in addition to what you listed, there's also issue with ownership. you don't own something because a blockchain says you do. you own shares because there's a record of YOU in the company records (they know who to send dividends to, and who to gather votes from to elect the board). most folks own shares in street-name, so the company sees Fidelity (or whoever is your broker) as the "owner"... fidelity passes on dividends, and makes you do proxy voting.

In this case, you're just swapping a regulated broker (like Fidelity, or even Robinhood) for some unknown "broker" who will actually be the "owner", and you really can't do anything outside of that "broker" anyway, with blockchain or not. it's still centralized at that broker level... who will probably get the voting rights (and perhaps dividends?) without the actual risk of paying for the shares Hmm.. I wonder if that's part of the scam (e.g. tokenized shares don't get voting rights, since they're not really "owners"---not sure about dividends----who would the company send the check to?).

This piece of shit will generate SO MANY LAWSUITS.

I suspect it will use your own words against you :-)

Exactly. The real story is that an-app that manages "a few dozen games" takes *seconds* to load on modern hardware. Seriously---the computer can do billions of operations per second per core, has at least a dozen cores, gigabytes of ram, SSDs that can pull at least a gig of data in a second... ...and it takes them *seconds* to load?

Why isn't this instantaneous, or rather, faster than a blink of an eye? It should take longer to lift the finger from clicking the mouse than for this "manager of a dozen games" to load.

I think what's unsettling is that AIs are initiating an arms race: AI attack was analyzed (and probably patched) via AI.

Evolutionary pressure: long term (few years?), agents at various places will evolve a kind-of immune system solely to defend against other agents from taking advantage of them... Humans will just be observers by that point, powerless to even understand what's going on.

...now AI is one of the most destructive

The profit motive is making it non-economical to do anything other than create mediocre code with LLMs. Exceptional generation defining leaps in tech (like DOOM and Quake) simply won't happen if everyone is just generating their way to the next paycheck.

Think about it, could AI have come up with Fast inverse square root... I'm sure it could have with enough prompting and someone who knew what they were looking for, feeding it prompts detailed enough that they contained the answer.... but on its own, there's no way AI would've coded it from scratch into a game engine.

I recently had to deal with some xray images on CDs, and discovered to my surprise that I didn't have a reader... I tossed away all CDs like a decade ago, and old hardware just got replaced, all without drives. Nothing came with cd-rom drives in at least a decade, no? So genuine question, how many folks still have a cd-rom drive to be able to read those CDs?

(I ended up buying a cheap drive just to read those xray images... but haven't used it for anything since).

So... everyone talks about vibe coding these days... yet nobody within the administration comes along and says "oh, instead of paying MS for 500k licenses... how about we just vibe code something similar with an open local model"...

(e.g. do they *really* need the latest frontier model for routine administrative tasks... or would a 7gig local model do just as well?).

Yep! With I had points for this... but not just EU... why would there be a need to have chatbots in WhatsApp at all? We already got other ways to chat with bots... no need to push them into primarily person-to-person medium.

What's they're saying is that they're generating more and more code with less and less human eyes to look at it... recipe for success!

but but but... this time it is different!

Same reason why someone would need a toothbrush with Bluetooth connection :-)

What kind of university would not have a physics department?

The kind that has "Stamp-Collecting" as a major :-)

Then you're welcome to convince China, Iran, etc., to use AI systems built in US... and vice versa. Like it or not, national boundaries are often a pretty good reason to "do things differently", if for no other reason than "national security". And this is good... if AI designed vaccine kills off the population, then there's a pretty good chance that the species will survive anyway because other countries "did it differently".

Small nations often fall in line with whatever the regional superpower does...

...how is that a solution? Do you think Russia, China, Iran, or you name a hundred other countries, are going to follow your suggested limits

Each country can and must do whatever they want... the segmentation of systems can happen at country borders. As far as extinction is concerned, a world where US, Russia, China, Iran, India, etc., each have THEIR OWN (home-built-from-scratch) system is better than one-system-for-everyone.

Each country should develop their own vaccines, medicines, AI systems, etc. To ensure species survival in case the improbable happens.

print culture ... associated with ... hostility to superstition...

Oh, really??? Many burned/hung/drowned "witches" would disagree.