This is part of the equation. The other side is the system run by businesses is run by executives answerable only to shareholders who demand profits and have no incentive otherwise to save lives or make anyone healthy. In such a system, it's better to spend money on appearances and advertising than silly science.

Nationalized medicine is run by elected politicians answerable to voters. If constituents are not being served the politician knows their tenure is on the line. So they make calls to serve the public. They don't have the luxury to delay, deny, defend. Quite the opposite, they are duty bound to the opposite and have the authority to investigate and take matters to task.

Yet, for some reason, Americans believe privatisation of government is going to be better. Trust the free market. Give Elon the chainsaw.

It's all the time on the sofa. The motorised one they drive two blocks to eat out or spend an inordinate percentage of their lives in traffic.

Additionally, they spend more hours working to maintain the appearance of a protestant work ethic.

And all that stress adds up. It releases stored energy to enable action, but action today is sitting and typing so the body has to refile the unused stress response fuel and store it as the video fat you mentioned.

Leading a life designed to develop controlled consumers through carefully orchestrated anger and alienation is not healthy. It's literal suicide.

No. It's, but it's just as real as the tech bros telling us it's AI in order to shill investors while distracting them from the failing online sales and ad revenue streams now that people can go outside post-covid.

The quote actually references San Francisco rather than Silicon Valley which is slightly different but your critique is not off the mark. Although I interpreted the reference to Saureon's Eye as an evocation of Theil with his penchant for branding his surveillance company with a name appropriated from Tolkien.

Regardless , the point could have been better constructed and I agree with your central premise, Theil and Altman are concrete examples that male toxicity is not limited by sexual orientation.

No, but selling photocopies of what you read is illegal and for good reason: in doing so, you are taking away their customers and profiting from income that is rightfully theirs.

I don't know. I wonder what Scarlett Johansson thinks about Sam Altman's untoward obsession with her voice.
She'll survive, but others are not so lucky.
What fate has been meted out to O'Reilly publishing in having their books pilfered to train AI as an alternative to buying and reading their books?
Particularly Ripley-esque considering the books were pilphered by those who no doubt owe their careers, in no small part, to such niche publishers and their authors who took great pains and risk in writing and publishing books that became the foundations of the tech industry.

It's not an economic downturn. Obviously AI is replacing data centers. It's time to double down on the AI bet.

Just look at what AI has done to every industry from bicycles to building homes. It's not just the tech sector. All industries are seeing layoffs as these jobs are replaced by AI.

The difference between referencing stackoverflow and AI is the conversation. AI gives you an authoritarian answer whether correct or not; stackoverflow offers a dialog on possible solutions. It's a huge difference.

Interesting paradox. It's also when the Romantic poets felt we started losing our humanity, but at the same time humans started believing that they had an outsized position in the universe.

Not that humans of the Western Civilized proclivity have not long possessed an outsized sense of entitlement. We now feel a need to save the whales, but who can save the humans from themselves?

That said, after thinking about it and reflecting on other comments, this prediction is fairly conservative and probably accurate.

As mentioned by others in this discussion, it's particularly close to true today given automated stubbing, code completion, grammar checking, error highlights, automated test tools like Sonar, and the practice of using existing libraries rather than reinventing the wheel.

While the five years incantation is, as a rule, misleading hand waving, I should have picked up on the use of 95 instead of 100 percent; it's more likely to be sunny when the forecast is one hundred percent rain.

They still have Schwann's? How have those mobile pizza ovens caught on? They sound heavy.

The future just ain't what it's supposed to be.

Personally, I'd rather stay old school and ride my bike to the market and use it as a shopping cart / bags than

Microsoft 's. Do you really think PETA and the HSUS would stand by and let dogs be fed executives? That's animal abuse.

It's important to remember that in 2016 all the AI visionaries were prophesising a five year expiration date for ALL truck driving jobs.

These soundbites work because within five years is corporate speak for this makes me sound smart and I'm banking on no one being able to fact checking this. The press loves it. Makes great clickbait. No need to consult an opposing position.

My observation on this is that AI has replaced A1 some time ago making every day artificial fool's day for those who want to believe.

Humans mattered?