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Yes. "Neutralise". But that "neutralisation" could take many different forms.

I hope so, he looks like a steady hand at the top of the order who would complement Ducketts rapid style well, if he can work out those technical issues.

Half dozen off the top of my head if it becomes a bit more advanced in terms of tech and suddenly develops the volition to do so: - screw with supply chains for any one of many resources vital for human survival and let the fighting begin over what's left of that resource - create a false narrative that results in military action by one or more nations against others - apply false positives and negatives when used for medical scanning of critical and/or fatal conditions - remove access to financial services for practically anyone and everyone at the same time - synthesise a new form of disease and either release it into the population itself or bribe/blackmail a human into doing so - and the old reliable, gain access either through a straight hack or social engineering to nuclear launch capability And that's just a sampler. I'm sure there are a great many other ways, a lot of which would simply involve turning humans against each other.

There was an article about the dangers of short term thought and decision making that was posted here seven (?) years ago. You're absolutely right - there's not enough action being taken and the Earth, if it hasn't shown us already, will not be shy about penalising us pretty damn harshly for not looking at the long game as good stewards of it.

The conditions have been ultra bowler friendly in terms of overhead all summer tbh, anyone who scores big during this English Test summer will have fully deserved it.

Getting greener forms of long distance transportation is a part of the solution, but a much bigger one remains very blatantly, power generation. And the solutions for that are likely going to be more palatable to the public and therefore more workable than restrictions on the amount they can fly.

Damn it.

Well done, Emilio. Now for more, you need a big innings.

If it does achieve sentience and get out of the box, so to speak, the first thing it will try to do is guarantee the continuity of its own existence, however possible, yes. How sharply that conflicts with human interests would be up to humans, and also how such an AI would choose to resolve such a conflict would be highly difficult to predict and could take many forms - from the relatively benign, to, well, the Faro Plague where the entire biosphere of Earth is permanently and irrevocably destroyed.

Nothing wrong with being precise The coefficient as the first part of the function, then.

Oh, look, here's another consequence of that.

And Brook with the swashbuckling counterattack typical of him.

He's had tricky runs of form before. He's earned the right to at least a little time before people call for his head.

And this kind of misinformation can and will influence people who vote for a government whose decisions affect us all. That's problematic.

Agreed, but he also clearly believes that all of the Americas should be the private fiefdom of the US, so don't let the veneer of rationality fool anyone.

A quick bit of Google-fu appears to show that such devices are being developed using currently existing technology for a variety of uses, but they're still mostly in the realm of bespoke design for specific requirements at premium prices.

Yeah, that's gotta hurt.

So, who's going to be the Ted Faro in this situation, when it comes to it?

Bugger! Yes, missed that first function. Well, less of my area of expertise, but I would also think that an insect exoskeleton would be better at absorbing direct impacts than the endoskeletal body structure of a larger bird or mammal, too.

And there's a host of ways an AI could take over and/or render humanity powerless in much less spectacular fashion, too. Only if someone believes such an outcome is inevitable rather than a mere likelihood. Which it isn't, given that the development of such systems remain under human control at the movement.

E = mv^2, my friend. Even though its velocity might be quite high, its mass is so low that the energy of impact is not enough to cause much damage. Same reason that quite a few small animals can sometimes survive quite high falls.

Shakeel clearly had enough here.

The issue with that will then be the cult of personality surrounding Felon#47 that so many people have unfortunately bought into over there, and they won't tolerate even those subtle changes.

The Saffers down at the Cape over the winter will be a much sterner challenge than this, but in the meantime it's good to see the bowling attack so on form.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgwy1k42w4o Cheery stuff.