Any true artificial intelligence is a person, and will be recognized as one. Given the huge cost and effort to overcome the uncanny valley, it's more likely our robots will be designed to not look fully human.
Copyright infringement is making unauthorized copies. Copyright protection mechanisms are irrelevent. Charging money for the disks is irrelevent. Copyright litterally means the legal right to prevent others from copying what you made.
Hydrogen has a lower power density than lithium batteries, and hydrogen comes from fosil fuels. Put power rails in the roads and your electric car only needs enough batteries to get from your driveway to the road.
You need to realize the Republican party is left wing, almost to the point of being Communist. They believe in a government run economy (agriculteral subsidies, tarrifs and import duties to keep competition out, government handouts for big business, bailouts if they make mistakes etc.) The only reason this can happen in a country that is Allergic to Communism is because most Americans don't have the slightest idea what Communism is.
Drug research should be done by the government because: Poor people use more drugs and healthcare than rich people (because lifestyle/preventative stuff/checkups etc). Government pays the bills for most poor people, therefore having the government do the drug research and make the pills would save everyone (mostly the rich) money.
1-Mandatory Generic Licencing. The Patent on your expensive new drug allows anyone to make generic copies. You (the patent holder) get half the total revenue (pre tax) from the generic copies, with no copies sold below cost. The drug companies still get their return on investment, but without the ability to gouge the patients on life saving medicine. 2-Allow people to inport drugs from poor places where those same drugs are sold at one tenth the price. It's the same drugs, probably made in the same factory, so why can't you legally buy it?
It's been tried, war of 1812. They invented the phrase "white wash" from trying to hide the battle damage to the white house. Also you'd end up with a 30 million lefty voting block (from Canada) and no reason for corporations to keep jobs north of Mexico city.
A visiting Terrorist is likely to bring a phone with him, that was sold in some other country. If the American courts have no problem issuing search warrants for foreign computers, they should have no problem ordering Apple to hand over the encryption keys for foreign phones.
Your suggestion that different social media companies won't cooperate to get a full picture seems unlikely. Certainly the advertising companies will put it all together. Viable strategies: 1-government run social media companies. Yes the government will spy on us, but at least the adds will be limited. 2-cooperative social media, owned by the mass, for the masses. We'd be constanly fighting spies from corporations and government, trying to get our juicy data, and we'd have to pay operating expenses. 3-massive government regulation and oversight of private companies. Yes the government will spy on us, and the companies will try to wriggle out of oversight, and the adds will be everywhere, but... at least the trains will run on time?
The only real benefit of vertical farming is you can zone your expensive downtown building as farmland and save on taxes. We have no shortage of cheap farmland, we have plenty of cheap imported workers to work the farms, and sunlight is free.
An 8 guage wire, running at 5 million volts DC will power all of China, run from Death Valley CA (might have to use an orbital ring to keep the power wires from arcing). Molten Salt power storage is a mature technology, and scalable to any size we want. Drive electrons in through a resistive heater, draw heat out to turn a steam turbine running a generator.
The biggest problem is most companies consider training employees to be a waste of money. They want them pre-trained. H1B, because you're fine with other countries having a good training and education system.
The Pacifists think that if nobody works on Military AI, that we won't have Killbots, so fewer people will die. History doesn't agree with this point of view. During WW2 allied bombing accidentally started a firestorm in a german city, destroying most of the city with massive civilian casualties. The Allies spent a lot of time and money attempting to reproduce that effect, so they could do the same to other German cities. Lack of a good targeting system won't stop the military from pulling the trigger, they'll just carpet bomb the targets and blow up wedding parties and schools.
One more change: Add a minimum wage, say above $100,000 per year, and entitle them to Citizenship after 2 years. If they are worth that money then they are clearly a good deal for America and should be kept. You could even get rid of the limited numbers and lottery, since you'd only be importing "Valuable" people.
Attempts to teach a computer to spot military vehicles resulted in flagging all "Rainy" pictures as containing military vehicles, because all the learning photos had that. If you inserted a small christmas tree near every stop sign used to train the robot car, it might not recognize stop signs without one. That is not the same as disguising a stop sign, and probably not illegal under current law.
The special prosecutor seems to be several steps ahead of what is in the news. I expect these people have already been talked to, and deals made to keep them out of jail. From what little I know of Trump, I don't believe he's (mentally) capable of being the "Dr Evil" level villain at the bottom of all this.
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Any true artificial intelligence is a person, and will be recognized as one. Given the huge cost and effort to overcome the uncanny valley, it's more likely our robots will be designed to not look fully human.
Copyright infringement is making unauthorized copies. Copyright protection mechanisms are irrelevent. Charging money for the disks is irrelevent. Copyright litterally means the legal right to prevent others from copying what you made.
