New York Put up readers hold forth about pay raises for state lawmakers.
William Farrington
Raises for pols
Even by New Yorkers’ low-grade expectations of their elected officers, Gov. Hochul’s help for Meeting and state Senate raises is astounding (“Kat: Sure, return & elevate your individual pay!” Dec. 10).
The governor, her predecessor and each Democratic legislative conferences have imposed the worst crime spree on our citizenry in many years —with no sanction.
Within the 5 boroughs, they’ve destroyed the attractive metropolis bequeathed to us by Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s management.
One legislator, referencing the possible raises, remarked “You get what you pay for.” I say, “We must always pay extra for this catastrophe?”
Jeffrey S. Wiesenfeld
Nice Neck
Robotic cop hazard
Wealthy Lowry takes the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to activity for reversing their determination to permit their police division to deploy killer robots underneath restricted circumstances (“Killer Robots? Hooray,” PostOpinion, Dec. 10).
He argues that concern is unwarranted and primarily based upon a century of fictional portrayals of robots gone amok. Three particular arguments are supplied: 1) Robots to this point haven't prompted any important issues. True. 2) Robots are very helpful instruments and, in some instances, robot-administered deadly drive has saved harmless lives. True. 3) “We're extraordinarily far-off from the time when robots obtain human-like autonomy, or when AI matches our intelligence.” Not so quick.
The I in AI normally is taken as human-like intelligence. Robotic autonomy and intelligence needn't be human-like, nor ought to we count on them to be so.
Like Thomas Nagel’s well-known bat, computer systems and robots might manifest each autonomy and intelligence in a way very alien and even incomprehensible to us. That makes them no much less harmful, and it isn't apparent that point of reckoning is way away.
Lawrence Bodenstein
Manhattan
Eatery group nix
I simply learn the article “Christian group denied service at Virginia restaurant over spiritual views” (Dec. 11).
The group ought to give up their bellyaching. If a baker can select to not make a cake for a same-sex couple, the identical might be mentioned for not being served at an institution that doesn’t agree with what that Christian group stands for.
I say this as a lifelong Catholic, but when we're going to be outraged by this, we additionally should keep in mind how the couple felt when that baker refused to make their cake.
Personally, as a businessman, the factor I’d care about is the underside line. However splitting hairs is how we bought to the place we're.
It’s time all of us cease this petty bickering and get again to issues that matter. Getting this nation again on monitor needs to be the one concern of each citizen of this once-great nation.
All of us must reside right here. Will we have to be depressing, too?
James Schwartz
Summit, NJ
Dems’ gun folly
I’d prefer to thank Kevin D. Williamson for getting on the fact on weapons in his piece “A Shot within the Darkish” (PostScript, Dec. 11).
President Biden, Gov. Hochul, Mayor Adams and their ilk appear to work exhausting at circumventing the legislation and inserting an array of obstacles and delays in entrance of their constituents. If solely they labored as exhausting on the true points successfully.
Possibly sometime legislators will study you may’t deter criminality by legislating in opposition to inanimate objects. Suppose Prohibition, medication, playing, and so forth.
With all their speak about areas turning into the Wild West, why don’t they again that up with proof and figures?
A. James Tortora
Staten Island
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