How did they come up with such an original and unique name? Apple does it again.

No empirical data observations? Jk, this is an interesting scenario to think about.

Is anyone not concerned by this? Paying the bills due is not a political issue, making payroll is not a political issue.

Elected or unelected, politicians with an agenda should not be in charge here.

My god the tone in this article is flippant for talking about the scariest part of our “eliminate all human life” deterrence system.

And stupidly jingoistic in how it scaremongers that the five chinese subs could hit the USA while being smug about how the USA deploys five times as many of them.

All money in joint accounts.

We are always each other's beneficiary.

I make enough that we don't have to think about small-medium purchases too much.

We are frugal in the big areas (e.g. 16yo Honda Civic).

But we do periodic spending temperature checks and as we have gotten older, we have become more mindful of that. Leisure spending over like a hundred or so we always tell each other about it beforehand and try to sleep on it.

I have a spreadsheet where I track weekly account balances + all activity on the main checking account (we rarely pay directly from it, so it's mostly bulk payments for credit cards or bills. Useful for predicting future balances so we can know how much to safely transfer to savings/investments.) On the activity sheet, I annotate each credit card statement with anything "exceptional" or above $250 or so.

So what happens when you intercept and blow up an ICBM in the atmosphere? Not good things, I think.

First, I can't possibly have all of the answers.

However the evidence that these companies are doing real damage now is all around us.

I already gave the example of Microsoft using billions of litres of fresh water to cool data centres during a drought.

In the case of labour the SAG-AFTRA strike, a contributing factor was the use of AI in the industry.

There are some estimates that the carbon emissions of these training efforts dwarf the airline industry and will grow to consume, like crypto, more energy than small countries soon [0].

Not sure that we need to be protected against hypothetical, super-intelligent, self-aware AGI systems that are, if even possible, decades away when people are using what we have today to lay off labourers by training models on their work and replacing them.

[0] https://www.ll.mit.edu/news/ai-models-are-devouring-energy-t...

Update: removed unnecessary bit

Training another model? Are we still in the, "suck up available water in the middle of a drought,"[0] era of training?

I think we need better regulation of these companies to prevent them from doing actual damage rather than trusting them to self-regulate against hypothetical ones. The latter seems more like market-capture smoke-and-mirrors. The former is having real consequences on the environment, workers, and the economy.

[0] https://futurism.com/critics-microsoft-water-train-ai-drough...

You seem to be having a kind of a blind bias. You argue that during war time China will be less productive; and the opposite will be for the US: more productive. As if China can't target/hit back at the US. Both have massive geography and given that the US is likely the attacker, China only has to play defense.

> The USA is a net exporter of oil (that greases the entire machine). China is an oil importer (not good when you country is being sieged during war).

This seems to be their largest risk (if you are playing defense). They seem to be going crazy on solar though.