The copyright on a book is still valid if you can't read it. It's still a copyright violation if the copy won't play.
Hydrogen has a lower power density than lithium batteries, and hydrogen comes from fosil fuels. Put power rails in the roads and your electric car only needs enough batteries to get from your driveway to the road.
landfills, pure metals, plastics.
You need to realize the Republican party is left wing, almost to the point of being Communist. They believe in a government run economy (agriculteral subsidies, tarrifs and import duties to keep competition out, government handouts for big business, bailouts if they make mistakes etc.) The only reason this can happen in a country that is Allergic to Communism is because most Americans don't have the slightest idea what Communism is.
Can Trump? If America cut their military budget in half and told Nato to pull their weight, they would.
Drug research should be done by the government because: Poor people use more drugs and healthcare than rich people (because lifestyle/preventative stuff/checkups etc). Government pays the bills for most poor people, therefore having the government do the drug research and make the pills would save everyone (mostly the rich) money.
It is known that most drug companies spend more on advertising then they do on research.
1-Mandatory Generic Licencing. The Patent on your expensive new drug allows anyone to make generic copies. You (the patent holder) get half the total revenue (pre tax) from the generic copies, with no copies sold below cost. The drug companies still get their return on investment, but without the ability to gouge the patients on life saving medicine. 2-Allow people to inport drugs from poor places where those same drugs are sold at one tenth the price. It's the same drugs, probably made in the same factory, so why can't you legally buy it?
Cash is also expensive for people. Trips to the bank, having to plan your week in advance so you have sufficient cash, lost and stolen money.
It's been tried, war of 1812. They invented the phrase "white wash" from trying to hide the battle damage to the white house. Also you'd end up with a 30 million lefty voting block (from Canada) and no reason for corporations to keep jobs north of Mexico city.
If you can do the job from home, so can a better qualified worker in India getting 1/10 the pay.
A visiting Terrorist is likely to bring a phone with him, that was sold in some other country. If the American courts have no problem issuing search warrants for foreign computers, they should have no problem ordering Apple to hand over the encryption keys for foreign phones.
Your suggestion that different social media companies won't cooperate to get a full picture seems unlikely. Certainly the advertising companies will put it all together. Viable strategies: 1-government run social media companies. Yes the government will spy on us, but at least the adds will be limited. 2-cooperative social media, owned by the mass, for the masses. We'd be constanly fighting spies from corporations and government, trying to get our juicy data, and we'd have to pay operating expenses. 3-massive government regulation and oversight of private companies. Yes the government will spy on us, and the companies will try to wriggle out of oversight, and the adds will be everywhere, but... at least the trains will run on time?
The only real benefit of vertical farming is you can zone your expensive downtown building as farmland and save on taxes. We have no shortage of cheap farmland, we have plenty of cheap imported workers to work the farms, and sunlight is free.
An 8 guage wire, running at 5 million volts DC will power all of China, run from Death Valley CA (might have to use an orbital ring to keep the power wires from arcing). Molten Salt power storage is a mature technology, and scalable to any size we want. Drive electrons in through a resistive heater, draw heat out to turn a steam turbine running a generator.
China has Tibet, they have no shortage of farmland. Indoor farming requires long term maintenance, something that China tends to ignore.
The biggest problem is most companies consider training employees to be a waste of money. They want them pre-trained. H1B, because you're fine with other countries having a good training and education system.
The Pacifists think that if nobody works on Military AI, that we won't have Killbots, so fewer people will die. History doesn't agree with this point of view. During WW2 allied bombing accidentally started a firestorm in a german city, destroying most of the city with massive civilian casualties. The Allies spent a lot of time and money attempting to reproduce that effect, so they could do the same to other German cities. Lack of a good targeting system won't stop the military from pulling the trigger, they'll just carpet bomb the targets and blow up wedding parties and schools.
I bet the police are drooling at the possibilities. Once the tech is in place, they just need to plug in.
One more change: Add a minimum wage, say above $100,000 per year, and entitle them to Citizenship after 2 years. If they are worth that money then they are clearly a good deal for America and should be kept. You could even get rid of the limited numbers and lottery, since you'd only be importing "Valuable" people.
Many native Americans would agree with you.
Attempts to teach a computer to spot military vehicles resulted in flagging all "Rainy" pictures as containing military vehicles, because all the learning photos had that. If you inserted a small christmas tree near every stop sign used to train the robot car, it might not recognize stop signs without one. That is not the same as disguising a stop sign, and probably not illegal under current law.
The special prosecutor seems to be several steps ahead of what is in the news. I expect these people have already been talked to, and deals made to keep them out of jail. From what little I know of Trump, I don't believe he's (mentally) capable of being the "Dr Evil" level villain at the bottom of all this.