Grammar, punctuation, and capitalization are really NOT your enemies.

I proposed to socialize the costs but recoup them through corporate taxes. Effectively offering companies affordable insurance against worker injuries. Much more efficient than letting private insurance companies handle this, especially as they have a habit of gouging small companies.

The pendulum does swing too far the other way in the EU though, and often it helps protect large incumbents against small innovative firms. For instance in the Netherlands, if a worker is hurt for any reason, even outside working hours (snowboarding, skydiving, juggling chainsaws), the employer is on the hook to continue to pay him for up to 2 years. During that time the worker gets 70% of his contracted wage (but never less than minimum wage).

If you're employing 1000 people, you can self ensure this risk because the averages will work out in such a large group. But if you have only 5 employees, this is not a financial risk you can take so you have to take out costly insurance against this. The obvious solution is to make society pay for this safety net that society demands... for instance by upping corporate taxes.

So the introduction of Siri was 14 years ago yesterday, and it still hasn't gotten any better?

Jobs for years claimed that he had invented all of that out of his infinite genius, while Gates openly admired the Xerox PARC crew and said that he was disappointed to not have been able to hire them at the time. Someone went looking for Gates' name in the visitor logs of PARC to see when he had been there, and there was Jobs' name as well. Oops.

My boss had the first cellular-equipped Compaq iPaq running Windows Embedded years before they shoved the iToy out the door. IMNSHO it was superior in almost every way, too bad Compaq was being run by an idiot and they missed the boat.

The 'walled garden' is from the mainframe world, good luck trying to run a program on a DEC that had been written on an IBM without a full recompile. Many entire programming languages, like RPG, would only run on a specific manufacturer's platform. It wasn't until the introduction of CP/M and later Windows that interoperability between different hardware platforms became a reality.

If you look at the happiest societies in the world they're all socialist. If you look at the most stable economies in the world the socialist Scandinavians are among them. If you look at the most miserable societies in the world capitalism is the cause of most of that misery.

This is the outcome you think is "FAR better than anything else out there"? I'd respectfully disagree.

Edward Bernays and Joseph Goebbels would have worshiped at Jobs feet. The man was amazing, he managed to convince millions of people that a computer with inadequate hardware and a crippled operating system that could only run 10% of the programs available was not only worth triple the price but even make them sleep in lines overnight to buy it. Thank all the gods he never worked for the War Department.

I'm not convinced of their intelligence, but if they are, they deserve at least similar consideration. That does not include a total 100% protection of whatever habitat they choose to live in. We know night flights are not good for people living near airports, yet we continue to have them. By the same token, whales living near drilling platforms can suck it up too. With that said, if they truly are intelligent, perhaps they deserve a "country" of their own, which is to remain inviolate of human intrusion.

Three years is inconsequential in the introduction of a major new technology, just think of the vids you've seen of early ornithopters and other failed flying machines in the two or three decades prior to the Wrights and Bleroit. No technology stays the same forever, shovels and axes are still being improved hundreds of thousands of years after their introduction.

Any time I see the phrase "will never" I remember the uncle of the Wright Brothers, a preacher of some sort, giving sermons that mankind "will never" fly just a few years before their pioneering work on airfoils.

They're great for the uses they were originally developed for, factory automation, robotics, and data analytics, they're far better than a human in most of these cases. ChatGTP and its relatives are still a waste of electrons for now.

Does a dolphin or whale "deserve the same rights as we have?" They seem to be approximately as intelligent, even though they don't have the advantage of opposable thumbs and their environment/body form limits the types of technologies they can develop. If you say 'yes' then our submarine fleets will need to be decommissioned or new subsurface navigation technologies will need to be developed and our surface cargo fleet will need to be completely rebuilt to quiet them. If you say 'no' then you're demonstrating the same human-centric myopia which would also consign an AGI to "slavery".

Right. Perhaps I wasn't clear, females would still have utility in later years, males, being less useful when elderly, can die earlier and leave more resources for the young.