudgery, electrolyte drinks and whatnot. Same came with discovery of radioactivity. Radium drinks for long life and all that. AI is the modern buzzword for the modern snakeoil salesman.
Mechs represent the infantryman fantasy is scifi. A return to more personal, romantic and "noble" way of war in modern times. When fights in real wars happen at long distances, quickly and more often than not on a computer screen where the losing side never had a chance to fight back or realize what was happening mechs dueling with swords make it instantly more understandable to the viewer and return some agency of a singular soldier and "humanity" in it all.
However it's good that IRL war is shitty and ignoble or people might start to like it.
The real issue is not mechs having heads. It's the top humanoid design itself. Why make a war machine top heavy and having critical failure point of losing any of the joints in one leg and limbs that demand thinner armor, etc. When you make a humanoid mech or some cases a mech at all (I mean any kind of walker with any kind of bodyplan) you have already entered the "stupid n improbable territory" so why even bother caring about why it has head or not, if your aesthetics sense demands mechs.
Mainly about protectEU 2030 project. Chatcontrol 1.0 and 2.0 are kinda adjacent to it. Basically more rights to law enforcement and intelligence services in general and them having the right to read anything that goes on in the internet. By this summer they are going to present a law that would make no log VPNs illegal in the EU because law enforcement would have to have access to ip addresses and identifiable 'metadata' of the users.
you are right of course. But US surveillance has been public knowledge before snowden and even the big shock then wasn't that they were mass spying everyone, it was that they were spying US citizens as well which was supposed to be illegal. So legality doesn't even matter. They will find their loopholes anyway. It's the intent of the council and the bureaucracy for more control that worries me.
Don't make claims that this is just Trump. 'The Hague Invasion Act' was Bush II era invention and kept by every American president and congress since. Bush sr. had his famous quote: "I will never apologize for the United States — I don’t care what the facts are" after downing an iranian passenger plane apparently by accident. It's great joy of the empire to be vindictive and petty and flee from any consequence. The last thing american elites will do is show some strategic humility and common sense, even if it's to stop bleeding allies.
I somehow think that all these proposals for chatcontrol were not just enabled by the rise of AI, but were meant to facilitate it. Personal message scanning would be a treasure trove for anybody interested in organic training data since all public social media (reddit, ahem) have been more or less poisoned by ai messages and slop.
More like researches need to constantly publish. If they take up too much time with some big project they will lose funding as non productive scholar. That's why we have so much bullshit papers saying "water is wet". Publish or perish.
English has so fucked up spelling mainly because it has nicked it's words from every which language and kept the original language's spelling and/or pronunciation for those particular words. In the end you can't know how every which words is written just by hearing it. Or can't make out a new words pronunciation with any confidence you see it in writing. Learning english is only somewhat better than learning Chinese characters, where there is no way to know how a word is spoken by reading the character or vice versa.
Random-ass English spelling... Really tells you that English isn't the world language because it's inherently easy or makes sense with it's consistent spelling. Queue, pseudonym, lieutenant colonel... etc
The funny thing is that nazis thought - Jim Crow laws were too extreme for Germany and Europe to be implemented without toning them down first. Average zionist probably disagreed that palestine solution needed any toning own from the nazis, merely a good PR spin with a human face.
take responsibility in what sense? CEOs are not responsible in no other sense than to the stockholders and/or the board of directors and to the law. If they don't break the law then the only responsibility they can take is resigning or being sacked. Failing in usually by not maximizing profits if it's a for profit corporation. It really is a perfect job for a machine because the job really just requires following a preset directives to a letter even to the point of psychopathy.
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