Weird, given Tesla's claim that with Autopilot "the person in the driver’s seat is only there for legal reasons. He is not doing anything. The car is driving itself." [1]
> Talented and ambitious people would hate being in a labor union
Doubt it. Mentorship and apprenticeship opportunities are abound. Unions provide a floor for negotiations from which you can up-negotiate.
If your categorization was true, actors would never have breakout opportunities despite their union representation. Reality disagrees with your assertion and any movie star ever acts as evidence contrary to your claim.
Movie stars are in a guild, not a union. Much like doctors.
Unions have personally screwed me out of hundreds of dollars of month in payment for pensions I'll never see because they've forced me into inappropriate position titles to the benefit of legacy members.
Good governance, fairness, accountability, responsibility, transparency remain challenges for all organizations, not just unions. Happily, we've been getting better at finding and learning from other experiments.
Reform is thankless exhausting work. It takes a special kind of crazy for a person to do that kind of policy work.
Same twenty year old arguments against the defeated Clipper chip legislation apply to this and practically any backdoor proposal that can be brought to the floor.
> There should be no moderation in freedom (outside of the absolutes of killing another or dispossessing them of their property).
Why the focus on property rights? Much libertarian thought is expended on equating freedom to how you/others interact with property. It hardly gives credence to other man made rights that should be equally, if not more, recognized.
When you look at the group of people it dogmatically and absolutely resolves, and who funds think-tanks promoting the ideology, it is the well-propertied.
I find it hard to believe that all other freedom can be derived from and ensured by deifying property rights.
Not that this is "old news", but I thought Rule #1 was that when something is more complicated (or here, "smarter") there's more opportunity for things to go wrong, or for things to get abused.
I feel like we knew this was going to happen, but kind of shrugged it off as irrational.
Right after cell phones with blue tooth were made public, we added "blue snarfing" into our vocabulary.
I mean, I don't put a sticky-note over my webcam; I'm just not surprised at all that hackers are keeping up with tech.
They aren't nearly as effective as the countless other types of autonomous munitions that the US has deployed over the years they aren't going to be used as "weapons" the US has suicide drones which are much better suited for that task.
Why are criminal gangs assumed to be the bad guys here? Do you know the varied history of different gangs in the US? You might be surprised at what you find.
I find it hard to believe that thousands of engineers work in secret to build weapons that can maim and kill hundreds/thousands/millions of people at the flip of switch.
[1] https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tesla-autopilot-claim...