There are places in America where your rate goes up with consumption. Yes.

"We need to be open to admitting errors"

Well, most errors...

There are areas I drive through that if you stood on the side of the street and waved your hands, I would stomp on the gas and get out as fast as possible. You could be breakdancing on the sidewalk and I wouldn't stop.

My neighborhood? Sure. Your neighborhood? It depends.

It sounds very much like one of those I-heard-it-from-a friend who heard it from another friend stories at best. *IF* it did happen, I doubt it was the justification narrative being pushed here.

Since he has comprehensive backups, just restore them, and then realize unguided / non-sandboxed AI is dangerous, and move on. Why did the drive or folder have permissions to let the AI remove everything? Why were the policy's setup to allow it? If he doesn't have backups, who fault is that? This is yet again an example of a careless person, carelessly using, careless software. Since you're using driver letters, you're on Windows, which again, careless software, hosting careless software, executing careless software, ran by a careless user.

Dead on. The stuff that's the same is the party leaderships trying to keep us in line, to trust them wit the reins of power, finance their campaigns, vote for the incumbents or the approved candidates, and let them do what they want.

In the US, the two major parties are indistinguishable in intent, that is, to keep their jobs. Challengers are either vetted by the leaderships, and so are not really challengers but replacements, or they are hammered into submission, to serve the Uniparty.

For one party this is absolutely the goal and ambition of their rank and file, to see their 'leadership' prevail. For the other party, this is actually anathema, but the rank and file is not yet entirely aware of the process.

We will see which succeeds...

...me!

I can do that. $%**, I've deleted /, /root, /boot, that's easy.

Seriously, though, when the AI recognizes it is about to operate on a root folder, it should be directed to confirm this twice with the user. These AI coding agents will become useful, to me, when they help a user avoid errors.

The larger issue at hand is anything autonomous, that previously required people, taking up public resources that it does not contribute back to in any meaningful way.
The agreement should be that if Waymo is going to operate in a dense area like this, then they need to find a way to build out the infrastructure necessary to accommodate their usage of the system.
Same with data centers, same with all of it

I cannot see how that would be something you miss, it's so obvious that it must be a layered bug, that only happens due to other updates / drivers, etc... I feel bad whoever gets blamed. There's a bug on a local coffee businesses website, where if you're running Wayland, and you open the site on Firefox, it will be completely unusable, any other OS, or X11, it's fine. I've been in contact with them, gone over it with them, they have no idea why it's happening, that's the same kind of thing that's probably happening here.

They will dig a hole. They will put the tractor in the hole. They will not go back to the hole unless the reactor fails, or they shut it down.

When Martian dirt will do fine for shielding...

I hear these 'it's the oldest' and think to both the New Jersey POTS cable plant, and the horrors of maintaining wiring that Alex Bell installed. Or the joy of Parisian telephone cable plant, legendary for being unmanageable.

lest I forget, Jakarta and Manila vie for the worst overhead wiring in the world, sop dense and tangled it blots the sun in places. Ugh.

US-East-1/2 is just complex. And too important to rebuild.

A specific type of autism with tight control, sure, but generic over defined autism? Neurologists can tell why certain, narrow, specific seizure conditions set in and when, but not generic epilepsy. I'm not arguing that a specific, narrow condition can be pinpointed, but rather generic. Now, if you want the autism definition to be closed up and much more specific, I'm 100% all for that, but currently it's not.

You can be declared autistic for simply not liking eye contact. My younger daughter was diagnosed based off simple triggers, such as chew noises, eye contact, and light physical contact. I would not say she has autism, she just doesn't like loud boorish pigs, which is absolutely fine.

"a do no harm oath, just like most other industries"

Like which other industries?

First, an MBA is not an industry. Most likely they are not even industrialists. They are cogs in the machinery,

Second, again, what other industries have a 'do no harm oath'? Doctors claim to subscribe to this, Realtors purport to adhere to an ethical standard that could be confused with the do no harm mantra, Professional engineers have professional responsibilities to do work 'correctly', for lack of a better single word.

Do you think pharmaceutical researchers even bother with pretending to adhere to such an oath? recent experience would seem to deny this. Same for much of the food industry, certainly the financial industry (such so that we need copious law to restrict their behavior), and there are other examples. Even if you exclude sales, which if they followed such oaths would be in a position of serving two masters...

The premise is flawed, and demonstrably false. We wish everyone else treated us so, but in reality we often do not ourselves, out of self-interest. Which is sometimes understandable, and sometimes excusable. But not always.

We do not know that Autism sets in before birth, or, before brain development, and importantly, we do not know if you can develop it later on. I don't think any doctor would put aside the idea you can develop it during your early childhood. We know children can develop epilepsy, after birth, and in early childhood, and basically at any time, so why not Autism? That's objective, you can't absolutely state that we know when you “develop” autism, and that's important because it means there could be contributing factors. Does that mean I think vaccines are that contributing factor, no, there's been enough research to show the chance that vaccines could cause autism, or lead to it, is microscopically small.

That means you can't say for certain they don't, that's objective, it's a fact, you can't absolutely state we know they don't, again, you can't prove a negative. The first part of their statement is really just playing with that, and stating because we can't say it's absolutely a 0% chance, it's not 0, and that's fair, it's not 0, it could be (1 × 10^-10)%, but that's not 0. I developed a seizure condition as a teenager, no doctor can explain why, and I've seen 4 neurologists, since age 13. They have no idea, at all, why I have a seizure problem, MRI's can't show it, but you can watch me have a seizure. Since I have Asperger's, objectively, again, no doctor is going to state they absolutely know when I developed it. I know they won't, they can't tell me because the research doesn't exist.

Joe! for the win.