Even as an American, I’m well aware of the history around surveillance in Britain. V for Vendetta was largely a commentary on it, Radiohead has made some references to government/corporate oversight in their albums, etc.

Isn’t there someone you forgot to ask?

Depends on what your goals are. If you don’t care about being strong enough to bench 225 or deadlift 315, then yeah, you’ll never need more than your own body and gravity.

And then he just takes it out of the security deposit instead

lol these comments. What is the judge supposed to say? “Uh, well, I realize you’ll probably just ignore my order, so just go ahead and do whatever.”

Hunter would approve

I think it really just depends on whether Ukraine was using Starshield under a proper license. Otherwise, I agree with this take. It’s essentially the same issue as in Anthropic v DoD.

I think the point is that it actually hurts an ethics-based anti-AI argument to also claim that it has no utility, because the no-utility argument is weak and therefore makes the rest of the stance (i.e., the ethics-based argument) look weak by association.

Oh shit, that’s an instant buy

Bad game yo wtf

Always wondered what happened to Bob Chorba