Wonder if that qualifies as one of those "for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction" things from back in science class?
By now it's so common, that actually the opposite problem is more likely - that police would ignore real threats, assumung them to be just another dumb joke.
"Artificial Intelligence" (and I use that term very advisedly) at this stage is literally and figuratively still (thankfully) *mindless*, so any results it produces are pretty much based on online popularity or prevalence, rather than on any self-directed, self-evolved agency. Once again, AI will only truly become a Menace to Society if it somehow also acquires Artificial Consciousness along the way. Considering that this feat appears to still be a tall order for any good (bad?) number of mouth breathing humans, I'm not in any way inclined to hold my nose breath on that one...
Looks vaguely like some Soviet 1930s brutalist propaganda poster art (minus the US flag, of course). But if you're into that kind of kinky stuff...
His announcer was worse...it always sounded to me that he said:
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That's called "the political class."
Are you really sure about the intelligence part though?
Yes. Many are quite intelligent. A few are of course monumentally stupid, getting to their positions of power purely because they've been dragged there by their puppetmasters... but most are filled with a supreme dark intelligence. It is an intelligence devoid of humanity, a political psychopathy. They can calculate a strategy. But they cannot conceive of a theory of mind to understand those who might disagree with them. The do not empathize... they just learn to pretend to.
For a *machine?* Human mediocrity would be *spectacular.* Let's say, instead of something trivial like art, we had AI who turned into mediocre, average human doctors and diagnosticians. Would you rather have a *great* human diagnostician than a mediocre AI one? Sure. But you could actually *have* a mediocre AI diagnostician in your home. It non invasively scans and examines you three times a day. In contrast, one American a week gets to see Doctor House, and then pay out the ear for the privilege.
Yeah, but those aren't real people, and thus the audience won;t connect with them. Or so I've been repeatedly told.
Is that the sound of air being let out of those who said that steam trains/cartridge arms/horseless carriages/photographs/smokeless powder/aeroplanes/moving pictures/semiautomatics/talkies/radio/telephones/television/internet/space tourism/LucyLiubots/desktop fusion/etc. are just fads that will never really catch on?
Injecting my personal experience as a resident alien green card holder living in Southern California near Coastal Orange County, the medical care available here is nothing but *spectacular*. I've had a (permanent, even though the doctor told me it could be removed, but the less invasive surgeries, the better, right? Feels like the real thing!) Titanium plate implant as a stabilizer for a broken wrist surgery, as well as a complete Titanium shoulder replacement (feels like the real thing again!). I've gone to our local ER for things as trivial as an ingrown toenail as well as constipation, and I've always had the impression that the medical staff were almost happy to have to deal with some utterly insignificant issue for sheer diversion, since the most urgent issue I remember being raised by the surrounding staff during one of my visitations was who would do a coffee run and what the individual order would be. If that "ER" TV show would have been based on our local ER, the show would have been cancelled half way through the first episode. The point is that the quality of US health care is *extremely* localized, rather than national or universal, because I shudder to envisage what my experience would have been with the same kind of injuries in say Kentucky.
Yes.
You would very likely receive the same excellent standard of care... depending on *where* in Kentucky. The worst care you might get in Kentucky is also likely available in California, as the MLK Hospital story amply illustrates. The friend I mentioned currently dealing with the systems can tell you about the three or four hospitals she's been to in a twenty-mile area... one she has nothing but glowing recommendations, another she wouldn't send an enemy to. And as the Baltimore school system amply demonstrates, it's not simply a matter of how much money they get... it's who is in charge, how competent and corrupt they are... and what the local population demographics are, often enough. Regions that are heavily laden with, say, migrants of dubious legal standing often find their ERs loaded to overflowing with people who use said ER for all medical needs, because ERs *have* to deal with everybody, with the result that wait times can be tremendous, and staff become overworked and indifferent.
