Anyone who does accept Google's AI output blindly will soon find that their mistaken opinion of CamperBob2 is the least of their problems. There is a reason Google goes (well) out of their way to warn people that the results may be wrong. That should be sufficient warning for reasonable people of good faith.

Yes, I do. An assertion made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence, whether it comes from Google or from you.

If you demand perfection, you will receive nothing. Why is that so hard for people to understand? The world simply cannot work the way you say it should.

Overregulation, at best, is a good way to guarantee that your country won't have access to interesting and useful features and technologies. At worst, it's a good way to guarantee that the twenty-first century will belong to the US, if not to China.

We're about to find out just how hypothetical they are, since the valuation in the upcoming SpaceX IPO is heavily tied to that particular pipe dream.

But we're being sold a vision of putting them in low-earth orbit. That means, among other things:

- They don't need to be situated anywhere near their customers

- They don't need a lot of employees to babysit the hardware, or in fact any at all

- They don't need water. Radiative cooling is evidently just fine by itself, even without convection or conduction

- They don't need any networking infrastructure beyond what satellite IP links can provide

- They don't need anything but localized photovoltaic power

Every argument for putting data centers in space applies equally to putting them literally anywhere on Earth.

What an interesting thing to call out as a threat. Hmm.

They don't need to be built in the middle of downtown freaking Seattle, though.

I don't understand why people don't call that out more, when Musk rambles endlessly about how he's going to reinvent data centers and semiconductor fabs.

For that matter, what did you think gun control was for, exactly?

Not by default, GNOME doesn't. Try installing Ubuntu. You get nothing but a blank desktop by default. The bar at left only shows shortcuts for launching tasks, not running tasks themselves.

Your perspective as a DOS/PowerShell user is not any more valuable, considering you barely use Windows as-is.

Those advocating an OS with 5% market share might do well to listen to other perspectives once in a while.

CS reps? No. You must be very lonely, yourself, if your mind went there in the context of this conversation.

Have you never experienced the resolution of complexity or ambiguity from a person that is intimately familiar with a product, its documentation, or internal processes?

Yes, and it's universally something that should have been possible online without talking to anyone, AI or human. That's my real hope.

Stage 1: Corporations replace impotent CS reps with AI.

Stage 2: Corporations gradually empower the AI to interface with their existing internal systems in order to get the customer off the phone faster and avoid social-media brouhahas. Yes, they could have empowered the people in stage 1 to do that, but they didn't.

Stage 3: Corporations realize the AI is just another unnecessary middleman on their payroll, and empower customers to check status, report and escalate issues, handle SLA and billing problems, and obtain RMAs directly via their websites. Which should have been how it worked all along.

Nobody uses an LLM for watches or data backup AFAIK so those seem like moot points.