Not the first. There have been several, depending on what measure you use.

More people should spend more time trying to enjoy their own lives instead of obsessing over what other people are doing

I mistook your sig for a final paragraph in your post, and did a double-take!

Reading other people's code is a big part of how I learned to do things. I enjoyed Abacus' "Anatomy of the Commodore 64" for it's commented disassembly of the C64 ROMs. But it was easy for that to make sense, because it had been written in assembly language.

But once you're looking at to binaries compiled from higher-level languages, it gets more complicated to .. uh .. recreate the original intent.

Now they got computers to do that? Fuck yeah!

Agent is a term lawyers use for some entity delegated to do a task for another agent. That's what I meant by "legal agent". I'm not a lawyer, so I don't want to be too definite about just what it means, but delegating a task to a agent doesn't relieve you of responsibility for how they do the job. And I don't think you can assume that maps precisely onto the way agent is used in the context of AI, though the meanings are clearly analogous.

That's a mix of meanings of agent. (Not a total disconnect, though.)
An AI agent is something set in motion by the AI to complete a task.
A legal agent (IIUC..not sure) is a separate legal entity that is accomplishing a task for the delegating legal entity. In that case the delegating entity is legally responsible for the means that the agent used to accomplish the task.

So there's a close connection, but I'm not convinced that the agents used by the AI are legal entities. (Actually, I'm not convinced that the AI, itself, is a legal entity, but the point I was making was that even if it *is*, the delegating entity is still responsible.)

OTOH, if you claim that "The AI did it", then the AI was acting as their agent. So they're still responsible.

That depends, are you a robot?

But this is a count-in too. He even wrote the first line of the song for you.

Shitstorm because of AI
The computer is making me cry
Hallucination's a bitch
But they say it'll make me rich
[first guitar solo]

The "leap hour" will just never be implemented. There's no need for it. Just avoid returning to Standard time from Daylight saving time one year, and switch the labels.

Unfair. If you actually rely on what he is reported to have said, rather than what others have added, he comes off as a good guy (outside of a few lapses, like that fig tree incident).

I happen to think he's as fictitious as Adam Selene, but that's almost irrelevant.

It means "you will own nothing", as they no longer offer FSD as a lifetime puchase. It's a subscription.

Wouldn't any robot's mustache be a fake mustache unless it was literally shaved off of someone else and somehow affixed intact to said robot?

No, but *do* blame the Israeli government and their supporters.

Mmmhmm. Flock's model appears to be to get their equipment put in, and once in, to let whomever they want have access to it rather than the original polity or agency that partnered for the install. And after the partnership ends they fight against their equipment being taken down.

Sounds to me like they specifically want to enable a surveillance state, but that this surveillance state operates about as accurately as the one from Terry Gilliam's Brazil .

There will never be a shortage of people who use the wrong tool for the job, and/or just use the tool wrong. Thus, unless bots 100% take over, there will probably be a decent number of jobs in cleaning fucked up systems.

"All repairs tend to destroy the structure, to increase the entropy and disorder of the system. Less and less effort is spent on fixing the original design flaws; more and more is spent on fixing flaws introduced by earlier fixes."

Microsoft Windows in a nutshell (even before AI)