I have a three year old and would still never subject others to tablet noise. Yes they’re the literal worst to fly with but don’t export your misery to others.

Kids playing games is the truly annoying one. You feel terrible saying anything but it’s also some of the most annoying sounds.

I’m not sure how you can come to the conclusion that AI is an advocate for the individual writ large. It seems that AI can just as easily be used to make algorithmic decisions on who receives care (based on symptoms etc). Whether or not that’s an equalizing influence or not depends on the algorithm, training data, etc.

The models could be designed that way, but we don't have evidence that they have been designed that way today. If that were to occur in future, I'm sure people would seek out impartial models.

What? Plenty of people prefer to live with roommates, especially in the bay.

On a mobile platform though…

Rentable defense is already a thing, but rapidly deployable mini-interceptors like Anduril and many others, or electronic countermeasures could plausibly become much more widespread.

I guess I am splitting hairs but "spare capacity" heavily implies it's a non physical resource or it's able to be used in an instant. Almost like how if you had a global based missile system like a GBI (or not quite global but long range like a THAAD) you could near instantly have someone "bid" to use your missiles in an emergency scenario. Building short range interceptors and selling them or renting them is closer to the model of AWS itself, building a knowledge base hosting your own platform (Amazon.com retail) and then selling that knowledge to others. In this case building anti missile systems to protect data centers and then selling a packaged model to other companies. But it's not "spare capacity", it's selling expertise and helping to fund your own R&D.

>electronic countermeasures could plausibly become much more widespread.

don't forget the amount of power available in the datacenter. You can easily redirect say just mere megawatts to electronic countermeasures (would shut everything around down) or microwave and laser weapons. That for example is just 60KWt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvQV7Mt02q4

This was a surprisingly satisfying and interesting read. Cool setup and delightfully random but well answered question.

That’s a simplistic framing (obviously)

At one point he was huge into the paintball scene as well. Beyond hobby level

while an important consideration, I'm sure there are many on the up side of the k-economy that don't believe that persistent surveillance is warranted or ethical.

They will fall in line as property crime increases.

We already have speed cameras Al over NYC. Often the posted speeds there are 25 leading to some absurd tickets.

That's what you get for not having rednecks with rifles