Joke is going over my head can you explain?

It is, eg lidocaine patches. It has to be injected to really do much. Not aware of any injectables that are over the counter.

+1 for obsidian! Have you tried out text generator plugin? Uses GPT api’s. Haven’t gotten into D&D but seems like it’d be a great tool for DMs to help make content.

The author did a poor job of explaining that. He’s referencing the thought experiment of a businessman instructing a super effective AI to make paperclips. Given a terse enough objective and an effective enough AI, one can imagine a scenario in which the businessman and the whole world in fact are turned into paperclips. This is obviously not the businessman’s goal, but it was the instruction he gave the AI. The implication of the thought experiment is that AI needs guardrails, perhaps even ethics, or else it can unintentionally result in a doomsday scenario.

Its a monetization approach, same motives as what youtube does here with the ads so doubt itll ever go away.

So if a predator locks a victim in a closet, does that make lockmakers morally reprehensible?

Thank you, 1/5 of lifetime motorcyclists dying in wreck doesn’t add up.

Nah it was always an energy capacity and density per $ issue. Battery technology doesn’t improve as fast as compute but it has followed a steady ~10% yearly increase. Seems that when one tech plateaus another picks up. Solid state will get us to 4-500 mi/charge. Even electric planes will eventually happen.

If there’s n of something and n+1 breaks it, then it was broken to begin with.

I’d push back that US regulatory bodies are strong and successful in some areas and that nuclear power doesn’t necessarily need to fall under regulatory capture. Consider the FAA - not perfect but does a pretty damn good job of keeping the skies safe.

Probably one of the reasons SUVs are so popular, fold back seats down and tons of unobstructed space.