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Yes, I litereally indicated they should not be able to use the tool that way. Just like cops should not be able to ram their cars into people , or pepper spray peole in the face ju…

No, the AI is writing code not architecture. And it's the same for all disciplines. There will be no mass job layoffs for antying but relatively automatable stuff.

If we had decent AI we'd only be asking users about serious issues that need some thinking. 99% of requests are valid, how on earth can't we have observer AI to enact policy on tho…

Then your argument is we should have no police 'because power corrupts' I don't think this is reasonable or principled. The evidence here is that Flock can be used maliciously, I d…

No, there's nothing specific or inherent about Flock that is specifically helping cops bad bad. This is not like something that helps them cover their tracks, or hide behind some t…

You started out right but this: "This will ruin lives, even if they're eventually let go. Jobs lost, evicted from homes, cars towed, pets surrendered and put down." No. The 'domest…

Don't use Oracle for anything.

It's ok though - the US Forces do have 'the best logistics in the world' - that's not an unfair claim at all. They are exceedingly exceptional. But all of these systems have limits…

"It is widows and orphans." - you lost the argument by trying to characterize these people as innocents, because it's such an awful position it undermines your own legitimacy. Thes…

It's fair to say overall engagements were bad, but it's hard to argue that a military looses when it streamrolls the opponent, and then 'decides to leave'. The US generally wins wa…

Yes, that's a fair assessment, but then general context is still one of very specific strategic targeting. And FYI it's not just about 'Oil Prices', the US has left many other stra…

The difference is deliberate and arbitrary attack of civilians at scale and total lack of concern - popularly, politically, operationally, and practically for casualties outside mi…

Planes aircrew high fixed/operating cost - lower unit costs on strikes. Missiles, more expensive - depending on. Missiles are not 'rocket science' - pun intended. They're expensive…

US has 600 air refuelling aircraft and 40 naval supply ships. US power is mostly strategic, it's 'Air Based' which gives the kind of instant leverage leaders like. It's 'Aircraft C…

No - the Iran war is a total strategic failure, but the US is very obviously 'exceptional' - I'm not saying necessarily admirable, or more moral etc but it is hugely 'stand out' in…

In some ways yes, not in others.

They are not cheaper losses, because production capacity for those things is very limited. Missiles are always easier to replace then platforms of any kind. But yes - a single, lon…

It's easy to believe, it's hard to realize. The conflict with Iran is only 'minor' in certain respects, it's a major air campaign otherwise, involving strategic bombing on par with…

Good point, but extensibility != OSS though. JetBrains and Claude/ChatGPT are not open source. I think we would like them to be ... but ...

Totally agree; we can't leverage good stuff because we are mess. There are some sorts of protocols and conventions that might help with this. For example, not-for profit medical sy…

Railroads were a legitimate innovation that reshaped industry and society, there was no doubt about that - but it required massive capital expenditures, even buy in from regular pe…

No - the growth today is capital expenditures, not productivity. To be fair, the industrial revolution was a 100 year period or so, computers, web, cloud, mobile and AI will likely…

This is not 'productivity mirage' this is just 'tooling mirage'.

First - it's an examples, it's not about 'why do that?' - that's another question entirely. Second - it is very wrong to imply 'the AI has bad training data for JS / TS' - that's g…

No - that is the wrong analogy. 'Lisp' is an arcane tool and it's highly debatable in the objective sense if 'Lisp' is better. The analogy is someone is saying that 'cars are usele…