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The mistakes that lurked in radium, in arsenic, in leaded gas, in fallout downwind of nuclear tests ... all had the best tools that the previous generation knew.

None of them were okay. Those were small small tools with few (sometimes only one) uses.

Generations earlier, famines, diseases and lead-leeching plumbing made rulers insane and entire cities of people die without any help from the "best tools".

Scifi is always written about the best tools. The issues arrive in the tools and in the hands that wield them both.

Upgrading old and obsolete GPUs?

This is all wildly short term mania.

Smaller than N.

Julia is not written in assembly.

Business actually treats a pseudo-dictatorship (with the requisite yes-men) as "good leadership".

Most times it's pretty simple, in my experience. A CEO either runs a business as a (1) Sales focus [best deals and vendors] or (2) Marketing focus [best reputation and trends] or (3) Investor focus [best boardroom friends].

Lots of other opinions are usually thrown out until there's really only one facet used for running the company.

Has anyone asked what customer will have any funds to buy products?

Once all these brilliant workers are stacked and mentally stunted and decayed because they were removed from any research.

What does the AI really "do" (if it can) and for who that can pay?

This has a lot riding on a fallacy.

Interest rates in fiat currency, these days, are not due to scarcity of lendable funds. Saving rates by consumers actually are just a low-risk or high-risk form of rent seek8ng., depending on the economy.

There's no world these days where a vast amount of collected wealth by a few makes credit suddenly cheap for all consumers.

All wage earners will still be able to drive up inflation if they demand goods that are not able to keep up easily... therefore pressure to save (to not take out debt) will raise interest rates fine by itself.

Unless we are talking about fiscal-based government spending (and interest on fiscal debt), no increased access to credit will become "better for all". Businesses can absorb all the credit offered during good times and consumers may see none.

Business failures will suddenly dump some assets on the market at fire sale prices, but a lost job makes those fire sales of little solace.

The important point is what a deserter would use as logic when asked "What if everyone gave up and only responded to selfish fear?"

Then, sir, it would be foolhardy to contribute any part to that service because soon it will all collapse.

That's, in a historically commonplace fashioned see today, is what the top 10% are doing when seeing the top 1% abdicate all responsibility.

Low or no taxes? Sounds good ... but it's going to burn down soon.

That seems utterly disingenuous as nearly every single other advanced economy IN THE WORLD has near free health care.

This is silly.

Inhabited areas everywhere and non-inhabited areas everywhere have had an extreme growth in wildfire.

The gains stay the same be cause they were examples to other human-apes with other invisiible-line kingdoms.

Sum totals for the coal spewing nations and states among us are far worse.

Current AI degrades totally unlike human experts. It also, by design, must lag its data input.

Anything innovated must come from outside or have a very close permutation to be found.

Generative AI isn't scary at all now. It is merely rolling dice on a mix of other tech and rumors from the internet.

The data can be wrong or old...and people keep important secrets.

"Nerd sniping"

Nihilism solves so much nothing.

A million more layers of "freeing" yourself and you are back to where you started every time.

An ape granting all impulsive choices the ability to undo anything long-term at all.

Futility is a real thing for some dreamers to accept... but plan-less-ness is not freedom.

It is bondage to short-sighted repeated failure.

It would be quite useful to protect other code from that.

It could easily be a compiler-based protection: any opcode that can generate it from two/one normal input must be checked for normal results.

This is similar to how C++ gives few guarantees but "new" and "this" never give null or unallocated values.

A shockwave does not travel linearly.