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An equally-true headline: "At last, a promising use for AI agents: debugging smart contract code." The availability of this tool should make smart contracts more secure in the future, and cryptocurrency more reliable as a result.

Indeed. This sort of thing goes way back - the term "barbarian" was literally a result of Romans making fun of how non-Roman languages sounded to them (they used the onomatopoeia of "Bar Bar" to represent what they thought foreign languages sounded to them). Dismiss their language as meaningless gibber and you dismiss their thoughts as meaningless too.

Yeah, this looks just plain awesome. Grocery stores are so bland and samey, it'd be nice if they had more creative decor like this.

Saying a black person is "well spoken" is such a common slight in the US, as if it should be surprising somehow that they're not all speaking Jive or Hip-hop or whatever. If people insult African-Americans like that what hope do Liberians have?

Really, you think all existing uses of data centers stopped now that there's AI in the mix? There may be specific facilities under construction that are intended primarily or solely for AI use, but all the existing demand is still there.

That's how all medical advances work, they are expensive when they are first developed and then over time they generally become cheaper as patents expire and processes are refined.

Once upon a time only a handful of people could get insulin to treat their diabetes. When it was first discovered you had to process huge numbers of pancreases to extract enough for one person. Should we have opposed research into treating diabetes because only the rich would be able to afford it?

Well that's even less likely to cause our extinction, by definition.

I think people often conflate "the collapse of the comfortable familiar civilization I'm currently part of" with "the literal extinction of the human species, full stop, the end." The two situations are not remotely comparable.

That's not really how these things work. It's not going to be like someone eats the very last edible thing one day and then a week later all of humanity is dead.

Do you think it is not a widespread or harmful condition?

Ah yes, we shouldn't do research into a condition that harms literally everyone because there are a handful of people we don't like who suffer from it.

The main problem with Biosphere 2 was that it was as much an instance of performance art as it was an attempt to create a sealed biosphere. When you're doing an experiment you should be trying to control variables, not throwing everything into a huge pot and seeing what happens.

For example, there's this class that military helicopter pilots take as part of training for surviving water landings.

This is nothing remotely like the scenario OP is talking about.