It sounds like you two have a lot in common.

Does anyone still take 'non-profit' as a legitimate meaning anymore? So many are usually scams that it is just a big red flag now.

I guess now everyone will be acting like sue it or lose it because penalizing continued wrong-doing now has a time limit from the starting date of the initial wrong-doing.

So in what way is Musk a "horrible human being?"

You are missing the big picture.

Living in the stone age, or even the middle ages, was awful by all these metrics. The rise of tech in general has put food in the mouths of more people than ever before, cured and treated more diseases than ever before, created a world with greater equality than ever before.

Were women more or less equal to men during the stone age? Back when tribes traded women for pigs and fish-nets, and women never held positions of leadership, nor did women bring providence to a family. Men did all that. Now, women can get the same education, jobs, positions of leadership men can. Technology has overwhelmingly equalized us in this regard.

I could go on but I shouldn't need to. You are using the Internet, probably from an air conditioned building, with immediate access to fresh fruit all year round, probably own a car, probably take showers every day, probably have medical insurance. You live better than the wealthiest kings in the world lived just a few centuries ago. And here you are taking an antitech position about a new means of labor automation.

I realize that AI threatens our sense of job security and that can be frightening. But if we can find our courage we can see it as another link in a very long chain that has done tremendous good for our species and promises to do even more.

Banning powerful tech just ensures that your competitors have it and you don't.

Humans are fraudulent, immoral, and dangerous. The AI industry is no different than any other industry in that regard. As Alfred Whitehead famously wrote (paraphrased) "All great ideas enter into the world with disgusting alliances."

AI is just a new tool for us to use. How we use it is up to us. The fact that some will misuse it does not negate the benefits that others could bring by using it well.

Interesting. So, would you be happy to join a community of savages living only on stone-age tech, for the rest of your life and your children's lives?

Or do the problems solved by tech justify the ones it creates?

We KNOW what will happen if we stop creating new technologies: nothing. All the problems of our day just stagnate and us along with it, and nothing gets better. World poverty? Stays. Inequality? Stays. War and famine and disease and etc? Keeps right on chuggin. Everything we hate about our existence and our species continues to dominate our lives which remain short. And then we drive ourselves into extinction.

New technologies are the only game-changers we have. Literally everything else has been attempted before and failed. It's new tech, or bust.

We "boo" AI because we fear that it will eliminate our jobs, and thus leave us poor and unemployable. I can certainly understand why we don't want to be poor and unemployable. So, that just means we are all going to have to figure out how to build a better world using this new tech.

This happened before, and it WAS hard, and there were Luddites. But we left the Luddites behind and built a better world. Now, we can do that again.

The cat is out of the bag. AI will not go away no matter how much we boo it. The wise will stop wasting their breath and start adapting. And that includes adapting our political climate through the application of political pressure (not to halt progress, but to find equitable ways to utilize AI).

They're modding you down because it's beyond stupid.

- There is no such thing as zero emissions ICE. A combustion reaction, by definition, yields water and carbon dioxide at the very least, with the sole exception of hydrogen, which is just water. However, hydrogen fuel cell is NOT combustion, it's done using reduction to get a more direct conversion to electricity by shedding electrons.
- Tire particulates are heavier than air, which means they can't contribute to smog in any meaningful capacity. Furthermore, this is also a solvable problem, both in theory and in practice, namely through materials science. The tires on my Tesla will outlast the tires on your sister's Pinto, without even needing thicker tread, with the added benefit of yielding better range. This comes mostly from reduced rolling resistance. And that's to say nothing of recent developments expected to reduce if not eliminate the use of petrochemicals in tires.
- People who one-pedal drive, which is most EV drivers, barely use their brakes at all, with some having had their breaks seize up from literally not using them enough.

"Wokepedia" has a nicer ring.

The very same attitude that closed down the schools "until it's safe" despite some places sending their kids to school in the middle of literal war zones on account of schooling is *that* important.

The utility company should lose all protections and subsidies of being a public utility.

Corporations are pushing hard, residents will eventually break, and as another commented not far above said - a small revolution will occur that is not going to go well for those data centers.

You can buy a lot of e-books DRM free, legally, on ebooks.com. They even have a filter so you can search only for DRM-free ebooks.

I have seen something similar doing interviews to hire new software developers before and during the pandemic. Some of the applicants had very high GPA but still couldn't solve relatively simple problems. They could answer questions about coding and algorithms make easy modifications to existing code, and they could even write new code so long as it was at "script kiddy" level of difficulty. But they couldn't think through a novel problem (even problems that don't require specialized API knowledge or advanced math or anything like that).

My belief is that, at that time, software engineering was being billed out as a lucrative career and there was a lot of "push" from the industry to get more kids interested. So colleges dumbed down the curriculum and just lowered the bar all-around, to scoop up all that student loan money. And the result was a whole generation of debt-ridden young adults with degrees but no skills.

If the situation is still like that, I can see why nobody wants to hire these kids. I wouldn't know, since my employer hasn't hired anyone since the pandemic either. And with the possibility that the existing team can use AI to be just as effective without hiring those kids, nobody wants to do it. Not, at least, until something forces their hand.