You can always tell boomers because they are obsessed with asset value.

Who cares if your battery gets swapped out? Whenever you get low on charge you swap and it's a neverending cycle. They already have this in China, an advanced country, for electric scooters. The batteries are all the same and when you get low you can recharge or stop at a swap station and put your current one in and get another fully charged one out.

Huh, what are the odds that MIT releases yet another paper with subjective contrarian views on productivity with AI?

There is a MASSIVE conflict of interest with these MIT papers here, and nobody's calling it out.
So yeah, okay, sure, MIT thinks:

  - AI makes you dumber (with methodology nobody without a dedicated lab can duplicate)
  - 95% of ai projects fail (using extremely rigid metrics and ignoring norms in the larger industry to reach conclusions, while including prototypes and showboat projects nobody else ever consider "enterprise" level)
  - AI makes you a worse student (soapboxing, with no repeatable methodology at at all)

And now...
  - Talked to some people, and discovered that AI doesn't actually make you more productive at coding.

Are you seeing the theme here?
No? Okay, let me spell it out for you.

This is agenda driven blogging, not science.
And you shouldn't believe any of it.

So will cameras in your bedroom. (and create a wonderful new side industry for the government selling access).

Also, letting the cops get DNA of everyone in the US will also help you stop crimes. (and cause quite a few divorces).

Furthermore, letting the government read the emails of all businesses will cut down on fraud. (And hurt all those small companies trying to compete with the big ones).

There a ton of ways to reduce crime while doing tremendous damage to innocent people.

I assumed you were not an idiot. Because if you knew it is possible to add an AI via an extension, then you knew your proposed solution would not work. You knew that removing the AI functionality would not stop other people from adding AI back in.

Which was why Firefox put in a button that lets you know the AI is off.

Congratulations for insulting me for thinking you were not an idiot.

When the company has an ongoing cost - such as they have to make new content every year, then it makes sense for you to pay an ongoing cost each month.

But when the company has no mandatory ongoing cost it makes ZERO sense to pay them rent.

And fixing the mistakes in their software is not a mandatory ongoing cost. It is at best an optional one - and by some standards should be free. When you are fixing your mistakes you do not charge others for it.

The issue is that crappy companies that made sucky products saw people getting paid each month - without realizing they were doing work each month. They wanted this 'better' business model without realizing the extra costs. So they said screw it they won't pay the extra costs.

Any company trying to get into the subscription business without doing monthly work is a scumbag company that should be rejected.

That includes many car companies. Seat heaters, radios, etc. are not things we subscribe to - they are things we buy.

And yes, you can buy a seat heater that sits on top of your car seat and plugs into your car.

Bad idea. You are assuming all AI will be in one extension and that no one unconnected to Firefox will create other extensions.

Better for Firefox to assume there will be multiple AI extensions and to design the browser to turn off all AI, not just the one extension they know about.

Yes, this depends on extension builders to abide by the rules, but that always is a requirement.

The best way to try this would be to build an Electric Bus company and also build stations designed to replace the Bus battery.

Then sell both to cities. Once you have the stations up and running, offer deals to car companies to use the same station for free. (The car companies get the service for free, the car owners would have to pay to replace the battery)

But trying to build a battery replacement system when cars are not designed to have their batteries replaced is stupid.

Why aren't you cheering? The Trumptards are getting what they voted for, good and hard. Oh, how we will all laugh the next time a hurricane blows down the McMansions of these racist science-hating rebels

. We can even have FEMA mark any house with a Trump yard sign off-limits and refuse to give federal disaster assistance, like they did under Biden.

trumptards don't believe in welfare, remember?

It takes skill to mess up a firewall so that it kills 2 people.

Not everyone can be that incompetent.

As it has been for the past 200 years.

The issue with AI has always been people projecting the interesting but easy gains we have had for the past 5 years to amazing sci-fi stuff that is likely impossible.

That does not mean AI will not be worthwhile - but if so it is likely going to be in niche uses that people do not expect. Maybe it is going to be essential for certain chemical processes. Or for detecting fraud.

AGI and similar ideas are not being worked on at all. Or anything close to it. We are basically learning how to make naval ships, and people are thinking that faster than light travel is just around the corner.

They won't and the companies don't care. The plan is to just pay millions of dollars to poach the lucky few from their competitors.

Are you sure that there wasn't a manager directing the actions of the low-level people?

There is already a multi-state compact that would provide a Electoral college vote that represents the vote of the population:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

But this will never happen, because the rural states with outsized representation will never give up their power.

Unqualified? Exactly what were Trump's qualifications in 2016? Frittering away daddy's money and bankrupting a bunch of casinos while ripping off ordinary tradesmen?

You don't care about qualifications.

There is only one pre-election promise that Trump has kept. It's to do with kicking darker-skinned people out of the USA and that's why MAGA remains faithful.