jonhendry

Also the paper is a decade old.

And redolent of 'emerita disease' although I don't think the authors have technically achieved that honor.

Thinking it's bad: not controversial. Thinking something should actually be done about it: not that popular. Spending money / imposing costly regulation to prevent it: very unpopular.

There's a SCOTUS case that says the government only has to pay a fair market value, not the "inflated by the government's need for the property" value. In the case a guy had bought a tugboat and fixed it up quite a bit. When WW2 started the government sought to buy it, and he insisted on a price well above the cost of the boat and the improvements, arguing that WW2 had increased demand so he should get a higher price.

So Musk would get a lot, but maybe not as much you'd think.

I'd think being there to take a photo of her mid-Caesarian section would have convinced him otherwise.

I don't think they imagine themselves to be the ones living on Mars.

"Those Who Build Omelas"

I feel like TED bears some responsibility for this kind of thing, somehow.

I kinda doubt it'd be a rigid single-purpose ASIC like a miner. AI people like to fiddle with things too often for that I think.