I’m still not sure I understand exactly. Are you asking about individual autonomy, or the collective autonomy of humanity?

I would say there’s no real difference on an individual level. I guess conceptually, humanity as a collective entity, might loose autonomy. But I’m not sure that matters.

Answer to what? The question I asked you? I don’t have an answer.
Safety without giving up liberty just seems fine to me.

And if you don’t have to give up liberty?
It’s a false dichotomy to think it’s only either or.

Pretty much, more or less, yah.

The Galactic Empire was peaceful for thousands of years.
You’d rather have constant war and chaos?

Which is why the news needs to ignore his shit talking rather than broadcasting it.

You’re forgetting how often Rump says all sorts of things he never follows up on. This is why I keep saying we need a better news media. One that can recognize when something is genuinely news worthy. None of the details of this feud matter. Only maybe a single story about them having a feud would be needed. And if it were TV news it would be the last story. A funny fluff piece that doesn’t actually matter.

You’re still thinking in very small human scales. Culture isn’t fixed. All cultures are dynamic. They rise, change, change again, and disappear, throughout the ages. 500 years ago the landscape of various Christian and Muslim cultures were vastly different than they are now. An immortal Artificial Super Intelligence could spend centuries, hundreds of generations or more, subtly tweaking all the various cultures toward a more harmonious coexistence.

It’s really only certain aspects of a few cultures which drive them to be intolerant of other cultures, that would need to be changed.

Those certain aspects which cause intolerance, would need to be changed. Nothing more.

My statement you quoted says nothing remotely like “unify the world into a single culture.” Read it again. “a more globally compatible culture.”

There are many different yet compatible cultures, that are able to exist together in the world. It’s really only certain aspects of a few cultures which drive them to be intolerant of other cultures, that would need to be changed.

Conflicting things could be true at the same time in different places. Having one ruler doesn’t require one set of rules. There could be, and would need to be different rules for different communities.

One person who understands and is willing to accommodate that, is an example of the kind of super human trait I was referring to. An AI might be willing to do that, and slowly nudge over generations, differing communities toward a more globally compatible culture.

I’m not sure that would be very difficult if we tried. The current issue in picking a human global ruler, is that it would require super human traits. By definition no human could satisfy them. But a sufficiently advanced AI might.

It’s certainly reasonable to offer a charitable interpretation of the question, rather than assume mal-intent.

“What would it take for an AI to be given governance over the world?”

And the driver would be free to make that argument to defend themselves in the law suit.

The driver is responsible for the damage their vehicle causes. It doesn’t matter if they did something illegal or not. If the article is accurate, nobody should be arrested. But the driver would be civilly liable for the death of the kid.

I’ve had success imagining the reaction a bully is looking for, or expecting; Then giving them a reaction that confounds whatever they had in mind. Don’t play their game. Make a new game for you to play. One they won’t understand.

My first thought in this case, is to stop by and give him a list of requests you’d like him to play the next morning. If he immediately refuses, just ignore what he says and thank him, because his sound system is way better than yours. That interaction will confuse the hell out of him. He might just stop. If he does or not, go back the next day and ask why he didn’t play your request list. If he did play your list, go back and thank him. Then give him another list of music from someone else in your family.

That’s just off the top of my head, maybe you can come up with something better. Just remember to make it your game, not his.

It’s a real question. As an XRay tech I get paid $29.90/hr. That’s the real value of my work right now. Assuming I have the money available, if the cost is less than that, it makes sense for me to pay to not have to do it.

You did skip the whole “paying yourself” part though. How much is your work worth?

There is the added warming you get from the sun, when the snow doesn’t build up. You loose that if you wait for the storm to be over.

Think about how much you’d want to be paid per hour and how many hours it would take to clear 14" of snow. Compare that to the $26.33 it cost this guy. Seems cheep to me.