It’s probably not SOP to land nuclear weapons at the municipal airport either.

There is a military base with its own airfield located within El Paso basically right next to El Paso International Airport.

There’s a flu shot for old people. It appears Moderna chose not to administer that when appropriate. Maybe technically they aren’t required to. The whole thing sounds messy but who knows.

That's true some years, but not all. Usually, the difference is over 55 (or whatever) you get a quadrivalent vaccine instead of trivalent. That is, vaccine for the usual strains, plus a 4th. It's not totally different.

Should probably be licensed to drive in the US if “explicitly proposing a path for the vehicle to consider” as Waymo has disclosed…

I would not personally be comfortable “explicitly proposing a path” for a vehicle operating in the Philippines since I’ve never even been there, let alone driven there. Why would I be comfortable with somebody doing the reverse?

It seems possible that people in the Philippines providing advice to Waymo vehicles in the US get some training on US road signage, traffic regulations, etc. (I can't see how it would make any sense for Waymo to pay people to do this and not give them the information they need to do it reasonably well, since the whole point is for them to handle difficult cases.)

And it would be difficult for whatever training Waymo provides to its employees to be less stringent than the lax license requirements of most US states.

Super interesting take you mentiom.

Tourists can drive in the US on their foreign license. Can that be used as a loophole for a call center?

Also, maybe it is a gray area where they are not asking what they don't want to hear. Those offshore subcontractors already break any US law they want because they aren't hiring humans inside the US, they are providing a service from abroad.

Specifically, how do you know the operator can drive?, as you ask. But also, how do you know your operator won't steal your PII / bank account details out of your law enforcement physical jurisdiction?

They need to be in a separate risk pool. It isn’t a penalty.

There seems to be an explosion of drugs for fat loss. No signs of slowing down.

It’s super dope, and you can have it talk to people for you in the local language when you go there. I’ve busted it out to explain what I’m thinking for me. Watching travel shows on TV or reading travel magazines is sadder.

Curious what type of metal object and if you tried factories in different regions. Jewelry is pretty smooth… This 500W superlamp thing is effectively an appliance and seems quite brave for this guy to work through.

There is death by old age. You’re just not supposed to write it on the statement because the age is there already.

That’s a bit cynical. Religion is more like a technology. It was continuously invented to solve problems and increase capacity. Newer religions superseded older and survived based on productive and coercive supremacy.

If religion is a technology, it's inarguably one that prevented the development of a lot of other technologies for long periods of time. Whether that was a good thing is open to interpretation.

On the other hand it produced a lot of related technology. Calendars, mathematics, writing, agricultural practices, government and economic systems. Most of this stuff emerged as an effort to document and proliferate spiritual ideas.

I see your point, but I'd say religion's main technological purpose is as a storage system for the encoding of other technologies (and social patterns) into rituals, the reasons for which don't need to be understood; to the point that it actively discourages examination of their reasons, as what we could call an error-checking protocol. So a religion tends to freeze those technologies in the time at the point of inception, and to treat any reexamining of them as heresy. Calendars are useful for iron age farming, but you can't get past a certain point as a civilization if you're unwilling to reconsider your position that the sun and stars revolve around the earth, for example.

I think it is hard to fully remove religious practice from species. I think it exist along a spectrum and that there are base ritualistic behaviors most animals engage with (e.g. a pets ritual around eating or play), organized social order sort of rituals (e.g. birds expecting a particular mating dance performed well and this sensibility shared among the local group of birds), and finally what we observe in our own development as a species, higher religion, but that is merely iteratively developed from layering these simple behaviors onto simple behaviors until the whole is quite elaborate in fact.

In that sense I think getting caught up in “religion bad for tech” zeitgeist misses the point of what religion actually is. Collectively shared ritual. Belief in God, and specific shades of that, is just the step of the dance the bird does in this case. Taking a step back, plenty of atheists engage in collectively shared ritual too. Belief in the 9-5, the bludgeon that is the four years to specialize vs lifelong apprentanceships towards true mastery, economics constraining choice rather than pure skill. Do these rituals not also hold our species and technological development back? If we talk about religion, it is worth also considering the mountain of other blockers towards progress we have built for ourselves in this collectively agreed upon daily society ritual we all partake upon.

This is ahistorical, whiggish nonsense. The actual world is not a game of Civilization II.

Eh? I was talking about Galileo's trial for heresy.

Then you also understand nothing about Galileo.

Or how about that vast majority gets a decent education and higher standard of living so they can spend time learning and thinking on their own? You and a lot of folks seem to take for granted our unjust economy and its consequences, when we could easily change it.

How is that relevant? You can give whatever support you like to humans, but machine learning is doing the same thing in general cognition that it has done in every competitive game. It doesn't matter how much education the humans get - if they try to make complex decisions using their brain then, silicon will outperform them at planning to achieve desirable outcomes. Material prosperity is a desirable outcome, machines will be able to plot a better path to it than some trained monkey. The only question is how long it'll take to resolve the engineering challenges.

That is absurd and is not supported by any facts

There are some facts which makes it not outside the realm of possibility. Like computers being better at chess and go and giving directions to places or doing puzzles. (The picture-on-cardboard variety.)