MengerSponge

They bought their tickets. I say let 'em crash! Those apes are likely gone.

Plenty of people have the resources to set up a workshop, but they don't bother. We should celebrate these weirdos (positively valenced) who make the world a little better.

If you work a good 9-5 you've got several hours each day to tinker. Also, nothing in that video was 100k+. A nice watchmaker's lathe is ~10k. A full CNC enabled Bridgeport mill is 12k. That shop could be assembled with care for ~20k, or carelessly for ~50k. It's not nothing, but it's less than a boat. It's less than a country club membership. It's less than a few trips to Disney World.

The training corpus of pre-LLM writing is like iron from before the development of nuclear weapons

It is a very good thermal conductor, but not the best. At low temperatures, copper is better. At very low temperatures, helium is much better.

Superfluid helium's maximum thermal conductivity is roughly 100x diamond's maximum!

Rubber bullets are supposed to be aimed at the ground, but we've seen (pun sadly intended) plenty of officers aiming at faces/eyes of protestors. This can kill, and if it doesn't kill it maims.

They're trained to not maim or kill. More training won't fix it. More money and more resources won't fix that systemic rot.

40%, after all.

Yes, that's exactly why I mentioned Clickspring's project in this thread about Stone Age archaeology :)

I deeply regret not buying another suitcase to import a Tolomeo from Germany to the USA a year ago.

We can walk and chew gum at the same time. Charge the criminal action, fine the bad actors to help make injured parties whole, and regulate the technology to protect against future harms.

These guys will tell you their industry is more dangerous than nuclear power, and we regulate the living shit out of nuclear power. If you think models can't be regulated, look up the export controls on MCNP and tell me how that's different.

Smart glasses that were clearly designed and visible were odious and shunned, so Meta (et al) have developed covert designs instead.

It's the same as a buttonhole camera used for spying. The differentiator (vs a phone or SLR or similar) is that its primary function is concealed.

In a normal world? Close to 100%. But we're not in a normal world so the probability of a government intervention is high.