That is far from settled: https://www.sciencefocus.com/s...

It's never really been about the people: it's always been about the system.

When you put good people in powerful positions (corporate, political, etc.) it corrupts them. But, exactly how much it corrupts them depends on the overall system they're participating in. When you have a well-regulated system (eg. a company with a strong board, or a democratic country), you get less corrupt people at the top. When you have a "give Elon Musk whatever he wants" system (or a monarchy), you get ... Elon Musk types.

Instead of worrying about "are CEO's good people?", we should know that anyone in power is going to act badly ... and what we should be asking is "what systems can we put in place to counter that?"

Death is subjective too: just ask two people with differing opinions on whether an unborn fetus or a brain-dead person should be considered dead or alive.

Students at a prestigious business school (where they are trained to make successful businesses) are more likely to focus on their business's wellfare than on what's fair ... and in other news, water is wet.

Hematite is one specific type of iron oxide. Rust is a non-technical umbrella term for all iron oxides, and the typical red ones we see in daily life are formed by contact with water and are not hematite. Hematite is a dark charcoal gray and is sometimes formed as a byproduct of iron ore processing or other heat and pressure processes in the ground, where oxygen may be present but not water.

Why assume AI is to blame, and not global macroeconomic factors (eg. Trump)?

We've seen no evidence at all that AI has even come close to increasing productivity by 70%, which means AI can't be responsible for this entire decline.

No, because experience isn't a protected category. Age is, but only in certain cases mostly dealing with existing employees. Youth isn't protected at all:

https://www.eeoc.gov/age-discr...

"The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) forbids age discrimination against people who are age 40 or older. It does not protect workers under the age of 40, although some states have laws that protect younger workers from age discrimination. It is not illegal for an employer or other covered entity to favor an older worker over a younger one, even if both workers are age 40 or older."

He's right, but that's true about everything. The rich and powerful use their wealth and influence to stay rich and powerful ... with AI, or with anything else. It's how the world works.

Your math sucks. Let's say you weigh 200 pounds, which (per the above) means you need a maximum of 0.73g * 200 = 146 grams of protein.

According to Google, chicken has 123g of protein per pound ... which means that at 200 lbs. a person only needs about 1.15 lbs. of chicken to hit the daily max.

If all you know is a minimal subset of the language, you don't know the language. What you describe may be ok for a toy app you write on your own time and never need to support or put to serious use, but not for anything approaching actual development. What you describe is hacking, not developing.

And outside of a masters degree course somewhere, where has that ever been a thing? Formal proving of programs isn't something done anywhere. Even then its utility is dubious- "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." - Donald Knuth

I don't know what you were doing, but having to use reflection is generally considered a code smell, if not outright banned in most code bases. Generally its only accepted in serialization libraries. If that's what you got out of working in Java, it sounds more like you were doing it wrong.

In 45 years of living and eating at cheap restaurants, I've never had this problem when going to one in the United States. Or any other country where English was the native language. Why? Because they may hire non-english speakers in the back for kitchens, dishwasher, etc they make sure cashiers and waiters speak english, and they talk to the people in back. So it's an utter non-issue. It may have niche usecases in places with large international tourist crowds, but even then you generally need to tell speech recognition the input language for real time translation.

More like Google Glass's anemic second cousin.

Calling these things AI salespeople doesn't really get it right. They're livestreaming sales performers, which is to say they're more the equivalent of the talking heads on the Home Shopping Network.

And quite frankly, that seems like a pretty low bar: if you've ever watched the HSN, you'd be forgiven for thinking "they could replace these people with robots".