PontifexMinimus

> These streaming services learned nothing from cable

There is constant pressure towards enshittification.

> I too am in the "it's done, it works well, don't mess with it" camp.

As am I.

One thing I would like to change is that on Linux I can paste text by selecting it and clicking the middle mouse button to paste. This is better than using ^C ^V because I don't have to get off the mousing and onto the keyboard. But unfortunately on some webshites the MMB doesn't work.

> Switch to android which has even more ads?

I never see ads on my android phone

> So, you mean, like another human person?

No human is vastly better than all humans at all cognitive tasks.

Humans can't think 100 times faster than humans.

Humans when interacting with computer networks have limitations on how fast they can do so.

Humans have millions of years of evolution, and thousands of years of cultural evolution, in creating ways of detecting and alleviating dishonesty and non-alignment with other humans; much of this will not work with AIs.

The way the EU could implement this is to mandate only using identity providers can guarantee they will not revoke people's identities, and the only way to make that guarantee watertight is to mandate only identity providers based within the EU.

> A human's value under a capitalist system is equal to their ability to create goods and services. And AI cannot make this ability smaller in any way.

Yes they can. Your ability to produce goods and services depends on the infrastructure around you. When that's all run by AIs for AIs, humans won't be able to compete.

See that land over there producing food you need to eat? It turns out it's more economically efficient to pave it over with data centers etc.

Under a US-style capitalist system the rich (i.e. the AIs and AI-run businesses) control politics, the courts, etc, so the decisions the system makes will favour AIs over humans.

> So, when it comes to the entire nation benefiting from AI, the most important thing is to preserve capitalism, and then the free market will distribute all the benefits

...to the AI-run companies!

> The main danger is a descent into socialism, with all these basic incomes

Without UBI most people (or maybe everyone) would starve.

The work at PARC in creating Smalltalk-80 was pretty impressive, IMO.

AI is different. It promises to be able to do everything humans can, but better and more cheaply. When AIs can do every human job cheaper than the subsistence cost of employing a human, humans will be economically obsolete and worthless.

Then there's the minor issue of AI deciding to just wipe us out because we're in the way.

Taking everything together, AI more powerful than that which currently exists must not be created. This needs to be enforced with an international treaty, nuking data centers in non-compliant states if need be.

I agree. My first reaction was "what the fuck's an 'M'?"

> try using obscure CPUs

Better still invent a CPU instruction set, and get it to write an emulator for that instruction set in C.

Then invent a C-like HLL and get it to write a compiler from your HLL to your instruction set.

Not constitutionally, at any rate.

> In Holland I see a lot of defeatist attitude

The naysayer defeatist attitude is also very strong in the UK.

Clearly the Israeli government don't think that.

But many times in history governments have done dumb thnings that backfired.

Nor do I, but the university administration might see things differently to us.

aka enshitification