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Marchello_E t1_jdw3ujt wrote

Yes, but the real question is: Who is to blame, who is thrown in jail, who get a fine?

Is Elon Musk to blame for the update? Is the bank to blame for allowing these online transactions.

The question is: is the person who instructed the AI to blame because the AI doesn't actually understand the implications of what it is doing, or is the actual AI to blame yet what happens to those who instructed the AI, or what if the AI is "glitching"?

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BrownMan65 t1_jdw2y0h wrote

>When Sirisena took office, Sri Lanka owed more to Japan, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank than to China. Of the $4.5 billion in debt service Sri Lanka would pay in 2017, only 5 percent was because of Hambantota.

Are you just knowingly not reading the article or the parts that I quoted? You're seriously mad at China for loaning money at a lower interest rate than every other country that loaned them money? Also their total debt to China is less than every other country. It's so obvious that you're just looking for any reason to hate on China instead of actual dealing with reality.

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BrownMan65 t1_jdvyeg1 wrote

>Our research shows that Chinese banks are willing to restructure the terms of existing loans and have never actually seized an asset from any country, much less the port of Hambantota.

>In Hambantota, instead of waiting for phase 1 of the port to generate revenue as the Ramboll team had recommended, Mahinda Rajapaksa pushed ahead with phase 2, transforming Hambantota into a container port. In 2012, Sri Lanka borrowed another $757 million from China Eximbank, this time at a reduced, post-financial-crisis interest rate of 2 percent. Rajapaksa took the liberty of naming the port after himself.

>When Sirisena took office, Sri Lanka owed more to Japan, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank than to China. Of the $4.5 billion in debt service Sri Lanka would pay in 2017, only 5 percent was because of Hambantota.

Yes. The current state of Sri Lanka is due to shitty leadership and even shittier loans from basically everyone but China.

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SAGreer t1_jdvye6y wrote

Wow - I had never done that before. It’s pretty wild.

Here’s the summary I got:

The article discusses how the tech industry's drive to optimize engagement and revenue is causing harm to users and the internet as a whole. It argues that tech giants like Google, Facebook, and Amazon are among the worst offenders, using manipulative design tactics and invasive data collection to keep users hooked and maximize profits. The article suggests that the tech industry needs to prioritize ethical design principles and user privacy to prevent further damage to the internet and its users.

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