It's also what they said about Tamagochis and Furbies, so there's that.

a lot of the current uses for AI will move to on-device processing

How exactly will that make OpenAI and the likes more profitable?! That should be one of the scenarios that will make them less profitable.

Can you please be a bit more concrete? What do you think feminism is and which views would push someone into opposition?

Making air traffic control.subject to politics

Every part of your life is subject to politics. Always has been.

wealth inequality worse than the French revolution

When the creator of the Revolutions podcast was asked about the one theme that follows every revolution, he said that it was wealth inequality.

If I remember correctly, the French revolution had three major elements that kicked it off the way it did: huge wealth inequality, a major event that hits the lower classes (in this case a drought that destroyed lots of crops and therefore caused a wheat shortage), and incompetent leadership that is unable to deal with said event. Looks like the US is getting there, step by step.

The founder of Nordwolle is famous for his rant about the German bureaucracy. Great guy.

I think I understand your position.

In a previous post, you seem to give value to functioning as opposed to being dead. Why is that? Why does functioning even matter if your position seems to be that death is the absolute worst thing that can happen to someone?

because I believe that death is the least functional state a person can have and anything above that implies at least some functioning even if that state is still highly undesirable).

A person can lose all brain functions and remain alive, implying that there is no chance of making new experiences of any kind. Does that count for you as functional?

I do not really believe that there is such a thing as a "fate worse than death"

What about unimaginable suffering before one's certain death? Would this not qualify as a worse fate than death?

I don't really have a strong opinion on this topic, but one example comes to mind that shows that many people don't act according to your maxime. Have you ever seen those battlefield suicides that are filmed by the drones in Ukraine? I'm not going to link them here, but they are plentyful. So, so many soldiers, many of them wounded, decide to take their own life to avoid going through an experience that they probably view as worse than death. I just think it's interesting and worth considering.

Expect it to happen and explain the risks, but that doesn't mean you should make it easy.

Why?

This is facilitating that situation.

Facilitate what situation of exactly?

The sex is going to happen around that age, but as a parent it is still not your job to make it easy, yeah?

Why?

consequences of mistakes are still VERY HIGH

Not as high as letting your kid drive a car, for example, but you're still gonna let them, I suppose. Weird double standards.

Hey man, I was born in Russia. Take your time and check out what they are showing on TV over there. The evening program. Anything really. They have been preparing their population for war with Europe for years. Discussing how to drop bombs on London, which way to invade first, how awful the west is treating Russian citizens In Europe, etc etc. Especially shit involving Simonyan or Solovyov. It's absolutely insane. Scary, even, that they can publicly say the things they say.

Look, I am not happy that people are profiting from building weapons, but in the current reality, it's the only way to avoid us getting steamrolled by a Russia on full war economy.

You are legally obligated to do everything for shareholder

Also, you don't understand feduciary duty.

I sell fire extinguishers. I don't WANT your house to burn down.