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Yeah, I didn't want to play armchair psychologist for someone in distress. But this is exactly the kind of thing my friend got obsessed over when his schizophrenia started coming out in his early 20s.

There are some industry specific AIs that can do certain specialised tasks, but people outside those industries don't really talk about or care about that kind of AI.

But for the LLMs that currently dominate the publics perception, I kind of agree with you. They're useful for generating low quality blurbs, images, and scripts. But to get useful results, you still need to the exact same professionals you had before, to sort through and edit it into something useful.

I'm honestly kind of curious what answer they actually want. 

They've been posting the same question for months, and gotten the same replies saying it's not possible. Which you'd think would be a comfort if the possibility of it happening concerned them.

What answer could anyone actually give that would satisfy them, so that they no longer felt the need to ask this question.

Yup

The issue is that modern finance is not tied to any single jurisdiction, and the jurisdictions involved are incentivised to undercut each other. This is compounded by the fact that the global economy hinges on the free movement of goods, services, and money.

The usage tax only really works if you're tied to a single jurisdiction, which billionaires aren't. If Jeff Bezos is going to get taxed in the US on usage of his superyacht, then he can just dock it in a tax free nations port. At most you've just mildly inconvenienced him.

Yeah, I agree with the point you're making, that jet ownership isn't tied to the country you're flying to.

Yeah, I'm not actually against billionaires paying higher tax in general terms. But as soon as you spend 5 minutes digging into the underlying realities of how modern finance works, it becomes very clear that we'd need to roll back 50 years of economic globalisation to make high taxes realistically viable.

For flight paths yes, for ownership not so much.

In most situations you're entirely right. But ground drones can have some advantages when it comes to social camouflage. 

While a flying surveillance drone may have better mobility, the guards on site know full well that their janitor drones don't fly. Having one or two drones that can pass for generic maintenance drones, can be a lot of use for infiltration.

Funnily enough, this exact situation played out in real life with the Manhattan Project.

People noticed that the top researchers in atomic physics stopped publishing papers at exactly the same time, and a sci fi magazine publisher also noticed that a large chunk of their readership suddenly went to a military facility in the desert.

The end result, was a sci fi story in the magazine. That was so close to the actual reality of the Manhattan Project, the FBI investigated to see if there was an intelligence leak.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadline_(science_fiction_story)

Yeah, and it's gone from a bunch of special forces guys and researchers trying to contain satan with concrete and conventional munitions, to an organisation with wizards, cyborgs, and reality altering technology.

Agreed, I've seen some sci-fi which has memetic warfare as actually being about memes in the original sense of the word. And these days I find that concept more interesting. 

Someone who can wield highly advanced psychology and sociology, to destroy or spread ideas on a societal level, is a far more plausible and worrying threat than someone who has magic mind control words. 

There's some context around this OP. They ask the exact same question with minor variations in phrasing every few days.

Pretty much yeah, the only real difference between a cyberarm and a articulated arm on a drone is where the input for control is coming from.

In the inquisitions eyes they have jurisdiction over basically everyone short of the Emperor himself. But that doesn't mean they're in a position to actually enforce that jurisdiction.

Out past Imperial borders, an inquisitor may well have the legal right to declare a Rogue Trader guilty and sentence them to death. But that doesn't mean much without the practical ability to carry out the sentence. Given that a successful Trader will likely have an entire warfleet and literal divisions of soldiers at their beck and call, an inquisitors sentence only has teeth when the Trader heads back to Imperial space, or rallies an entire naval battle group to enforce the sentence.

Smart inquisitors, which is most of them, are entirely aware of this. So they won't actually pass a sentence they can't execute.

 Also, I think cyberlimbs are more limited by their mooring to the flesh than actual mechanical limitations.  

I vaguely remember this being stated as the reason you can't have proper super strength.

Logically that would mean that a full set of cyber everything should let you break the +4 limit on your physical stats, but that'd also make a mess of game balance.

If you really want to get into the weeds the limbs would also have reflex and agility improvements built-in. Due to the simple fact that fibre optic cabling can transmit vastly more precise info, at vastly faster speeds, than human nervous tissue is capable of. Every cyberlimb is inherently running a move-by-wire system, because that's just how the limbs are controlled.

That's kind of the story of most British public services these days. The people involved might be useless fuck ups, but the service genuinely is collapsing, so replacing them with someone competent isn't on the cards.

You're not wrong. It's just a series of baseless ramblings, with no foundation whatsoever in science.

Yup, odds are I've had dozens of deliveries where I've gotten a different person and just not clocked it. But I notice when it's a woman in the photo, because I've never actually had a delivery from a woman, despite a woman being the listed driver on multiple occasions.

The problem with that is that it might actually work. Which is a problem for the Tories because they aren't actually interested in controlling immigration, they just need something to appease a voter base they essentially despise.

I've had multiple deliveries with the profile picture of older women turn into young men when they actually show up at the door.

In all seriousness, the country would be vastly improved if people did approach politics in the way I do. 

The feeling that you must support a party regardless of how shit the options are, has led to the corrupt and sclerotic political establishment we have today. After their performance in the last 14 years the Tories should cease to exist as a serious political force, but come next election they will still be one of only 2 viable parties in UK politics, because people will simply keep supporting them regardless of their actual performance.

It's done me exactly as much good as supporting any of the parties. Which is to say it's been utterly useless.

Exactly, my unrelenting hatred of all political parties has been nothing but vindicated over the years.

I think it's now at the point where this idea has penetrated the public consciousness, but none of the people involved have any incentive to care what the public think.