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In what experts described as a highly unusual arrangement

Oh, that's what we're calling blatantly illegal actions now.

There were a few moments in the Marvel Universe. Spider-Man even had his first movie based off the common man and results of super hero actions to create new baddies. But the one that stands out to me is in Iron Man 3, where Tony is going to fire on one of the bad guys in the compound and the guy throws down his gun and says, "Honestly, I hate working here. They are so weird."

"Consuming 200,000 Pirate Books"

I don't see any problem with that, although I was not aware there were so many books in that niche category. Arrrr!

On a serous note, the issue of copyrighted works and training is something that should have been (was) anticipated and had laws in place to control it. We're at the point now of asking why there aren't locks on the barn door and the horses have been gone, escaping last week. And if you thought things like music copyright (i.e. where notes sound very similar, like the Vanilla Ice/Queen/Bowie lawsuit), proving that something's come out of a black box that happens to match some parts of something you wrote, but are different is even more vague. It's a case of everyone knows what they did, but legally how can you show it?

But again the big problem is the usual with tech, the legal side of things is so much slower and behind, so many that get harmed aren't going to get a fair settlement. Plus they're going against huge corporations, so good luck there too.

That's why they included the 'in Florida" to make it seem less crazy.

Your points illustrate why other means besides cameras should be also used, as well as why the human brain's ability to filter or even ignore things is a bonus to our driving ability. Or a detriment. People who power through bad weather or sun glare or any other obstacles that obscure them seeing well and manage to get through aren't greater than the computer driver, they're just lucky. Same can be said for all the people driving while on the phone, they aren't skilled in multitasking while moving hundreds of feet per second, they just happen to have it clear 99% of the time so think they're that good.

The main point was that computers need all the information they can get to compete with humans, but they also have the ability to get data we cannot, and it's stupid to not give them that ability because of some desire to simulate the full (read that as limited) human experience. Humans deal with less info all the time, but that doesn't make them better.

Benevolent dictators almost always happen only in fiction, and they don't last. I guess you can get some that do a few good things while being bad overall.

Taking away honoring someone fighting for human rights, but reclaiming base names for traitors. I wish there was a hell or karma or something.

I think we should have billionaires.

Because they wouldn't miss a 90% tax on their highest bracket, and they aren't going away, so why not turn them into the resource they should have stayed.

I mean there's lots of other problems that have gotten far worse in the past decades to make the wealth inequality ridiculous, but a good starting point is MAGA. Bring back the high taxes on those who can afford it, to fund helping those in need.

When Autopilot started I would hear people joke about how it couldn't drive in bad weather where people could. They seem to miss the point that when the computer begins to lose information needed to navigate, it's going to stop driving. People lose information and they keep going. One of these is safer.

Of course if Elon had thrown everything at the car to make it have information even in terrible or odd conditions, there'd be more merit in claiming those cars are safer than humans. But between genius brain (however much there is) and narcissist, the latter won out in doing it his way because others were doing it the obvious way.

The safest roads would be fully automated and tapped into each other. We wouldn't even need lights at intersections. A hybrid mix of human/computer traffic is always going to be dangerous.

Whenever I see the 1% or 99% numbers when discussing wealth inequality, this fact is the first thing that comes to mind. We need to use decimal points to get to the real ones in power. 1% contains a lot of people who have money, but are still out of the loop as the rest of us, or as Carlin said, "not in the Club". They are millionaires, but like they say, the difference between a million and a billion is about a billion.

And that's US - many Americans are in the 1% in worldwide numbers, with rough income numbers being around half a million income. Again, they may or may not be comfortable depending on their expenses, but having money doesn't mean you have power. It's the .1 that is the beginning of that, and the .01 is moving the pieces for everyone.

(The numbers are just estimates, there's gray areas everywhere, the point is the top people want us to be yelling at the top middle and ignore what they do.)

Time Traveling Me who has been to the farther future: "Neither of you realize how good you both have it."

Why wouldn't they give an example of what they are talking about?