From my perspective, knowing how it gets down to machine code makes it more useful and easier to control, but that doesn't mean I want to stop writing English now that we can.

I can think of at least 5 prominent and very wealthy "leaders" who show signs of neurodivergence, including the negative aspect of decreased empathy. Their power and money magnifies those ill effects as well. Perhaps through neglect rather than ill will these people effect the death of many conspecific individuals.

If that succeeds in preventing those (large) populations from competing for resources with the elite rulers or, more likely, alleviates the need to care for them though programs like UBI, then it's an advantage of that "selfish gene." All of these outcomes map nicely to Dawkins's writing.

Dawkins also writes in The Selfish Gene that memes, a word he coined, are faster than DNA evolution because we can transmit "better" ideas (through language and art) that lead to better behavior. This kind of memetic transition is what AI is bringing. We're seeing it already. The communication around AI causes fights among friends (pro gen AI vs against, esp in the arts) and layoffs from VC-led companies, as well as spawning all kinds of new business ideas as the article mentions.

It's very compelling. The UI and your familiarity and productivity with it are the primary most. I'm not the only one who crossed over!

I met John when I was a mainframe developer at IBM. Although he didn't live to see the advent of AI agents, I think he'd push even harder for functional style now, in the age of AI assisted programming. While harder to write initially than imperative or object oriented code, functional is more bulletproof in practice and "frees us" from the problems of those other styles, as he tries to explain in the paper.

Is this what we wanted from our tech careers? I'm just old enough to remember when we thought tech would help people; not just help kill them.

In realty, skills, MCP, and other techniques for harnessing agents are themselves just prompts. In this case, adding "read this book" the prompt is unhelpful, it pollutes context, and it distracts the LLM from the unique carve outs and special situations your code does have because you're prompting about boilerplate, standard stuff.

TV Explorer aims to fix that by making IPTV easy to browse privately, without apps or ads.

Some "premium" UI features are gated behind a Watson login. That's my forthcoming engine on which the project is built. It's as much a test case for Watson development as it is a TV viewer.

It's also my first app with any "viral" uptake! Many users immediately think of friends they want to tell about it, which is fun as the dev. The most popular uses right now are language learning, comparative news in wartime, and music.

Enjoy! And I welcome your feedback and ideas here or in the app. Thanks for checking it out.

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It can't die soon enough. Doesn't all have to be Electron, but web tech for the win and force everything to the browser unless you'd like to write it twice.