I'm glad I finished school before the AI era—I put an em dash and a semicolon in the same sentence at least twice in a given paper; this would get flagged every flipping time nowadays.
Sadly strategic poverty only works against those who want to make you buy something. It does very little (and in fact may make things worse) against actors who want to know if they should target you for not being white/straight/wealthy, etc.
I'm curious if there's a reason for an outright ban vs simply imposing a premium on the hardware and/or the gas. Why not just level the playing field? Some board members are in favor of it, so it seems possible. Perhaps market it as a smog tax. (Which you don't have to apply to vehicles, but could later on down the line. And yes, that's basically a carbon tax by another name.)
On the other hand, I do obviously agree though that health should be considered a big cost as well. Public education is paramount, and this is a prime example of why.
Similar to what Birch said, invest locally. It has a way higher chance of being used responsibly and you might even get to see the positive effects firsthand.
Upvoted because I'm all but certain this is sarcasm flying under the radar. Like, I've seen you around (your name name is pretty hard to forget), and generally you have good takes. Chaotic, but that's not a bad thing.
Semi-unrelated thought—I think UV lightsabers would be freakin' neat, especially when they make stuff glow. Like, if Batman was a Jedi, I think he would have the UV lightsaber. Infrared could have some weird properties too.
Pro tip: the multiple of ten dosages (10, 20, etc) tend to go out of stock faster as psychiatrists' brains like round numbers as much as anyone else's. Since I've switched to 25mg and my wife to 15mg, we've only run into stocking issues maybe twice a year.
I think you may be confusing "getting money from the government" and "taking money from the government."
See also: "Receiving contracts from the government for work that will not be completed."