lol i love telling people my "Ballmer Peak" is 2 tokes of Cali Jack Herer

whole thing is an ad - ofc one of the "authors" works at a company selling an ai product

why do they need to acknowledge something outside of the point they're trying to make?

Because it was a middlebrow dismissal of the GP

because that's how conversations work. anything less is sparkling debate.

only if by "soon" you mean "decades away" at minimum

Few things that are sold as "inevitable" rarely actually are.

it always cracks me up how we love to treat random pieces of paper with ink sprinkled across them as some sort of material cosmological constant.

as explained in that wonderful d20 clip...

the only laws or rights that exist are those for which other people are willing to commit violence to uphold.

aka a law isn't real if no one enforces it.

there's nothing universal about law - it is merely a threat from a powerful group to a weaker one to enforce desired behaviors.

It depends on what schools of thought one subscribes to. There is a lot of nuance to the development of human behavior and culture, and so the way we interact is based on more than just the brutishness of might is right.

yes.

look into the palantir relationship with ice

Simply untrue.

Plenty of people have a job that gives them money, yet they also get pleasure and satisfaction from their job.

I think you are referring to studies that show that payment can paradoxically be demotivating. But that isn't always true.

opposite in my case

less automated and more automatic that a certain demographic subset of the population, that also happens to be quite prevalent here, have an automatic and instinctually negative reaction to anything "DEI"

quick fyi:

a person can't be "illegal" and immigration is a civil issue, not criminal...