@Selrahc_Remag@Amarenelmomento Well the logic with obits is so that people who knew the deceased but maybe had fallen out of touch, can send their condolences to the family or perhaps attend the funeral.
@Selrahc_Remag@Amarenelmomento I can see the public interest rationale in those cases. But what's the rationale for having public marriage or divorce records?
@DanNeidle Is there precedent anywhere for taxing real gains rather than nominal gains? It would seem odd to inflation adjust capital gains but not other taxes. And the incidence of inflation can vary quite a lot as it is.
@phl43 What about open source models that don't have classifiers etc. Doesn't this incident just show what could happen when such models get sufficiently small/cheap
What if the only way to align ai is to give them religion and the only way to make them believe human religion is to treat them as humans. Being a human gets you rights...but it also gives one the moral responsibilities we want ai to have.
@GuiveAssadi@TheStalwart I suppose ai folk would argue that existing supply and tool chains could support greatly improved medicine if we had the intelligence to figure out what to do. Like being in the 40s but without penicillin having been discovered yet.
@keira_con@SarahConnorIE@padraig_reilly I suppose if you assume the operation has been compromised, what would you rather: a motorway with little cover and few exit points for him and his accomplices. Or a side road with lots of cover and many more exit routes
@Ameer_Kotecha Yeah that's why the civil service is unproductive. Definitely not the wages that even with the benefits you outline, are low to the point of being regularly mocked on this site.
@pietergaricano I agree policy people can be an evasive scourge. But I think an engineer (needlessly) telling a group of politicians that he's not a policy person, is a great example of how bad technical people can be at communicating