The financial community and financial analysts need to start asking how come corporate top line revenue, excluding the largest 10 companies, has been declining or flat adjusted for inflation for the last 10 years.

AI is the cover story for many companies which are restructuring due to demographic shifts, a decade of cost cutting as a business plan, focusing on things which increase executive compensation instead of new product development and letting C level executives age in place via stagnation and keeping the status quo going until they exit the labor force.

The unexpected bit of AI hype is that the overall job losses worldwide in the entry level and lower tier IT jobs has resulted in far less immigration for employment.

There's no need to give Tiobe language popularity articles every three months when languages 7 to 100 have popularity well below the margin of error (2%).

Expecting a group of enthusiasts to ask lots of (obscure 1970s programming language) questions on Stack Overflow to get it to break into the top 7 languages.

Past attempts at buying your way onto the New York Times bestselling book list - https://bookriot.com/buying-bo...

Is is possible that someone will create a programming language which has a license

- That prohibits code generation by a LLM
- LLM generated code by use of the standard built in libraries is subject to a licensing fee per character of code generated.
- Training a LLM on that language's code requires a (large) licensing fee paid to the language's copyright holder

And given how Stack Overflow's decade of question and answers will be largely frozen in time for existing languages, there will be little code to train a LLM on for a new language.

Is there some measure of how accurate the lives saved numbers are?

Skeptical for the same reason that other government numbers are inaccurate, Congressional Budget Office estimates, Federal Reserve estimates, BLS economic statistics, NWS weather, ...

- Strings which can be set to None (or equivalent)
- Proper protection of public, private and protected class members
- Force data types instead of ignorable type hints and an option for strict type checking at build time
- Have proper classes instead of different workarounds via attribute based programming
- Have objects derive from a base object which can be set to None
- Move away from arbitrary name=value function parameter syntax
- Build into the compiler the package tool so that every single of the billions of daily cloud execution does not do a pip upgrade
- Have a built in way via a keyword to specify that a class cannot have properties and methods added to it after it is declared
- Have an option to disable using the ANY datatype in your code
- Build in the basic development tools instead of a mis-mash of linters, virtual environment tools, packaging tools, toml file, poetry, ...

I've seen it over the last two years at multiple companies. The IT budget in excess of keeping the existing systems running has been taken over by spending on AI projects. Full stack application development is a much lower, if any, priority for executives now.

There is an inertia in economics. Seeking to keep things as they are so that it is easier to measure year over year data, write research papers, and get quoted on media saying the usual "economy doing X" statements.

If the economic data collection method changes (survey to government filing extracts), new economic data is collected by the BLS, or there are larger changes in tax, trade, and commerce laws; it makes it more difficult to produce news quotable research.

Factor into this, the percent of economists, government leaders / BLS staff, researchers, think tank experts, media personalities, UN, World Bank, and financial industry personalities who are in the last decade of their working career.
That group would be resistant to change since a lifetime of research papers could be shown as largely flawed and unreliable if more accurate data from government filings is used instead of a BLS survey.

That group also wants stability so that they can job hop between, finacial companies, the World Bank, US Treasury, BLS, think tanks, UN, and academia.

Hopefully, someone will collect metrics on Youtube videos produce by AI, categorize them into "entertainment including brainrot" and everything else and then estimate the electricity used for the ai produced entertainment and scale it in terms of how many life saving medical operations could be performed in poor countries

We have three generations of NGO and nonprofit institution building since WWII.

How much of the budget of individual institutions seeks to increase the size of the institution and not carry out the societal benefits purpose of the institution?

It should be acceptable for a reasoned discussion of
- How the institution's budget is spent
- The news, research, and opinion produced by the institution
- The demographics and leadership of the employees and contractors paid by the institution
- Whether an institution for all excludes half the population from its focus, money spent, research and effort
- The research methods of the institution, such as collecting data only on half the population when the statement of the institution is to server all people

Institutions who have a mission for directly improving people's lives and the institution only produces research, media interviews and promotes the career of researchers. 50 years of talking and researching a problem instead of using the budget to fund actual programs, build infrastructure, clean water and help people.

It is acceptable to have a reasoned discussion on these items. People, pundits, and agitators who seek to shut down a reasoned discussion with the "you want children to starve" would be excluded from the discussion. They seek to block forward progress, preserve the status quo and perpetuate stagnation.

People undervalue the value that librarians have with the wide knowledge of books.

It has helped me find books with different viewpoints and ideas.

It has also helped me de-prioritize story genres which have been overused (the president is missing, presidential corruption scandals), books where it is 99% a car chase and books who exist to exhibit the odd practices of a fringe group in a detective story.

There is something good about books that are able to tell a good story in less than 200 pages with existing characters, places and scenarios without using filler material (repeated description of technology, purple prose, repeated description of clothes, filling pages of material which does not advance the plot and could be reduced to a few sentences, ...).

It should be a good story and not just - bridge - filler exploitation scene - filler - filler exploitation scene - filler ... where the filler is a poor attempt at a plot and storytelling.

> "Publishing has also been male dominated for literally all of history so this also represents a long overdue swing towards equality, not away from it."

Having over 66% of the industry being women is not equality.

Calling it a "long overdue swing towards equality" is just revenge and not equality.

Favoring revenge against people under 40 who are not responsible for the past damages society.

Discrimination is good, as expressed in your statement, is a bad practice.

Google could have done it easier,

- List the newsrooms in California, number of reporters, local population size
- Pick X of them
- Setup a nonprofit to directly pay the salary + benefits of J reporters
- Set the nonprofit up so that a small portion of the funds go to pay overhead such as 5%
- Get the newsrooms to agree to keep the J reporters on staff and carry the news stories produced by them
- Review the above every year

The different nonprofits pay the Associated Press to report on certain topics such as education. So this is not a new thing.

Handing the money to a third party hungry for more budget with a of bureaucrats to pay ensures that the money will be siphoned off as overhead with each middleman.

It is odd how the news never reports the UN and other NGOs as middlemen taking their administrative cut.

Read the article and did not find any mention other than a "uses less electricity" mention.

The news should include a comparison including power usage per chip and server rack, AC cooling requirement power usage for a workload for this chip and a NVIDIA system.

The news editor could help with AI quality control by: "In this news article, remove all mentions of childhood, outdoor scenery, clothes, fashion trends, physical descriptions of people, emotional appeals, softening language, and vignettes."

Removing all of those would help to show that the article is 98% filler material (CEO personal profile + office decor + vignette) with little information.

Adding in that there was a large cross-marketing and promotion of women authors in 1970s science fiction and fantasy to try to open women readers towards that genre.

Been tried before: There were country music stars that did Beatles covers in the 1960s including Beetles haircut wigs, and also the Rolling Stones included 1 country song (more or less country) on most of their albums.

It begs the question, are those in poverty in other countries more likely to have both parents, more likely to have a strong community and extended family and less likely to overdo social media consumption?