It's never stopped them before, why now?

Windows update has been breaking itself as long as it's existed.

There were a bunch of bots on Twitter before, there's more now. Is that fine?

There were a bunch of independent journalists on Twitter before, they're on Bsky now, is that fine for Twitter?

There were a bunch of advertisers on Twitter before, some of the biggest have left, is that fine?

I don't think I EVER used a dictionary word for a password, even for my own systems. OTOH, I did write it down on in a notebook, and hide it.

I doubt that he's worried about that particular problem. Managing turf fights is difficult enough. It it were only about technical issues, Unix would never have faded.

Go could easily be a better choice, if only it could be documented with Doxygen.
I really want to like go, but the documentation system is ... lets be kind and say unpleasant.

I think that if you're interfacing with hardware the "unsafe" blocks are often going to be necessary. Which, of course, eliminates much of the reason to use rust in the first place.

OTOH, I'm NOT an expert in this field. This is based of encounters with attempts to "make code safe" multiple decades ago.

How about no thanks? Why would I want that? Commercial software is one thing, commercial OS underneath it? No thanks.

It's just too easy to do with modern technology, if you start then it doesn't ever stop. Also, no guarantees killing just that guy will have the results you're looking for.

90%? Did you pick that number specifically to be absurd? Or were you trying to make a point about the highest tax bracket previously being 90%, and you thought you were setting a trap? Because the CEOs would still go play golf and eat steak dinners and fuck expensive prostitutes even if they got taxed 90%, and the rest of us who make much less and have less to tax in the first place could pay a significantly lower rate like we do now. They would still make way more than the rest of us, and do less work than most of us.

It isn't, though. Everywhere in the world expects able people to work, whether or not their work is necessary or beneficial. Some societies have more of a hard-on about it than others, and it's true that the USA is over at the needless end of the spectrum among developed nations, but we have company over here as well.

It will never be ready, because we cannot yet conceive of how that will/would change things. There are always unforeseen and/or unappreciated consequences.

If AGI is cooperative, then it will be the ultimate optimizer. But there's simply no way to guarantee that. If the goal is to make it smarter than humans so it can do things better, how do you contain it? We can't contain humans, they keep getting into systems they aren't supposed to.

The status quo is shit.

Talking heads spewing sensationalism while refusing to actually call things what they are is not in any way helpful.

Attacking the institution of journalism won't help with that. Eliminating journalism is not what is called for.

A lot of players want this. Consider the popularity of the variously overlapping mining, exploration, and survival genres. A lot of these have procedurally generated content now, and this is just another form of that.

The real concern is as always that it will eliminate jobs and be used instead of human labor, which then gets into talking about our social and economic systems and whether they make sense going forwards. And not enough people seem to be ready for that discussion to make it worth having, especially when there are other immediately pressing issues. But you can't solve the AI taking creative jobs problem by hoping it won't happen.

0. I love capitalism! I have all the cool toys with my tech job money.
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6. This endless running of a rat race for the basic essentials of life while the owners buy multiple yachts solely so that they do not have to wait for their boat to get someplace before they fly out to it when they want to do a weekend on it in another specific country isn't healthy, is it?

Once upon a time, businesses had longevity, so at least there was stability. Now they are bought and sold and headcount reduced at the whim of corporate raiders.

The money in US$ has value because April 15 is coming up. The consensus is just an acknowledgement of that.

The thing is, data is extremely valuable, but only when it's relevant. And whether it's relevant or not depends on not only the data, but what you're trying to do.

Data without relevance is just "pink noise".