I think open source does not need to embrace AI coding, it needs to apply extra scrutiny to it otherwise it will become slop.

Beats another holodeck episode.

The current state of AI for this (I recently started working on a new project), is AI can find and summarize topics. But it has poor temporal understanding, it doesn't understand that documentation is out of date or that old Slack discussions or Confluence comments that were never incorporated into the documentation and code are irrelevant. Using it as a tool to sniff out potential trails seems to be about all it can do. From there, you as the human being have to investigate AI's claims and resolve the conflicting information.

The jokes about Darth Jar Jar were everywhere of course, but it could have worked. Star Wars lifted a few ideas from classic SF sources including Asimov's Foundation series - in which, we might recall, the terrifying, unstoppable galactic warlord known as The Mule was hiding in plain sight as a clown, who seemed to be merely a harmless entertainer at court. His military success was chiefly thanks to his psychic ability to manipulate others' minds to his liking - Darth Jar Jar could have done very well that way!

I saw three Star Wars movies when I was young. They were great. Mainly because I was a child and this stuff was new and fresh and exciting to me. Even the Ewoks.

I saw three more when I was not quite so young. They were... poor.

I saw a couple more when I was older. One was great, the other was okay but a retread of one of the old ones, and I never got round to seeing the rest. Didn't care enough.

Now they've got more, and apparently they're based on a TV series they did, which I didn't watch because I wasn't subscribed to that streaming platform at the time. So I'm not going to see those either. Same reason I've not seen a Marvel superhero film since the first Avengers one - just too much homework required with all the backstory. Every scene is a shout out or reference that I won't get. Every character seems to be getting ever louder and angrier and more and more of them have access to time machines. I just don't have it in me to care anymore.

I like the sound of these horror films, though. They're going to tell a complete story? In one film? With a beginning, middle and end, that don't ask me to be up to date on an entire Cinematic Universe? Sounds great, time to check where they're showing!

A modern version of GTA London would be the absolute dream. Been long enough now, you could set it in the nineties and have the same retro value to it!

... why unions aren't much more common among technology workers. Especially given what you hear about the videogame industry in particular, with that mad 'crunch time' culture in which workers are ruthlessly, well, crunched. I'd always ask, well, what does your union say about it? And what do you know, there isn't one, how about that.

Nice to hear of some progress being made, then. I suppose the risk with this for the rest of us is that GTA 6 might be late to release, but, uh, at this point I think we're over that

That's moral relativism. It is neither right nor wrong to ban porn.

Personally, I don't feel strongly about it. It doesn't affect me, I don't make money selling it. Yet, I don't want to pay taxes so a bureaucrat can regulate it.

Given their performance during my lifetime, the CIA isn't capable of decent counter intelligence. Perhaps to save its own skin from its own country would be different.

Did not detonate. But it was an explosion.

No True Scots man would say this.

The gap between the haves and have-nots is growing.

Big Tobacco knew cigarettes were harmful when they published A Frank Statement to Cigarette Smokers in 1954.
They harmed people. And published misinformation campaigns to cover it up. The industry used its money to influence elections and hire lobbyists that frequently used bribery schemes to sway politicians.

If someone believes in absolute freedom for corporations to do business as they please, then perhaps all the above just seems like a smart business strategy.
If for some strange reason you believe that the government is answerable to the people and not to which ever business has the most money, then the above is probably very troubling to you.

If society is harmed by people that exploit people's weakness. Then why shouldn't we band together to restrict such activities?
What's the point of being in a society if not for mutual benefit, including protection?

If weakness included not locking your door, then by extension we shouldn't prosecute burglars. Obviously nonsense.

Nobody forced Meta or advertisers to hack the human mind in order to extract what they wanted from them. And demanding personal responsibility from children and the elderly is nonsense, like squeezing blood from a stone. People's susceptibility to being manipulated isn't going to go away just because you think they are weak-minded.

Needs to be fired. It's simple, if you don't vet people hired into a senior position of a federal agency, then you ought to be terminated as well. Actual qualified people apply for jobs and are skipped over to hire conmen. The process is broken and people should be deeply disturbed, both in terms of violating the public trust but also for the implications to national security.