I really wanted to like the game but even a few hours of gameplay showed that it was repetitive and kind of bleak and depressing.

When the web was born JPEG was already there. It was adopted from (ok, almost) day 1, along with GIF.

Companies not moving faster will be outcompeted.

Open source .. will win.

Well, I do believe that the odds are that Ukraine will be defeated, but then I also believed that the odds were that North Vietnam would be defeated. So I'm clearly no expert in this area.

At the refrigerator end you're talking about grocery stores. I think you have unreasonable expectations. KISS. No remote control, only remote read. Have a technician come by and make and change commands. That shouldn't be needed very often, and you can monitor (but not control) it remotely.

Monitoring is one thing. Control is something else.

Sorry, but no, only sometimes. Often it's not known what the test would need to be, but it's known how to test the answer.

You have more certainty about the future than I do. I *do* doubt that the full projected build-out will ever happen, and that will definitely hurt some overcommitted people. It *might* crash thoroughly, but I see no reason to put that at higher than a 10% chance. More likely a bunch of planned construction never gets ordered. And *when* does that happen? This year? Next April 15th?

Yeah, it will crash, just like the internet build-out crashed. Some folks will get hurt. But it won't return to what it used to be. AI will continue to be important...and become more important. (And there will be lots of mistakes made in using it.)

Whether AI will start setting it's own goals is less certain. If it does, it may be safer than if it doesn't. Things could get really wonky if a strong AI starts pursuing a stupid goal because it was told to do so.

Current AIs are only useful in areas where it's easy to recognize invalid results. (Ideally, easy enough that the AI, itself, can recognize that they are invalid, perhaps by invoking a deterministic tool.)

Well, they can also be valid for generating lots of "plausible ideas", like "What molecule would bind to this other molecule?", which can then be tested...but which can't be relied upon without testing. That's faster than experts can make guesses, and often has a higher success rate, but it needs testing.

Well, they're also useful for creating convincing bullshit.

So I guess my original "only" was too restrictive...but not *that* much too restrictive.

OK, why "August 4th, 2037"?
It sounds like you're following a particular story-line, but I don't know enough to recognize it.

Well, don't expect the board to support your policy. And most people that support the board have other criteria that they apply than "did they sign that stupid contract" (unless it's likely to bankrupt the institution).

And you don't understand what he was saying. He was saying that the people who would decide that someone was incompetent were involved in, and approved of, the decision.

My first thought was that he was arrested because he was Canadian. I'm not sure that I trust the FBI to be honest. OTOH, it's reasonable that no real evidence was presented yet.

My second thought was "who planted the evidence framing him?". This again is lack of trust in the FBI, but here it's their competence I'm doubting.

My third thought was "maybe the evidence actually points to him". It's really sad that the government lies so much that that didn't show up until the third thought...but it DOES lie that much.

??? What does it do? The link says how to install it, but is curiously silent on what it's for.