More software than you'd think can get people killed, though.

And more software than you'd think is running inside a barely-understood SCADA package that runs user scripts, which can now be authored by AI the user doesn't understand, and that can result in either or both of the above outcomes. This is true in just about every city in the world, several times over.

Software isn't furniture, in other words.

Does anyone know where I might find out more about small-scale printing, what we would call desktop publishing now, but prior to the advent of personal computers and photocopy machines?

It's easy to find some information, but hard to find detailed information like this article presents.

They can also choose to show fewer ads, i.e., only show manually human reviewed ads, and if there are too many to review, charge more per ad until there aren't too many.

Even with the same amount of code, AI code is less trustworthy* and requires more attention... but we know it won't be the same amount, it will be more. This means it will take longer to review, or there will be unforeseen consequences of not spending that extra time.

*meaning no human eyes have looked at it and said "this doesn't make sense", or "this is cheating", or "this doesn't meet requirements", and won't be caught until code review if at all.

But now it seems the only likely outcomes of such technology are:

  > rich people hoarding wealth
  > high (and unpleasant) unemployment
  > ICE agents being remotely operated unaccountable robots whose operators are made anonymous by law.

murder is already illegal, but we also heavily regulate explosives because the public can't be trusted.

Of course, now we'll use a dictionary of objects with various properties to keep track of a bunch of 'true'/'false' strings...

We collectively act like RAM is free and so are cycles

Tangent: I abandoned C and then later Windows as a consequence of Charles Petzold's* book on win32 programming, the fact that so much bullshit boilerplate was required to get a GUI up on a OS literally named after its GUI windows...

*Fwiw I like his books, I just didn't like the way Windows wants me to do things then

Plenty of open source is updated every day.

You had no problem taking advantage of Manim to profit, but when it comes to returning the great favor done to you by Manim being open source, you don't care?

Okay.

Nintendo has been the only one really good at that, and even there, they're slipping.

For example, the Switch 2 has been out for a year and has no exclusive Mario or Zelda games yet. They announced another Zelda remake.

If digital only, then consoles have fewer differentiators to PCs, and PCs let you play online without a subscription.

It's not a given, but it's a plausible future that steam boxes outsell playstations, and that Sony loses its lucrative cut of game sales because people moved to PC since there was no differentiator for consoles other than extra hassle and costs compared to steam.

It would still be extremely difficult to muster any sympathy for an organization whose MO is to go public not to honestly raise capital to fund growth and development, but rather to dishonestly leave someone else holding the bag, in some cases involuntarily as their retirement funds are passively invested.

And even supposing they were honest and didn't have an IPO, it would still be extraordinarily difficult to care about their misfortune, because "consolidating all thought-work into the hands of those few who can afford frontier models and datacenters and power plants" is also a special kind of misanthropy.

And even if that were not the case, they're filthy rich already, so who gives a shit if the Chinese companies prevent them from becoming quadrillionaires? :)

Hacks, on hacker news. I love it.

Hobbyists do not. ROI is not a factor.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/510439/smokefree-genera...

Live in slavery and be happy? Hold a sign no one reads? Own nothing? Feel no peace, have no medicine?

I don't condone it, but I understand it.

I believe there's still the possibility for us to fix things in peace, but I can see why others don't.

The whole point is that the users can have it doing shit for them instead of them having to babysit the computer.

The fact that users still have to sit there and argue with it erodes their value proposition. The proposition you can pay fewer salaries.

Would it be immoral to interfere, or would it be more immoral not to interfere and to let that situation continue?

There is an argument to be made either way.