You could replace "mosquitoes" in that headline with polio, smallpox, measles, AIDS, malaria, or any one of a thousand different pathogens. No one is agonizing over eradicating them.
Except RFK Jr.
What did HyperCard even do?
It's kind of hard to explain, and honestly my memory of what you could do with Hypercard and how you actually did it is very fuzzy as it was so long ago.
But basically it was a visual programming languages, where the visual bits you drug around were then also backed by actual code that would do things. You would create a variety of cards, and in those cards could store data, move on to other cards, and so forth.
Some people used it to create games, but used it to create an inventory tracking system for a store, and probably some other stuff I have forgotten about.
In the end, it was a way to make programming a lot more approachable to people at a time when programming was VERY low level for the most part!
A key part of it was once you made a stack of cards it was very easy to share with other people as a kind of application (but one you could modify in any way you liked).
You might get a better feel reading this Tribute To Hypercard.
Everyone always talks about Woz but it sure seems like Atkinson deserves nearly as much praise.
Sad to see one of the great ones go, but accomplished so much for so many and that is better than a lot of people manage.
As the Trump administration prepared to cancel contracts at the Department of Veteran Affairs this year, officials turned to a software engineer with no health care or government experience to guide them.
The code, using outdated and inexpensive AI models, produced results with glaring mistakes. For instance, it hallucinated the size of contracts, frequently misreading them and inflating their value. It concluded more than a thousand were each worth $34 million, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.
The programmer who wrote the code had 15 years of experience with no formal AI training. He had previously automated manual processes at his own almost failed startup. The review tool code is posted here. The contracts selected were labeled "MUNCHABLE." It does not appear that anyone in DOGE checked his code or how the results were used. He was terminated after he was interviewed by Fast Company.
So Who'll
.. do the tough jobs
I think that for most use-UBI-to-deal-with-AI advocates, the premise is that robots will do that, and presumably would already be doing it by the time UBI is enacted.
If this is a problem (i.e. robots can't do it yet, or they can't do it as economically as humans), then you're not in a post-work situation yet, so you can't have a post-work utopia yet.
Keep improving those robots! You're not done until unemployment is over 90%, and ideally not until 100% though that may be asymptotic.
What does *he* envision a hypothetical scenario where AI has taken over an extremely large amount of the labor?
Your question wouldn't make any sense to him or any other Trump supporter. Let me rephrase it so that it can be answered by MAGA.
What does he envision, in a scenario where the people Trump currently steals from, no longer have anything to steal? How does a thief find new victims once the old ones are used up?
I think the best MAGA answer to that, is that someone will own the AIs, and reap the "wages" that the AIs earn. Steal from them, because they'll have something to steal. AI will be no different than anything else which changes the distribution of prey: you just gotta keep up with who and where the prey are.
Nobody is really in favour of limited government because when push comes to shove those who profess being in favour of limited government remain so only until they get into power.
If what you say is true it means lots, not none, are in favor of limited government because they do not seek power over others and thus wish for possible power over them to be minimized...
Basically the age-old axiom, most people just want to be left the hell alone.
Being for limited government, I am also against the 10 year moratorium on AI regulation (and giant bills generally).
But also that is because what are regulations going to do? They can't stop you from accessing a web site in another country running some hyper advanced AI model, or downloading AI malware that can jack your system.
All regulations can possibly do is retard (in the classic sense of the word) tools in the states or countries of whatever places are stupid enough to even try to regulate AI. It's going to hurt enough companies that try to follow the law that it's a bad idea and would provide no benefit you are seeking through the regulation.
In fact if you really believe AI can even be dangerous at all then the only possible thing you can do is to advocate for as much AI as possible to counter the "bad" AI.
If people boycotted the expensive software options for one year and slammed the IRS with paper forms, this would be reversed post haste.
If we did that, do you know how much it would inconvenience every House member and Senator?
None at all. Their lives will be as damaged as a bulldozer that just ran over Arthur Dent.
Reforming the tax code will cause some people to pay less tax and some other people to pay more.
Whatever your approach, the people who would end up paying more, think your "reform" idea is stupid and evil. I don't remember all their detailed criticisms, but their overall tone was clearly unfavorable.
They hate it. They hate you. Why didn't you make someone else pay more instead?
Why complain about making it easier for them to give it back to you?
Because when Intuit contributes to my political campaign, they tell me they wish it was harder.
The summary claimed the company had $50m in revenue (the real number, not corrected).
I can't understand how it got any revenue, ever - if you ask any real AI to produce code you'll have results in a minute or so.
But if it was backed by people writing real code, answers would have taken many minutes to hours to produce! Heck just the time to write a summary of the request would seem awfully long.
Who would use that after any trial? Who was paying them at all?
Or was it 700 engineers each with a trial chatGPT account just pasting questions and answers back and forth between user and chatGPT?
Yeah I ran into that also, very sad to see. What a crime against humanity. Thanks for the link.
Sorry I'm late to response but you simply have to pay $25 more for the ticket and get Earlybird to auto-checkin, then you are either in A or B section and can get a good seat anywhere.
Even adding that Southwest tickets are still usually cheaper than other airlines.
We all like praise, but a hike in our pay is the best kind of ways.
