Their installer had Klingon and Redneck as language choices: "Put the CD in that coffee cup holder" I switched to Debian because Apt was the better toolkit.

This story reminds me of Copeland's history as told on bitsavers. Similar dysfunctional dynamic inhibiting product development. Apple had to purchase a really big excavator to dig themselves out of that hole. Time for some Fast Tuesday cash splash

This does not mean a pause on AI development in general, merely a stepping back from the dangerous race to ever-larger unpredictable black-box models with emergent capabilities.

That sentence warns of something quite specific at which most posters have waved their hands: emergent capabilities Phrases like "no ego", "no agency", &c. avoid acknowledging that's a research goal. This quote quite specifically identifies the danger of reducing that research to practice.

I'd also like to add a plug for Lem and GOLEM IV

OP could have been less opaque For the record: http://www.google.com/search?q=xenu