(Once you see the two words that need swapping, you can't unsee them, *sigh*.)

It's no different than any other laws. Did you get a choice in the laws that apply to you in your own country? Are you upset you have to abide by those laws, even when you didn't even know that the laws existed? If so, what are actually you doing about it?

In reality, if an awareness of the laws of your country had not been instilled into you over your childhood and teenage years (most likely by your parents), then you'd probably be a failed citizen by now with a correctional history of some sort.

Knowledge is power. Everyone should know and understand the law What they choose to do afterwards (knowing the consequences) is their business.

That's easy to say, but a lot (the vast majority) of people do not know what verification is or how to do it. These people *are* the world. (That big room outside of the house that must be interfaced with most days.)

All(*) the investment has been sucked up into the tech and AI bubble.

All the industrial base has been exported, mostly to China.

Agricultural sectors have low margins and are ultra competitive around the world.

There comes a point where all one's eggs are in the IP basket, and all the returns are dominated by IP. Then the rest of the world ignores one's IP, and then one has a really big problem.

(*) order of magnitude.

The US actually puts trackers in *hardware*.

(buy your own trackers from this catalog)

America has an AI/tech induced "Dutch disease" problem. It's not going to get better anytime soon.

When making a pirate library, add more AI "users".

"in a gold rush, sell the shovels"

I've noticed a lot more typos and non-sequiturs in forums, blog posts and news articles in the last two years. Maybe K12 should teach kids to write proper English, since the AIs are clearly not helping to solve that basic problem.

Notre Dame was partially destroyed multiple times since 1163 and (luckily) repaired each time. It was also redesigned multiple times to avoid imminent collapse. Notre Dame's repair plan was external.

The wood needed for repairs required tall and straight trees, hundreds of years old, planted in special purpose forests. These forests are mostly gone due to other factors, and this time there was a scavenger hunt across the country just to find enough replacement trees. Previously, suitable old trees were plentiful. In terms of redesign, unforeseen extra buttresses were needed to reinforce the structure centuries later.

In space, there is no external repair plan and no redesign of unforeseen flaws. The density of particles is too low to collect material outside the space ship. Recycling has limited applicability over many cycles due to degradation. Carrying extensive repair materials also adds unacceptable mass, which reduces the top travel speed and increases travel time by centuries. Increased travel time means increased time for degradation.

The design needs to be complete and resilient from the beginning, not rely on future cleverness and external resources every 50 years or so to patch up unforeseen problems. Space is hard and we have never attempted something even remotely similar on such a timescale.

Never say never. Some kids are fucked up. The answer is that general one size fits all solutions (either throw all of them in jail, or never throw anyone in jail) are suboptimal.

What happens when the first generation of kids comes of age, notices they never gave consent to be confined to a ship for their entire lives, and decides to turn around?

Religion is a tried and true solution used by humanity many times previously to solve just that very same issue.

Personally though I think that the engineering problems dwarf the social ones. Humanity's longest lived buildings are only a few thousand years old, and they are basically ruins not fit to live in. We have no clue how to build anything that would stay intact and fit for purpose over 500 years.

You're cute. Denying the competition exists is a losing strategy. I'm making popcorn.

Not really, to be honest. A lot of the stuff that the scientists and engineers do with the tools could be done another way, and often has. The actual *excess* return on investment, once you remove what previous solutions achieved in the same space, is rather unimpressive and close to zero.

The world works by having each generation forget the past, and think they are clever reinventing things for the first time in a new way. *Actual* progress almost never comes close to the hype.

There's no if. The AI software offerings targeted to medium to large companies do not work in the way you think (or hope) they do. There would be no point in such piecemeal and security conscious integration. It doesn't scale. The proposition is to let the AI loose on internal documentation, and to connect AI with internal software services via RAG technologies. Dedicated attackers *will* get deep access through convoluted attacks.