The common element is that everyone adapts to society at large.

There are churches where people have had round-the-clock vigils for over a century.

All cardinalities equal to or greater than that of the natural numbers.

Humans are to cats as cars are to humans: similar difference in weight and size, similar (if not greater) danger—but we walk around them because we’re used to them and we think we can predict them well enough. And because we’re often going to the same places.

I think machines have replaced the role of the chorus in classical Greek tragedies. Everyone knows they’re not supposed to represent individual people—they’re just the personification of social expectations and unconscious norms.

When rich people dine, they bill it to the shareholders.

The owners of other robots.

That’s what gives us “educated guesses”.

I would say that those are separate qualities: if someone had their memory erased, they could lose their knowledge and understanding without losing their intelligence or wisdom. (Intelligence isn’t unrelated, though—it’s what produces understanding from knowledge.)

When you understand something, you can deduce related information without having memorized it—so understanding increases your total capacity for knowledge. It’s like a knowledge compression algorithm.

It’s exactly analogous to an audio three-band graphic equalizer: if you were deaf and could only detect sound by looking at the equalizer display, you couldn’t distinguish between someone playing through the full scale and someone playing a single three-note chord while adjusting the volumes of the low, mid, and high notes.

Anticipating this, the people controlling the AI would wait until just before the halfway point, then put out a statement from the “president” declaring the VP a traitor and demanding Congress impeach him. If the VP tried to expose the AI after that, it would be dismissed as an attempt at retribution.

Or 5/9 of the Supreme Court.

They’d need to ensure the cooperation of the VP, who could otherwise become president by exposing the scheme.

If other animals had cash to spend we’d figure out ways of marketing to them too.

They’re not breaking their clients out of jail, they‘re just collecting and presenting any evidence that conflicts with the prosecution’s narrative. Juries and judges depend on someone performing that role so they can make an informed decision.

True—but it’s not “intervention” when it’s doing what they want.

(American) libertarians believe all the ills of modern capitalism ultimately stem from state intervention, while anarchists believe they stem from hierarchical relationships between people.

They realized it was a mistake after they killed the first messenger to show how badass they were, and then couldn’t get any volunteers to carry that message back to the original party.

Celebrities tend to have very unpredictable cash flows, but most things the wealthy spend money on (including local investments, etc.) come with loans that need to be paid regularly.