You’d think by now Jean-Luc Picard would be a well known example and systems are able to deal with it.

Yeah, this is his daughter

“We call her Carrie, because of the carriage return.”

You can also try to give the child NULL as middle name for additional fun.

(about $4,000)

Vance doesn’t know that

Global stability of always good for trade and business. The supply chains disruption with covid shows what a bit of chaos can do to businesses, so it’s not entirely altruistic.

But I’m aware that this transition away from American dominance can be wild. It’s inevitable that fighting for the top dog position will happen. How that plays out with shrinking population is anyone’s guess.

and while America has benefited strategically, it’s also taken on substantial costs

It was an empire in all but name and was a bit more than just a strategic benefit, but every empire gets too expensive to maintain and must shrink again.

Last start American politicians started to talk about the cost and responsibilities being too much, EU countries started cozying up to China and it freaked the same politicians that were talking “I invite you to get going without us”. Let’s see what happens this time.

Insult Musk on Twitter, wait until posts are censored, sue X for not having freedom of speech. How’s that for American values?

It was the deal made after world war 2. Europe buys your goods, uses dollar for international trade and reserve currency, buys oil from American companies and trade oil in petro dollars, making American citizens the richest in the world. In turn we have Pax Americana meaning USA beings the world’s police, militair bases on European soil, and cooperation in things like climate.

If the choice is made to change that deal, a lot of things will change too. Probably not for the better.

Sci-fi comedy predicting the future again.

Robocop tube begins playing. OCP starts construction of Delta City.

Alright, what are the best options for blocking mentions of Trump? Last term there was so much noise from that guy or about him.

Engineers: we can’t make transistors smaller because they wouldn’t work because of those quantum effects

Different engineers: but what if we use quantum effects as the basis to make smaller transistors work

Technically a checkers program is also AI if you check the dictionary definition. Many will say it’s not “real AI” as it doesn’t have general intelligence but it’s still AI. Snake oil salesmen love that.

Unpopular opinion: too big budget gives a bad movie. Lower budgets forces people to be more creative and keeps the suits away that would otherwise make it a designs by committee.

An order of magnitude better would give trust. Slightly better doesn´t convince people.

And then the car mistook the side of a white semi for the sky and plowed full speed into the semi, decapitating the driver. These systems see, but don’t really understand what they see.

It’s more about good writing. It’s often said you’re allowed to have one cheat. You have to be consistent about it and the rest of the rules of the universe still apply. But often enough in fiction the writers start breaking any rule or law of physics when the plot requires it instead of fixing the plot to follow consistent world building. It’s lazy writing and bad for immersion. A lot of the tension in a story is from the characters overcoming limitations, not having limitations disappear whenever convenient.

It never actually worked. He never got further than spewing radiation.