I am talking about Bezos in the exact sense, that as any developed human individual, he needs to feel useful, which is what motivates him, because clearly it is not money that is his motivation. You added the 'virtuous' part, which is why you started on the path of class division. I did not prescribe a moral aspect to his behavior, only the fact that he is moved to do more than just enjoy his leisure, this has no relation to him being virtuous, this has to do with him losing himself without work.

At this point it's not a question of if we are screwing whales, it's how and how much. Between noise from shipping and sonar, fishing, whaling, general pollution, micro plastics, and climate change, we aren't doing them any favours.

They would rather not sell you a car. More profitable to sell you a loan to buy a car, or even better just lease it to you for a monthly fee, then take it back and sell it to someone else, maybe in a different market.

List prices are mostly to deter people buying those cars, but at least in the UK if you look around you can usually get them with a very hefty discount. Mine was about 30% off.

I agree, I have not used a diagramming tool that is as easy to use as a sketch pad

Speaking of drafting, I worked for a highway design company as a surveyor and draftsman. In those days they expected you to hand-letter professionally or use the Leroy Set

That is what drove me to CAD systems, and come to think of it, they had drawing tablets attached, with integrated menus/macros for formulae etc...

I wonder why they have not reached general usage

AI is some sort of technology, whoever develops this technology better wins something supposedly. Governments have nothing to do with this, technology doesn't belong to the governments.

we are talking about different things. You are talking about class division, all of this, I am talking about a person who does not have to work and yet he does it because he wants to, yes, but personally for him there is nothing to be gained except more headache, it is not about earning more, it is about doing something with yourself.

I am saying that doing something is an important part of living, doing something useful, where you feel useful, this is what this example shows.

Certainly, if you worked as an office cleaner most of your life, probably you will not be missing that work if you were able to get a pension and stop working, but I think you will still be missing the entire aspect of being useful in a wider sense of the word.

I think what makes us people is desire to be useful, doesn't matter how much money you make. I think people who do not have that desire are actually less than developed people.

How about Art class? Do they still teach that, or was it dropped to meet some testing requirement?

I taught myself calligraphy, and never use cursive unless it is for that purpose

While I agree that the act of writing does improve memory, this is far outweighed by the inability to quickly search handwritten notes

I used to use legal pads for contemporaneous notes taken during projects, but found them to be relatively worthless because they are not searchable

Learning to touch type, in a manner that allows for recording of statements in a searchable format is VASTLY superior

Focus on the future, not the past

I would rather they spent time learning Civics, and actually understand what the Constitution means, rather than just sticking a miniature copy in their pocket

It would be the human who submitted the AI code who is on the hook.

All those things could be true about human generated code too.

My point is that a guy with all the money still chooses to do it, shows that people lose themselves when they have nothing to do that involves more than just enjoyment.

The US was doing weapons tests in space before China even got past the KÃrmÃn line. That's some Israeli level arbitrary cut-off dating there.

Just shows that there is no amount of money that replaces some sort of meaning in one's life. Bezos will treat any business correctly, obviously he will be looking for maximum efficiency, which is not easy to do when you are a billionaire, after all, any issues that can be sold by throwing money at it he can really solve this way, which may be the wrong approach for a new business that needs to become useful by standing on its own 2 legs.

But it is just interesting to observe, a guy with all the money and access, he still wants to spend time working rather than enjoying yet another sunny day on one of his yachts.