> imo if the website doesn't want us there the long term value is anyway not great
Wat? You're saying if a website doesn't want your scraping their data then that data has low long-term value? Or are you saying something else because that makes no fucking sense.
>Websites that really don't want us will come up with audio captchas and new creative methods.
Which you or other AIs will then figure a way around. You literally mention "extract data behind login walls" as one of your use cases so it sounds like you just don't give a shit about the websites you are impacting.
It's like saying, "If you really don't want me to break into your house and rifle through your stuff, you should just buy a more expensive security system."
This seems like a category error. We don't typically assign moral agency to animals the same way we do to humans. No one is saying "one biological creature eating another biological animal is unethical." Some people are saying it is unethical for humans, who we typically do believe have moral agency, to eat other animals. Just as no one would say it is unethical for a snake to kill someone with its venom, but we would say it is unethical for a human inject someone with snake venom in order to kill them.
Factory farming has been around for more than 100 years. Upton Sinclair published The Jungle in 1906.
The meat industry has done a pretty good job keeping the horrors of slaughter houses out of the public eye, especially in the days before almost everyone was walking around with a video recorder in their pocket.
I'm sure exposure to what's really involved in modern meat production has increased the popularity of veganism, but veganism has been around for at least a thousand years.
It makes sense to me. If you grow up seeing animals slaughtered on the regular you probably won't think much of it, especially when the adults around you treat it as completely normal. You grow up in an environment where you might think meat comes from the magic meat factory, when you see an animal slaughtered for the first time it's likely to be shocking enough to turn a lot of people away.
>The number of federal employees who are reported to have taken the offer amounts to less than 5% of the federal workforce.
>In fiscal year 2023, the attrition rate of the federal workforce was 5.9%, according to the Partnership for Public Service, a nonprofit organization that promotes government service.
Sounds like most of this is people who were already thinking of leaving.
> It was difficult to process what was happening. Just ten months earlier, the company had gone through another round of layoffs. And at the beginning of the year, during the company’s kick-off event, the president assured us there wouldn’t be any more layoffs.
In my experience, whenever a company assures you there will be no more layoffs, there will 100% be more layoffs. Never make the mistake of believing your employer has any real loyalty to you.
I doubt this played out the way you describe. For one thing, she wasn't the only surgeon in the room, so it's not like she just left the person on the table unattended.
> According to Potter, her patient was under anesthesia when she got an urgent phone call from UnitedHealthcare while in the operating room.
You think a surgeon is answering her cellphone in the middle of an operation? No, to me this says someone else who works for the hospital had to interrupt the procedure to get the surgeon on the phone. I would guess she felt she had to take the call or lose her job.
I can't remember the last time I read something this tone deaf and obnoxious. It reads like a 13 year old's journal. And a selfish 13 year old at that. Guy is so devoted to capitalism that he can't conceive of any way to do good in the world if it doesn't involve starting a business (or trying to make the government run like one).
Maybe try helping people without expecting or even wanting any financial return.
That's not far off from what Medicaid does. It doesn't pay poor people to buy private insurance, but it does it for them. Medicaid is private insurance paid for with government dollars.
Not any more, apparently. Now all they get is a pat on the back.
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