That GP considers it to be a worse thing to do to kids than selling their parents junk food with which they feed them, yet it has been done for a very long time and is still not 'illegal'. The implication is that society as a whole thus doesn't actually care that much about harming children.

I wouldn't say I agree. I think male circumcision is one of those things that is politically fraught because it is so common among very popular religions. Female 'circumcision' in any form is easily found to be illegal and immoral by pretty much anyone outside Africa, but male circumcision not so much, even though it is fundamentally quite similar (although definitely different in magnitude of effects in most cases). I do believe it should be illegal and will be at some point.

Correlation is not causation. Always immediately repeat this to yourself whenever any news report contains "x associated with y".

If your brain is fucked up, will you play card games, use a computer, read, or will you watch some TV?

It's a trap.

Motorola Droid 4, F(x)tec Pro.

"I mean, they're obviously CEOs, they're obviously companies, and obviously they're advocating for themselves..."

The Meta Quest 3 VR headset is selling quite well: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.roadtovr.com%2Fquest...

The AVP is just way overpriced and doesn't have the app ecosystem to make it interesting enough.

No no, developers can also become support desk employees dealing with entitled angry customers! What a glorious future! And such an incredibly futureproof career move!

Environmentalism was never really on the table for corporations. Plenty of people are talking about the environmental impact of AI. What you seem to be realizing is that corporations don't give a fuck about society and will gladly fuck it over if they can get away with it and make more profit.

ChatGPT is only 3 years old. Your numbers and tone are incredibly overconfident.

Your narrative is also wrong. Many jobs have already been killed in essence: Translators, voice actors, all kinds of artists. Maybe not the exceptional ones, but certainly the mediocre ones. Tell those people that it's all hype and that they don't have to protest anything or find an entirely new career.

Plenty of other jobs are very, very close to being so, including the ones you've mentioned. A lot of support jobs like in call centers are 100% going byebye. Boston Dynamics robots are already replacing workers in Amazon warehouses and between the dexterity and agility improvements Unitree and Figure are showing and the high level autonomy in planning and execution Google's robotics department is showing, your 25-50 years is ridiculously pessimistic.

Again, ChatGPT is only 3 years old. Hype, my asshole.

It does seem like a good use case for AI coding agents: No new functionality has to be added, so the existing application and the existing code can be used as validation for an optimized version. The biggest challenge would be to let it retain or improve maintainability and security of the project.

"AI companies" were never the people to hype "vibe coding" as a serious software engineering approach. The people doing that were bloggers, Youtubers, and other people not very knowledgeable about software engineering making money off the new hip trend.

Remember that the term "vibe coding" was thought up by Karpathy: very smart guy, but not primarily a software engineer by his own admission. And even then he never claimed more than that vibe coding was great for hobbyists working on small projects.

What is your opinion on AI research assistants (operating more or less autonomously)?

Things seem to be moving quite hard in that direction, especially at Google and OpenAI. The growth of agentic software engineering and especially the procedures developed in 2025 that mitigate the hallucinations of LLMs and allow productive longer autonomous runs seem to be very applicable to research assistants.

They booked the ride via some app/interface and the customer is surrounded by screens and speakers during the entire ride.

"Thank you for riding with Waymo. Remember to fully close the doors after exiting the vehicle or we will charge you USD 100."
"*ping* One of the doors of your Waymo ride isn't fully closed. Please return to the vehicle and close it or we will charge you USD 100."
Seems pretty easy.

I do agree that preventing the issue is even better.

Progressive corporate tax would be a great way to disincentivize monopolies/oligopolies and balance the power of small businesses and large corporations without having to judge every merger or potential abuse of position individually (as the current anti-trust setup does).

Only in the case of low elasticity in the demand. Companies can't always simply raise prices. Some possible alternative effects of higher taxes: smaller profit margins, cost cutting/higher efficiency, less R&D investment, lower dividend payments, bankruptcy.

So no, the end consumer definitely doesn't necessarily 'pay the tax'.