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We need to stop putting people in office buildings or force them to work from home for 8 hours a day. Even pre-AI productivity gains should've shortened working hours, instead it mainly lined the pockets of people at the top.

Giving people more time off work solves so many issues: it gives people more time to live healthy, take care of kids and just have more fun in the short time we have in life.

Instead tech executives believe the working day should be increased to 12 hours.

ME3 was a mess, ME2 was the last solid Mass Effect and the height of the series.

You've got it backwards, their anti-competitive practices is what allows them to charge such high fees:

> A class action lawsuit alleges Visa, Mastercard and some of America's largest banks have conspired to artificially inflate merchants' credit card transaction fees.

If they didn't conspire together and actually competed then they wouldn't be able to charge such high fees as they would surely try to undercut each other.

I wonder if the student faced any consequences, none were mentioned in the article. Another slap on the wrist I assume?

> The only way to get the system working properly again is to restart the PC. A "soft" restart from Windows doesn't work, though; it just gets stuck at the "Restarting" screen forever. You need to do it by pressing the restart or power button.

Don't do this, you might lose data or mess stuff up. Just use task manager to kill explorer.exe before restarting. Or probably you can just kill explorer.exe and then go to File > Run new task, type "explorer" and press OK to start a new instance which should fix everything without restarting.

Don't fall into the trap of putting our governments on the same level as China, despite the tremendous flaws and the very dangerous backsliding we still enjoy many freedoms that their citizens do not have.

The CCP would like nothing more than everyone living in a democracy saying they're just as oppressed as those living in China. Then their own citizens might abandon such foolish notions as human rights.

We should point out the hypocrisy of our governments but not by using that hypocrisy to minimize China's human rights abuses.

> To make the most facile counterpoint - the reason the Skyrim blacksmith doesn't care if the main character slays dragons is because they weren't programmed to. There aren't consequences either way.

In the actual game, NPCs do care, in fact they often won't shut up about it. They just don't let it affect their lives, which is the point the OP is making.

> When the metaphorical dragon comes to burn down your village, are you going to shrug and go back to looping your hammer_nail_03 animation?

When such a disaster strikes a village those are often scripted events that do change the loops of the NPCs previously inhabiting the village. They are programmed to adapt to a new cycle of rebuilding the village or even assisting the main character in dealing with the threat.

It's funny that the assumption is the NPCs don't care about anything that happens in the world when there are games with NPCs engaging in entire rebellions against their oppressors. It's just that NPCs don't care beyond their immediate objectives being fulfilled. Once the rebellion succeeds and the tyrant is overthrown most of them just settle back into their usual loop.

It's difficult getting a grid connection and fiber optic uplinks in the middle of nowhere.

Everyone is banking on the current trade policy simply being temporary and whoever replaces Trump in the White House next will restore bilateral trade to normal. Why would you destroy your trade relation with the U.S. for decades to come when you can just ride out a bad deal for a few years?

Not saying I agree with it, because it sends the wrong signal, but I can understand the reasoning at least.

What is the value in anthropomorphizing it? Often I get the feeling that it's more about the sales pitch of selling these AI as general intelligence than it is about providing a truthful insight into how these models actually arrive at the output.

> The despair of the the unemployed skilled laborer is that losing his livelihood imperils the things he does value, family and the ability to provide for them.

Isn't that exactly a concern for those who find meaning in other things than their job? If you find meaning in your job then getting paid enough to support your family is obviously important, but it is ultimately a secondary concern.

> callers get automatically routed to an AI agent who asks if they are calling regarding the incident. If the answer is yes, then callers can receive information or updates, and if it's no, then the callers are transferred to a human.

Why use something as error-prone as an AI for this simple task? I hope they at least add a "Press 1 for Yes, 2 for no" as a backup.

It's standard policy at most major corporations even for low-level employees to not discuss anything legally sensitive over company e-mail or chat.

Having airworthiness certification done by an independent organization not beholden to Boeing's shareholders makes much more sense to me. Giving the authority to Boeing to do its own airworthiness certification feels like the fox guarding the hen house.