My first thought as an ex TA is that this student is failing courses attached to a major they regret. Probably pushed into that major and pressured by their parents.

> With the improvement I've seen in the last 2 years, I'm not convinced that will remain true, though.

AI will always be limited by the user's ability to communicate.

I'm looking forward to my smart agents indexing reference sites to technologies I don't know I'll be interested in yet.

The whole point of polling is that you're using statistical mathematics to extrapolate results from a sample. Since I'm sure you know that, I'm wondering if you're expecting to see a broader spread of opinion and, not finding it, assuming self-selection. You're correct, but should understand the selecting happened years ago for each scientist.

Why? It takes just as much effort to respond either way... a few clicks. The demographic that reads Nature will be full of opinions on the subject. They've been talking about it for thirty years.

As a software developer the transitive properties of fair use mean Iâ(TM)ll never need to pay for technology I can host myself ever again. Iâ(TM)m playing around with a few models that come with licensing agreements similar to the terms that govern media use, and I canâ(TM)t imagine not applying the same logic.

I mean anger doesn't need to come into the situation. How many resources can you sequester before your death improves the national economy?

Half of the comment youâ(TM)re replying to is copypasta from a few years ago.

Committing code is the *distillation* of time and effort. Thereâ(TM)s no way to determine the value of each LOC from the end result.

You're going to be off to college this year or the next, right? Why don't you just wait and see what it's like before you form an opinion?

Or make sure that bad guys don't get local access :)

Are we no longer assuming local access means you've already been rooted?

3- Nobody cares but the racists, so only racists deal with that data.

The people who worry about diversity hires are never your top candidates in the first place. The whole question is *moot* from the hiring perspective because they weren't going to pick *you*. There are ten white adult males in line ahead of you and none of them look like HR nightmares.

That line applies to aspects of work I was completely unaware of in my twenties when I just wanted to code and not look at the big picture. Itâ(TM)s absolutely true (imho) and low-hanging fruit for juniors later on. I think the essential conceit is that you leave working systems the fuck alone.

Hmm that's a good point. I'm wondering how much Musk's "I'm buying Twitter to fix the bot problem" statements would invalidate that approach.

To extend our metaphor, the meth house seller might not need to disclose that it was a meth house if you're on the record stating that you're buying the meth house to clean up the neighborhood.

Think of like when you buy a house. Unless it's a new house, you're buying as is with no warranty. But if the seller ran a meth lab in it, and concealed that from you when you bought it, then you'd have legal standing to sue, possibly even reverse the transaction outright.

When you buy a house you hire your own inspector to check out the foundation, wiring, etc. as part of the process. When the housing market was at its hottest people were waiving inspections in order to buy ASAP, and were indeed getting burned afterwards because it's an incredibly stupid thing to do and there's no recourse.

It doesn't sound like working at Apple is a lot of fun right now.