Watching episode 1 of AI Confidential and the thought crossed my mind; where is Isaac Asimov when you need him, have these developers not heard about the three rules of robotics? Is it not possible to write them into lines of code?
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COVID VACCINE ELIGIBILITY 🇬🇧,
a thread🧵
JCVI have just advised that, going forwards, eligibility for Covid vaccination will be even more tightly restricted.
But the ‘bespoke cost-effectiveness assessment’ upon which this is based is heavily flawed…
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Timothy Snyder "Imagine that you are a foreign leader who wishes to destroy the United States. How could you do so? The easiest way would be to get Americans to do the work themselves, to somehow induce Americans to undo their own health, law, administration, defense, and intelligence. From this perspective, Trump's proposed appointments -- Kennedy, Jr.; Gaetz; Musk; Ramaswamy; Hegseth; Gabbard -- are perfect instruments. They combine narcissism, incompetence, corruption, sexual incontinence, personal vulnerability, dangerous convictions, and foreign influence as no group before them has done. These proposed appointments look like a decapitation strike: destroying the American government from the top, leaving the body politic to rot, and the rest of us to suffer.
I do not defend the status quo. I have no doubt whatsoever that the Department of Defense and the Food and Drug Administration require reform. But such a reform, of these or other agencies, would have to be guided by people with knowledge and experience, who cared about their country, and who had a vision of improvement. That is simply not what is happening here. We are confronted instead with a group of people who, were they to hold the positions they have been assigned, could bring an end to the United States of America."
HMRC’s steady decline continues https://t.co/4Kc5MoFEvx Our tax authority is investigating fewer and fewer serious cases of tax abuse and not enough is wing done to reverse this trend. Doesn’t the government care?