One each of course, unless you believe consciousness is a quantum entanglement from when the blastocyst split.

I agree with all that (but can't up-vote you).

And how did Slashdot respond? Stagnation. I guess their poorly-received and reversed UI overhaul, and a smugness from being the first with a voting system, led them to believe that their system is perfect and should not be experimented with.

I see no good reason that the consciousness gap of a deep sleep and the same before revival as a simulation has to feel different.

That's why I don't buy the argument that cryogenics is a con because neurons get too damaged to ever work again. Just scan and simulate.

So the wealthy don't need scientists to get a move on. But they do risk being revived into a "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" dystopia.

Ironic that Google may be killed by a Google-developed technology (fast LLM).

What's in a name?

Do more people have the aptitude to be good software analysts than are also good at coding it up? If so, the AI revolution will definitely affect the value of coding skills.

Because of this I worry that my app, refactored and refined in features, UI, and code structure from a vague idea, will be quickly cloned by competitors using AI, and I'll get run over. Plus, it's easier to clone a Web app, because it has inspectable front-end mark-up, layout, and scripts.

OK, thanks.

I recently encountered this myself as a Chrome extension developer. They wanted photo ID, and a public support phone number (which I solved with a cheap SIM). I think the published address only applies to companies, but I'm not sure. Google's docs imply everyone, but I've read about an individual dev exception.

EU again.

Thanks. That's not nice.

Perhaps this is due to the new EU law that allows use of alternate payment processors. For example, Apple no longer forces app developers to use ApplePay with its 30% commission. But use of an alternative has a commission of 27%, which Apple can only enforce by having access to all incoming payments.

Could you explain "Google wanted too much access into my economics".

My high school's Apple ][ was in the maths staff room, and we had to have the courage to knock on the door to have it wheeled to a classroom to use over lunch. No after-school use. Had to go to computer retailers for that.

A bit of a dampener.

If the hard work is done off the clock away from an office, it's not the best when you're charging per hour.

Perhaps there needs to be a robots.txt flag that allows access to train an unreleased or a non-profit AI agent. If a company wants to release their AI agent, then they have to negotiate. This would allow access to both researchers and new/small AI companies, preventing dominance by the big guys, who've (in the normal tech way) got big by breaking or bending the law.

What could constitute stealing is if Google applies their new AI summaries to news. Then there's a stronger case for Google to pay the news organisations (and perhaps all other content providers).