Um… you can always observe the cat by opening the box, same as you can look up the stock value. Observing the cat doesn’t change it’s actual state. It only changes your knowledge of it. Same as value of a stock. No difference.

As for the definition, you hand picked 2 peices from that whole page. The first one when you read the example below doesn’t even fit your case, so you left that out.

Then you had to do mental gymnastics to make the second one fit. But it was a legal definition. None of this is a legal document, so it doesn’t matter. There is a reason that one is so low on the page.

But whatever. You want to consider stocks going down at any given second to mean you lost money in your head… fine. But when conversing with normal people, you will be hard pressed to find people who agree.

Something, something, can’t prove a negative… While valuable research, it doesn’t prove no harm is done. It can only provide evidrnce that the harm they tested for didn’t appear to happen. That is a kind of important difference.

That is basically Schrodinger’s cat. If you don’t open the box, the cat is both dead or alive. So you “could” interpret “lost money” as lost net worth. But if you read it litterally, it wasn’t money. It was an asset. You couldn’t spend it and it doesn’t meet the definition of money. Poorer, I suppose, because you could borrow against that asset, but not as much as before.

But if you don’t sell, did you lose money. My 401k goes up and down all the time. But I didn’t lose any money. Same with my house value.

At work, the boss recently asked everyone to disclose any voluntary use of AI. This is a very small company (startup) and was for a compliance thing. Nearly all of the engineering team was using some AI from somewhere for a large variety of things. These are top engineers mostly. We don’t have manager, just the CTO. So noone was even encouraging it. They all chose it because it could make them more productive. Not the 3x or 10x BS you hear from the CEO shills. But more productive.
AI has a lot of problems, but all of the tools we have to use suck in a variety of ways. So that is nothing new.

Wonder if after a few transgressions he can declare them a terrorist organization.

" His answer is that the nation is fundamentally not based on the idea of equality or freedom or any other ideal. Nor is it accessible to people of all races and religions. "

Well he isn’t wrong about that. Fundamentally it was a nation for “new money” people to own.

Meh, some people do want to use AI. And it does have decent use cases. It is just massively over extended. So it won’t be any worse than the dot com bubble. And I don’t worry about the tech bros monopolizing it. If it is true AGI, they won’t be able to contain it. In the 90s I wrote a script called MCP… for tron. It wasn’t complicated, but it was designed to handle the case that servers dissappear… so it would find new ones. I changed jobs, and they couldn’t figure out how to kill it. Had to call me up. True AGI will clean thier clocks before they even think to stop it. So just hope it ends up being nice.

Everything is always 5 to 10 years away until it happens. Agi cpuld happen any day in the next 1000 years. There is a good chance you won’t see it coming.

Meh, they come back up over time. Long term, the US stock market has only gone up.

This is probably just another distraction. I don’t think the executive brach has the power to declare someone mentally ill for the purposes of existing gun legislation. They would need a new law through congress, and they won’t get enough votes for that.

Amazingly the headline is underselling what he was really doing.

I don’t think blackmail is needed. These are ambitious people who won’t let anything get in the way of thier success. To them, ignoring genocide is just a way to curry favor. (That can’t be the right curry, can it?)

Totally, I didn’t realize they grew so fast. And in my head a lamb is like a baby. Guess not really.

The difference between nukes and non nukes is splitting hairs? I think you mean atoms.

Everything I see talks about it being nuclear. So no source on what it can do with a non nuclear payload. But I feel confident it is less than MOAB. And that can’t kill to many.

Two non nukes per city would be barely a scratch. Maybe a few thousand people per city if you hit the most densly populated spot.

I think ypu are falling for the trap of blaming the other victims. No matter how people voted, the person doing the evil is still who needs to be blamed. Well him, and the system that let him get there in the first place. Your anger is justified, but directing it at people you have never met, and most of whichs vote made no difference (lot of blue state voters didn’t vote, but the state still went blue) is only going to cause more people to be disillusioned and not vote.

I assumed the adults were a lot bigger.

I do wonder if even an evemt that was mistaken as an attempt on his life could cause enough stress to end him. He seems so frail. A secret service tackle would probably break a hip.