1 For your next Daily Tech News post:

https://www.comicsbeat.com/adobe-quietly-injects-ai-content-into-users-files-hikes-prices/

2 Yeah, I fundamentally do not believe that science in America is irreversibly destroyed due to Trump.  The science here is bad because of the people we have been paying to do it.  As a pedantic point of philosophy, government funding and a university location on their own do not make science science.  The literal origin and grammar of the word imply the ways of knowing, and some methods are simply invalid even if they are fashionable among people getting advanced degrees.  Once the government culture and the university culture diverged from the taxpayer culture and the public culture, there was no longer a common basis for shared knowledge.

The university sobbing sisters maybe cannot do science if they take critical theory, command economics, and laptop class 'respect-muh-authoriteh' seriously enough.  The only way to really do science at a modern university, science broader than a single article or a single topic within a subject, is to understand that the public may be informed, accurate, and correct.  The only way to do broad science is to understand that faculty must actually persuade the public of anything they want the public to hold to.  Faculty must not extrapolate from freshmen to the conclusion that they can rely on the mean girls to keep the public in line.  Where faculty have these errors of magical thinking, their bad science will tend to push out good science. 

I for one have long understood that the university problems may be substantial enough that we can only really count on being able to do science outside of universities, outside of traditional funding structures, and outside of traditional academic or scholarly publications. 

World leaders want the profits of realizing the economic potential of the populations they have 'authority' over, but they want to continue the behaviors that tend to steal economic potential, and they do not want their populations to be even as free as the US population is.  The US population can tell our leaders and our laptop class to go frustrate themselves on certain really stupid economic demands.  We are not always wise enough to do so, and are fooled sometimes.  But, telling the laptop class to frustrate themselves is largely why Europe declined, and America has not declined as much. 

Yeah, Dario Amodei does not know how to talk to the feds, or how the feds think, if he thinks his shit doesn't directly imply what happened to him.  A wise ethical human would seek first to understand the regulation of aviation in the United States before he uses that as an analogy in a public suggestion of how a novel technology ought to be regulated(1).  Okay, at least half of what we can do is actually our crazy aviation subculture, but the FAA is not exactly the apex of 'do what you want, it will be fine'. 

I'm not saying that there is no room to criticize the FAA.  The NTSB maybe has some valid criticisms which I only learned about recently.  I maybe have valid observations.  But, the two commercial carrier sections did not get that safety record with the FAA regulating them like general aviation, nor with the NTSB not recommending that certain models be grounded from time to time.  Nor did I think a commercial carrier improve safety by throwing a tantrum whenever a crash resulted in stuff being grounded. 

If Dario Amodei wants AI to be handled like an industry doing safety critical machinery, then he needs to stop acting like a child, or he needs to resign and cease his involvement with AI. 

The safety problems with AI are all on the human side, with humans stupidly and blindly doing things not knowing what they are doing. 

His employees are maybe likewise also too university trained and not experienced enough with other people in the real world.

(1)  Okay, I am also a moron, I use analogies and metaphors I do not fully understand, all of the time. 

3 To be fair, science has always been in chaos, since the whole point is to demonstrate new things and disprove old things.  Getting paid to defend failed models isn't science, it's politics.

4 World leaders want American benefits.  They just don't want America.

There, fixed that for you.