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Throw into that same fire also every Russian psyop attempt at destabilizing the West. Such as every alt-right/nu-right political party that sprang up over the last 30 years in Europe, brexit, QAnon, climate change denialism, Trump and all of MAGA, anti-vax, etc etc etc.

I suspect that DHH is not so willing to meet at the center. He might be a great software/business leader, but politically he's just another whiner who at best will achieve nothing and at worst will be another Elon Musk.

All AI fanatics can talk about is cost, productivity, money, efficiency, ... no wonder they can't understand art or even basic human emotions

That's an incredibly myopic way of thinking about other people. Sort of ironic when you imply that you're better at "basic human emotions".

I'm amazed how easily people dismiss this. They used less that an hour of wall clock time and max $50 to do this.

How much would it take for me to create videos like this? I'm guessing 1-4 years calendar time practicing half an hour every day just to break my lack of talent. Immeasurable cost given how there's no way in hell I'm going to invest that kind of time for a skill I don't actually want to acquire.

Somebody who's actually competent and talented is going to make some pretty amazing stuff cheaply with something like this, and the technology is nowhere near its peak yet.

I'm for very restrictive digital device and service use for children and I also think that 16 is roughly the age when most or all of those restrictions can be lifted.

This is a great example of a thing that's 99% harmful being 1% very useful.

So which should we choose as society, removing the 99% harm or keep the 1% usefulness?

Also we should note that the children in this example were 16 and 17 years old, so above the age of many of the suggested restrictions.

Two things are not quite correct in your text:

1. The Council triggered the second reading by adopting its own position and sending it back. You made it sound like the Commission just steamrolled it unilaterally.

2. The scheduling conspiracy is false. Parliament itself voted (331-304) on July 7 to fast-track this. Also, the votes in March and July were pretty stable: 311 against in March, 314 against in July.

How can we reconcile AI coding a functional X server with the assertions that AI is overrated and we’re in a bubble?

Simple: AI is not overrated at all. Might still be a bubble though, that's an entirely different consideration.

Something is still holding us back though. One would think that we'd have a dozen total rewrites of Linux at this point.

Qualcomm Linux 2.0 21 days ago

The ability to run Linux properly would be worth about a $1000, if it was reality. But it isn't, so...

Qualcomm Linux 2.0 21 days ago

I used to believe, but now it seems to me that AMD and Intel will match Snapdragon's efficiency on x86 before that stuff is stable.