It pretty obviously is one. But who is really the governing authority to make it official?

[mimes bong hit]

So whether it’s acceptable depends on whether it’s acceptable. I agree!

I’m glad you’re entertaining yourself because I have no idea what you’re prattling about.

When men were men and TVs were shit.

Heh - first one I saw was literally a little suitcase you’d open up with the handset inside. Then they were built into cars for a while. Only THEN came the handheld brick ;D

It still is, people are just offending at a high rate.

Where did it go?

91% accuracy is the kind of thing that may sound good… hey! It’s an A minus! But it’s actually completely, totally unacceptable. Imagine if the turn signal wand on your car operated with 91% accuracy. About one in every ten times it would light up the wrong direction. How many accidents are we causing? A lot.

If you ban religion AI will become people’s God.

Say more here. It’s an interesting claim. Why do you see this as inevitable? I’m an atheist and AI has not become my god.

If you could ban religion, or ban AI, which would you ban?

Try it. All we have here is someone with a very accommodating employer. It’s not like all Unitarians everywhere now have some court judgment backing them.

But did you type that on your thinking machine?

I’m pretty sure that in Dune, all computers are banned, not just AI. You can’t even have a ship with a navigation computer.

There were already 100 reasons why the Unitarians are where it’s at.

But I really don’t think this is reason 101. All we have here is someone who asked their employer for this and was fortunate enough to have it granted.

That means nothing for anyone else. There is not some national law that all Unitarians have this protected right now.

So yeah… you might as well try on grounds that it offends Allah, because you’ll have the same odds.

“You can now get an exemption” is a huge overstatement.

Someone in North Carolina asked for it and happened to get it from her employer. That does not provide any firm basis for anyone else to follow. Any of us could have tried this last month with the same odds we have now.

That probably helps them waste less of their own time too. When bringing someone in to interview actually costs money, you’re mote careful about it, doing more to vet people in the earlier stages. Less “let’s bring them in and see.”

I don’t see this as stopping H1-Bs. I see this as “I want a cut of that action.”

It is, but it doesn’t make it any better for Trump to get a cut of the action. That’s all this would do.

Agreed - it was so obvious it didn’t take much work to name it.

Yup. Also traditional: the blind hypocrisy of using a tech product that routes through a data center to call for a total ban on data centers.