X's pay-to-win approach (buy Premium or shout into the void) is coming back to bite them.

A counter to the buggy and hard to maintain problems with AI code is that it allows entrepreneurs to quickly bootstrap their business with a good-enough solution, then use the revenue or investment that it attracts to hire humans to redo the code properly. So freelancer sites can profit from this second wave. But they do lose all the business writing software that commercially fails.

Are humans going to fight back by reducing their source-available code, putting it behind bot-proof walls, or poisoning the well by sprinkling in some incorrect code?

Rare earths also make drone electric motors much more efficient. Plus there's China's dominance in lithium batteries. So China could really hurt Ukraine by shutting off their supply of drone motors and batteries. They might threaten this if they look like getting hit with sanctions for buying Russian oil. So they may escape these sanctions while India still gets hit.

One each of course, unless you believe consciousness is a quantum entanglement from when the blastocyst split.

I agree with all that (but can't up-vote you).

And how did Slashdot respond? Stagnation. I guess their poorly-received and reversed UI overhaul, and a smugness from being the first with a voting system, led them to believe that their system is perfect and should not be experimented with.

I see no good reason that the consciousness gap of a deep sleep and the same before revival as a simulation has to feel different.

That's why I don't buy the argument that cryogenics is a con because neurons get too damaged to ever work again. Just scan and simulate.

So the wealthy don't need scientists to get a move on. But they do risk being revived into a "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" dystopia.

Ironic that Google may be killed by a Google-developed technology (fast LLM).

What's in a name?

Do more people have the aptitude to be good software analysts than are also good at coding it up? If so, the AI revolution will definitely affect the value of coding skills.

Because of this I worry that my app, refactored and refined in features, UI, and code structure from a vague idea, will be quickly cloned by competitors using AI, and I'll get run over. Plus, it's easier to clone a Web app, because it has inspectable front-end mark-up, layout, and scripts.

OK, thanks.

I recently encountered this myself as a Chrome extension developer. They wanted photo ID, and a public support phone number (which I solved with a cheap SIM). I think the published address only applies to companies, but I'm not sure. Google's docs imply everyone, but I've read about an individual dev exception.

EU again.

Thanks. That's not nice.

Perhaps this is due to the new EU law that allows use of alternate payment processors. For example, Apple no longer forces app developers to use ApplePay with its 30% commission. But use of an alternative has a commission of 27%, which Apple can only enforce by having access to all incoming payments.

Could you explain "Google wanted too much access into my economics".

My high school's Apple ][ was in the maths staff room, and we had to have the courage to knock on the door to have it wheeled to a classroom to use over lunch. No after-school use. Had to go to computer retailers for that.

A bit of a dampener.