Everyone I know who makes my equivalent AGI, except for my household, has 1+ dogs, work crazy hours, and have been told that their dogs are lonely and depressed.

Not one or two people.

EVERYONE. Dozens upon dozens of my clients, colleagues, peers, friends from grade school, etc, have a dog or two, and then they have to have someone come spend time with said dog when they're putting 10+ hours away from them.

Wag/Rover/etc is part of their crazy consumer spending. I always am shocked to hear they're spending $1000 a month on their pets.

Americans are insane about their pets. Instead of buying a dog, I invest in corporate veterinary hospitals, because it's crazy profitable.

As the saying goes, if they'd cheat with you, they will cheat on you.

Turns out, if they don't give a damn about presumably innocent men's privacy, they don't give a damn about your privacy either.

It's also just Gideon's ultimate64 with official branding. If you've been into C64 retro hardware, you know about Gideon. He also made the Ultimate II+ cartridge, which I currently have plugged in to my original C64. Very sweet hardware emulation of disk drives, cartridges and (impossible to get, expensive as hell) period authentic ram expansion units.

There is no right to privacy.

There is no right to your image.

Government can TRY to make those rights, but the freedom of expression is superior to the idea that you can stop me from hand drawing your image when you're at the beach.

In 2019? No, in 1953. Philip K. Dick, "Second Variety".

This is statism, writ large.

You get paid for work you PERFORM, but not work you RECORD. Copyright is anti-individual rights and liberties.

I'll be glad when Ai truly replaces all of these artists.

It's going to happen. It's basically already happened in some stores. IKEAfied Swedish clone brands have for years had their own in-house music channels for their stores, playing basically knockoff pop music.

I too want to be paid in perpetuity for work I did in the past. Sadly my lawyers aren't as well-connected as the entertainment industries'.

Oh come on.

We've been saying "Thanks, Biden!" for years as a joke, and you blue haired legbeards always got riled up with your "source????" and "citation needed???" cries.

(FWIW I don't support Trump and have never voted Republican).

Such an unsolvable problem! Except that in many cultures it's been solved for a long time. You have two last names, one patrilineal, one matrilineal.

Hyphenated names go way back, and it's all about prestige. If the wife came from a prestigious family (too), they wanted to let the world know that these kids, they have connection to two prestige families. An example from my part of the world is the former defense minister Kristin Krohn-Devold. Other well known hyphenated prestige names in Norway are Rieber-Mohn, Tybring-Gjedde.

There's not an ever expanding list of hyphenations, that's an entirely imagined problem, and a bit of an "old man rants at cloud for not following tradition" thing. It's more common that the less prestigious name is quietly dropped, and you're back at an unhyphenated name. A fictional, but very plausible example is the main character of the Danish drama "Matador", who changes his name from Mads Skjern-Andersen to just Mads Skjern. I have many examples in my own family tree, of various distant cousins who got a prestige name of a non-paternal ancestor (it may be further back than the mom!) as middle name, and then just quietly dropped their patronym/last name so that the middle name was suddenly a last name.

"Literally hundreds of years", lol. We Europeans are extremely lucky compared to most other parts of the world. In the best places (Belgium, for some reason) you can get back to the 1600s on all lines, not just the paternal. It isn't just colonialism. Europe just kept much better track of its commoners than anywhere else. Japan first implemented a European-style census as part of the Meiji restoration in the 1870s, and it was only then they demanded everyone should have a last name.

This is such cry-baby nonsense.

NONSENSE.

Since 2008, I have personally mentored dozens of young dudes (at no cost whatsoever, just because that's what successful people do).

I have helped poor dudes in bad neighborhoods buck up, get some side hustles, stack cash, and buy property.

You fucked yourself because you refuse to actually do someone to buy property. I don't know ANYONE, starting with even zero money, who couldn't find a nice home in just 2-3 years of saving money properly -- except the lepers in California, and fuck them anyway.

I would rather let Nazis speak and elect to block them myself than have an entire moderation team block everyone they disagree with.

Reddit is equally a shithole.

Heck. /. used to have a good libertarian minority and today it's nerds defending their trans kids here.

I would prefer to replace myself, yes.

I have a 37 year work history of finding ways to replace myself and folks like me. I already offer my clients free Ai consulting on the side to help them replace me. I'm already onto the "next thing" that will replace Ai in the headlines anyway.

I don't own a computer. I am not a programmer. I do everything from my iPhone.

In the past 10 years, I have spent tens of thousands of dollars on human programmers to create 3 web apps. Zero of them ever were finished. ZERO.

I used Grok AI to create 5 web apps. 3 of them were monetized almost immediately and have paying clients. All 5 have passed security checks that look for bugs or hack entry points.

One of the 3 monetized web apps took me all of 30 minutes using Grok, on an airplane, using my iPhone. I was able to download the files and upload them to a web server and the site was live. Literally 30 minutes and that website has created thousands of dollars of passive income.

I use vibe coding DAILY to make spreadsheets better for me and clients (I am not in IT). I use vibe coding DAILY to come up with cool functions for my web apps that people pay me to use.