This is exactly the scenario played out in his book SevenEves. Spoiler: it doesn't go well for planet earth for a loooooong time. But, the good news is, it does help get rid of unpopular leaders.

As far back as 1932, Bertrand Russell wrote about how modern day humans have their priorities all screwed up. AI as we know and use it today is just making it even more obvious: https://harpers.org/archive/19...

What makes anyone think that alien life forms would even have such a thing as DNA?

Lawmakers urge immediate action on 3rd grade teachers not telling students about irrational numbers. My point being, that you have to educate people, you cannot legislate away ignorance!

I am OK with false accusations for once as long as the woman accuses a registered republican. Two wrongs don't make a right, I get it. But I am past that point as it appears one right(-wing) is sufficient to make a woman's personal decision wrong.

Yelling FIRE in theatre might be permitted under the 1st amendment, however, the supreme court did subsequently say that "These later decisions have fashioned the principle that the constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press do not permit a State to forbid or proscribe advocacy of the use of force or of law violation except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.[14]"

In other words, Trump's tweets and January 6th's speech can clearly be restricted on the grounds that they incite imminent lawless action.

A recent study at Johns Hopkins did fMRI scans of people programming (https://hub.jhu.edu/2020/12/17/brain-activity-while-reading-code/) and it appears that language skills are most closely related to the areas of the brain that light up. So I'd say never mind the spreadsheet; open up a good book instead and then start writing prose. If nothing else it will make your comments readable...

Censorship by the government is bad. People are allowed to say what they want. However, abetting in spreading that kind of speech so you can make a buck off the advertising that accompanies it? That is entirely Facebook's own decision, isn't it?

No argument from me there. The good news is, I can look myself in the mirror each morning and honestly say I've never screwed any one over either.

Almost as nice as dying in a cardboard box because you had to piss away the family fortune on a bunch of greedy docs to try and get cured from a cancer caused by unregulated toxic dumping into the watershed along which you built your 2-acre MacMansion in a gated community because you couldn't stand the sight of all those foreigners.

How about we come to an agreement on what truly is the common good and then fund that with our common resources rather than this every man for himself approach which won't work but for the 1% who are now so insanely rich they can afford to ignore government.

Time to re-read Asimov's Foundation Trilogy it would seem

This will now also stand for Your Rights Overhead

Hmm - Except that the developers, unlike the prisoners, chose to develop for iOS. If Objective-C was so inferior to Java and the various Android releases that force you to use it, this thriving ecosystem would not exist.

Yeah - and how about running your nightly set of debits from largest $ amount to smallest so that if you do go below 0 you get hit with the highest number of possible overage charges!

You're right - and glad of it, too!
One of the real problems with the "let the good deeds speak for themselves" approach is that it takes a long time to bear fruit. We are talking generations here; not weeks/months/years. The only good news about that with respect to places like Iraq and Afghanistan is that generational turn-over scales are a lot shorter while they're out there killing each other off.
Nonetheless, the timeframes far and away exceed what most all elected officials worry about so all this jibber/jabber is really moot anyway.