The problem with AI is that initially it seems astonishing, but ongoing inspection often reveals that feeling to be a superficial one, as the number of ways and times it will generate something "meh" are non-trivial.

Perhaps there is going to be some point where that becomes untrue, but I don't see much evidence for it. Ongoing progress in things like self-driving seem increasingly incremental.

Have you tried visiting Twitter after hanging out on Bluesky for a while? OMG, it feels like a dystopia. Was it always that bad and did I just forget, or has it gotten that much worse since I left?

Depends on if the country has oil.

Oh good, for a moment there I thought you were going to blame DEI.

Just remember: This upcoming AI may very well be a friend, teammate or collaborator. But it will be to the corporation that creates it, not to you.

Just like with current tech companies, their business partners and advertisers will be their customers. You will still be the product, but with the creepiness factor cranked up by an order of magnitude.

It seems like you could do it with any decent firewall easily enough. Certainly on any of the popular Unixlikes it would be reasonably trivial.

False. I need to change too, but the whole system is set up to make that inconvenient, so I require systemic change before I will be able to do so. For example, I cannot stress enough how much I want to switch every vehicle in our little fleet over to electric, but it's practical for 0 of the vehicles for me right now. I can't charge them, I can't afford them, etc etc.

I care because I want to look critically at what they did and use the parts that make sense, and I want to know what they thought about both those parts as well as the other parts so I can more easily learn from it. Not enough to spend a lot of time reading about it, though, so obviously I don't care personally and only in principle. Every so often I go off on a tear about some particular subject and learn about what they thought about that, but it's not a hobby.

What matters more than what they did is what we need to do now. This is a different time. We should probably do many things differently. This first past the post voting thing is bananas, as is the undemocratic system of not counting our votes for president individually.

Substances most people do not regard as addictive (weed) or inherently dangerous (alcohol) are viewed as both by the Federal and most State criminal justice systems.

It's not true anyway, different constitutional rights have been held to have differing scope. The 1A has long been considered to cover actual people from anywhere, but not so much for corporations. There's not one standard for them and never has been.

Did the founders follow the process in breaking away from England? There was no process that would work for that, so no.

Did the founders foresee that we might have to have a revolution every few generations? Yep, some of them wrote about it explicitly.

I guess Boeing was too cheap to do any audits on the work Spirit was doing. Audits don't bring profits.

Looks like car manufacturing is doing just fine in the UK. https://www.reuters.com/busine...

Everything in NYC is expensive, as is with every major city. You think it's cheap to build something in Orlando or Dallas?

Japan has a work ethic like no other country. But this work ethic is slowly killing the country with the elderly starting to outnumber the young workers. The country is having negative population growth and its literally paying families to have children. https://japannews.yomiuri.co.j... It's no surprise the typical business worker doesn't have time for a family. You spend all day working and then go out every night to get shit faced with your boss.

Keep blaming victims, it will cause change ANY DAY NOW

What if the work was done in a non union shop?