It doesn't say anything about being clean.

Studies show that MANY people get more done in the office. They're not anxiously looking at the clock to see when they can bolt out so they can get on with their real lives, and they don't burn out from commuting.

I've been saying this for literal decades, since the 90s, honestly: people at Microsoft AREN'T stupid, so when they do stupid things, it's ON PURPOSE.

Someone has read all the same evidence I have and they've determined that they'd rather have people LESS productive but MORE under control. Maybe it's a loyalty test. One way or another, they know that they could get the same (or more! People that work from home do a lot of free work, like answering emails outside of office hours) work out of remote folks, but they're dead set against it.

Every bad OS decision, everything that is bad for users, every stupid ad campaign, every employee-hostile directive. They really just don't care about people at all.

It just goes to show you, there's none more gullible than the paranoid.

You say it was an echo chamber but remember how much Donald Trump used it? Everybody used it.

Granted that was falling apart by the end of Trump's term and he was banned for comments relating to Jan 6.

He said "helped issue in" so it's quite plausibly correct. Lots of groups probably helped.

The problem is that an AI will "confidently lie", in a convincing way. It's a real problem, and that's why the submitter MUST remain responsible.

If, as seems probable, AI improves over the next few years, then that responsibility may be relocated, but not yet

The Gulf of Mexico is what the rest of the world calls it. Wikipedia isn't only for Americans, and America isn't the only place in the world.

Look how twitter got destroyed as a common medium for communication, with no replacement. X (right) and Bluesky (left) together are not a replacement for what twitter used to be. Now wikipedia as a store of knowledge goes the same route? Can't we just have one reality, but have different opinions about it?

Or laundering.

Some people make real money in this "market," or try to. Check this out:

I Spent 24 Hours with CS2 Millionaires

I'm not saying any of this is real, but I bet some sizable purchases have been driven by dreams of such.

Cockroaches!

Already 100 million years old when those johnny-come-lately dinosaurs came along.

I guess Pokeman cards were just too tangible.

How are they supposed to detect whether AI was used or not? This is pretty much a forced move. The key part is that the developer still has full responsibility.

I'm not American, but I know there already is an asteroid defence programme. I was listening to people involved in it on a podcast, Science Friday, the other week. Interesting stuff.

On the 2.5Bn years bit - yes, but don't start don't finish. We have no idea how long it will take to develop the techniques required for this, and there will always be a good reason to put it off until tomorrow. Needs to start and just become so embedded over time that future generations don't even question why we're doing it - it's just patently obvious to them. Won't happen in my lifetime, but then a lot of things won't happen in my lifetime that are getting worked on today and that's fine.

There's often a "we should fix problems on earth before looking to space" theme. We can be as equal, progressive and fair as we like and an asteroid still wouldn't give a damn and wipe us out anyway. Should we survive asteroid attacks, the sun will expand and burn the planet dry anyway.

We have to do both. Defence of the Earth (dramatic phrase, but see subject above...) has to be studied, funded and run. Along side that a long, probably multigenerationally long, programme of "how do we survive when the Earth is uninhabitable" including the ability to leave Earth and live elsewhere. These programmes are fundamental to long term survival of the human race.

I think one of the problems is that it all sounds very dramatic, big and sci-fi. But it isn't - we have direct evidence that the risk already materialised once and wiped out most life. We also have evidence of the expansion of the sun. All these things are certain, so we have to look at them as reality and not fiction.