I will be surprised if the climate crisis doesn’t eventually escalate to the point where basically everyone agrees that geoengineering of some kind is worth the risk.
Nah, if it hadn't been for the SCO lawsuit, BSD would have taken Linux's place. The main difference would have been that copyleft licenses probably wouldn't have gotten much traction.
Technocrats shouldn't be popularly elected. Someone like RFK Jr. would be more likely to end up in a top position under popular election, not less likely. The American public does not generally respect expertise, but politicians mostly did until quite recently (with a few exceptions like climate change).
Mastodon loves to tout its technical decentralization but it's one of the most politically and culturally monolithic (and intolerant) spaces I've ever seen.
I can confirm it with my mother, but this is what happened to the best of my recollection. You can fuck right off with your accusation that I am fabricating this story.
I was just out of college and I believe I was involved in all conversations with the care team. My sister suffered from a rare congenital condition (MPS, Morquio syndrome) which among myriad other complications involved arthritis in the hips. (Something I didn't mention is that she was expected to live less than a decade after the surgery, which proved roughly accurate.) The surgeon was willing to discuss risk vs. benefit (although absolutely not quantitatively), but only after we brought it up after the anesthesiologist approached us. It was never discussed beforehand, to the best of my recollection.
Many years ago I was attending pre-surgery for a hip replacement surgery for my sister, who had known severe reactions to anesthesia (actually required a tracheotomy for a previous reaction). The anesthesiologist asked to speak to us privately and informed us that in their opinion, my sister had maybe a 1/3 chance of not surviving the surgery. They also mentioned that this was a breach of protocol and they could get in trouble for talking to us directly, but their conscience wouldn't let them do otherwise. We returned and asked the surgeon if they really thought the risk justified any potential benefit. The surgeon shrugged and said "probably not, feel free to call it off". Keep in mind that nobody on the care team had previously discussed any risk or indeed any tradeoffs whatsoever. This was at one of the best-regarded children's hospitals in the USA.
The lesson for me is that you must advocate for yourself and your loved ones in the medical system, because doctors will not do it for you; they may not even perform the most basic risk assessments. And you have to try to quantify risk yourself, because doctors will refuse to give you the slightest hint of any number attached to risk (I know, I've tried many times).
Amazon is not "meaningfully in inference"? Bedrock seems to have a ton of enterprise customers, some of which would never trust the AI labs themselves with their data but will trust Amazon.