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“Pacing the frontier” used by multiple companies that are supposed to be independent sounds like an attempt to get around the fact that it is illegal for companies corroborate to reduce R&D in sync. This is basically attempted cartel behavior to reduce supply and harms consumers.

Ok. Soviet influence operation.

> But with AI (disembodied in software and embodied in robots), the relative value of being normal and predictable is rapidly evaporating.

I would argue this is precisely backwards. The normal and predictable is more valuable. Human errors are largely predictable. AI errors are not. This is one of the reasons why human code is much easier to review than AI code.

Aviation uses around a million metric tons of jet fuel per day.

If you thought habitat destruction from palm oil was bad, that would be nothing compared to coconut oil making up any significant fraction of jet fuel.

What often gets missed is that they are buy one physical copy and turning it into a digital copy.

They have done zero to destroy the durability. In fact, it’s probably more durable.

If the physical copies are scarce, that is due to the publisher and copyright laws and not them buying and converting a single copy.

> The chemicals present a serious risk to infants because they likely interfere with hormones that are critical to newborns’ proper development, and have been found to be harmful at very low levels of exposure. About 92% of 50 samples were contaminated with at least one of the anti-microbials or plasticizers for which researchers checked.

If they were that significantly harmful it would be massively obvious at that level of prevalence.

> We know that at some level and yet still can't help taking credit for our nice things and passing judgment on others for their failings.

Is that blameworthy?

Premature DRY and premature attempt at separation of concerns have resulted in absolutely horrible spaghetti code in too many code bases.

Many times it's fine to repeat yourself. Many times it's fine for a component to cross multiple concerns.

Now do CSS in real life use

Just finding a drag able area of the window to reposition it is a huge pain.

> Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.

This looks hopelessly naive now. Programmers need to eat. Cyberspace runs on physical electricity and data centers. Communication requires physical cables and/or physical transmitters and receivers. Chips are manufactured in a physical location. You need a physical place to live. Your kids need schools and playgrounds.

The past 10 years if not longer have driven home the physicality of “cyberspace”.

It seems like there might be just a small vocal minority that hates AI art.

Most people probably don’t care.

I bet there were painters in the 1800s who talked about how people hated photographs and how they were uncanny and creepy compared to paintings.

> In closing, let me reiterate this point so it is crystal clear. If you are a maintainer of a libre software project and you refuse a community port to another architecture, you are doing a huge disservice to your community and to your software’s overall quality. As the Linux kernel has demonstrated, you can accept new ports, and deprecate old ports, as community demands and interest waxes and wanes.

Every feature has a cost and port to a different architecture has a huge cost in ongoing maintenance and testing.

This is open source. The maintainer isn’t refusing a port. The maintainer is refusing to accept being a maintainer for that port.

A person is always free to fork the open source project and maintain the port themselves as a fork.

> Will my system believe me? And how about their system, whoever “they” are? If not, then what else will I need to do to prove my birth date and age? Who will check if root can’t be trusted? How will they check?

If they ever seize your computer, they can probably also tack on computer fraud charges

I don’t think the SCOTUS has said that AI output is uncooyrightable just that a human or humans has to own the copyright.