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49ers tight end George Kittle suffered a torn Achilles in Sunday's 23-19 wild-card win over the Philadelphia Eagles


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A Chinese billionaire was seeking parental rights to at least four unborn children, and the court’s additional research showed that he had already fathered or was in the process of fathering at least eight more—all through surrogates.

When Xu Bo was called in for a confidential hearing in the summer of 2023, he never entered the courtroom, according to people who attended the hearing. The maker of fantasy video games lived in China and appeared via video, speaking through an interpreter. He said he hoped to have 20 or so U.S.-born children through surrogacy—boys, because they’re superior to girls—to one day take over his business.

Several of his kids were being raised by nannies in nearby Irvine as they awaited paperwork to travel to China. He hadn’t yet met them, he told the judge, because work had been busy…

Some Chinese parents, inspired by Elon Musk’s 14 known children, pay millions in surrogacy fees to hire women in the U.S. to help them build families of jaw-dropping size. Xu calls himself “China’s first father” and is known in China as a vocal critic of feminism. On social media, his company said he has more than 100 children born through surrogacy in the U.S.

Another wealthy Chinese executive, Wang Huiwu, hired U.S. models and others as egg donors to have 10 girls, with the aim of one day marrying them off to powerful men, according to people close to the executive’s education company.

…“Elon Musk is becoming a role model now,” said Zhang. An increasing number of “crazy rich” clients are commissioning dozens, or even hundreds, of U.S.-born babies with the goal of “forging an unstoppable family dynasty,” he said.

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Some Questions

What are the implications of one NATO power hectoring another? Is it just diplomacy in public? 

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There is an argument that superintelligent AI would be able to utilize all the water, energy, and land, as well as minerals, in the world, so why would it allow humanity to have any for ourselves? Why wouldn’t it just take everything and let the rest of us starve?

But an AI that was able to rewrite its utility function would simply have no use for infinite water, energy, or land. If you can reengineer yourself to reach a bliss point, then local nonsatiation fails; you just don’t want to devour the Universe, because you don’t need to want that.

In fact, we can already see humanity trending in that direction, even without an AI-level ability to modify our own desires.

So, why do we assume that AI will be completely efficient and reasonable?

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Why is the lesson of Minneapolis not the confusion and inaccuracies of human plans and motives?

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The Left has a lot of opinions. Why the silence about the Iran situation?

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Nullification is the opposition of higher legal powers by lesser ones. It caused the Civil War. Our current efforts at nullification are the enforcement of immigration laws.

What other laws can we break with impunity?