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We can take your train of thought further still. If AI ever becomes super good at lawyering, why would we even need law firms and lawyers at all?

We could feed legislation and constitution into the model and have it argue against other lawyer bots in court in front of a judge bot.

Margaret Hamilton (checks wikipedia) studied mathematics at the University of Michigan in 1955.

Back in 1955, "computer science" wasn't a thing yet. Computers were the domain of electrical engineering and math, the latter of which was what Margaret studied..

Sylvan Clebsch and Sophia Drossopoulou (credited on Project Verona in a slide) work on the Pony, which has been described as a cross between Rust and Erlang.

Isn't this bundling what caused the subprime crisis ? How is this time "guaranteed to work well" ?

Maybe it's social media that is broken.

Rust + Rpi interests me and I might wanna follow along. Are they using an available kit from an online retailer ? Getting/shipping individual parts is a pain where I'm from.

> Here is another thought. One has to realize that nobody wants an operating system. People only use them because it is the only way to run the applications the users actually wants to use.

That reduces things to almost an absurd level, and literally tries to ignore reality.

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I want X!

Ok, we need this and that to get there...

I don't want this and that, I want X!

But you need this and that to get to X...

I don't want this and that, I want X!

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While it's true in essence, and people should always keep the end user and lofty end goals in mind, we should never lose sight of the ground, because that's where we exist.

Besides, different users want their operating system to do different things.

> At best an operating system is absolutely invisible ... but a new non-OS would probably be a better idea than a new OS.

This train of thought can be applied to just about anything. The best product for X would just get out of the way, and assist you seamlessly to do X.

Because they actually live there ? As opposed to transient visitors ?

It's like going to your friend's house and rearranging the furniture there because "we were all born on planet Earth".

Its not as simple as that. Humans are social, and want to feel that they are "useful", that their presence / skills are needed. Not having a job takes that away from them, which can snowball into psychological issues, and possibly turn them "bad".

When a chunk of society becomes jobless, we've got problems ...

Competing laptop manufacturers have options for more ram.