Perhaps any student who damages their chromebook should be required to do all their work on paper for a semester, or until parents pay for a new chromebook - whichever takes longer. Few things scares kids more today than being told they have to do this the old school way without tech. Hand writing essays, or doing math on paper, will make them appreciate what they had with the chromebook. Some may make tik tok videos to scare other kids from damaging theirs.

How long before there is no more skilled worker shortages, so I don't have to wait 12 hrs in ER, or the ER doesn't have a shortage of rooms (automation will build and maintain sufficient facilities so they don't have house patients in the hallways - still a thing today in the US)? How long before I can book my car for service without having to wait a month or two? Or get an HVAC installed the summer without 60 day delays?

If automation will replace 80% of workers, it should first supplant the workforce to make all these shortages go away, no?

Yea, if that video game sales provide for employees, investors, etc, then yea, they will spend money to stamp out cheating as not to detract your honest customers. No different than paying for security for a warehouse storing toys, or people locking their home doors so that thieves don't steal their TV's (or even video consoles).

People have fears. Rational or not, they are fears. Internet amplifies those fears, creates echo chambers. One of the worst thing that happened to humans were smartphones for the masses, which came with 24/7 social media connections. Unfortunately, facts and logic does not work to change people's minds. They tend to do the opposite - people dig their heels in even more, reinforcing their original fears. Perhaps one way to alleviate those fears would be, rather than give them numbers, have society cover said risks. If only extremely few people have severe negative reactions, offer them free lifetime healthcare. The cost to society should be minimal (cost of lifetime healthcare * the odds of negative reaction * population to be vaccinated). Maybe for those vaccinating kids, provide them with a period of time after vaccination with priority care, should the kid have a negative reaction (so they don't have to spend 12hrs in an ER to see a doctor, or wait a month for a clinic appointment - a reality for many US residents, even those with good health plans). For those who are afraid of deaths due to vaccinations, offer ludicrous compensations - if the chances of death are in fact zero, offer $100M or more per death, if you never have to pay it but people will feel reassured, it's a win-win. We managed to get some people to get COVID19 vaccines with a prize lottery, reassuring them that in exchange for them taking a risk for society, the society will cover those risk for them might be worth a try, it would seem fair, and it doesn't have to violate people's free will by forcing them to get vaccinated. Perhaps such vaccination assurances is the legislation that is needed.

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How exactly would they ensure this? Can they pass some law that says that if anyone is arrested purely based on facial recognition, they will receive $1M compensation, the arresting officer is fired, and any evidence that stemmed from that arrest becomes fruit of the poisonous tree? That ought to be at least some deterrent, officers making sure they don't arrest based just on facial recognition, their bosses also caring as $1M is not a small sum from their budgets (or insurance claim). Politicians will never to do though, they just make empty promises which they then break, and just say "oups, too bad".

While college education costs are skyrocketing, the value of the resulting degree is dropping. I watched a valedictorian speech at one of my kids' graduation, proclaiming how the most valuable skill the speaker got was social justice values, and how they feel sorry for all those STEM focused grads because their education is worth so much less. Higher education institutions have been inbreeding the vague studies of political correctness, social justice, and other such topics by requiring new hires to sign pledges to keep on teaching those. I watched my kids having to navigate all these topics when doing unrelated classes, for example a plant biology science credit class focuses on cultural appropriation of different cultures foods. WTF? No wonder these kids graduate, then cannot find anyone to pay them for the skills they learned in college. I learned long time ago, if you want to make money, you have to do something that other people are willing to pay for. Colleges increasingly fail at teaching this. When someone wants their air conditioner repaired, they really don't care to pay someone to analyze the social impact of air conditioners, they want their home cool again.

Here is a nice visual showing ROI of different college degrees. https://www.visualcapitalist.c... Someone should track the ROI trends over time, per degree per institution. Maybe then the colleges would realize that if they want students to go into debt for their product, it has to have value in the real world.

If they like what they hear, it entertains them, why would they care if the host is AI or not? Is it some sort of us vs. them, like people who would listen to a host of certain race but nor another race, or of a certain nationality, or belonging to some other group? If it does the job, why would one care? If I could get AI to change my tires, why would I care that it wasn't a human who did it?

Show us that Mechanize runs with zero humans. They have only white-collar jobs, which is their first target. What better advertisement than to show that the company you hire to automate all your workers has succeeded to automate all of its humans, including the founders. If it can't even fully automate its own business, what chance does it have to fully automate others?

Automation will create a new attack vector, with potentially even larger consequences. No more human reviews, just automation renewing certs. For smaller sites, they will just remove TLS (HTTPS) instead to avoid the headache, especially if browsers stop accepting any certs valid longer than 47 days. Such is the reality of life.

Yea right. How are they going to prove they verified the age, whose photo was scanned etc? If they are telling the truth for right now, that will quickly change the first time a government will try to fine them for failing to verify age, which will happen the first time some underage user does something bad that blows up in the media, and then someone points the finger at social media.

What does the first letter of the acronym UBI stand for?

I think you're missing the macro picture. The people who received free money, spent it in exchange for goods and/or services, and other people had to put in the work to produce said goods and services. More consumption requires more production, and that is work. So if the people who got the money without producing more are suddenly consuming more, the burden of that consumption falls onto the remaining people. With 122 people the effect is tiny and barely felt. Had they given the free money to half the population, and that half is not working any more than before, the other half would now have to work harder to make up for the additional consumption. Now, give everyone free money universally, and they don't produce any more goods and services (that is assuming they work as much as before) - and all you're doing it causing inflation.

Then retain them, all encrypted, with decryption keys secured offline in a physical safe with good security somewhere. Now, to hack the emails you have to hack the system to get the encrypted emails, then rob the bank where the safe that holds the decryption keys are. There is a much greater chance someone would notice at least one of those events, than just admin getting hacked.

First, ability for admins to lock someone out is different than their ability to read content of their Inbox. Second, you could setup redundant access, give 2 or 3 employees access to the same emails (copies?), rather than an admin having access to all emails, which is a single point of failure. Of course, if it's your business, you must balance convenience against security - no different than most people locking their cars or homes, but some just leaving them unlocked for convenience. Sometimes people learn the hard way, like my neighbor who used to brag that he doesn't lock his car and that he leaves the keys in the car do he doesn't have to worry about them. Well, eventually his car got stolen. Not sure if that experience changed his security policy for the car keys as he moved away before getting a replacement car.